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Mark Bradford | Paper

by Wesley Miller | Jul 31, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Mark Bradford | Paper

by Wesley Miller | Jul 31, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Bradford painting Ridin’ Dirty (2006) in his Los Angeles studio. Mark Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall-sized collages and installations that respond to the impromptu …

“Qué Hay Que Hacer Mas?”: Reflections on “The Disasters of War” at Peter Blum SoHo

by Emily Liebert | Jul 31, 2008

“Qué Hay Que Hacer Mas?”: Reflections on “The Disasters of War” at Peter Blum SoHo

by Emily Liebert | Jul 31, 2008

    I’m hard-pressed to remember the last time I found a thank you note from a President Elect presidential candidate in a gallery exhibition’s press file. But there it …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Slowing Down and Visualizing Approaches, Part 2

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 30, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Slowing Down and Visualizing Approaches, Part 2

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 30, 2008

Following up on last week’s column, I was thinking about ways to slow down during the summer months and properly recharge for the upcoming school year. I also got to …

Shahzia Sikander at Ikon Gallery

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 29, 2008

Shahzia Sikander at Ikon Gallery

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 29, 2008

  Works by Season 1 artist Shahzia Sikander are on view at Ikon Gallery July 30 through September 14, 2008 in what constitutes the artist’s first major solo exhibition in the UK and her largest to-date in …

Badlands at Mass MOCA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 28, 2008

Badlands at Mass MOCA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 28, 2008

Badlands: New Horizons in Landscape is currently on view at MASS MOCA (Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art).  The exhibition considers the traditions of landscape painting and picks up the thread …

New Guest Blogger: Emily Liebert

by Marc Mayer | Jul 28, 2008

New Guest Blogger: Emily Liebert

by Marc Mayer | Jul 28, 2008

Join me in welcoming Emily Liebert, our next guest blogger. At the moment, Emily is getting her PhD in art history at Columbia where she studies American art of the …

Berliner Salon: Obama, Brotherhood and XV. Rohkunstbau

by Emilie Trice | Jul 26, 2008

Berliner Salon: Obama, Brotherhood and XV. Rohkunstbau

by Emilie Trice | Jul 26, 2008

  After Obama‘s electrifying speech at the Siegessäule this past Thursday, it seems appropriate to mention the fifteenth installment of Rohkunstbau, a trilogy entitled THREE COLORS-  BLUE WHITE RED, the final chapter of which (RED) opened two …

Smockshop in Chinatown

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 25, 2008

Smockshop in Chinatown

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 25, 2008

The Smockshop, Andrea Zittel‘s artist run enterprise that generates income for artists whose work is either non-commercial or not yet self sustaining, will be opening a store in Los Angeles …

Art21 Extended Play

Pierre Huyghe | “Anlee”

by Wesley Miller | Jul 24, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Pierre Huyghe | “Anlee”

by Wesley Miller | Jul 24, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Pierre Huyghe’s videos One Million Kingdoms (2001) and Two Minutes Out of Time (2000), part of the collaborative project No Ghost Just a Shell (1999-2003) with Philippe Parreno. Pierre …

Kara Walker in Malaga

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 23, 2008

Kara Walker in Malaga

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 23, 2008

The Black Road, a new installation by Kara Walker (Season 2), is currently on view at the Malaga Contemporary Art Center. Inspired by early cinematography, magic lanterns, and 18th century …

Roni Horn at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 23, 2008

Roni Horn at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 23, 2008

  July 24 through August 29, 2008, works by Season 3 artist Roni Horn will be on view at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills, California. This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in the Los Angeles area in …

Sound and Vision: A Night with Barry McGee, Japanther, and PAPER RAD

by Marc Mayer | Jul 23, 2008

Sound and Vision: A Night with Barry McGee, Japanther, and PAPER RAD

by Marc Mayer | Jul 23, 2008

A full roster of public programs accompany Life on Mars, the Carnegie International 2008. On Thursday, July 24th Douglas Fogle, curator of the 55th Carnegie International, will host a conversation …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Slowing Down and Visualizing Approaches

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 23, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Slowing Down and Visualizing Approaches

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 23, 2008

While vacationing locally this summer (since that’s all anyone has gas money for) and taking the necessary steps to slow down in order to feed your imagination and even your …

Laurie Anderson at Lincoln Center

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 21, 2008

Laurie Anderson at Lincoln Center

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 21, 2008

Starting tomorrow, July 22, Laurie Anderson (Season 1) performs her acclaimed piece Homeland at the Rose Theater as part of the 2008 Lincoln Center Festival. Backed by four musicians, the artist offers “an editorial narrative …

Eternal Twilight at the New Museum

by Amy Mackie | Jul 21, 2008

Eternal Twilight at the New Museum

by Amy Mackie | Jul 21, 2008

Several Art21 artists temporarily engage in a moment of symbiosis in the New Museum’s new group exhibition, After Nature, curated by Massimiliano Gioni with the assistance of Jarrett Gregory and …

Collier Schorr at Villa Romana

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 21, 2008

Collier Schorr at Villa Romana

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 21, 2008

Villa Romana in Florence is currently exhibiting Collier Schorr’s Blumen, the second installment of the artist’s Forest & Fields project. For the last fifteen years Schorr (Season 2) has been …

Berliner Salon: Fashion Week and the Paparazzi

by Emilie Trice | Jul 18, 2008

Berliner Salon: Fashion Week and the Paparazzi

by Emilie Trice | Jul 18, 2008

Yesterday inaugurated Berlin Fashion Week, which will continue through the weekend, bringing a number of “celebrities” to town, as well as designers, models and the ubiquitous hangers-on. It’s a pretty …

MANIFESTA 7

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 18, 2008

MANIFESTA 7

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 18, 2008

Dubbed “The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, ” Manifesta 7 begins on July 19 and runs through November 2. The exhibition occurs in a different city every two years, but this is the first time Manifesta will take place …

SIDE X SIDE

by Amy Mackie | Jul 17, 2008

SIDE X SIDE

by Amy Mackie | Jul 17, 2008

Art and activism have been intimately engaged throughout contemporary art history, reiterating the notion that the personal is political. In 2007, Art:21’s Season 4 addressed activist strategies (in particular, the …

Art21 Extended Play

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle | Casta Paintings

by Wesley Miller | Jul 17, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle | Casta Paintings

by Wesley Miller | Jul 17, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle at home in Chicago, with photographs of the installation The Garden of Delights (1998) at the XXIV Sao Paulo Bienal. Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s technologically sophisticated works use natural …

Eleanor Antin at San Diego Museum of Art

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 16, 2008

Eleanor Antin at San Diego Museum of Art

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 16, 2008

Eleanor Antin: Historical Takes opens this weekend at the San Diego Museum of Art. The exhibition is the first to focus on Antin’s recent series of large-scale tableaux photographs based …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

The Billy Joels of Art Education

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 16, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

The Billy Joels of Art Education

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 16, 2008

This past Sunday, the New York Times ran an article about Billy Joel. The article focused on the fact that, despite not making a new recording in 15 years, Billy …

Socially Acceptable

by Amy Mackie | Jul 15, 2008

Socially Acceptable

by Amy Mackie | Jul 15, 2008

My biggest pet peeve in New York City is watching men (and women) of all walks of life, hack and cough, then swiftly discharge a slimy wad of saliva on …

Last Chance: The Old, Weird America

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 15, 2008

Last Chance: The Old, Weird America

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 15, 2008

Closing at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston on July 20, The Old, Weird America is the first museum exhibition to explore the widespread resurgence of folk imagery and history in …

Pretty Ugly at Maccarone and GBE

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 14, 2008

Pretty Ugly at Maccarone and GBE

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 14, 2008

Pretty Ugly is a dual-part summer show that just opened at Gavin Brown Enterprises and Maccarone Gallery in the West Village. The neighboring galleries conceptually explore the back and forth …

New Guest Blogger: Amy Mackie of the New Museum

by Marc Mayer | Jul 14, 2008

New Guest Blogger: Amy Mackie of the New Museum

by Marc Mayer | Jul 14, 2008

Many thanks to Laurel Ptak for her interesting posts and The Best of the Web recommendations. You can continue to follow Laurel’s blog at iheartphotograph. Next we welcome Amy Mackie …

Hiroshi Sugimoto (Sort of) at Madame Tussaud’s

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 11, 2008

Hiroshi Sugimoto (Sort of) at Madame Tussaud’s

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 11, 2008

In the June issue of Colloquy, art historian Elizabeth Howie writes about discovering two ‘anonymous’ Hiroshi Sugimoto (Season 3) photographs hanging at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London. Though no …

A new reason to go to M.I.T.

by Laurel Ptak | Jul 11, 2008

A new reason to go to M.I.T.

by Laurel Ptak | Jul 11, 2008

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has an amazing program where students can borrow a framed work by major artists from their List Visual Arts Center‘s collection for an entire academic …

Berliner Salon: Richard Serra at Kunst Werke

by Emilie Trice | Jul 11, 2008

Berliner Salon: Richard Serra at Kunst Werke

by Emilie Trice | Jul 11, 2008

Last weekend Kunst Werke opened an exhibition of films by Ricarda Roggan, Albrecht Schäfer and Art:21 Season 1 artist Richard Serra. Serra’s part of the exhibition, entitled Thinking on Your …

Art21 Extended Play

Eleanor Antin | Inventing Histories

by Wesley Miller | Jul 10, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Eleanor Antin | Inventing Histories

by Wesley Miller | Jul 10, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Eleanor Antin reveals the process behind her photographic series Helen’s Odyssey (2007), installed at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York, in particular the work The Tourists (2007) that …

Mark Bradford at Artpace

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 9, 2008

Mark Bradford at Artpace

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 9, 2008

Artpace annually invites nine artists to conceive and create new art projects as part of their International Artist-in-Residence program in San Antonio, TX. Each residency is for a period of two months …

Conversations: An-My Lê with Michael Almereyda part 2

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 9, 2008

Conversations: An-My Lê with Michael Almereyda part 2

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 9, 2008

Following is the second half of the conversation between An-My Lê and filmmaker Michael Almereyda that took place on May 5, 2008 at the Mid-Manhattan Library. This event was co-presented …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Let’s See It Again!

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 9, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Let’s See It Again!

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 9, 2008

I had a great experience recently sitting with my son, Paul, and doing a little preparation for this column. Since he’s an inquisitive, very verbal, curly-haired three year old, I …

Allora & Calzadilla’s Munich Harmonies

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 9, 2008

Allora & Calzadilla’s Munich Harmonies

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 9, 2008

Check out this interview and footage from Vernissage TV’s coverage of Allora & Calzadilla’s (Season 4) concurrent exhibitions at Kunstverein München and Haus der Kunst in Munich. Kunstverein München includes …

Conversations: An-My Lê with Michael Almereyda part 1

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 8, 2008

Conversations: An-My Lê with Michael Almereyda part 1

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 8, 2008

The following is a conversation between An-My Lê and Michael Almereyda that took place at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library on May 5th, 2008. This event …

Pierre Huyghe Performance at the Sydney Biennale

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 8, 2008

Pierre Huyghe Performance at the Sydney Biennale

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 8, 2008

On Thursday, Jul 10, Art21 artist Pierre Huyghe (Season 4) will discuss the thoughts and processes behind his work including his latest project for the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, A Forest of …