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Flash Points

Flash Points #3: What is the Value of Art?

by Beth Allen | Apr 2, 2009

Flash Points

Flash Points #3: What is the Value of Art?

by Beth Allen | Apr 2, 2009

In the late-1990s I took a graduate seminar on “museums and institutional critique” that focused on artistic and curatorial practices in the 1980s and 90s, and included a series of …

Flash Points

Flash Points: Art+Politics, Looking Back & Moving Forward

by Hrag Vartanian | Apr 1, 2009

Flash Points

Flash Points: Art+Politics, Looking Back & Moving Forward

by Hrag Vartanian | Apr 1, 2009

These last two months have proved to be full of lively posts about the sometimes clear and often nebulous intersection of Art+Politics. Art21’s own Marc Mayer kicked things off when …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Film, Teaching with Objects

by Joe Fusaro | Apr 1, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Film, Teaching with Objects

by Joe Fusaro | Apr 1, 2009

Last week, it was my pleasure to begin working with the CCS Bard Hessel Museum at Bard College to initiate a three-part workshop series for teachers titled, Teaching and Learning …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 30, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 30, 2009

From 6 to 8pm tomorrow, Season 2 artist Collier Schorr will sign copies of her book There I Was at Dashwood Books in New York. Silent Writing, an exhibition of works by Barbara Kruger (Season 1), Jenny Holzer (Season 4) and …

New guest blogger: Lila Kanner

by Kelly Shindler | Mar 30, 2009

New guest blogger: Lila Kanner

by Kelly Shindler | Mar 30, 2009

Thanks to Tim Ridlen for chronicling the art scene in his new adoptive hometown of NYC. Up next is Lila Kanner. Lila joined the staff at Artadia: The Fund for …

Letter from London

Letter from London: The Eighties Revival

by Ben Street | Mar 30, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: The Eighties Revival

by Ben Street | Mar 30, 2009

The new thing at Tate Modern, three rooms of mainly huge paintings from the 1980s, is timelier than it knows. These works are taken from the UBS collection, the investment …

On the Demuxing Post

by Tim Ridlen | Mar 27, 2009

On the Demuxing Post

by Tim Ridlen | Mar 27, 2009

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qPfLZ1B1POU] [youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CPNspJIWeio] In one of my previous posts, I mentioned the life of certain obsolete terms taking on new meaning. As the clock runs out on my brief stint as …

Flash Points

Call for writers: new Flash Points topic wants you!

by Kelly Shindler | Mar 26, 2009

Flash Points

Call for writers: new Flash Points topic wants you!

by Kelly Shindler | Mar 26, 2009

Attention writers! Our newest Flash Points topic, Contemporary Art + Economics, launches next week. This time, we’re opening up the editorial process and inviting you to participate. Have an idea …

Sikander Trifecta (incl. talk tonight at Cooper-Hewitt)

by Kelly Shindler | Mar 25, 2009

Sikander Trifecta (incl. talk tonight at Cooper-Hewitt)

by Kelly Shindler | Mar 25, 2009

In New York City? Don’t miss Season 1 artist Shahzia Sikander‘s related activities around town, including an artist’s talk tonight. Her curatorial exhibition, Shahzia Sikander Selects: Works from the Permanent …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Remixing. Transformation.

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 25, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Remixing. Transformation.

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 25, 2009

This week two of my classes will visit the Museum of Art and Design’s first major exhibit in its new space at Columbus Circle, Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary. Among …

Strength in Limitations

by Tim Ridlen | Mar 24, 2009

Strength in Limitations

by Tim Ridlen | Mar 24, 2009

On the drive from Chicago to New York City in a Budget rental truck, I had a conversation with a friend of mine regarding an ongoing gallery project called MWNM …

First Spring Round-Up

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 23, 2009

First Spring Round-Up

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 23, 2009

Things to see: Mel Chin will be giving a free lecture on Tuesday, March 24, from 7:00 pm to 8:30 pm, at the Arlington Arts Center as part of the …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Plinth of Thieves

by Ben Street | Mar 23, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Plinth of Thieves

by Ben Street | Mar 23, 2009

Good news! We’re living in “a golden age of public art,” characterized by “a change in art’s very nature, from an aesthetic, spiritual and intellectual function to a principally social …

Emulsion To Emulsion

by Tim Ridlen | Mar 20, 2009

Emulsion To Emulsion

by Tim Ridlen | Mar 20, 2009

The term “emulsion to emulsion” has somehow stuck in my head from my undergraduate days, taking courses in photography.  It is the phrase meant to remind you of the placement …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Power(ful) Painting

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 18, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Power(ful) Painting

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 18, 2009

In a recent unit with an introductory Studio Art class, my students created paintings that redefined power visually in a variety of ways. After looking at the work of Season …

Art, Work, Power

by Tim Ridlen | Mar 17, 2009

Art, Work, Power

by Tim Ridlen | Mar 17, 2009

Just last month I made the move that many young artists make.  I left Chicago for New York City in what must seem like horribly bad timing given the many …

This Week’s Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 16, 2009

This Week’s Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 16, 2009

What’s happening now: The Sound of Silence, an exhibition of works by Alfredo Jaar (Season 4), is on view at Galerie Lelong in New York through May 2. Visitors are invited …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Primo Puryear

by Ben Street | Mar 16, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Primo Puryear

by Ben Street | Mar 16, 2009

It’s easy for contemporary art cynics to criticize the Bushesque debasement of language that goes on every day in the art world. I’ve actually started to take to the byzantine …

New guest blogger: Tim Ridlen

by Kelly Shindler | Mar 16, 2009

New guest blogger: Tim Ridlen

by Kelly Shindler | Mar 16, 2009

Thanks to Audrey Chan, who took on our current Flash Points topic with aplomb, and all the way from France! Keep track of her adventures back on her own site …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Notes on a workshop (Part 2)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 14, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Notes on a workshop (Part 2)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 14, 2009

(continued from Part 1…) My students and I had knocked on the door of the Éloignement office of the Préfecture in Nantes. The woman who answered asked us what we …

Flash Points

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Making Artistic Noise Part 2: Contemporary Activist Art

by Lauren Adelman | Mar 13, 2009

Flash Points

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Making Artistic Noise Part 2: Contemporary Activist Art

by Lauren Adelman | Mar 13, 2009

To continue from my first post, at Artistic Noise, we teach a curriculum that focuses on issues relevant to the lives of incarcerated and system-involved youth and uses art to …

Art21 Extended Play

Jenny Holzer talks about her Whitney show

by Hrag Vartanian | Mar 13, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Jenny Holzer talks about her Whitney show

by Hrag Vartanian | Mar 13, 2009

Paddy Johnson interviewed Jenny Holzer for New York Press about her new show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (it opened yesterday, March 12). Titled …

Flash Points

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Making Artistic Noise Part 1: Art and Social Activism with Incarcerated Youth

by Lauren Adelman | Mar 12, 2009

Flash Points

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Making Artistic Noise Part 1: Art and Social Activism with Incarcerated Youth

by Lauren Adelman | Mar 12, 2009

noise [noiz] noun – a loud, surprising, irritating, or unwanted sound In 2001, I was approached by Fran Sherman of the Juvenile Rights Advocacy Project to help develop an arts …

Flash Points

Election 2008: Seizing the moment in the classroom

by Dillon Paul | Mar 12, 2009

Flash Points

Election 2008: Seizing the moment in the classroom

by Dillon Paul | Mar 12, 2009

One of the things I love most about teaching 12th grade is the sense that I am meeting students on the border between their child and adult selves. They are …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Notes on a workshop (Part 1)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 11, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Notes on a workshop (Part 1)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 11, 2009

I’m also teaching a course at the École Régionale des Beaux-arts de Nantes called, “Workshop: I am curious… (The Artist as Ethnographer).” Each Friday morning, my students and I have …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Richter Scale

by Ben Street | Mar 11, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Richter Scale

by Ben Street | Mar 11, 2009

I didn’t expect to crack a smile during the new show of Gerhard Richter’s portraiture at the National Portrait Gallery. Especially at a Gerhard Richter show. He is an artist …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Save Us from Ourselves (Making a Mess)

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 11, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Save Us from Ourselves (Making a Mess)

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 11, 2009

I’m not very religious, but just the other day I was “given” a prayer that somehow spoke volumes about life, the life of teaching, and the life of artist-educators. Eleanor …

Babble On!

by Jonathan Munar | Mar 10, 2009

Babble On!

by Jonathan Munar | Mar 10, 2009

It’s no secret: Art21 loves videos about art. So, naturally, we would love the idea of a Web community dedicated to showcasing videos about art, right? Right. ArtBabble—a project initiated …

Art21 Extended Play

Jenny Holzer | “Projection for Chicago”

by Wesley Miller | Mar 9, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Jenny Holzer | “Projection for Chicago”

by Wesley Miller | Mar 9, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS Jenny Holzer discusses the process behind her series of Xenon Projections as part of the exhibition PROTECT PROTECT at the Museum of Contemporary …

This Week…

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 9, 2009

This Week…

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 9, 2009

Happy Monday with a busy week of activity from Art21 artists. Here are some highlights: This Thursday and Friday at the Guggenheim, created in response to the museum’s current The …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On representations of the artist at work (Part 2)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 6, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On representations of the artist at work (Part 2)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 6, 2009

Following up our discussion about documentation of the creative process in the cases of Mark Bradford and Jackson Pollock, my students and I talked about what we might include in …

Flash Points

A better “we” through art? AREA Chicago’s Daniel Tucker on art and community

by Daniel Tucker | Mar 6, 2009

Flash Points

A better “we” through art? AREA Chicago’s Daniel Tucker on art and community

by Daniel Tucker | Mar 6, 2009

This post is written as a dispatch from California, where I was at the College Art Association conference and speaking in classes at CalArts, SFAI, and the CCA Social Practices …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On representations of the artist at work

by Audrey Chan | Mar 5, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On representations of the artist at work

by Audrey Chan | Mar 5, 2009

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX9SVg6L5vA] In the Art:21 Season 4 episode Paradox, artist Mark Bradford cites the legacy of Abstract Expressionism as an influence on his process-oriented paintings and collages. On a formal level, …

Sikander Curates at Cooper-Hewitt

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 5, 2009

Sikander Curates at Cooper-Hewitt

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 5, 2009

Season 1 artist Shahzia Sikander will serve as the ninth guest curator of the Selects exhibition series at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.  Past Selects guest curators have included artist …

Flash Points

Fight the man! Three activist artists to watch

by Paddy Johnson | Mar 4, 2009

Flash Points

Fight the man! Three activist artists to watch

by Paddy Johnson | Mar 4, 2009

True story: I used to hate activist art. “Why so shrill?” I thought. “Can’t we just talk about this rather than producing a bunch of bad art?” I don’t always …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Working Without Warhol

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 4, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Working Without Warhol

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 4, 2009

Last month, five different Art21 artists were featured in the first five pages of Scholastic Art magazine, an issue that celebrated contemporary women artists including Laylah Ali (featured on the …