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Monthly Archives: April 2011
Art21 Extended Play
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Becoming an Artist
Art21 Extended Play
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Becoming an Artist
SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #141: Filmed in his New York studio, artist Hiroshi Sugimoto recounts his student days studying Western philosophy (Hegel, Kant, …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Flat Affect
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Flat Affect
As I was walking through William Leavitt: Theater Objects, the LA-based artist’s first museum retrospective, a MOCA security guard stopped me. “Are you a writer?” It took me a moment …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Visons for Chicago: Public Art with Organizer Daniel Tucker
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Visons for Chicago: Public Art with Organizer Daniel Tucker
I’ve known Daniel Tucker for about five years now and I’ve always thought of him as a true Chicago artist, somewhere in between artist, organizer, writer, and administrator and always …
Letter from London
Letter from London | Eye of the Tiger
Letter from London
Letter from London | Eye of the Tiger
Tiger Woods is a profoundly uninteresting man, elevated to role model status in America by his unwavering commitment to brand promotion and the eradication of personal charisma, so when the …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Rochelle Feinstein
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Rochelle Feinstein
This week’s post should really be titled “Rochelle Feinstein Teaching Me” but I’m trying to be consistent… Prior to May 1st, please treat yourself and check out The Estate of …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | In Poor Taste,* Lunch with Jani Leinonen
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | In Poor Taste,* Lunch with Jani Leinonen
I was waiting in line to buy a movie ticket when I heard the news: Jani Leinonen had been incarcerated. Conversations with my Finnish friends in the previous weeks had …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Exploring the Freedom to Re-Present Value: A Discussion with Theaster Gates
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Exploring the Freedom to Re-Present Value: A Discussion with Theaster Gates
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with artist Theaster Gates about Thornton Dial in relations to Gate’s art practice in
Art21 Extended Play
Cao Fei: “PRD Anti-Heroes”
Art21 Extended Play
Cao Fei: “PRD Anti-Heroes”
SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #140: Artist Cao Fei discusses her multi-media theatrical work “PRD Anti-Heroes” (2005), a play performed by non-professional actors. Investigating …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Tania Bruguera
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Tania Bruguera
Tania Bruguera’s long and various career as an artist starts with a series of works made after, but mainly through, the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta. I say “through,” because in …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Architects on Bicycles
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Architects on Bicycles
Reyner Banham, the British architectural historian whose blatant enthusiasm for Los Angeles nearly got him blacklisted in an era in which the cultured loved to hate this city, revered crisps, …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | rocks/mud/linoleum: sculpture between sites
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | rocks/mud/linoleum: sculpture between sites
Richard Long’s artistic medium, since the 1960s, has been walking. On his walks all over the world, he uses found materials to create formations – circles, lines, ovals — leaving …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Rethinking “The Critique”: Possibilities
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Rethinking “The Critique”: Possibilities
As promised in last week’s column I want to share some possibilities when it comes to facilitating in-progress critiques with students. Critiques that take place as an idea is taking …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Work after work after work…
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Work after work after work…
On Friday, April 8th, two members from Temporary Services, Brett Bloom and Salem Collo-Julin, gave a presentation on their practice at Outpost for Contemporary Art here in Los Angeles. The …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | On the Precipice of Reality: This and That
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | On the Precipice of Reality: This and That
For this month’s post, I’ve mulled and pondered, thought and reflected, yet I could not come up with any sort of brilliant topic for my penultimate post. So I thought …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | PiST///
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | PiST///
PiST///Interdisciplinary Art Space is storefront gallery space and artist project co-directed by artists Didem Özbek and Osman Bozkurt. Opened in 2006, PiST/// is located in Istanbul’s Pangaltı neighborhood, a …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice: Episode 3
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice: Episode 3
We’re back with the latest edition of “Fielding Practice,” a podcast produced by Bad at Sports for Art21 readers and listeners. Before giving you the rundown on this month’s chatfest, …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Lexicon of Tomorrow: Print-Based Installation
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Lexicon of Tomorrow: Print-Based Installation
With the onset of spring, renewal is in the air. In the world of contemporary prints, a fresh format that seems to be popping up everywhere is print-based installation. In …
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