Yearly Archives: 2010

New guest blogger: Marissa Perel

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 11, 2010

New guest blogger: Marissa Perel

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 11, 2010

Thanks to Mike Brenner for his highly entertaining and educational posts about his time running Hotcakes Gallery. Up next is Marissa Perel, a performance artist, writer and independent curator currently …

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Announcing Art21’s Back to School with William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Announcing Art21’s Back to School with William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

by Diane Vivona | Oct 8, 2010

Art21 announces our new William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible Back to School Campaign, designed to raise funds to support free resources for educators. By giving as little as $5, $15, …

The Bronzed Fonzie and Threats of Being Shived in the Shower

by Mike Brenner | Oct 8, 2010

The Bronzed Fonzie and Threats of Being Shived in the Shower

by Mike Brenner | Oct 8, 2010

The last year my art gallery, Hotcakes, was open, there were a number of significant yet manageable setbacks, but when Milwaukee’s Convention and Visitor’s Bureau got into the business of …

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Win Tickets to Attend the New York City Premiere of Art21’s New Film at the MoMA

by Jonathan Munar | Oct 8, 2010

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Win Tickets to Attend the New York City Premiere of Art21’s New Film at the MoMA

by Jonathan Munar | Oct 8, 2010

The PBS broadcast premiere of Art21’s latest film, William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, is just over a week away, and we want you to join us in celebrating. Art21 is …

Art21 Extended Play

William Kentridge: Composer Philip Miller

by Wesley Miller | Oct 8, 2010

Art21 Extended Play

William Kentridge: Composer Philip Miller

by Wesley Miller | Oct 8, 2010

SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE In celebration of Art21’s forthcoming feature film William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible — premiering October 21, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. …

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Berlin’s Fair Weather

by Ethan Hayes-Chute | Oct 7, 2010

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Berlin’s Fair Weather

by Ethan Hayes-Chute | Oct 7, 2010

To use a very versatile phrase, “It’s that time of year again.” In this case, we mean: it’s art fair-season in Berlin. With the 15th anniversary of the somewhat-confusingly-named Art …

Running a Gallery on a Shoestring Budget

by Mike Brenner | Oct 7, 2010

Running a Gallery on a Shoestring Budget

by Mike Brenner | Oct 7, 2010

Mike Brenner tells some stories about how he survived financially while owning an art gallery.

On View Now

On View Now | Rock and Roll Fantasy: Yoshitomo Nara at the Asia Society

by Max Weintraub | Oct 7, 2010

On View Now

On View Now | Rock and Roll Fantasy: Yoshitomo Nara at the Asia Society

by Max Weintraub | Oct 7, 2010

For those who enjoy Yoshitomo Nara’s mischievousness characters and pop-culture inspired iconography, or those who are not yet familiar with them, the current show at the Asia Society in New …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Teaching with William Kentridge

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 6, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Teaching with William Kentridge

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 6, 2010

There are many reasons to teach with the art of William Kentridge, and as we get closer to the premiere of Art21’s new film, William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, airing …

Techno-Trash: Mika Taanila and Pixelache

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 6, 2010

Techno-Trash: Mika Taanila and Pixelache

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 6, 2010

One of the best exhibitions I saw in Helsinki this summer was at Galleria Heino, a small space on the hip street Uudenmaankatu. On the recommendation of an artist friend, …

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment: Stories About Stories About Pictures

by Oliver Wunsch | Oct 6, 2010

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment: Stories About Stories About Pictures

by Oliver Wunsch | Oct 6, 2010

I tried to write this blog post in the form of a story. The approach would have fit the topic: an upcoming conference at the Clark Art Institute on the …

Flash Points

“Free” and Online Experience

by Rachel Gagnon | Oct 5, 2010

Flash Points

“Free” and Online Experience

by Rachel Gagnon | Oct 5, 2010

Free, an exhibition that opens October 20 at the New Museum, will explore the web’s impact on how we digest information and experience public space through the work of twenty-three …

Navel-Gazing: Jenni Rope & the Napa Enterprise

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 5, 2010

Navel-Gazing: Jenni Rope & the Napa Enterprise

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 5, 2010

“I enjoy working with drawing, painting and collage. My studio is full of little pieces of drawings, colour papers and different colour tapes. I find a piece of paper on …

So what ARE curators looking for?

by Mike Brenner | Oct 4, 2010

So what ARE curators looking for?

by Mike Brenner | Oct 4, 2010

Mike Brenner discusses what curators are looking for when they choose artists.

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Oct 4, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Oct 4, 2010

In this week’s roundup, Cai Guo-Qiang at MFA Houston, Julie Mehretu at the Metropolitan Opera, Oliver Herring at Meulensteen, Trenton Doyle Hancock at Dunn and Brown Contemporary, and much more! …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Dutch Treat

by Ben Street | Oct 4, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Dutch Treat

by Ben Street | Oct 4, 2010

René Daniëls is a really, really good painter, maybe even a great painter, who stopped painting twenty-three years ago and has only resumed in the last two years. In 1987, he …

Home and Away: Inside Helsinki’s Artist Residency Program, HIAP

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 4, 2010

Home and Away: Inside Helsinki’s Artist Residency Program, HIAP

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 4, 2010

I didn’t sleep much in Helsinki. Though it was my second trip there and my umpteenth time in the Nordic countries, I somehow booked my travel to coincide with Juhannus, …

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Ink: New Transparency for the Tamarind Institute

by Sarah Kirk Hanley | Oct 1, 2010

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Ink: New Transparency for the Tamarind Institute

by Sarah Kirk Hanley | Oct 1, 2010

Printmaking is a vital and significant aspect of contemporary art, yet there is currently very little discussion or media coverage of this medium in the press. When Art on Paper announced …

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Introducing new column: Ink

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 1, 2010

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Introducing new column: Ink

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 1, 2010

With the advent of October, we are pleased to announce the latest column on the blog. Ink is a specialized medium-based column that will complement this site’s current content by …

Art21 Extended Play

William Kentridge: Peter Gelb, The Metropolitan Opera

by Wesley Miller | Oct 1, 2010

Art21 Extended Play

William Kentridge: Peter Gelb, The Metropolitan Opera

by Wesley Miller | Oct 1, 2010

SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE In celebration of Art21’s forthcoming feature film William Kentridge: Anything is Possible — premiering October 21, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Enjoying the Steps

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 29, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Enjoying the Steps

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 29, 2010

Recently I have participated in a few discussions that relate to teaching students about slowing down and examining their process in order to create quality works of art- works that …

Open Enrollment

Life After MFA…The PhD Option?

by Vency Yun | Sep 29, 2010

Open Enrollment

Life After MFA…The PhD Option?

by Vency Yun | Sep 29, 2010

After reading my fellow blogger Oliver Wunsch’s interview with George Smith, the founder of the Institute for Doctoral Studies in Visual Arts (IDSVA), I began thinking about a PhD in …

How NOT to Approach a Curator

by Mike Brenner | Sep 29, 2010

How NOT to Approach a Curator

by Mike Brenner | Sep 29, 2010

Mike Brenner tells horror stories about artists who wanted to show at his art gallery.

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

Four for Fall

by Claudine Isé | Sep 28, 2010

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

Four for Fall

by Claudine Isé | Sep 28, 2010

Traditionally, fall is the time when galleries launch their new slate of exhibitions after a relatively slow-paced couple of summer months. Galleries tend to highlight some of the most prominent …

Owning an Art Gallery Was Something I Fell Into

by Mike Brenner | Sep 27, 2010

Owning an Art Gallery Was Something I Fell Into

by Mike Brenner | Sep 27, 2010

Mike Brenner talks about the perils of owning an art gallery and running a nonprofit arts service organization in Milwaukee.

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Sep 27, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Sep 27, 2010

In this week’s roundup, abstraction is the theme, with James Turrrell on view in Brussels, Sally Mann preparing to push boundaries, while Allan McCollum’s work is on view as Jessica …

New guest blogger: Mike Brenner

by Kelly Shindler | Sep 27, 2010

New guest blogger: Mike Brenner

by Kelly Shindler | Sep 27, 2010

Thanks to Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin, who provided a generous overview of the contemporary art and artists in Montreal. Up next is Mike Brenner. An Open Enrollment alumnus, Mike attended the Bauhaus-Universität, …

Flash Points

Making the Most of It

by Louise ONeil | Sep 24, 2010

Flash Points

Making the Most of It

by Louise ONeil | Sep 24, 2010

I’ve always thought of artists as romantic creatures. Their desires are truly unlike those of any other profession in the world. While many people work their way up in careers …

Art21 Extended Play

Krzysztof Wodiczko: Peace

by Wesley Miller | Sep 24, 2010

Art21 Extended Play

Krzysztof Wodiczko: Peace

by Wesley Miller | Sep 24, 2010

SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #121: “You cannot work towards peace being peaceful” says artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, who explains this paradoxical position in terms …

MontreART

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 24, 2010

MontreART

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 24, 2010

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ERbtF71JK9o] Last August, Travel+Leisure ran the article Magnificent Montreal, in which Adam Sachs attempted to sum up Montreal, saying “it’s a college town, a dump, a city of art, placid …

What You Give is What You Get: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 23, 2010

What You Give is What You Get: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 23, 2010

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-w9yeGIqcLg] Mexican-born electronics artist Rafael Lozano-Hemmer creates installations that could not exist without the participation of the public. His art, fueled by human energy, ranges from one-room displays to city-square-scale …

Monica Majoli. Hanging Rubberman #1, 2006. Watercolor and gouache on paper. 123 x 51 in. Photo: Brian Forrest. Image via hammer.ucla.edu

Looking at Los Angeles

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Dark Undercurrents in the Hammer Contemporary Collection

by Lily Simonson | Sep 23, 2010

Looking at Los Angeles

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Dark Undercurrents in the Hammer Contemporary Collection

by Lily Simonson | Sep 23, 2010

Last week, Art21 treated Angelenos to the very first preview screening of William Kentridge: Anything is Possible at the Hammer Museum‘s Billy Wilder Theater. As Art21’s executive director Susan Sollins …

Embodiment and Process: Vida Simon

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 23, 2010

Embodiment and Process: Vida Simon

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 23, 2010

Vida Simon enters her work. The Montreal-based artist creates gentle, introspective drawing installation/performances where we witness her artistic process live and in progress. She literally embodies her own art, working …

Yearly Archives: 2010

New guest blogger: Marissa Perel

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Announcing Art21’s Back to School with William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

The Bronzed Fonzie and Threats of Being Shived in the Shower

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Win Tickets to Attend the New York City Premiere of Art21’s New Film at the MoMA

Art21 Extended Play

Art21 Extended Play

William Kentridge: Composer Philip Miller

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Berlin’s Fair Weather

Running a Gallery on a Shoestring Budget

On View Now

On View Now

On View Now | Rock and Roll Fantasy: Yoshitomo Nara at the Asia Society

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Teaching with William Kentridge

Techno-Trash: Mika Taanila and Pixelache

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment: Stories About Stories About Pictures

Flash Points

Flash Points

“Free” and Online Experience

Navel-Gazing: Jenni Rope & the Napa Enterprise

So what ARE curators looking for?

Weekly Roundup

Letter from London

Letter from London

Letter from London: Dutch Treat

Home and Away: Inside Helsinki’s Artist Residency Program, HIAP

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Ink: New Transparency for the Tamarind Institute

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Introducing new column: Ink

Art21 Extended Play

Art21 Extended Play

William Kentridge: Peter Gelb, The Metropolitan Opera

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Enjoying the Steps

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment

Life After MFA…The PhD Option?

How NOT to Approach a Curator

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

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

Four for Fall

Owning an Art Gallery Was Something I Fell Into

Weekly Roundup

New guest blogger: Mike Brenner

Flash Points

Flash Points

Making the Most of It

Art21 Extended Play

Art21 Extended Play

Krzysztof Wodiczko: Peace

MontreART

What You Give is What You Get: Rafael Lozano-Hemmer

Looking at Los Angeles

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Looking at Los Angeles

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Dark Undercurrents in the Hammer Contemporary Collection

Embodiment and Process: Vida Simon

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Developing Themes

The Medium is Not the Message: Adad Hannah

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation