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Yearly Archives: 2008

Berliner Salon: Shilpa Gupta at BodhiBerlin and Galerie Volker Diehl

by Emilie Trice | Jun 13, 2008

Berliner Salon: Shilpa Gupta at BodhiBerlin and Galerie Volker Diehl

by Emilie Trice | Jun 13, 2008

The buzz in Berlin right now is around Indian media artist Shilpa Gupta’s first exhibition(s) in Germany, with concurrent shows opening tonight at two local galleries. BodhiBerlin, the recently-opened, first …

Oilver Herring: TASK at Regent Park

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 13, 2008

Oilver Herring: TASK at Regent Park

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 13, 2008

Season 3 artist Oliver Herring–in collaboration with a committee of young, local volunteers–will present Canada’s first TASK event tomorrow, June 14. Part of Toronto’s Luminato 2008 festival, this “participatory-performance-art-making-party” will …

Day 2 – Art21 Online Fundraising Drive

by Beth Allen | Jun 12, 2008

Day 2 – Art21 Online Fundraising Drive

by Beth Allen | Jun 12, 2008

First off, we’d like to give props to everyone who has already made a donation to Art21 or joined our Facebook Cause. THANK YOU for a terrific first-day response! Did …

Art21 Extended Play

Eleanor Antin | “Helen’s Odyssey”

by Wesley Miller | Jun 12, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Eleanor Antin | “Helen’s Odyssey”

by Wesley Miller | Jun 12, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Eleanor Antin’s exhibition Helen’s Odyssey (2007) installed at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York. Antin discusses the historical figure Helen of Troy, and how she became the inspiration …

Conversations | Charles Atlas with Lia Gangitano | Ask questions for follow-up interview

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 12, 2008

Conversations | Charles Atlas with Lia Gangitano | Ask questions for follow-up interview

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 12, 2008

The following interview took place at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library on April 7, 2008, following a screening of the Art:21 episode Paradox. Consulting Director and …

Support Art21 – Win DVDs and Books!

by Beth Allen | Jun 11, 2008

Support Art21 – Win DVDs and Books!

by Beth Allen | Jun 11, 2008

Welcome to Art21’s first ever online fundraising drive! The drive launches today and will run through June 20, 2008, simultaneously at Art21.org/donate and via the Art21 Facebook Cause. Throughout the …

Allora & Calzadilla’s Ode to Joy

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 11, 2008

Allora & Calzadilla’s Ode to Joy

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 11, 2008

Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla create public ‘situations’ where the audience commonly plays a communicative or interactive role. Their films, performances, sculptures, site-specific works and actions often address political themes …

Mark Dion and the Folkestone Triennial

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 11, 2008

Mark Dion and the Folkestone Triennial

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 11, 2008

The inaugural Folkestone Triennial, titled Tales of Time and Space, will open this Saturday, June 14 with a new work by Season 4 artist Mark Dion. A medium-sized town 66 …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Second Look

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 11, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Second Look

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 11, 2008

In the May 14th column I commented on the fact that some people were having a hard time incorporating Season 4 artists into their classrooms and studios. This weekend, hiding …

Contemporary Jewish Museum Opens in San Francisco

by Marc Mayer | Jun 10, 2008

Contemporary Jewish Museum Opens in San Francisco

by Marc Mayer | Jun 10, 2008

On Sunday, June 8th, San Francisco’s Contemporary Jewish Museum welcomed visitors for the first time in their new building designed by Daniel Libeskind, architect of the Jewish Museum in Berlin. …

EXIT and Enter

by Karen Johanne Bruhn | Jun 10, 2008

EXIT and Enter

by Karen Johanne Bruhn | Jun 10, 2008

I’ve already mentioned that one way to catch up on the contemporary Danish art scene is to get a glimpse of Forårsudstillingen at Charlottenborg, but another and maybe even more …

McGee Meets Cinelli

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 9, 2008

McGee Meets Cinelli

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 9, 2008

Season 1 artist Barry McGee has collaborated with the legendary Italian bicycle company Cinelli and street-hip lifestyle brand RVCA to create a limited edition Super Corsa Pista bike frame. Only …

Island of Misfit Toys

by Marc Mayer | Jun 9, 2008

Island of Misfit Toys

by Marc Mayer | Jun 9, 2008

Salon 94 Freemans just announced that Art21 artist Maya Lin (Season 1), will create a site specific installation in their downtown New York City gallery space. This installation is described …

Art & Arms

by Karen Johanne Bruhn | Jun 7, 2008

Art & Arms

by Karen Johanne Bruhn | Jun 7, 2008

Controversial and highly provocative Danish artist Kristian von Hornsleth has established a new artistic and capitalistic project, Hornsleth Arms Invest Corporation, HAIC, which challenges the border between art and reality; …

Berliner Salon: Sensitive Thinking Post-Basel

by Emilie Trice | Jun 6, 2008

Berliner Salon: Sensitive Thinking Post-Basel

by Emilie Trice | Jun 6, 2008

Berlin was oddly still this week. It seems everyone has gone to Art Basel. Although I’m sure Basel is the circus of fabulous wealth, beautiful objects and pretty people that …

AZ in LA at RP

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 6, 2008

AZ in LA at RP

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 6, 2008

Andrea Zittel (Season 1) presents two new installations at Regen Projects in Los Angeles. The first, Energetic Accumulators, is an extension of the Raugh Furniture series, begun in 1998. While …

Hot Topic is not Punk Rock!

by Marc Mayer | Jun 6, 2008

Hot Topic is not Punk Rock!

by Marc Mayer | Jun 6, 2008

Reading Ben Street’s recent post Pop (and) Art, I started to consider links between music and art. It is easy to support Ben’s idea that the relationship between music and …

Art21 Extended Play

An-My Lê | Becoming an Artist

by Wesley Miller | Jun 5, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

An-My Lê | Becoming an Artist

by Wesley Miller | Jun 5, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: An-My Lê discusses how she came to be an artist after studying biology, while printing a photograph from the series Trap Rock (2006) in her New York studio. An-My …

Barthes revisited: photographic experiments

by Karen Johanne Bruhn | Jun 5, 2008

Barthes revisited: photographic experiments

by Karen Johanne Bruhn | Jun 5, 2008

Our exposure to the photographic image on a professional as well as a private level has steadily increased since the first photograph saw the light of day in 1839. The …

Counter-Photography: Japan’s Artists Today

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 4, 2008

Counter-Photography: Japan’s Artists Today

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 4, 2008

The Japan Foundation, Manila and the National Museum of the Philippines, in cooperation with the Embassy of Japan present a joint photography exhibition to usher in the celebration of Philippines-Japan …

Barbara Kruger’s “Another” at UCSD

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 4, 2008

Barbara Kruger’s “Another” at UCSD

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 4, 2008

Barbara Kruger (Season 1) has created a wall and floor mural for the 4-story atrium of the Price Center East at the University of California San Diego, where the artist …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Helping Hands

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 4, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Helping Hands

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 4, 2008

I hate to start this column every week by thanking people like it’s a Borscht Belt nightclub, but Teaching With Contemporary Art is off to a great start in its …

Que Será, Serra: Artist Gives Commencement Address

by Marc Mayer | Jun 3, 2008

Que Será, Serra: Artist Gives Commencement Address

by Marc Mayer | Jun 3, 2008

Richard Serra (Season 1) addressed the Williams class of 2008 during the celebration of the college’s 219th commencement ceremony on Sunday, June 1. His speech, “If Not Now, When?” reads …

Rebirth of Danish art and design

by Karen Johanne Bruhn | Jun 3, 2008

Rebirth of Danish art and design

by Karen Johanne Bruhn | Jun 3, 2008

If you want to keep track of modern Danish art and design, Forårsudstillingen at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen is a pivotal point of departure. Yesterday was the final day of …

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle wins Richard H. Driehaus Foundation award

by Marc Mayer | Jun 3, 2008

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle wins Richard H. Driehaus Foundation award

by Marc Mayer | Jun 3, 2008

Art21 artist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (Season 4) is the winner of a 2008 individual artist award granted by the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. This award recognizes artists living in the Chicago …

New guest blogger: Karen Johanne Bruhn

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 3, 2008

New guest blogger: Karen Johanne Bruhn

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 3, 2008

Hot on the heels of her review of Sally Mann’s exhibition at the National Museum of Photography in Copenhagen, we are pleased to welcome Karen Johanne Bruhn to the guest …

Mark Dion at Mildred’s Lane

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 3, 2008

Mark Dion at Mildred’s Lane

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 3, 2008

Somewhere in rural northern Pennsylvania, fashion designer and artist J. Morgan Puett has been steadily building a home and creating an eccentric future that is lost in the past of …

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 2, 2008

Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 2, 2008

Dargerism: Contemporary Artists and Henry Darger at the American Folk Art Museum examines the influence of Darger’s work on eleven artists, who respond not only to the “aesthetic beauty of Darger’s …

Pop (and) Art

by Ben Street | May 30, 2008

Pop (and) Art

by Ben Street | May 30, 2008

The relationship between fine art and pop music is characterised most often by a specific historical period in Europe and America, the mid-sixties, which is probably the closest point there …

Louise Bourgeois’ River Life at Hauser & Wirth

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 30, 2008

Louise Bourgeois’ River Life at Hauser & Wirth

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 30, 2008

Opening this Saturday at Hauser & Wirth Zurich is an exhibition of Louise Bourgeois’ (Season 1) beautiful series on paper La Rivière Gentille (2007). Occupying three tiers around the gallery, …

Berliner Salon: First steps in Kraków + Mike Kelley and Raymond Pettibon at auction

by Emilie Trice | May 30, 2008

Berliner Salon: First steps in Kraków + Mike Kelley and Raymond Pettibon at auction

by Emilie Trice | May 30, 2008

Yesterday witnessed the inauguration of an exhibition at the National Museum in Kraków, Poland that is being heralded as the “first step towards a collection of Western contemporary art.” In …

Sally Mann on Denmark’s radar

by Kelly Shindler | May 30, 2008

Sally Mann on Denmark’s radar

by Kelly Shindler | May 30, 2008

Following is a special report on Season 1 artist Sally Mann, just in from our fabulous former intern Karen Johanne Bruhn, now back home in Copenhagen… During the past few …

Art21 Extended Play

Josiah McElheny | “Conceptual Drawings for a Chandelier, 1965”

by Wesley Miller | May 29, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Josiah McElheny | “Conceptual Drawings for a Chandelier, 1965”

by Wesley Miller | May 29, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Josiah McElheny discusses his film Conceptual Drawings for a Chandelier, 1965 (2005), shot at The Metropolitan Opera in New York. Josiah McElheny creates finely crafted, handmade glass objects that …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Pre-Teen Wolf

by Ben Street | May 28, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Pre-Teen Wolf

by Ben Street | May 28, 2008

I spent last Sunday morning at the National Gallery with a large group of very small children in front of Sassetta’s early Renaissance painting of St Francis and the Wolf …

Matthew Ritchie at White Cube

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 28, 2008

Matthew Ritchie at White Cube

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 28, 2008

Matthew Ritchie’s Ghost Operator opened last week at White Cube and will run until June 28. The Season 3 artist’s enveloping installation transforms the entire gallery using an array of …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Finding a Balance (Part 2)

by Joe Fusaro | May 28, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Finding a Balance (Part 2)

by Joe Fusaro | May 28, 2008

Many thanks to Yolanda, MK, William, and Suzanne for their responses to our third post last week. To continue the conversation, I’d like to address some of the comments made …