Yearly Archives: 2010

Open Enrollment

Contemporary Knowledge: Interview with João Ribas

Contemporary Knowledge: Interview with João Ribas

by Oliver Wunsch | Aug 4, 2010

What defines “the contemporary” as an area of study? How does it relate to the writing of history or other fields of inquiry? In this edition of Open Enrollment, Oliver …

Future Metaphors

Bruce Nauman’s Cyborg Eyes

by Ivan Lozano | Aug 3, 2010

Not all events are recorded equally. Despite YouTube’s diarrheic explosion of what constitutes a potential video, clips where almost nothing happens are still difficult for a lot of people to …

The Paradoxical Art of “Inception”

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 3, 2010

The Paradoxical Art of “Inception”

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 3, 2010

What is so compelling about riddles, mysteries, and puzzles? Most people are fascinated by images and objects that are paradoxical or impossible in real life but look oddly convincing and …

New guest blogger: Steven Frost

by Kelly Shindler | Aug 2, 2010

New guest blogger: Steven Frost

by Kelly Shindler | Aug 2, 2010

Thanks to Lincoln Hancock for this extensive chronicling of the NC Triangle (Raleigh, Durham, and Chapel Hill) art scene. Stay tuned for another post or two from him in the …

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 2, 2010

Soon after last week’s roundup went live, I discovered a Jenny Holzer event happening in my backyard. In this week’s roundup, CNN shows William Kentridge drawing apartheid, Scotland shows William …

Why Here? Part 2

by Lincoln Hancock | Aug 1, 2010

Low on the southeast side of downtown Raleigh stands a nondescript grey building with a facade marked by four orange letters: LUMP. This cinderblock outpost houses the Lump gallery and …

Art21 Extended Play

Mary Heilmann: Abstract Painting

by Wesley Miller | Jul 30, 2010

Mary Heilmann: Abstract Painting

by Wesley Miller | Jul 30, 2010

SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #116: Mary Heilmann describes a breakthrough she had of combining gestural and hard-edge abstracton in a single painting, combining …

Flash Points

Freewaves: Video Between Their Toes

by Catherine Wagley | Jul 29, 2010

Flash Points

Freewaves: Video Between Their Toes

by Catherine Wagley | Jul 29, 2010

Freewaves turned 20 this year. The grassroots new media organization that began in 1989 with a gaping, loosely defined mission to show Los Angeles to itself celebrated its birthday on …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Gone Fishing

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 28, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Gone Fishing

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 28, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art is taking a break this week in order to pull back, take some vacation, and get set for the return to a new school year in …

André Leon Gray’s Eye Gumbo

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 28, 2010

André Leon Gray’s Eye Gumbo

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 28, 2010

One of the most striking things about the new West Building at the NC Museum of Art is its curatorial strategy. From almost any vantage point in the gallery, the …

Open Enrollment

Back to School!

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Jul 28, 2010

Open Enrollment

Back to School!

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Jul 28, 2010

With the last days of July upon us, I shed a tear and take a deep breath as I prepare for my final year at San Francisco Art Institute. My …

GIF(t) Basket

Bravo’s Work of Art: Episode 6 Recap

by Wesley Miller | Jul 28, 2010

GIF(t) Basket

Bravo’s Work of Art: Episode 6 Recap

by Wesley Miller | Jul 28, 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 …

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

Summers at Ox-Bow

by Claudine Isé | Jul 27, 2010

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

Summers at Ox-Bow

by Claudine Isé | Jul 27, 2010

We tend to spend a lot of time talking about art in terms of “work” nowadays, but we don’t always consider how important respite and retreat can be when it …

Pepón Osorio, Drowned in a Glass of Water

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jul 27, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jul 27, 2010

This week in Roundup read about Pepón Osorio’s drowned art, Allora & Calzadilla getting shortlisted, Janine Antoni in motion, and a Hiroshi Sugimoto/James Turrell art counterpoint. Allora & Calzadilla are …

Why Here?

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 26, 2010

Why Here?

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 26, 2010

What does it mean to live and work as an artist in the South? It would be foolhardy to suggest there is a single, unified answer to this question. I …

Art21 Extended Play

Doris Salcedo: Istanbul

by Wesley Miller | Jul 23, 2010

Art21 Extended Play

Doris Salcedo: Istanbul

by Wesley Miller | Jul 23, 2010

SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #115: Doris Salcedo discusses her installation for the Istanbul Biennial, describing how she wanted to create a “topography of …

John Baldessari, 'The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara...', photography, 1963. Courtesy a-n.

Looking at Los Angeles

Baldessari 2.0: Jumping the Lobster

by Lily Simonson | Jul 22, 2010

Looking at Los Angeles

Baldessari 2.0: Jumping the Lobster

by Lily Simonson | Jul 22, 2010

Upon entering Pure Beauty at LACMA, I overheard a fellow museum-goer tell his companion, “That’s cool — it looks like a lot of my iPhone pictures.” The viewer was responding …

Lightness

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 22, 2010

Lightness

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 22, 2010

In a lecture delivered at Harvard in 1985 (posthumously published in Six Memos for the Next Millenium), Italo Calvino describes lightness as expressive of a certain kind of possibility in …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

The Wheels Are Rolling

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 21, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

The Wheels Are Rolling

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 21, 2010

From July 7th through July 14th Art21 hosted our second annual summer institute, Art21 Educators. Art21 Educators is an intensive, year-long professional development initiative designed to cultivate and support K-12 …

Open Enrollment

The Summer Slump

by Corina Reynolds | Jul 21, 2010

Open Enrollment

The Summer Slump

by Corina Reynolds | Jul 21, 2010

Time is slowly slipping by as the thick Michigan air hangs around my studio — stagnant and hot, a veritable swamp. It is the summer between my first and second …

GIF(t) Basket

Bravo’s Work of Art: Episode 5 Recap

by Wesley Miller | Jul 21, 2010

GIF(t) Basket

Bravo’s Work of Art: Episode 5 Recap

by Wesley Miller | Jul 21, 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 …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Contemporary Art: Who Cares? A Discussion with Karen te Brake-Baldock

by Richard McCoy | Jul 20, 2010

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Contemporary Art: Who Cares? A Discussion with Karen te Brake-Baldock

by Richard McCoy | Jul 20, 2010

IMA Art Conservator Richard McCoy talks to INCCA Central Coordinator Karen te Brake-Baldock about the recent international symposium Contemporary Art: Who Cares? Research and Practices in Contemporary Art Conservation.

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jul 19, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jul 19, 2010

This Weekly Roundup features Kentridge’s Egyptian sketchbooks, Louise Bourgeois in The Surreal House, and Mike Kelley’s maiden voyage. Scheduled to coincide with the monographic retrospective devoted to the artist at …

Thoughts on the Practice

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 19, 2010

Thoughts on the Practice

by Lincoln Hancock | Jul 19, 2010

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8LhaL6vajc] I spent yesterday with two of my oldest friends. At ten, Ben and Neill came over. We’d cleared our schedules to hang and create material for A Weavexx Yuxtapongo. …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Young Americans

by Ben Street | Jul 19, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Young Americans

by Ben Street | Jul 19, 2010

The “must-see show of the summer” is not, despite what the adverts on the buses might have you believe, the John Richardson-curated Picasso show at Gagosian Gallery. Not nearly as …

New guest blogger: Lincoln Hancock

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 19, 2010

New guest blogger: Lincoln Hancock

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 19, 2010

Thanks to Paige Johnston for walking us through her recent travels in the Netherlands. Look out for more from her in the coming weeks. Up next is Lincoln Hancock. Lincoln …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Feeding Suburbia

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 16, 2010

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Feeding Suburbia

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 16, 2010

In the early 1970s, Bill Owens began to document the suburban boom in the California Bay Area. Every Saturday for a year, he photographed middle-class Americans in and around their …

Who’s Keeping SKOR?

by Paige K. Johnston | Jul 16, 2010

Who’s Keeping SKOR?

by Paige K. Johnston | Jul 16, 2010

Living in Chicago, there’s little chance of avoiding public art. From murals to monuments, legs to eyeballs, the city is inundated. Though I will admit to enjoying cell phone photos …

Art21 Extended Play

Kimsooja: Art & Everyday Life

by Wesley Miller | Jul 16, 2010

Art21 Extended Play

Kimsooja: Art & Everyday Life

by Wesley Miller | Jul 16, 2010

SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE SUPPORT ART21: Final day! – Art21 seeks 14 donors to add to its list of 100 x 100 Exclusive campaign …

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: The End of Temporary

by Ethan Hayes-Chute | Jul 15, 2010

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: The End of Temporary

by Ethan Hayes-Chute | Jul 15, 2010

On August 31, 2010, the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin (TKB) will close its doors as according to the original concept. With 8 major exhibitions, 3 facades, and other projects involving over 800 …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Dear Oliver

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 14, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Dear Oliver

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 14, 2010

You know what I like about Oliver Herring? Pretty much everything. Oliver was generous enough to join us for the 2nd year in a row to jump-start the Art21 Educators …

Flash Points

Experience in Art Education

by Whitney Ford-Terry | Jul 14, 2010

Flash Points

Experience in Art Education

by Whitney Ford-Terry | Jul 14, 2010

“An art school, it would appear, does not teach art, but sets up the conditions necessary for creative production, and by extension the conditions for collaboration and social engagement.” — …

Open Enrollment

School’s Out for Summer – But the Work Goes On

by Lily Rossebo | Jul 14, 2010

Open Enrollment

School’s Out for Summer – But the Work Goes On

by Lily Rossebo | Jul 14, 2010

This past Fourth of July seemed to mark the beginning of a lingering heat wave across much of the country. While I waited for the sun to set and some …

GIF(t) Basket

Bravo’s Work of Art: Episode 4 Recap (part 2)

by Wesley Miller | Jul 13, 2010

GIF(t) Basket

Bravo’s Work of Art: Episode 4 Recap (part 2)

by Wesley Miller | Jul 13, 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 …