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Art21 Extended Play

Gabriel Orozco | “Samurai Tree”

by Wesley Miller | Nov 6, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Gabriel Orozco | “Samurai Tree”

by Wesley Miller | Nov 6, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Orozco discusses recent paintings from his ongoing Samurai Tree series, including the works Fugaz, Tuttifruti and Red Roots (all 2008), and the computer animation Dandelion Animation (2008), shown …

Spiders and Steel at the MFA, Boston

by Monika Navarro | Nov 6, 2008

Spiders and Steel at the MFA, Boston

by Monika Navarro | Nov 6, 2008

Currently showing as part of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Art on Film series – Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress, and The Tangerine, by Amei Wallach and Marion Cajoli, …

Sugimoto at Four Venues

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 5, 2008

Sugimoto at Four Venues

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 5, 2008

The traveling retrospective exhibition of works by Hiroshi Sugimoto (Season 3) is on view at the Museum of Art Lucerne in Switzerland through January 25, 2009. The artist has designed the exhibition, previously at the Neue …

Charles Atlas at Vilma Gold

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 5, 2008

Charles Atlas at Vilma Gold

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 5, 2008

Tornado Warning, an exhibition of new works by Charles Atlas opens next week at Vilma Gold Gallery in London. The Art21 artist’s videos often take dance and performance as their …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Hope and Change

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 5, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Hope and Change

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 5, 2008

Quite frankly, I cannot walk in and teach my classes with any sense of routine this week. Rebounding off one of the most historic and intense presidential campaigns in the …

New guest blogger: Monika Navarro

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 4, 2008

New guest blogger: Monika Navarro

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 4, 2008

Many thanks to Catherine Wagley for her thorough and perceptive coverage of the L.A. art scene. Up next is independent filmmaker Monika Navarro. Monika is currently in post-production on her …

Letter from London

Letter from London: The Turbine Hall

by Ben Street | Nov 3, 2008

Letter from London

Letter from London: The Turbine Hall

by Ben Street | Nov 3, 2008

Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall commissions have set a certain standard for scale in art making at a time when many artists have retreated from the big, brash statement towards the self-effacing, the …

Serra at Gagosian London

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 3, 2008

Serra at Gagosian London

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 3, 2008

Season 1 artist Richard Serra has concurrent exhibitions at Gagosian Gallery, London. Three new steel sculptures are on view at the Britannia Street space together with “forged drawings” – small, …

Global Video Part 3

by Catherine Wagley | Nov 2, 2008

Global Video Part 3

by Catherine Wagley | Nov 2, 2008

“Part of your preparation is to have as many strings in your hand, just not to knot them,” said Cate Blanchett, explaining her approach to acting.  “You don’t want to sort …

I Left My Heart in New Orleans

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 1, 2008

I Left My Heart in New Orleans

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 1, 2008

Prospect. 1 New Orleans, the largest biennial international contemporary art ever held in the United States, opened to the public today. Produced by U.S. Biennial, Inc. and directed by Dan Cameron, …

Global Video Part 2

by Catherine Wagley | Nov 1, 2008

Global Video Part 2

by Catherine Wagley | Nov 1, 2008

Regina José Galindo dips her feet into a white basin of human blood, takes a string of steps, then dips her feet again. She is walking through Guatemala City, her red footprints …