Archive

Monthly Archives: September 2010

Art21 Extended Play

Carrie Mae Weems: “Roaming”

by Wesley Miller | Sep 10, 2010

Art21 Extended Play

Carrie Mae Weems: “Roaming”

by Wesley Miller | Sep 10, 2010

SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #119: Carrie Mae Weems describes the impetus for her series Roaming (2006). An investigation into “the edifice of power,” …

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Summer Love

by Catherine Wagley | Sep 9, 2010

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Summer Love

by Catherine Wagley | Sep 9, 2010

Last weekend, I stopped at a red light and rolled forward into the intersection to turn right. I didn’t see the pedestrian who was about to cross, and came frighteningly …
Allan McCollum

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Sep 9, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Sep 9, 2010

In this week’s roundup: An-My Lê captures the American armed forces, Allora & Calzadilla explore physical and temporal displacement, Julie Mehretu examines the metaphysical aspects of art, and more! “Memory, materiality, monsters, and motion” provide …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

I’m Not an Interior Decorator!

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 8, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

I’m Not an Interior Decorator!

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 8, 2010

Years ago, on my very first day of teaching, my colleague Rose said to me that we must, at all costs, make sure people don’t treat us as interior decorators. …

Art21 Extended Play

Laylah Ali: Choreographer Dean Moss

by Wesley Miller | Sep 7, 2010

Art21 Extended Play

Laylah Ali: Choreographer Dean Moss

by Wesley Miller | Sep 7, 2010

SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #118: Dancer/choreographer Dean Moss discusses his collaboration with visual artist Laylah Ali, entitled figures on a field (2005). This …

Aspect Blindness: Arnold Kemp and Sreshta Rit Premnath

by Thom Donovan | Sep 7, 2010

Aspect Blindness: Arnold Kemp and Sreshta Rit Premnath

by Thom Donovan | Sep 7, 2010

This past week I received two packages in the mail. The first was from Arnold Kemp, who is an artist, curator, and teacher and currently directs the Visual Studies Program at …

On View Now

Tanzanian Reflections

by Max Weintraub | Sep 2, 2010

On View Now

Tanzanian Reflections

by Max Weintraub | Sep 2, 2010

It was an odd feeling going on my first-ever safari during my recent trip to Tanzania.  Odd because even though I had never been on one, I already had a …

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Head Shop/Lost Horizon at Exile

by Ali Fitzgerald | Sep 2, 2010

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Head Shop/Lost Horizon at Exile

by Ali Fitzgerald | Sep 2, 2010

During a recent visit to Exile Gallery, I spoke with guest curator Billy Miller about his concurrent shows Head Shop/Lost Horizon, which were a part of Exile’s annual Summer Camp …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Welcome Back

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 1, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Welcome Back

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 1, 2010

In case you’ve recently returned from summer vacation or have simply been away from the Art21 blog in July and August due to the fact that, like me, you promised …
Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment

Do artists need PhDs?

by Oliver Wunsch | Sep 1, 2010

Open Enrollment

Do artists need PhDs?

by Oliver Wunsch | Sep 1, 2010

I suspect most people today would agree that making art involves more than technical skill. By the seventeenth century, the intellectual and philosophical side of artistic expression had already been …