Archive
Monthly Archives: October 2011
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Jenny Marketou
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Jenny Marketou
Jenny Marketou was born and raised in Athens, Greece and educated in the United States. She lives and works in New York. Marketou earned a BFA from the Corcoran School …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Working for The Man: Building Burning Man’s Infrastructure
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Working for The Man: Building Burning Man’s Infrastructure
When I first found out about the Black Rock City Department of Public Works, it was like finding out that Santa Claus did not exist. I was disappointed, and …
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Drifting: My Day Job
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Drifting: My Day Job
I wake up surprisingly refreshed this morning with enough time to make my usual breakfast, browse the Internet, and watch Academy Award-winner Whoopi Goldberg moderate the ladies on The View. …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Two Anecdotes Concerning the Architecture of Bertrand Goldberg
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Two Anecdotes Concerning the Architecture of Bertrand Goldberg
I don’t live in Chicago anymore, but I frequently visit. Over the past summer I was invited to a housewarming party for friends who had rented a large loft space …
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven
Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven is an artist based in Antwerp, Belgium. Her work is currently being featured in a solo exhibition, In a Saturnian World, at the Renaissance Society (on view …
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Exorcising the Post-Democratic Body
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Exorcising the Post-Democratic Body
At St. Mark’s Church in New York City, the home of Danspace Project, Jeremy Wade performed fountain. With the house lights on, Wade stumbled along the carpeted edge of the church floor, …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 New York Close Up
Teaching with New York Close Up: Keltie Ferris Spray Paints in Solitude
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 New York Close Up
Teaching with New York Close Up: Keltie Ferris Spray Paints in Solitude
While watching Keltie Ferris Spray Paints in Solitude, I kept wondering to myself… What can students and teachers learn from engaging with this five minutes of film? I wanted a …
Open Enrollment
Seeking Graduate Student Writers for Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment
Seeking Graduate Student Writers for Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment chronicles the experience of graduate school via the perspective of current students. As MA and MFA degrees become ever more the norm for the professional training of artists, educators, …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Maureen Connor
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Maureen Connor
In the past decade the visual arts have seen a retreat from traditional locations of meaning making and power. This retreat can be partially attributed to the increasing disparity between …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Birth of the Underground: Fluxus Editions
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Birth of the Underground: Fluxus Editions
Fluxus, an international counter-culture collective of artists, musicians, and designers, was formed 50 years ago in 1961/2. Its goals were laid out in the 1963 offset lithograph Fluxus Manifesto (on …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Boosterism
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Boosterism
Dave Hickey has called us out. “It’s corny,” the critic told the New York Times, referring to Pacific Standard Time, L.A.’s current, Getty-funded initiative to canonize L.A.’s post-war art …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle With Bad at Sports | Fielding Practice Podcast Episode #8
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle With Bad at Sports | Fielding Practice Podcast Episode #8
We are back with our next podcast featuring the latest in art news and reviews from Chicago and the Midwest! This month, Duncan Mackenzie, Dan Gunn, and Art21 Blog Editor …
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada | Haute Culture: General Idea Retrospective at AGO
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada | Haute Culture: General Idea Retrospective at AGO
Hundreds of giant, silver, cloud-like, helium-filled Mylar balloons reading “Magic Bullet” float in a white room in the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto. Magic is right. The shiny, …
Art21 New York Close Up
Weekly Roundup
Art21 New York Close Up
Weekly Roundup
In this week’s roundup Beryl Korot prints and weaves video, Jenny Holzer is honored, artists explore being American, several others celebrate creating art in Los Angeles, and more. Beryl Korot‘s exhibition, Video — Text/Weave/Line, …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Taryn Simon
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon‘s solo-exhibition, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters (2008-2011) at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin is an imposing and exhaustive investigation of eighteen diverse bloodlines and their related stories. On the surface, …
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