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Still from the Second Front performance, Car Bibbe 2, based on a script by Al Hansen, and featuring the avatar of Bibbe Hansen

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Performative Interventions: The Progression of 4D Art in a Virtual 3D World

by Nettrice Gaskins | Dec 31, 2009

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Performative Interventions: The Progression of 4D Art in a Virtual 3D World

by Nettrice Gaskins | Dec 31, 2009

Still from the performance, Car Bibbe 2, based on a script by Al Hansen, and featuring the avatar of Bibbe Hansen. Second Front, 2008. © All rights reserved. “Time” is …
Beyonce and Jay-Z at Art Basel Miami

Top 10 of 2009: Entertainers Who Moonlight as Artists

by Lily Simonson | Dec 31, 2009

Top 10 of 2009: Entertainers Who Moonlight as Artists

by Lily Simonson | Dec 31, 2009

In the spirit of my Los Angeles beat, I present to you the most exciting art world interlopers to come out of Hollywood in 2009: 10. Sylvester Stallone is making …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: The Year in Meat

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 30, 2009

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: The Year in Meat

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 30, 2009

Last year’s group exhibition Meat After Meat Joy at Daneyal Mahmood Gallery left a lasting impression on me — I still can’t shake the suffocating, putrid smell of rotting meat. …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Bringing it Back Home

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 30, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Bringing it Back Home

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 30, 2009

December, January, May, June…. These are popular months for graduates to visit their former high schools because they are either between semesters at college or finished for the school year …
Jeff Koons, "Puppy," steel, soil, plants, June 6 - September 5, 2000, at Rockefeller Center

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking At Los Angeles: Against The Deluge

by Catherine Wagley | Dec 30, 2009

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking At Los Angeles: Against The Deluge

by Catherine Wagley | Dec 30, 2009

Looking back before moving forward is such an endearing habit—like brushing your teeth before breakfast—that it’s hard to resent the sweeping, often grandiloquent judgments that accompany the end of each …
Georgia Kotresos

Art21 Guest Blog Year 2

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 29, 2009

Art21 Guest Blog Year 2

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 29, 2009

This being the last week of 2009, it is time for our annual year in review. 2 weeks ago, we gave you a sneak preview with a guide to our …

Flash Points

Inhale. Exhale. Whew.

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 29, 2009

Flash Points

Inhale. Exhale. Whew.

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 29, 2009

In the New York Times video Copenhagen 101, reporter Tom Zeller asks people in Times Square what they know about the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNCCC) in Copenhagen. …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 29, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 29, 2009

The new year and decade are right around the corner and art spaces are gearing up for their first shows of 2010. This week’s roundup lists new and upcoming exhibitions …

Flash Points

Art and Ecology at the University of New Mexico

by Matthias Merkel Hess | Dec 28, 2009

Flash Points

Art and Ecology at the University of New Mexico

by Matthias Merkel Hess | Dec 28, 2009

There is plenty of environmentally-minded art these days, but very few academic classes on the subject, let alone degree programs. That changed this fall when the University of New Mexico …

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

by Mary Cook | Dec 27, 2009

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

by Mary Cook | Dec 27, 2009

What was the conversation like over your holiday table? Satisfied or are you still hungry? Here are some more healthy vitamins for you —   it’s time to think some …

Eve Essex and Cornelius Cardew

by Nova Benway | Dec 27, 2009

Eve Essex and Cornelius Cardew

by Nova Benway | Dec 27, 2009

Continuing the tenuous thread I’ve begun to weave, today’s post concerns Eve Essex, an artist I’ve been interested in since she was a resident with the Berwick Research Institute in …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Season’s Treatings

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 23, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Season’s Treatings

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 23, 2009

Before the holidays hit us, I thought I might suggest a few destinations, dates, and stocking stuffers for those who are as late with the shopping as I am. Below …

Political Football

by Jennifer Doyle | Dec 22, 2009

Political Football

by Jennifer Doyle | Dec 22, 2009

Flash Points contributor and University of Riverside professor Jennifer Doyle is currently spending 2 weeks in India, traveling with the Indian artist Riyas Komu. Following is the third in a …

This Year, Give Stuart Sherman

by Nova Benway | Dec 22, 2009

This Year, Give Stuart Sherman

by Nova Benway | Dec 22, 2009

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DnPeeW_5IkQ] At a time of year when exuberant celebration meets with reflection and humanitarian impulses, it seems appropriate to devote my posts to a few artists, curators, and projects that …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 21, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 21, 2009

This week in Art21 artist news we have two tapestry makers, a silk archway, the master of Cremaster, an artist who likes to do laundry, a magical sound installation, environmental issues, creative …

Flash Points

When Nature Takes Over

by Catherine Wagley | Dec 21, 2009

Flash Points

When Nature Takes Over

by Catherine Wagley | Dec 21, 2009

“It is the common mission of the entire mankind to curb global warming and save our planet.” So said China’s Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao, addressing the Copenhagen Summit on December …

New guest blogger: Nova Benway

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 21, 2009

New guest blogger: Nova Benway

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 21, 2009

Thanks for Kelly Rakowski for digging in archives from the world over to find unusual patterns in everyday life. Read future posts back on her own blog, Nothing is New, …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Scrooged

by Ben Street | Dec 21, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Scrooged

by Ben Street | Dec 21, 2009

Tate Britain has just unveiled its 22nd annual Christmas Tree, designed, as usual, by a contemporary British artist. The Christmas Tree tradition at the Tate started in 1988 with Bill …

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

by Mary Cook | Dec 18, 2009

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

by Mary Cook | Dec 18, 2009

A letter from Susan Sollins, Executive Director of Art21. Please support Art21’s many educational endeavors and donate to the 2009 Annual Fund Soccer. It’s a passionate and public sport that …

Triangle Met

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 18, 2009

Triangle Met

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 18, 2009

Angular visions at the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s collection database.

Art21 Extended Play

Cindy Sherman | Mannequins & Masks

by Wesley Miller | Dec 18, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Cindy Sherman | Mannequins & Masks

by Wesley Miller | Dec 18, 2009

Surveying some of the props she’s used over the years, including masks and mannequin parts, artist Cindy Sherman demonstrates how she uses stand-ins to gauge the focus and composition of …

Rie Wares

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 16, 2009

Rie Wares

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 16, 2009

Lucie Rie’s solid, soft ceramics combine with the dark and light of these photographs to make welcoming images. Dame Lucie Rie was a prominent British potter who became internationally known …

Support Art21: Donate to the 2009 Annual Fund

by Katherine Payne | Dec 16, 2009

Support Art21: Donate to the 2009 Annual Fund

by Katherine Payne | Dec 16, 2009

Dear Friends, As you know, Art21 is dedicated to fostering creativity and innovation by engaging students, teachers, and the general public with contemporary visual art, and presenting artists as role …

Flash Points

Art and Nature at Storm King

by Rachel Gagnon | Dec 16, 2009

Flash Points

Art and Nature at Storm King

by Rachel Gagnon | Dec 16, 2009

Flash Points Editor Rachel Craft interviewed David R. Collens, Director and Curator of Storm King Art Center, about the institution’s focus on the relationship between art and nature. —Ed. Rachel …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Time to Talk

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 16, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Time to Talk

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 16, 2009

Art classrooms are mired in production. Too often the drive to complete work speeds right past the formation of a high quality idea or composition. How often have we ourselves …

Art21 Extended Play

Art21 “Exclusive” Video, Year 2

by Wesley Miller | Dec 15, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Art21 “Exclusive” Video, Year 2

by Wesley Miller | Dec 15, 2009

What a year it’s been! We’re taking a look back at the 42 Exclusive videos that premiered here on the Art21 Blog, and subsequently on YouTube and iTunes. We hope …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

The Ethics of Dust: A Conversation with Jorge Otero-Pailos

by Richard McCoy | Dec 15, 2009

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

The Ethics of Dust: A Conversation with Jorge Otero-Pailos

by Richard McCoy | Dec 15, 2009

IMA art conservator Richard McCoy discusses the installation “The Ethics of Dust” with Columbia University professor & architect Jorge Otero-Pailos.

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 14, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 14, 2009

Making this week’s roundup are an upside down glass house, a floral puppy, fused bicycles and an empty white shoe box, a TV-inspired installation, two exhibitions focusing on American society, …

The Art Museum

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 14, 2009

The Art Museum

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 14, 2009

Elegant, inspired, or bored—photographer William Gedney takes us on a trip to the art museum. Via the deep and dense William Gedney archives at Duke University. The 50,000 item collection …

Players Painting: Yolanda Sousa Kammermeier

by Jennifer Doyle | Dec 13, 2009

Players Painting: Yolanda Sousa Kammermeier

by Jennifer Doyle | Dec 13, 2009

Chilavert is sitting on my hotel bed. The 6’4″ Paraguyan keeper cuts an imposing figure, even on canvas: his magnificent shaved head, thick neck and muscular shoulders rest on the …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

by Mary Cook | Dec 12, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

by Mary Cook | Dec 12, 2009

VIDEO EXCLUSIVE — Doris Salcedo | Third World Identity New Guest Blogger: Kelly Rakowski, a graphic designer and Head of the Book Department at Todd Oldham Studio. Check out this …

Blogalogueing with Lee Montgomery

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 12, 2009

Blogalogueing with Lee Montgomery

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 12, 2009

LeE: this is me.. LeE… the one I told you about. You: Hi Lee! You know I just realized I could have probably been doing the interview this whole time, …

Blogalogue, Part 4: Lee Montgomery

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 12, 2009

Blogalogue, Part 4: Lee Montgomery

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 12, 2009

Lee Montgomery got his BA in Film at Bard College, and an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. As the founder of Neighborhood Public Radio, Lee …

Art21 Extended Play

Doris Salcedo | Third World Identity

by Wesley Miller | Dec 11, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Doris Salcedo | Third World Identity

by Wesley Miller | Dec 11, 2009

In her Bogotá studio, artist Doris Salcedo discusses the stereotypes she faces as a citizen of a Third World country and how she embraces these first-hand experiences of discrimination to …

Future Russia.

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 11, 2009

Future Russia.

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 11, 2009

The future is here! — constructions of text and image created by Russian Futurist Aleksei Kruchenykh along with Vasilii Kamenskii, Kirill Zdanevich and his wife Olga Rozanova. Kruchenykh was a …

On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production

On Location: Filming Art21 Educators in Southern California

by Nick Ravich | Dec 11, 2009

On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production

On Location: Filming Art21 Educators in Southern California

by Nick Ravich | Dec 11, 2009

In our new column, On Location, Art21 Director of Production Nick Ravich breaks his silence and gives you the scoop on Art21’s production comings and goings including, among other things, …