Monthly Archives: November 2009
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Virtual Artists’ Immersive Discoveries in a Virtual 3D Frontier
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Virtual Artists’ Immersive Discoveries in a Virtual 3D Frontier
Cao Fei, RMB City. Art in the Twenty-First Century, production still, 2009. Season 5, Episode: Fantasy. © Art21, Inc. 2009. William Saroyan wrote: The role of art is to make …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Lisa Bradley
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Lisa Bradley
Detroiter by birth and New York-raised, Lisa Bradley is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Sculpture & Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2001, …
Flash Points
Blogalog, Part 1: About EcoArtTech
Flash Points
Blogalog, Part 1: About EcoArtTech
Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir founded EcoArtTech as their collaborative platform for digital environmental art in 2005. They are 2009 Artist Fellowship recipients from the New York Foundation for the …
Flash Points
Sustainable Architecture: Style vs. Substance
Flash Points
Sustainable Architecture: Style vs. Substance
Sustainable architecture is in danger. This might sound like a surprising claim, given the fact that never before has “green” living been such a popular concept, nor has “eco-consciousness” been …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Remember, remember…
Letter from London
Letter from London: Remember, remember…
In a recent interview in the New Yorker, artist-of-the-moment Urs Fischer said something about how art and memory work together. I can’t remember the exact quote. It was something about …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
What's Cookin': The Art21ndex
What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index
Teaching with Contemporary Art
What's Cookin': The Art21ndex
What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index
It’s a cage that went in search of a bird…Sreshta Rit Premnath explores the ocean as a territory that lies outside the realm of governmentality. Nicole rounds them up! From …
Art21 Extended Play
Paul McCarthy | “Piccadilly Circus”
Art21 Extended Play
Paul McCarthy | “Piccadilly Circus”
DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS Artist Paul McCarthy describes the improvisational process and performances behind the video work Piccadilly Circus (2003). Filmed at an unoccupied London bank before …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
International Design Conservation: A Discussion with Tim Bechthold
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
International Design Conservation: A Discussion with Tim Bechthold
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with Die Neue Sammlung conservator Tim Bechthold about conserving design arts.
What's Cookin': The Art21ndex
What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index
What's Cookin': The Art21ndex
What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index
How many artists are in the world right now? Ben Street writes to us about ‘letting the outside in’ and the Museum of Everything located on Primrose Hill in London. …
Art21 Extended Play
John Baldessari | “Raised Eyebrows/ Furrowed Foreheads”
Art21 Extended Play
John Baldessari | “Raised Eyebrows/ Furrowed Foreheads”
DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS During the installation of his exhibition Raised Eyebrows/ Furrowed Foreheads (2009) at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, artist John Baldessari discusses his …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: The Public School
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: The Public School
Gold Leafing. Sadism & Masochism. Practical Electro-Mechanisms. The Coming Insurrection. What do these topics have in common? Perhaps with some head-scratching we could ferret out a few threads, but here’s …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Test-Driving the New Season 5 Educator’s Guide
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Test-Driving the New Season 5 Educator’s Guide
Yesterday I was talking with a two students who attended a recent preview screening that featured Paul McCarthy in the Transformation episode. The students asked me about why McCarthy’s work …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
What's Cookin': The Art21ndex
What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index
Teaching with Contemporary Art
What's Cookin': The Art21ndex
What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index
Water, water, everywhere! Ever-changing and ever-constant, see a glimpse into Roni Horn’s vast exploration of this traveling landscape in this weeks Art:21 Video Exclusive. Her art was suffused with [a] …