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A President for Artists and Arts Education

by Monika Navarro | Nov 13, 2008

A President for Artists and Arts Education

by Monika Navarro | Nov 13, 2008

What will an administration look like that supports and nurtures the arts and arts education? In the blitz of emails I received leading up to the election last week, one …

Art21 Extended Play

Ursula Von Rydingsvard | “Weeping Plates”

by Wesley Miller | Nov 13, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Ursula Von Rydingsvard | “Weeping Plates”

by Wesley Miller | Nov 13, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Ursula von Rydingsvard’s sculpture Weeping Plates (2005) at her studio in Brooklyn, New York. Ursula von Rydingsvard builds towering cedar structures, creating an intricate network of individual beams and …

All the News We Hope to Print

by Marc Mayer | Nov 13, 2008

All the News We Hope to Print

by Marc Mayer | Nov 13, 2008

Living in the afterglow or wake (depending on your political leanings) of the 2008 presidential election, we are left to wonder where this talk of hope and change might lead …

Josiah McElheny Talk and Performance Tonight at Princeton

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 12, 2008

Josiah McElheny Talk and Performance Tonight at Princeton

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 12, 2008

If you are in the Princeton area tonight, Josiah McElheny gives a performance and talk about his work at the Betts Auditorium. The Season 3 artist’s installations, which frequently incorporate …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On Our Way

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 12, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On Our Way

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 12, 2008

It’s been a blissfully exhausting week. The day after the election, students were so excited (not to mention teachers) that most of each class session was spent reflecting on the …

Darwin & Art in Edinburgh

by Hrag Vartanian | Nov 11, 2008

Darwin & Art in Edinburgh

by Hrag Vartanian | Nov 11, 2008

Ellen Gallagher, Watery Ecstatic (2005). Courtesy The Species of Origin The intersection of art and science isn’t commonly discussed in the art world. But one British art school, the Edinburgh …

An-My Lê on Michael Heizer tonight at Dia

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 10, 2008

An-My Lê on Michael Heizer tonight at Dia

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 10, 2008

As part of Dia’s Artists on Artists lecture series, Season 4 artist An-My Lê will lecture on Michael Heizer tonight at 6:30. Trap Rock, Lê’s 2006-2007 series of color photographs, …

“New York Times” video on Maya Lin’s “Wave Field”

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 10, 2008

“New York Times” video on Maya Lin’s “Wave Field”

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 10, 2008

The New York Times just published a video on Maya Lin‘s Wave Field at Storm King Art Center in upstate New York. Click here to watch it. Wave Field can …

Letter from London

Letter from London: God Save McQueen!

by Ben Street | Nov 10, 2008

Letter from London

Letter from London: God Save McQueen!

by Ben Street | Nov 10, 2008

British artist Steve McQueen’s current feature film, Hunger, has received pretty much universally positive reviews. Tracing the last six weeks of the life of Bobby Sands, the IRA hunger striker imprisoned in …

Kara Walker at Irish Museum of Modern Art

by Seth Curcio | Nov 10, 2008

Kara Walker at Irish Museum of Modern Art

by Seth Curcio | Nov 10, 2008

The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin, Ireland is currently exhibiting In Praise of Shadows, on view from November 5 – January 4, 2009. The exhibition, which is …

Martin Puryear in the Bay Area

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 8, 2008

Martin Puryear in the Bay Area

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 8, 2008

The traveling exhibition of sculptures by Season 2 artist Martin Puryear (organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York) has made its way to San Francisco. On view at the San Francisco Museum of …

There Goes the Neighborhood

by Wesley Miller | Nov 7, 2008

There Goes the Neighborhood

by Wesley Miller | Nov 7, 2008

Artistic interventions in neighborhoods and community-inspired artworks are popping up all around us, from Pierre Huyghe‘s playfully ritualistic Streamside Day (2003) to Mel Chin‘s New Orleans recovery effort SAFEHOUSE (2008). …

Shahzia Sikander Awarded Creative Arts Fellowship

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 7, 2008

Shahzia Sikander Awarded Creative Arts Fellowship

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 7, 2008

The Rockefeller Foundation earlier this week held a ceremony at the Langham Hotel in London to honor the 2008 recipients for its inaugural Bellagio Center Creative Arts Fellowship. The three …

Roanoke’s Taubman Museum of Art Opens This Weekend

by Hrag Vartanian | Nov 7, 2008

Roanoke’s Taubman Museum of Art Opens This Weekend

by Hrag Vartanian | Nov 7, 2008

I had the good fortune of being in Roanoke, Virginia and seeing the impressive new Taubman Museum of Art (formerly the Art Museum of Western Virginia). A welcome addition to …

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 …

Bourgeois at MoCA, Holzer at MCA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 31, 2008

Bourgeois at MoCA, Holzer at MCA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 31, 2008

If you missed Louise Bourgeois (Season 2) at the Guggenheim recently, your next opportunity to see the artist’s first major retrospective in 25 years will be at the Museum of …

Reframing Global Video

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 31, 2008

Reframing Global Video

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 31, 2008

I am always dubious when the word “global” begins an exhibition title. Trying to gauge some sort of global cultural pulse seems absurdly ambitious. But yesterday, when I went to see Narrowcast: Reframing Global Video …

Saw:21

by Wesley Miller | Oct 31, 2008

Saw:21

by Wesley Miller | Oct 31, 2008

It’s October 31st — Halloween — in the year 2041. In its twenty-first season, Art21 joins forces with the Saw horror film franchise. Artists Richard Serra, Josiah McElheny, Do-Ho Suh, …

Art:21 Episode Uncovered!

by Wesley Miller | Oct 30, 2008

Art:21 Episode Uncovered!

by Wesley Miller | Oct 30, 2008

As the curator of online videos, I’ve spent the last several months digging through Art21’s archival footage, searching for interesting behind-the-scenes moments to present as Art21 Exclusives. So, you can …

Art21 Extended Play

Judy Pfaff | Assistants Kate Hodges & Ryan Muller

by Wesley Miller | Oct 30, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Judy Pfaff | Assistants Kate Hodges & Ryan Muller

by Wesley Miller | Oct 30, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Assistant Kate Hodges at Judy Pfaff’s studio in Tivoli, New York. EXCLUSIVE: Assistant Ryan Muller at Judy Pfaff’s studio in Tivoli, New York. Balancing intense planning with improvisational decision-making, …

Making Art Effable

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 29, 2008

Making Art Effable

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 29, 2008

For the exhibition Index: Conceptualism in California,  MOCA invited four Los Angeles poets to respond to artists’ work. Though the scope of the exhibition–Index  ambitiously explores the ways in which California artists …

Soundings and Songs: Ann Hamilton

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 29, 2008

Soundings and Songs: Ann Hamilton

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 29, 2008

Soundings–an exhibition of sculpture, photography, prints and video by Season 1 artist Ann Hamilton–is on view at Robischon Gallery in Denver, Colorado through November 15. The exhibition expands upon Hamilton’s works from an …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Hallowgreen

by Carolyn Sutton | Oct 29, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Hallowgreen

by Carolyn Sutton | Oct 29, 2008

This week’s Teaching With Contemporary Art column is written by Carolyn Sutton, Director of Arts at The Park School in Baltimore and a member of Art21’s National Education Advisory Council. …

For the Matthew Barney Fan Who Has Everything

by Hrag Vartanian | Oct 28, 2008

For the Matthew Barney Fan Who Has Everything

by Hrag Vartanian | Oct 28, 2008

  Fansites may be more common for music fans or even authors but artists don’t seem to inspire the same level of adoration (or is it obsession?) that other creative …

Letter from London

Letter from London: The Contemporary Portrait

by Ben Street | Oct 27, 2008

Letter from London

Letter from London: The Contemporary Portrait

by Ben Street | Oct 27, 2008

It might seem a bit old-fashioned to bemoan the demise of the portrait tradition in contemporary art, but looking at a new show of Renaissance portraits, and having read a short …

James Turrell Awarded RIBA Honorary Fellowship

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 27, 2008

James Turrell Awarded RIBA Honorary Fellowship

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 27, 2008

The Royal Institute of British Architects’ (RIBA) Council, which each year awards Honary Fellowships to individuals who have contributed to architecture in the broadest sense, has named this season’s recipients. …