Monthly Archives: June 2010
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking Like an Artist, part 2 (and hold the Saltz)
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking Like an Artist, part 2 (and hold the Saltz)
The Guggenheim Museum’s recent conference, Thinking Like an Artist: Creativity and Problem-Solving in the Classroom, turned out to be both an exciting and frustrating two days of panel-lectures and keynote …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
The Green Lantern | Caroline Picard
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
The Green Lantern | Caroline Picard
During the golden age of comic books, All-American Comics debuted Alan Scott as the Green Lantern in 1940. At the time, Scott was a railroad engineer who, when in possession …
Flash Points
Come Curious
Flash Points
Come Curious
Good experience, bad experience. Life experience, work experience. First experience, years of experience. Learning experience. Sensory experience. Out-of-body experience. Shared experience. We experience life in innumerable, and oftentimes indescribable, ways. …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking Like an Artist, Part 1
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking Like an Artist, Part 1
This Thursday and Friday the Guggenheim Museum hosts Thinking Like an Artist: Creativity and Problem Solving in the Classroom. Educators will arrive by plane, train, automobile, even on foot, to …
Open Enrollment
Meandering art school, advocating outsiderness
Open Enrollment
Meandering art school, advocating outsiderness
Beginning with the writings of Michel de Certeau, over the past several months, I’ve thought a lot about the idea of meandering an institutional presence. That thinking bled into my …