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Yearly Archives: 2011
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Coded Cloth
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Coded Cloth
We speak in code when words aren’t safe to say. Faced with threats, our language goes subterranean, carving new passageways of communication. Encrypted messages use accepted forms of expression—recognizable letters, …
Letter from London
Letter from London | Grave Architecture
Letter from London
Letter from London | Grave Architecture
There’s a long history of painters becoming architects and carrying their pictorial imaginations with them. Bramante’s Tempietto in Rome and Michelangelo’s Laurentian Library in Florence are examples of the painter’s …
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
“William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible” Wins A Peabody!
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
“William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible” Wins A Peabody!
Art21 is honored to be among the recipients of the 70th Annual Peabody Awards—the premiere international prize in electronic media—for its film, William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible. The Peabody board …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Wrapping Up Art21 at NAEA 2011
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Wrapping Up Art21 at NAEA 2011
It was suggested that perhaps the TWCA column could provide a a wrap-up of the National Art Education Association’s annual conference in pictures this year, and while I would like …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Los Angeles: Nice Meeting You Again and Again
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Los Angeles: Nice Meeting You Again and Again
This week began with Dean Rochelle Steiner of the USC Roski School of Fine Arts signing off on my thesis and me paying the publishing and binding fee. My thesis …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | BFA and MFA Shows: The New Collector’s Market?
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | BFA and MFA Shows: The New Collector’s Market?
Last Friday, I got off the subway and felt the crisp, eight o’clock Chicago evening air and saw something I was not expecting: a line around The School of the …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Protest Songs and Lullabies: Susan Philipsz in Chicago
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Protest Songs and Lullabies: Susan Philipsz in Chicago
What does it mean to sing a protest song as if it were a lullaby? It’s a question I often ask myself. My five-year-old daughter has trouble falling asleep at …
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Price is Right
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Price is Right
Funny how very expensive paintings become metaphors of themselves. The 45-million-dollar Duccio bought by the Met in 2005 shows the incarnate deity supported with infinite care by his reverentially gazing …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Vija Celmins’s Visions of Violence
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Vija Celmins’s Visions of Violence
Last Saturday, March 19—the day that the US began air strikes in Libya—I passed an anti-war demonstration while driving to LACMA to see Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966. It …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Lots of Questions and Lots of Coffee: NAEA 2011
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Lots of Questions and Lots of Coffee: NAEA 2011
As I mentioned last week, Art21’s Education and Public Programs team recently took to Seattle for the National Art Education Association’s annual conference. Over 3,000 educators from across the country …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | I Do Art, Here’s My Card: A Trip to SXSW
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | I Do Art, Here’s My Card: A Trip to SXSW
I have a pretty set routine that very delicately balances work and school, sandwiching meals and sleep somewhere in the nooks and crannies of my schedule. So my friends and …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | What up, Internet? Saxophonist Throws Mad Wrenches in Capitalism’s Machinations
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | What up, Internet? Saxophonist Throws Mad Wrenches in Capitalism’s Machinations
I’m happy to report that I’m alive. I made it through my first conference presentation as part of The Now Museum Graduate Student Symposium last Sunday at the New Museum. …
Art21 Extended Play
Carrie Mae Weems: “The Kitchen Table Series”
Art21 Extended Play
Carrie Mae Weems: “The Kitchen Table Series”
SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #138: Filmed in her Syracuse studio, artist Carrie Mae Weems discusses the impetus for her work “The Kitchen Table …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Absalon at Kunst-Werke
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Absalon at Kunst-Werke
It was back in 2005 when I first encountered the work of Absalon at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof in a exhibition called Fast Nichts – Minimal Artworks from the Friedrich Christian …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Colectivo Situaciones
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Colectivo Situaciones
* This interview has been translated and co-edited by Brian Whitener. I first heard about Colectivo Situaciones about a year ago, when I received a publication in the mail titled …
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