Monthly Archives: April 2010

Flash Points

Some Alternatives to Institutional Critique

Some Alternatives to Institutional Critique

by Laura Fried | Apr 30, 2010

In 1974, Hans Haacke mounted an index of the museum’s corporate sponsors and board of trustees along the Guggenheim’s walls. The work, simply titled, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Board of …

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jason Bailer Losh

by Georgia Kotretsos | Apr 30, 2010

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jason Bailer Losh

by Georgia Kotretsos | Apr 30, 2010

Jason Bailer Losh is an American artist based in Brooklyn, New York. He grew up in the midwestern town of Denison, IA. Denison is also the birthplace of actress Donna …

Art21 Extended Play

Mike Kelley: “Day Is Done”

by Wesley Miller | Apr 30, 2010

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS SUPPORT ART21: The countdown continues…there are 78 days left to join the 100 x 100 Exclusive campaign. In 22 days we’ve received 18 …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

The Power of Saying Yes

by Joe Fusaro | Apr 28, 2010

Below is a continuation from last week’s column, “Nourishment”, where I began to share excerpts from Carrie Mae Weems’ dialogue with five Baltimore high school students at the most recent …

Open Enrollment

The Exhibition in Art & Business

by Oliver Wunsch | Apr 28, 2010

The Exhibition in Art & Business

by Oliver Wunsch | Apr 28, 2010

Oliver Wunsch considers the role of exhibition work in an art historical education by looking at MASS MoCA’s current show InVisible, curated by one of his classmates. Mike Brenner discusses different cost structures of grassroots art exhibitions, and how changing economic times force artists to adapt to find space and funds.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Exhibiting the Intangible

by Claudine Isé | Apr 27, 2010

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Exhibiting the Intangible

by Claudine Isé | Apr 27, 2010

Recently, Bad at Sports was invited to exhibit at apexart, an alternative gallery space in New York known for presenting innovative thematic exhibitions and public programs. In order to take …

Flash Points

What’s In a Code of Ethics?

by Holly Witchey | Apr 27, 2010

Flash Points

What’s In a Code of Ethics?

by Holly Witchey | Apr 27, 2010

I am not a professor of ethics. I have been a curator and a director of new media at a major art museum, but I am first and foremost an …

Soldier On. Culture Wars Returns this Wednesday!

by Marc Mayer | Apr 26, 2010

Soldier On. Culture Wars Returns this Wednesday!

by Marc Mayer | Apr 26, 2010

After March’s event —with over 120 participants spread across 26 teams— Jonathan Munar, Art21’s Web Manager and I are returning to host the next Culture Wars: A Night of Trivia …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 26, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 26, 2010

In today’s roundup, you’ll read about rabbits and cracked eggs, love in the Ole South, community art making in the Twin Cities, an amusement park in Paris, a family of …

The Intangible as Object

by Evan J. Garza | Apr 26, 2010

The Intangible as Object

by Evan J. Garza | Apr 26, 2010

In September of last year, Kelly Klaasmeyer, the Houston art critic and Glasstire.com editor, made a pretty deft observation. Writing for the Houston Press, she noted that, “Internet content is …

New guest blogger: Evan Garza

by Kelly Shindler | Apr 26, 2010

New guest blogger: Evan Garza

by Kelly Shindler | Apr 26, 2010

Thanks to Nettrice Gaskins for her series of scintillating posts on the wonders and complexities of art and community in Second Life. Follow her adventures back on her own site …

Art21 Extended Play

Beryl Korot: “Radical Software” 1970-74

by Wesley Miller | Apr 23, 2010

Art21 Extended Play

Beryl Korot: “Radical Software” 1970-74

by Wesley Miller | Apr 23, 2010

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS SUPPORT ART21: The countdown is on…there are 85 days left to join the 100 x 100 Exclusive campaign. In 15 days we’ve received …

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Beyond Boundaries: Art Exhibition & Virtual 3D Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 22, 2010

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Beyond Boundaries: Art Exhibition & Virtual 3D Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 22, 2010

I like using the word ‘totality’ as in the ‘totality of one’s surroundings.’ Self provides the essentials of our internal existence and environment is the external display of all that. …

Open Enrollment

Life After Graduation

by Matthew Newton | Apr 21, 2010

Open Enrollment

Life After Graduation

by Matthew Newton | Apr 21, 2010

by Matthew Newton and Jeffrey Augustine Songco First, Matthew interviews Hunter College alum Jules de Balincourt on the occasion of his solo exhibition at Deitch Projects, followed by Jeffrey’s look …

Art & the Avatar: Ambiguity of Identity in Virtual 3D Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 21, 2010

Art & the Avatar: Ambiguity of Identity in Virtual 3D Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 21, 2010

Self is the essential being of a person. Art is a mirror image of a person’s identity, circle of influence, and perceived worlds or realities. Art reflects what we feel, …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Nourishment

by Joe Fusaro | Apr 21, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Nourishment

by Joe Fusaro | Apr 21, 2010

Each year the National Art Education Association holds a conference for a few thousand people and streams of art teachers, art professors, artist-educators, museum educators, administrators, starving artists, starving administrators, …

The Search

by Baseera Khan | Apr 20, 2010

The Search

by Baseera Khan | Apr 20, 2010

Following is a final post from our previous guest blogger, Baseera Khan. — Ed. [youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0GbatnR9dI] On Saturday March 20, I practically walked my way up from Chelsea to 125th Street. …

Call + Response: Collaborative Art in Virtual 3D Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 19, 2010

Call + Response: Collaborative Art in Virtual 3D Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 19, 2010

Collaborative art as joint production by two or more artists is a typical style among sound, video, and performance artists. Many artists are changing the concept of art into something …

Letter from London

Art21 Extended Play

Letter from London: Everything Must Go

by Ben Street | Apr 19, 2010

Letter from London

Art21 Extended Play

Letter from London: Everything Must Go

by Ben Street | Apr 19, 2010

John Logan’s play Red, currently playing at the Golden Theater, New York, centers around a perennial ethical conundrum many successful artists face: whether or not to “sell out” to corporate …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 19, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 19, 2010

Avant-garde cinema, organic designs, sculpture theory, animal extinction, and more in today’s roundup: Dead or Alive, an exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), will showcase the work …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: On Cake

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 16, 2010

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: On Cake

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 16, 2010

My love of cake straddles the line between innocent obsession and utter perversion. I tend to think of cakes like my favorite celebrity bodies. Be it big and firm like …

Immersive & Interactive: Virtual 3D Art Revisited

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 16, 2010

Immersive & Interactive: Virtual 3D Art Revisited

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 16, 2010

Solkide Auer, Shellina Winkler, and Binary Quandry are Second Life artists who are part of the Pirats Art Network, a partner and major contributor in the Through the Virtual Looking …

Art21 Extended Play

Mary Heilmann: Home & Studio

by Wesley Miller | Apr 16, 2010

Art21 Extended Play

Mary Heilmann: Home & Studio

by Wesley Miller | Apr 16, 2010

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS SUPPORT ART21: The countdown is on…there are 93 days left to join the 100 x 100 Exclusive campaign. In 7 days we’ve received …

Flash Points

Nancy Spero’s Torture of Women

by Catherine Wagley | Apr 16, 2010

Flash Points

Nancy Spero’s Torture of Women

by Catherine Wagley | Apr 16, 2010

“In our day, [when] we came back from war,” said Seymour Hersh to Bill O’Reilly in 2004, “We would take our pictures and hide them behind the socks in the drawer and …

Flash Points

Is the Avenue for Artistic Success Ethical?

by Kate Goyette | Apr 15, 2010

Flash Points

Is the Avenue for Artistic Success Ethical?

by Kate Goyette | Apr 15, 2010

Accepting the trope of the struggling artist, many decide to go ahead and brazenly attempt to carve out a spot for themselves in the art world. You just need to …

Looking at Los Angeles

The Ring Festival and the Confined Deep

by Catherine Wagley | Apr 15, 2010

Looking at Los Angeles

The Ring Festival and the Confined Deep

by Catherine Wagley | Apr 15, 2010

All my windows look into windows of other apartments and, on warm days like those we’ve had lately, I’m set up for delicious eavesdropping. I like it best when my …

Open Enrollment

The Radical Workshop: For Students, By Students

by Carrie McGath | Apr 14, 2010

Open Enrollment

The Radical Workshop: For Students, By Students

by Carrie McGath | Apr 14, 2010

by Lily Rossebo and Carrie McGath Lily and Carrie add their two cents about the significance of radical workshops in art school programs. Lily Rossebo: Without student protests, what would …

Responsive Art & Evolving Artificiality in Virtual Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 14, 2010

Responsive Art & Evolving Artificiality in Virtual Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 14, 2010

To the uninitiated, virtual 3D worlds may seem like games. However, game culture often revolves around rules of play. Artists creating work in virtual 3D worlds are usually trying to …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 2

by Joe Fusaro | Apr 14, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 2

by Joe Fusaro | Apr 14, 2010

Below is the second part of my conversation with Laura Thompson, Director of Exhibitions and Education at Kidspace (part one of the interview can be found here). Many thanks to …

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field | Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports: Interview with Jacob Meehan

by Meg Onli | Apr 13, 2010

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field | Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports: Interview with Jacob Meehan

by Meg Onli | Apr 13, 2010

Art21 is proud to present another new column, Center Field | Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports. Since 2005, Bad at Sports’s podcast and blog have acted as …

Participatory Culture & Social Capital in Virtual Art

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 12, 2010

Participatory Culture & Social Capital in Virtual Art

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 12, 2010

Art production in virtual 3D worlds usually doesn’t happen in a vacuum. As a contemporary practice, virtual art can create social capital that provides opportunities for individual and collective action, …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 12, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 12, 2010

This week’s roundup is dedicated to the ladies: On Sunday, April 18, a public commemoration will be held for Season 4 artist Nancy Spero (1926-2009) in Cooper Union’s Great Hall. …

New guest blogger: Nettrice Gaskins

by Kelly Shindler | Apr 12, 2010

New guest blogger: Nettrice Gaskins

by Kelly Shindler | Apr 12, 2010

Thanks to Baseera Khan for her thoughtful posts. Follow her work back on her own site, baseerakhan.com. Up next is Nettrice Gaskins. A regular writer for Art 2.1, Nettrice is …

Monthly Archives: April 2010

Flash Points

Flash Points

Some Alternatives to Institutional Critique

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jason Bailer Losh

Art21 Extended Play

Art21 Extended Play

Mike Kelley: “Day Is Done”

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art

The Power of Saying Yes

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment

The Exhibition in Art & Business

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Exhibiting the Intangible

Flash Points

Flash Points

What’s In a Code of Ethics?

Soldier On. Culture Wars Returns this Wednesday!

Weekly Roundup

The Intangible as Object

New guest blogger: Evan Garza

Art21 Extended Play

Art21 Extended Play

Beryl Korot: “Radical Software” 1970-74

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Beyond Boundaries: Art Exhibition & Virtual 3D Worlds

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment

Life After Graduation

Art & the Avatar: Ambiguity of Identity in Virtual 3D Worlds

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Nourishment

The Search

Call + Response: Collaborative Art in Virtual 3D Worlds

Letter from London

Art21 Extended Play

Letter from London

Art21 Extended Play

Letter from London: Everything Must Go

Weekly Roundup

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: On Cake

Immersive & Interactive: Virtual 3D Art Revisited

Art21 Extended Play

Art21 Extended Play

Mary Heilmann: Home & Studio

Flash Points

Flash Points

Nancy Spero’s Torture of Women

Flash Points

Flash Points

Is the Avenue for Artistic Success Ethical?

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles

The Ring Festival and the Confined Deep

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment

The Radical Workshop: For Students, By Students

Responsive Art & Evolving Artificiality in Virtual Worlds

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 2

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field | Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports: Interview with Jacob Meehan

Participatory Culture & Social Capital in Virtual Art

Weekly Roundup

New guest blogger: Nettrice Gaskins

Art21 Extended Play

Art21 Extended Play

Julie Mehretu: Painting Conservator Luca Bonetti

Remains to be Seen

On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production

Art21 Extended Play