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Letter from London

Letter from London: Yes We (Vati) Can!

by Ben Street | Jan 19, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Yes We (Vati) Can!

by Ben Street | Jan 19, 2009

Holy neo-conceptualism! The Vatican has issued a press statement announcing that it will be participating in the Venice Biennale this summer, which will make this year’s event one of the most refreshingly …

@ EMST in Athens

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 18, 2009

@ EMST in Athens

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 18, 2009

The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) is currently presenting Bia Davou’s A Retrospective and Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries‘ solo exhibition entitled Close your Eyes. Starting with Davou, she was …

Pulling Strings in Houston

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 17, 2009

Pulling Strings in Houston

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 17, 2009

Opening today at the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, The Puppet Show brings together contemporary artworks that explore the imagery of puppets in sculpture, video and photography. The Puppet Show takes …

Schorr in Weird Beauty

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 16, 2009

Schorr in Weird Beauty

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 16, 2009

Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now is on view at the International Center for Photography (ICP) from January 16 through May 3, 2009. Organized by Vince Aletti and Carol Squiers, the exhibition …

Touring Prospect.1 (Part 5), the Warehouse District

by Hrag Vartanian | Jan 16, 2009

Touring Prospect.1 (Part 5), the Warehouse District

by Hrag Vartanian | Jan 16, 2009

Roughly located between New Orleans’ Business and Garden Districts, the Warehouse Arts District was a major concentrations for Prospect.1 displays. Dominated by warehouses and old industrial spaces, there is little …

Flash Points

The shock of the unseen.

by C-Monster | Jan 16, 2009

Flash Points

The shock of the unseen.

by C-Monster | Jan 16, 2009

“Looking eternity in the eye.” (All photos by Luodanli.) Almost four years ago, in the course of my web wanderings, I stumbled on the photographs of an Army serviceman  who …

Flash Points

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Interview with Eleanor Antin Part 2

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 15, 2009

Flash Points

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Interview with Eleanor Antin Part 2

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 15, 2009

 Following is the second part of my conversation with Eleanor Antin, continued from Part 1 yesterday… JF: One thing that has been important in my own work with students and …

Touring Prospect.1 (Part 4), French District & Marigny

by Hrag Vartanian | Jan 15, 2009

Touring Prospect.1 (Part 4), French District & Marigny

by Hrag Vartanian | Jan 15, 2009

I was surprised that Prospect.1 shied away from New Orleans’ infamous French District as much as it did. The epicenter of New Orleans’ global brand, and one of the world’s …

Art21 Extended Play

Robert Ryman | Possibilities

by Wesley Miller | Jan 15, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Robert Ryman | Possibilities

by Wesley Miller | Jan 15, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Ryman installing Philadelphia Prototype (2002) at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Robert Ryman’s work explodes the classical distinctions between art as object and art as …

kaput.

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 14, 2009

kaput.

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 14, 2009

Kaput. founders/co-editors: Christopher Marinos and Thanos Stathopoulos kaput. is a quarterly online magazine on contemporary art, which was founded last year in Athens, Greece. The name of the magazine was …

Sugimoto + U2

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jan 14, 2009

Sugimoto + U2

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jan 14, 2009

Word on the street is that one of Hiroshi Sugimoto‘s images will be used as the cover for U2‘s upcoming album No Line on the Horizon, scheduled for release March …

Touring Prospect.1 (Part 3), the Lower Ninth Ward

by Hrag Vartanian | Jan 14, 2009

Touring Prospect.1 (Part 3), the Lower Ninth Ward

by Hrag Vartanian | Jan 14, 2009

If the impact of Katrina now seems minimal in the rest of New Orleans, in the Lower Ninth Ward it was obviously devastating. My guide, who has since become a …

Flash Points

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Myths, metaphors, and more: Interview with Eleanor Antin, Part 1

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 14, 2009

Flash Points

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Myths, metaphors, and more: Interview with Eleanor Antin, Part 1

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 14, 2009

Last month I had the good fortune to speak with Eleanor Antin (Season 2) in a series of lively and engaging emails that included her thoughts on preparing for exhibitions, …

Touring Prospect.1 in Photos (Part 2)

by Hrag Vartanian | Jan 13, 2009

Touring Prospect.1 in Photos (Part 2)

by Hrag Vartanian | Jan 13, 2009

As promised, here is a small visual taste of the sights and sounds of New Orleans’ Prospect.1 biennial. More detailed posts about the art in the Lower Ninth Ward, the …

What does new and interesting mean?

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 13, 2009

What does new and interesting mean?

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 13, 2009

If you find yourself in Athens between now and January 24th, follow my advice and visit the What does new and interesting mean? exhibition at AD gallery. This group show is curated …

Art21 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

by Marc Mayer | Jan 12, 2009

Art21 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

by Marc Mayer | Jan 12, 2009

Art21 is collaborating with the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) on a public program series titled Art:21 at SAAM. The film series presents episodes from the award winning television program …

Flash Points

Teaching with controversial subject matter

by Marc Mayer | Jan 12, 2009

Flash Points

Teaching with controversial subject matter

by Marc Mayer | Jan 12, 2009

On the topic of art and controversy, I thought I’d share a teaching-related story of my own. Previously to working at Art21, I was an associate educator at the New …

Letter from London

Letter from London: The sound of two hands being rubbed together

by Ben Street | Jan 12, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: The sound of two hands being rubbed together

by Ben Street | Jan 12, 2009

Schadenfreude is so central to how the art world functions that it’s no surprise to hear the sound of two hands rubbing together when it comes to talk of how the economic …

Touring Prospect.1, Talking to Curator Dan Cameron (Part 1)

by Hrag Vartanian | Jan 12, 2009

Touring Prospect.1, Talking to Curator Dan Cameron (Part 1)

by Hrag Vartanian | Jan 12, 2009

I arrived in New Orleans in December on an auspicious occasion—it was the first snow fall since 2004 and one of only a few that has touched down in this …

The Age of Images

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 9, 2009

The Age of Images

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 9, 2009

Television: the small screen, the idiot box, the tube, the boob tube, or the box. With all that’s on television nowadays, Katerina Zacharopoulou presents The Age of Images – a …

Nancy Spero at Galerie Lelong

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jan 9, 2009

Nancy Spero at Galerie Lelong

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jan 9, 2009

Nancy Spero‘s Un Coup de Dent opened this week at Galerie Lelong, New York. The Season 4 artist exhibits an early body of expressionistic works referred to as the Black …

Flash Points

Using contemporary art to help open conversations

by Carolyn Sutton | Jan 8, 2009

Flash Points

Using contemporary art to help open conversations

by Carolyn Sutton | Jan 8, 2009

What’s the place of contemporary art in schools?  What’s the place of “controversial” contemporary art in schools? And what’s our responsibility as teachers? The very best contemporary art speaks a …

Rambo is missing his brothers!

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 7, 2009

Rambo is missing his brothers!

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 7, 2009

Veiled in a cloud of national bereavement, I am here to write about art, but first there will be an introduction. The peaceful demonstrations, the protests, the riots, the rallies, …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

In-Progress

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 7, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

In-Progress

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 7, 2009

Teaching in the arts requires, at one ugly point or another, to have veiled conversations called critiques. They are hideous things that most students from middle school through graduate school …

24-Hour Marathon at the Guggenheim

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jan 6, 2009

24-Hour Marathon at the Guggenheim

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jan 6, 2009

Tonight, starting at 6pm, the Guggenheim hosts a 24-hour durational event concentrating on the concept of time, including its “myriad philosophical, psychological, biological, sociological, poetic, aesthetic, and economic manifestations… geared …

New guest blogger: Georgia Kotretsos

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 6, 2009

New guest blogger: Georgia Kotretsos

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 6, 2009

Happy 2009! The year’s first guest blogger is Georgia Kotretsos, an artist based in Athens, Greece. Kotretsos holds an MFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2004) …

Migration Patterns

by Elijah Burgher | Jan 4, 2009

Migration Patterns

by Elijah Burgher | Jan 4, 2009

Each year the tide of the art world carries hundreds of young artists into Chicago’s several art schools to earn their MFAs. And each year the tide also carries a …

Art21 Extended Play

Robert Adams | Light

by Wesley Miller | Jan 1, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Robert Adams | Light

by Wesley Miller | Jan 1, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Adams in his Oregon home. Robert Adams’s black-and-white photographs document scenes of the American West, revealing the impact of human activity on the last vestiges of wilderness and …

Art21 Extended Play

Judy Pfaff | Assistant Rob van Erve

by Wesley Miller | Jan 1, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Judy Pfaff | Assistant Rob van Erve

by Wesley Miller | Jan 1, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Assistant Rob van Erve during the making of Judy Pfaff’s installation Buckets of Rain (2006) in the artist’s studio in Tivoli, New York. Balancing intense planning with improvisational decision-making, …