Monthly Archives: June 2010
Looking at Los Angeles
Bikes, Bodies, and Blastulas: Tim Hawkinson Talks About His New Work
Looking at Los Angeles
Bikes, Bodies, and Blastulas: Tim Hawkinson Talks About His New Work
From intimate sculptures to mammoth collages, Tim Hawkinson (Season 2) gracefully creates tension between the playful and the profound. His current exhibition at Blum & Poe continues longstanding threads while …
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Dinosaurs and Mummies: Augmenting the Art Experience at Onishi Gallery, Chelsea
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Dinosaurs and Mummies: Augmenting the Art Experience at Onishi Gallery, Chelsea
This story starts with a dinosaur. It’s a bipedal one, sort of like a mini Tyrannosaurus, running around by my feet. My friend laughs as he sees it scurry beneath …
Open Enrollment
Art Journalism in the Twenty-First Century: Where Is It Headed?
Open Enrollment
Art Journalism in the Twenty-First Century: Where Is It Headed?
This fall, I will be beginning my final year as a Masters candidate in New Arts Journalism (NAJ) at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). According to …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
The Suburban: A Space for Contemporary Art in Oak Park, Illinois
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
The Suburban: A Space for Contemporary Art in Oak Park, Illinois
Oak Park, Illinois is a very pretty and historically significant suburb that lies just outside of Chicago. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple is located here, along with a number of …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Interview with Aaron Moulton (Feinkost, Berlin)
Letter from London
Letter from London: Interview with Aaron Moulton (Feinkost, Berlin)
This Letter from London is, for one time only, from Berlin. — B.S. Aaron Moulton is a curator of contemporary art and, with his wife Mette Ravnkilde Nielsen, founder of …
Lives and Works in Berlin
New column! Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin
New column! Lives and Works in Berlin
Art21 is thrilled to announce the launch of our latest column. Heading the curriculum vitae of Berlin’s artists, curators, and other breeds of art junkies, Lives and Works in Berlin. …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Looking Back Through 100 Acres
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Looking Back Through 100 Acres
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy looks back at the documentation around the projects in 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park before it opens this weekend.
Open Enrollment
The Collaborators: Artists Working Across Disciplines
Open Enrollment
The Collaborators: Artists Working Across Disciplines
This spring, in lieu of yet another show of disparate student work, my MFA class decided to create an entirely collaborative exhibition. The seemingly idyllic idea was to work as …