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Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe at the Guggenheim in NYC

Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe at the Guggenheim in NYC

On view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City from Friday, February 22 until May 28, Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe surveys the innovative body of work of …

The Influencers: Alterazioni Video

The Influencers: Alterazioni Video

From The Influencers festival today’s guest is Alterazioni Video. Alterazioni Video was founded in 2004 as a commercial multimedia production company with the explicit aim of ensuring that the necessary …

The Influencers: Alan Abel

The Influencers: Alan Abel

From The Influencers festival, today’s guest is Alan Abel. A writer, filmmaker, and actor, Abel is mostly known for being one of the fathers of media falsification, having professionally tricked …

The Influencers Festival in Barcelona

The Influencers Festival in Barcelona

Eva and Franco Mattes aka 0100101110101101.ORG and Bani present:THE INFLUENCERSFestival of media action and radical entertainment ————————————————– *February 28-29-1 March 2008* Center of Contemporary Culture Barcelona ————————————————– with ALAN ABEL, …

Art21 Guest Blog starts Monday: Eva + Franco Mattes

Art21 Guest Blog starts Monday: Eva + Franco Mattes

Art21 is thrilled to announce the launch of our guest blog on Monday, February 18, featuring new media artists Eva and Franco Mattes, aka 0100101110101101.ORG. They will be blogging about …

Alfredo Jaar: Politics of the Image

Alfredo Jaar: Politics of the Image

For his forthcoming solo show Politics of the Image, opening tomorrow at South London Gallery, Season 4 artist Alfredo Jaar presents six works born of his enduring interest in Africa. …

Eleanor Antin: Helen’s Odyssey at Ronald Feldman

Eleanor Antin: Helen’s Odyssey at Ronald Feldman

Helen of Troy was the most beautiful and dangerous woman in the history of western culture. Her story comes down to us from European literature‚Äôs founding epic‚Ķ. But what do …

Never Mind That Noise You Heard: Allora & Calzadilla in Amsterdam

Never Mind That Noise You Heard: Allora & Calzadilla in Amsterdam

Last Friday, February 8, Never Mind That Noise You Heard, the first solo exhibition in the Netherlands by Season 4 featured artists Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, opened at the …

Top art blogs

Top art blogs

Art21 is thrilled and honored that this budding site has made it into the Top Art Blogs list compiled by the Robert Goldwater Library at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. …

Sally Mann on stage: Some Things Are Private in Providence

Sally Mann on stage: Some Things Are Private in Providence

The Trinity Repertory Company in Providence, Rhode Island, presents Some Things Are Private. This world premiere begins performances on Friday, February 15 and runs through March 23 in the Dowling …

Oliver Herring | Task in Seattle seeks participants

Oliver Herring | Task in Seattle seeks participants

The Frye Museum in Seattle is recruiting 35 participants for Oliver Herring | Task, a dynamic performance by Season 3 artist Oliver Herring and organized by the Frye, The Seattle …

Do-Ho Suh interviewed by DesignBoom

Do-Ho Suh interviewed by DesignBoom

The online magazine designboom features an interview with Season 2 artist Do-Ho Suh. In this interview, conducted in Seoul last December, Suh talks about his childhood, the influence of Korea …

Women in the City: Holzer and Kruger artwork images

Women in the City: Holzer and Kruger artwork images

Jenny Holzer. Don‚Äôt Talk Down to Me, Selection from Inflammatory Essays, 1979-82. Offset poster. ¬© 2008 Jenny Holzer, Artists Rights Society (ARS), NY. Jenny Holzer. Destruye, Selection from Inflammatory Essays, …

Kruger and Holzer in Women in the City

Kruger and Holzer in Women in the City

Women in the City is a viral public art exhibition throughout the streets of Los Angeles that starts today. Timed to coincide with the opening of the Broad Contemporary Art …

Photos from Ursula von Rydingsvard/Martin Friedman at NYPL

Photos from Ursula von Rydingsvard/Martin Friedman at NYPL

Monday night’s screening of Ecology and discussion with Season 4 artist Ursula von Rydingsvard and Martin Friedman at the Mid-Manhattan Library drew over 100 people! Many thanks to the library …

TONIGHT: Ursula von Rydingsvard with Martin Friedman at NY Public Library!

TONIGHT: Ursula von Rydingsvard with Martin Friedman at NY Public Library!

Art21 and the Mid-Manhattan Library present a film screening and conversation Art:21‚ÄîArt in the Twenty-First Century Season 4 episode Ecology. After the screening Martin Friedman, Curator, Writer, and Director Emeritus …

Catherine Sullivan’s Triangle of Need Heads to NYC

Catherine Sullivan’s Triangle of Need Heads to NYC

Nigerian e-mail scams, figure skating and a Neanderthal language all play a part in Catherine Sullivan‚Äôs traveling video work Triangle of Need, opening Thursday at Metro Pictures in New York …

Trenton Doyle Hancock curates exhibition for Cue Art Foundation

Trenton Doyle Hancock curates exhibition for Cue Art Foundation

Season 2 artist Trenton Doyle Hancock has curated a show of work by Louisiana-based artist Tom Secrest at the Cue Art Foundation gallery in New York City. The exhibition, which …

Kerry James Marshall: Every Beat of My Heart exhibitions/performances at Wexner Center

Kerry James Marshall: Every Beat of My Heart exhibitions/performances at Wexner Center

Every Beat of My Heart is the culmination of Season 1 artist Kerry James Marshall‘s Wexner Center Residency Award. The work grows out of his Rythm Mastr series, an expansive …

Jenny Holzer: DETAINED opens in London

Jenny Holzer: DETAINED opens in London

Monika Sprueth Philomene Magers gallery in London presents DETAINED, an installation by Jenny Holzer that opens tonight and runs through March 15. Beginning with her 2004 exhibition at the Kunsthaus …

Hubbard and Birchler speak tonight at Vanderbilt University

Hubbard and Birchler speak tonight at Vanderbilt University

More in artists’ talks: Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler (Season 3), the internationally acclaimed video artists, will speak tonight at 7pm at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, Tennessee. Hubbard/Birchler began their …

Gabriel Orozco speaks January 30 at MoMA (sold out)

Gabriel Orozco speaks January 30 at MoMA (sold out)

Tomorrow at 6:30pm, Glenn Lowry, Director of the Museum of Modern Art will moderate a talk with Art21-featured artist Gabriel Orozco (Season 2). Orozco’s sculptures, photographs, drawings, installations, and videos …

Ursula von Rydingsvard with Martin Friedman at NYPL Feb. 4

Ursula von Rydingsvard with Martin Friedman at NYPL Feb. 4

Art21 and the Mid-Manhattan Library present a film screening and conversation Art:21‚ÄîArt in the Twenty-First Century Season 4 episode Ecology. After the screening Martin Friedman, Curator, Writer, and Director Emeritus …

Podcast: Mark Dion lecture in Toronto

Podcast: Mark Dion lecture in Toronto

Learn more about Season 4 artist Mark Dion in an audiocast of a talk Dion gave the inaugural 2008 Canadian Art International Lecture Series on January 18 at the Royal …

Laurie Simmons at the Metropolitan Museum on Sunday

Laurie Simmons at the Metropolitan Museum on Sunday

THE MUSIC OF REGRET A film by Laurie Simmons Sunday, January 27, 2008 at 3pm The Grace Rainey Rogers Auditorium, The Metropolitan Museum The Joyce and Robert Menschel Hall for …

Podcast: Roni Horn at Frieze 2007

Podcast: Roni Horn at Frieze 2007

From the Frieze archives: a podcast of artist Roni Horn (Season 3) describing the site-specificity and seriality in her work. In this 40-minute keynote lecture from the 2007 Frieze Art …

Bruce Nauman selected for 2009 Venice Biennale

Bruce Nauman selected for 2009 Venice Biennale

Season 1 artist Bruce Nauman, a pioneer of Post Minimalist video and performance art, will represent the United States at the 2009 Venice Biennale. The Philadelphia Museum of Art was …

Lecture on An-My Lê at Dia:Beacon

Lecture on An-My Lê at Dia:Beacon

This Saturday, January 26, Luc Sante, Visiting Professor of Writing and Photography at Bard College, will lecture on artist An-My Lê at Dia:Beacon, on the occasion of her show Trap …

James Turrell talk tonight at Mississippi State University

James Turrell talk tonight at Mississippi State University

A rare chance to listen to Season 1 artist James Turrell speak about his work. If you live in the area, this event is not to be missed! [via Crap …

Trenton Doyle Hancock’s Reveal in Italy

Trenton Doyle Hancock’s Reveal in Italy

Reveal is Season 2 artist Trenton Doyle Hancock‘s first solo show in a European gallery. Opening this Friday, January 24 and hosted by Galleria Marabari in Bologna, Italy, Reveal presents …

Kiki Smith lecture in Philadelphia tomorrow

Kiki Smith lecture in Philadelphia tomorrow

Artist talk by Kiki Smith (Art:21 Season 2) in Philadelphia Wednesday, January 23, 2008 5:00‚Äì6:30 pm Harrison Auditorium, Penn Museum 3260 South Street, Penn Campus (accessible from 34th Street entrance) …

Mark Dion talk in Toronto tonight

Mark Dion talk in Toronto tonight

The work of Season 4 artist Mark Dion blurs the boundaries of art, science and natural history. Playing off the human impulse to classify and order phenomena, he frequently creates …

The ICA Philadelphia’s Puppet Show

The ICA Philadelphia’s Puppet Show

Opening tomorrow at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) in Philadelphia is The Puppet Show, a group exhibition that looks at the imagery of puppets in contemporary art. Bringing together …

Save the date: Ursula von Rydingsvard with Martin Friedman at New York Public Library

Save the date: Ursula von Rydingsvard with Martin Friedman at New York Public Library

Art21 and the Mid-Manhattan Library present a video screening and conversation Art:21‚ÄîArt in the Twenty-First Century Season 4: “Ecology” with Ursula von Rydingsvard interviewed by Martin Friedman Monday, February 4th, …

A decade of Roni Horn in Spain

A decade of Roni Horn in Spain

This Friday, the CAC M√°laga (Centro de Arte Contempor√°neo de M√°laga) (Spain) opens Roni Horn, an exhibition of work that the Season 3 featured artist created over the last ten …

Mark Bradford in New York

Mark Bradford in New York

Beginning later this week, Season 4 artist Mark Bradford will be featured in two upcoming exhibitions in New York City. The first is a solo show at Sikkema Jenkins & …