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Game (as) Art: The Kokoromi Collective

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 20, 2010

Game (as) Art: The Kokoromi Collective

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 20, 2010

Trying to explain GAMMA is kind of like trying to describe Burning Man. The members of Kokoromi Collective best described their annual showcase for game creation and art as a …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Spoils of War

by Ben Street | Sep 20, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Spoils of War

by Ben Street | Sep 20, 2010

There’s a new display at the Imperial War Museum, London, orchestrated by the artist Jeremy Deller, which consists of a burnt-out, red-brown car, mangled in an an explosion in Baghdad …
Sherman in Balenciaga.

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Sep 20, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Sep 20, 2010

This week’s roundup includes art that is about being social: Cindy Sherman poses in Balenciaga, Carrie Mae Weems teaches about art and social engagement, Barbara Kruger displays art about social life, …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Back in the Kitchen

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 17, 2010

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Back in the Kitchen

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 17, 2010

The Museum of Modern Art could not have picked a better moment to mount Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen, an exhibition about the changing aesthetics and politics of …

Art21 Extended Play

Allan McCollum: “Plaster Surrogates” & “Surrogate Paintings”

by Wesley Miller | Sep 17, 2010

Art21 Extended Play

Allan McCollum: “Plaster Surrogates” & “Surrogate Paintings”

by Wesley Miller | Sep 17, 2010

SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #120: Filmed in his Brooklyn studio, Allan McCollum discusses his Surrogate Paintings (begun in 1978) and Plaster Surrogates (begun …

Open Enrollment

Seeking graduate student writers for Open Enrollment

by Kelly Shindler | Sep 16, 2010

Open Enrollment

Seeking graduate student writers for Open Enrollment

by Kelly Shindler | Sep 16, 2010

Why art school? Why now? Why does it matter? “It wasn’t till I got to art school that I really understood how art can connect you through human history and …

Oil on Canvas: Jenny Schade

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 16, 2010

Oil on Canvas: Jenny Schade

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 16, 2010

Jenny Schade thinks she was born in the wrong century. The 25-year-old Montreal-born artist has devoted herself fully to painting — pure oil-on-canvas painting. Her large works depict abstract landscapes …
Arts in Ed

Arts in Education: Mark Bradford’s Open Studio

by Nettrice Gaskins | Sep 16, 2010

Arts in Education: Mark Bradford’s Open Studio

by Nettrice Gaskins | Sep 16, 2010

Did you know that this week, September 12-18, is Arts in Education Week? On July 26, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.Con.Res. 275, a resolution that seeks to “support …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Brainstorming Big Ideas and Arriving at the Best Idea

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 15, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Brainstorming Big Ideas and Arriving at the Best Idea

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 15, 2010

Every art student (and I mean EVERY art student- K-12, undergrad, graduate, adult education, private lessons, you name it) has had one or more situations when an initial idea for …

Open Enrollment

OMG Mid-Grad Crisis or RTV/MFA

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Sep 15, 2010

Open Enrollment

OMG Mid-Grad Crisis or RTV/MFA

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Sep 15, 2010

Sometimes when I’m sitting in class, I switch to a third-person perspective and feel like I’m watching a reality television show about myself. One of my professors, Clark Buckner, assigned …

One Hour Photo: Yves Médam

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 15, 2010

One Hour Photo: Yves Médam

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 15, 2010

A former commercial photographer, Yves Médam has only recently made the shift to fine art in the last 3 years. The French-born artist constructs large format photographic re-inventions of reality, …

Flash Points

Come Curious: The Artists Look

by Katia Zavistovski | Sep 15, 2010

Flash Points

Come Curious: The Artists Look

by Katia Zavistovski | Sep 15, 2010

“When I was sixteen and knew nothing about art, I sat through almost six hours of Andy Warhol’s Empire. I did not understand it but thought: this is in a …

Augmenting Reality: Paul Warne

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 14, 2010

Augmenting Reality: Paul Warne

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 14, 2010

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C50_R3cDlY] Paul Warne doesn’t consider himself so much an artist as a designer. While trained in animation and film at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Warne found himself immersed in …

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

Interview | Bill Eiseman of Polyester

by Meg Onli | Sep 14, 2010

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

Interview | Bill Eiseman of Polyester

by Meg Onli | Sep 14, 2010

Like many people, my girlfriend and I set out on a road trip this summer. Our trip took us from Chicago to Portland, following most of the Lewis and Clark …
Barry McGee. Houston Street (NYC), 2010.

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Sep 14, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Sep 14, 2010

In this week’s roundup: Barry McGee tags Houston Street in NYC,  Bruce Nauman and Richard Serra contextualize and collaborate, Robert Adams comes to Vancouver, Roni Horn channels Emily Dickinson, and more. …

How Sweet It Is: Shelley Miller

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 13, 2010

How Sweet It Is: Shelley Miller

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 13, 2010

Shelley Miller creates exquisite, intricate artworks out of sugar. In 2009, her mural installation, Cargo, won the People’s Choice award at Montreal’s Mois de la Photo (Montreal’s biennale for contemporary …

New guest blogger: Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin

by Kelly Shindler | Sep 13, 2010

New guest blogger: Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin

by Kelly Shindler | Sep 13, 2010

Thanks to Thom Donovan for his excellent exhibition and artists’ books reviews, and interview with the fascinating Primary Information. Follow his writing and projects back on his own site here. …

5 Questions with Miriam Katzeff of Primary Information

by Thom Donovan | Sep 10, 2010

5 Questions with Miriam Katzeff of Primary Information

by Thom Donovan | Sep 10, 2010

1. What inspired you to start Primary Information? I think there were two reasons to start Primary Information. James [Hoff] and I are both very interested in artists’ books and …

Future Metaphors

Future Metaphors: Fractured Time

by Ivan Lozano | Sep 10, 2010

Future Metaphors

Future Metaphors: Fractured Time

by Ivan Lozano | Sep 10, 2010

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtBSMKSsyEY] Ryan Trecartin, I-BE AREA (Double Jamie, Ramada Omar, and Sally Man Pause), video excerpt, 2007 Lately, I’ve been thinking about the kinship between Ryan Trecartin’s narratives and those of …

On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production

On Location: Dr. Doc | An Interview with Thom Powers

by Nick Ravich | Sep 10, 2010

On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production

On Location: Dr. Doc | An Interview with Thom Powers

by Nick Ravich | Sep 10, 2010

I’m back from my summer break and ready to change things up a bit with this column.  So instead of the usual long laundry list of documentary various and sundry, …

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 …

Fall Previews: Trailer, Teasers, and Slideshows

by Jonathan Munar | Aug 31, 2010

Fall Previews: Trailer, Teasers, and Slideshows

by Jonathan Munar | Aug 31, 2010

William Kentridge in his studio, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2008. William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, production still, 2010. © Art21, Inc. 2010. Fall preview season is upon us, so it’s time …

3 Museums, 2 Days (part II of II)

by Thom Donovan | Aug 31, 2010

3 Museums, 2 Days (part II of II)

by Thom Donovan | Aug 31, 2010

II. After my visit to the New Museum, I headed uptown to the Studio Museum in Harlem. What stood out to me at the Studio Museum were a series of sculptural, photographic, …
Lari Pittman, Untitled #1.

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 30, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 30, 2010

In this week’s roundup, Lari Pittman takes over L.A., Trenton Doyle Hancock issues a call to color, Tim Hawkinson explores sustainability, Cao Fei exhibits in Poland, and more! Centre Pompidou …

3 Museums, 2 Days (part I of II)

by Thom Donovan | Aug 30, 2010

3 Museums, 2 Days (part I of II)

by Thom Donovan | Aug 30, 2010

I. This past weekend I visited three museums in New York City — New Museum on the Bowery, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and P.S.1 MoMA in Queens — if …

New guest blogger: Thom Donovan

by Kelly Shindler | Aug 30, 2010

New guest blogger: Thom Donovan

by Kelly Shindler | Aug 30, 2010

Thanks to Meg Floryan for her series of posts on the unmistakable relationship between nature and art. Up next is Thom Donovan. Thom lives in New York City, where he …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Public Enemy

by Ben Street | Aug 30, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Public Enemy

by Ben Street | Aug 30, 2010

Public art is rubbish. Starting from that premise is the best possible pre-emptive strike against disappointment. Don’t expect public art to be any good and you’ll be surprised when it …