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Monthly Archives: May 2011

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

Center Field | Fielding Practice Episode 4: Chicago Art Fairs and Early Modernism Redux

by Claudine Isé | May 10, 2011

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

Center Field | Fielding Practice Episode 4: Chicago Art Fairs and Early Modernism Redux

by Claudine Isé | May 10, 2011

It’s time once again for Fielding Practice with Bad at Sports, a special podcast produced for the Art21 blog. On this month’s episode, Duncan MacKenzie, Dan Gunn, and I are …

Explosive Fragments: Poems and Photographs

by Rebecca Leopold | May 9, 2011

Explosive Fragments: Poems and Photographs

by Rebecca Leopold | May 9, 2011

At some time, somewhere I read or heard some one say something equating novels with films and poems with photographs. I think it had something to do with time and …

Calling from Canada

Calling from Canada | An Interview with Tyson Parks

by Raji Sohal | May 9, 2011

Calling from Canada

Calling from Canada | An Interview with Tyson Parks

by Raji Sohal | May 9, 2011

The first really noticeable thing about new media artist Tyson Parks’s digital paintings is their fostering of tension between organic and synthetic elements. Images of readymades provide the tip of …

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | Fratty Art

by Ali Fitzgerald | May 9, 2011

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | Fratty Art

by Ali Fitzgerald | May 9, 2011

With its manic art world mingling, Gallery Weekend in Berlin can seem like a frat party with more tote bags.  It is Berlin’s promenade into spring and is full of …
Barbara Kruger

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | May 9, 2011

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | May 9, 2011

In this week’s roundup, Barbara Kruger on an 18-wheeler, Cao Fei presents on art and technology, artists receive awards, and more. Barbara Kruger is one of the 150 artists, poets, …

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Ink | Notes from a Transforming Democracy: South African Prints

by Sarah Kirk Hanley | May 6, 2011

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Ink | Notes from a Transforming Democracy: South African Prints

by Sarah Kirk Hanley | May 6, 2011

As interest in William Kentridge’s work has grown over the past decade, so has interest in South African art as a whole.   Printmaking is a central component of the cultural …

Sustain Ability

by Rebecca Leopold | May 5, 2011

Sustain Ability

by Rebecca Leopold | May 5, 2011

Thoughts, to an artist, writer, or any individual who wants to live thoughtfully Influence. The personal narration that comes with cinematic fiction, the fragmentary staccato of poetry or song, the …

On View Now

On View Now | Re-Animating Nature: Kota Ezawa’s City of Nature

by Max Weintraub | May 5, 2011

On View Now

On View Now | Re-Animating Nature: Kota Ezawa’s City of Nature

by Max Weintraub | May 5, 2011

  Christopher Nolan’s film Inception (2010) opens with a slow-motion shot of waves washing upon a sandy beach.  The camera then pans to the protagonist Dom Cobb, played by Leonardo …

Blog Party: The Last 8 Days

by Kelly Shindler | May 5, 2011

Blog Party: The Last 8 Days

by Kelly Shindler | May 5, 2011

Hello, May! We’re heading into the last week and a half of our Blog Party campaign. To date, we’ve received enough donations to fund a new column for six months. …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art: The First Three Years

by Joe Fusaro | May 4, 2011

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art: The First Three Years

by Joe Fusaro | May 4, 2011

This week Teaching with Contemporary Art here on the blog turns 3. Frankly, I can’t believe that I’ve been writing this column for three years. At the same time, it …

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The Art of Close Looking

by Janelle Grace | May 4, 2011

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The Art of Close Looking

by Janelle Grace | May 4, 2011

I can go on my own to a museum or gallery or symposium, and I do, but going as a part of one of my classes makes me more appreciative …
Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | He’s Not Here Right Now

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | May 4, 2011

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | He’s Not Here Right Now

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | May 4, 2011

Hi Everyone! My name is Olivia and I’m Jeffrey’s imaginary studio assistant. Unfortunately, Jeffrey isn’t here right now because he’s running around the city preparing for his thesis exhibition, but …

Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture

Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco

by Victoria Gannon | May 3, 2011

Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture

Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco

by Victoria Gannon | May 3, 2011

One hundred feet below the Starbucks and suits of San Francisco’s financial district, Grubhub.com’s posters beckon from the BART station walls. The online food delivery service offers every kind of …

Letter from London

Letter from London | Seeds of Discord

by Ben Street | May 2, 2011

Letter from London

Letter from London | Seeds of Discord

by Ben Street | May 2, 2011

When an artist dies, their work changes forever. Whatever it was they were doing at the time of their demise becomes loaded with retroactive meaning and spurious clairvoyance. With the …
Florian Maier-Aichen, Der Spaziergang.

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | May 2, 2011

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | May 2, 2011

In this week’s roundup, Florian Maier-Aichen’s abstractions, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s Lighting Field, artists’ metal store shutter murals, and more. Florian Maier-Aichen‘s fourth solo presentation with Blum & Poe is also his …