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Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Eating Your Vegetables Is a Luxury

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 30, 2010

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Eating Your Vegetables Is a Luxury

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 30, 2010

Gastro-Vision launched last August with a two-part post about the trend in urban farming. Interest in sustainable and local food practices continues to spread among creative types and appears to …

The Nature of Art: Blueprints

by Meg Floryan | Aug 27, 2010

The Nature of Art: Blueprints

by Meg Floryan | Aug 27, 2010

As a visitor walking around an art venue, it’s refreshing and pleasing to stumble across green spaces. Open-air and enclosed courtyards featuring lush vegetation and bubbling fountains, outdoor terraces and …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: The Studio Reader and the SAIC Summer Studio

by Georgia Kotretsos | Aug 27, 2010

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: The Studio Reader and the SAIC Summer Studio

by Georgia Kotretsos | Aug 27, 2010

The Studio Reader: On the Space of Artists is the kind of book an artist would eat up in a single sitting. It is about the STUDIO — the spaces …

Open Enrollment

Crafting a Moment

by Corina Reynolds | Aug 26, 2010

Open Enrollment

Crafting a Moment

by Corina Reynolds | Aug 26, 2010

Red waterfalls hang frozen from tarnished candelabra arms above hardened wax puddles joined permanently to a floral cloth. Dew collects on the open mouths of emptied wine bottles as cool …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Not Playing the Patsy

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 25, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Not Playing the Patsy

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 25, 2010

Sometimes certain quotes hit you in a way that make you think and rethink… Here’s one I came across recently from Mike Kelley in Press Play: Contemporary Artists in Conversation: …

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: The Sommerpause Art Guide

by Alex Freedman | Aug 25, 2010

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: The Sommerpause Art Guide

by Alex Freedman | Aug 25, 2010

Nothing spells houseguest season like late-August in Berlin. With school about to resume and the major art metropolises shut down for summer, the town becomes besieged by the event hungry. …

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

Frances Whitehead, Embedded Artist

by Claudine Isé | Aug 24, 2010

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

Frances Whitehead, Embedded Artist

by Claudine Isé | Aug 24, 2010

What do artists know? A few weeks ago, I spent an afternoon at the Chicago home of Frances Whitehead talking about the philosophical and pragmatic underpinnings of this question. To …

The Nature of Art: Footprints

by Meg Floryan | Aug 24, 2010

The Nature of Art: Footprints

by Meg Floryan | Aug 24, 2010

It’s hip to be high-minded these days. In the cultural spheres, showing awareness of environmental concerns can prove to be a savvy PR move, and architectural firms and museum committees …
Charles Atlas video still.

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 23, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 23, 2010

As summer 2010 winds down this week’s roundup gets ready for an exciting fall season when Mark Dion embarks on an expedition in Oakland, Andrea Zittel lands on the Portland …

The Nature of Art: The Bigger Picture

by Meg Floryan | Aug 20, 2010

The Nature of Art: The Bigger Picture

by Meg Floryan | Aug 20, 2010

We’re accustomed to porticoed Greek temple-style museums, white-walled galleries, conspicuous label texts, a high level of organization, and clearly-defined thematic spaces. For those of us who are city-dwellers, we expect …
Furries reclining in Marnie Weber's "Furry Womb" at "A Night of Growth and Discovery." Image via For Your Art.

Looking at Los Angeles

Burn, Baby, Burn: Furries Join Baby Ikki on a Voyage of Growth and Discovery

by Lily Simonson | Aug 19, 2010

Looking at Los Angeles

Burn, Baby, Burn: Furries Join Baby Ikki on a Voyage of Growth and Discovery

by Lily Simonson | Aug 19, 2010

Last month, I opened my email to find a “Call For Furrie Interns.” The call came from LA artist Marnie Weber and was forwarded to me by a mutual friend …

The Nature of Art: On Closer Inspection

by Meg Floryan | Aug 19, 2010

The Nature of Art: On Closer Inspection

by Meg Floryan | Aug 19, 2010

Popular opinion concerning the relationship between technology and the environment is of great interest to me; my own graduate research focused on its treatment in mid-century American children’s book illustration. …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Solid Sound

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 18, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Solid Sound

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 18, 2010

Is sound an element of design right alongside biggies like line, color, shape and texture? Teachers today are faced with the unseemly job of breaking outside “the” seven elements of …

Open Enrollment

Life After MFA…What Next?

by Vency Yun | Aug 18, 2010

Open Enrollment

Life After MFA…What Next?

by Vency Yun | Aug 18, 2010

As summer wraps up, I’m slowly packing my bags and getting ready to move from the sunny coast of Marseille back to beautiful Montreal, where I will have to prepare …

Announcing Our Latest Film: “William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible”

by Jonathan Munar | Aug 17, 2010

Announcing Our Latest Film: “William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible”

by Jonathan Munar | Aug 17, 2010

Art21 is proud to announce the forthcoming broadcast of our latest film, William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, the first film produced by Art21 for national television broadcast outside of the …
Barbara Kruger

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 16, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 16, 2010

This week in the roundup … Barbara Kruger gets a celebration started, Cao Fei has her eyes on a prize, Cai Guo-Qiang goes in with a bang, Raymond Pettibon is into …

Gastro-Vision

The Nature of Art: Let’s Situate Ourselves

by Meg Floryan | Aug 16, 2010

Gastro-Vision

The Nature of Art: Let’s Situate Ourselves

by Meg Floryan | Aug 16, 2010

Get to the root of the matter. Plant an idea. Sow the seeds. Call it what you will — the environment, biosphere, landscape, wilderness, terra firma, mother earth, etc. — but nothing …

New guest blogger: Meg Floryan

by Hrag Vartanian | Aug 16, 2010

New guest blogger: Meg Floryan

by Hrag Vartanian | Aug 16, 2010

Thanks to Steven Frost for giving us some amazing insights in fiber art, and extra bonus points for whipping up a fascinating post that combines Catwoman & patriarchy. Next up is …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Masterpiece Theatre

by Ben Street | Aug 16, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Masterpiece Theatre

by Ben Street | Aug 16, 2010

On a single day this week I saw a clutch of paintings that would, by most reckonings, be referred to as “masterpieces”: Velazquez’ Las Meninas (1656), Goya’s Third of May …

Open Enrollment

My MFA Letter to Santa

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Aug 13, 2010

Open Enrollment

My MFA Letter to Santa

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Aug 13, 2010

Dear Santa, Hi! My name is Jeffrey, I’m 26 years old, and I live in San Francisco, California.  I know it’s kind of early to be writing to you in …

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Summer Social

by Catherine Wagley | Aug 12, 2010

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Summer Social

by Catherine Wagley | Aug 12, 2010

Kip[p] Stagg, nineteen years old and a Columbia undergraduate, was walking in New York one night in 1965 when he heard a man’s voice shouting names at him from somewhere …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Film and Objects

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 11, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Film and Objects

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 11, 2010

Teaching with film or taking a trip with students to a museum can sometimes be an experience somewhere between total bliss and a dental visit. It can be eye-opening or …
Tim Burton, “Batman Returns”, Video Still, 1992. Courtesy Warner Bros Pictures

Patriarchy: Catwoman’s Scratching Post

by Steven Frost | Aug 11, 2010

Patriarchy: Catwoman’s Scratching Post

by Steven Frost | Aug 11, 2010

When I was a little kid I was obsessed with comic books. I consumed anything super hero related with a sense of urgency. I imagined that some day I would …

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

Go West | Roger Brown: California U.S.A

by Meg Onli | Aug 10, 2010

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

Go West | Roger Brown: California U.S.A

by Meg Onli | Aug 10, 2010

After passing away in 1997, painter, sculptor, and notorious collector, Roger Brown bequeathed his homes and collections to his alma mater, the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). …

GIF(t) Basket

Bravo’s Work of Art: Episode 7 Recap

by Wesley Miller | Aug 9, 2010

GIF(t) Basket

Bravo’s Work of Art: Episode 7 Recap

by Wesley Miller | Aug 9, 2010

In a special series of posts, Wesley Miller watches Bravo’s Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, frame by frame, and attempts to uncover what it all means through the …

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 9, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 9, 2010

In this week’s roundup, Alfredo Jaar and Andrea Zittell go natural, Bruce Nauman tries to get off the ground, Cai Guo-Qiang answers questions about the impact of social visibility in …

Art21’s New Guest Editor

by Hrag Vartanian | Aug 9, 2010

Art21’s New Guest Editor

by Hrag Vartanian | Aug 9, 2010

Starting today, and running through to August 25, I will be filling in for Kelly Shindler as guest editor of the Art21 blog. Kelly, who has taken a much needed …

Flash Points

Secrets of Art Appreciation

by Museum Nerd | Aug 9, 2010

Flash Points

Secrets of Art Appreciation

by Museum Nerd | Aug 9, 2010

I am not an “art critic.” I can tell you how I feel about a given work of art, but I may feel differently over time or if I see …

Letter from London

Letter from London: In the Loop

by Ben Street | Aug 9, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: In the Loop

by Ben Street | Aug 9, 2010

My favorite things in Pallant House, the excellent gallery of modern British art in Chichester on the south coast of England, are a couple of small models made before its …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: N. Bernard Viljoen and the Twilight Children

by Georgia Kotretsos | Aug 7, 2010

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: N. Bernard Viljoen and the Twilight Children

by Georgia Kotretsos | Aug 7, 2010

N. Bernard Viljoen is a South African architect based in Johannesburg. He was raised on a farm in the Free State outside the quaint South African town, Parys. He graduated as …
Installation shot of "Effervescent Condition" at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. (Left) Yefeng’s "Battelfield," (right) Sampson’s Dodgedraw on the right, Dodgedraw participant

Flash Points

Effervescent Condition

by Allison Glenn | Aug 7, 2010

Flash Points

Effervescent Condition

by Allison Glenn | Aug 7, 2010

Effervescent Condition, curated by Fang-Tze Hsu (MA 2010) was the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) contribution to The Power of Copying, a large-scale, international group exhibition held …

Art21 Extended Play

Mike Kelley: Bad Boy

by Wesley Miller | Aug 6, 2010

Art21 Extended Play

Mike Kelley: Bad Boy

by Wesley Miller | Aug 6, 2010

SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #117: Mike Kelley sets the record straight about being called a “bad boy” throughout his career, describing the shifting …

On View Now

On View Now: Bruce Nauman and the Days of Our Lives

by Max Weintraub | Aug 6, 2010

On View Now

On View Now: Bruce Nauman and the Days of Our Lives

by Max Weintraub | Aug 6, 2010

Having written my dissertation on the art of Bruce Nauman, I often find myself fielding questions from confused, even perturbed friends or acquaintances seeking to make sense of his art.  …

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Summertime

by Anna Milandri | Aug 5, 2010

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Summertime

by Anna Milandri | Aug 5, 2010

… and put your car on cruise and lay back cause this is summertime — Will Smith Berlin summers never fail to deliver their own magical moments, the kind that …

Fiber Art: The Queer Kid on the Bus

by Steven Frost | Aug 5, 2010

Fiber Art: The Queer Kid on the Bus

by Steven Frost | Aug 5, 2010

Contemporary fiber artists have a lot of baggage to handle. They have so much baggage in fact that they had to knit a bigger bag to fit everything in. Fiber …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Cultivating Curiosity

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 4, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Cultivating Curiosity

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 4, 2010

Revving up for the new school year I have had the chance to read quite a bit over the past two weeks, and in addition to the recommendations from June …