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Yearly Archives: 2011
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Ken Lum 30 Year Retrospective at Vancouver Art Gallery
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Ken Lum 30 Year Retrospective at Vancouver Art Gallery
Ever watch a three month old baby stare into a mirror for the first time? Its face is an expression of pure awe and confusion. What is the thing in …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Killed Posterity
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Killed Posterity
Roy Stryker, the man who ran the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and sent some of the best-known 20th century photographers out on their first assignments, “didn’t …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | On Hierarchies: Thoughts after Sarah Thornton
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | On Hierarchies: Thoughts after Sarah Thornton
Sarah Thornton, the author of Seven Days in the Art World — a book that made me book laugh, giggle, and weep — spoke last night at the Museum of …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice: Episode #2
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice: Episode #2
We’re back with our second edition of “Fielding Practice,” a podcast produced exclusively for Art21’s listeners and readers. On today’s episode, Duncan MacKenzie, Dan Gunn, and I are joined by …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights: Nazım Hikmet Richard Dikbaş
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights: Nazım Hikmet Richard Dikbaş
In talking to dozens of artists, curators, and critics over the past few months, over and over I have heard the same term used by those located within the community …
Art21 Extended Play
Allan McCollum: “Lost Objects” & “Natural Copies”
Art21 Extended Play
Allan McCollum: “Lost Objects” & “Natural Copies”
SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #137: Filmed in his Brooklyn studio, artist Allan McCollum discusses two projects utilizing dinosaur fossils—”Lost Objects” (begun 1991) and …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | A Print World Compendium: IPCNY Celebrates Ten Years
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | A Print World Compendium: IPCNY Celebrates Ten Years
In 1995, a group of print-world professionals and collectors based in New York joined forces to establish a non-profit organization that would be “dedicated to the appreciation and understanding of …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Spring Thaw
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Spring Thaw
I fly back to Berlin tomorrow, finally ending a prolonged Kerouac walk-through of mid-sized southern cities; a spring break for the “mild girl.” During my Texas stay, a sun constitutional …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows: The Plaid Fad
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows: The Plaid Fad
In November 1991, Nirvana played on all of our car stereos. We smoked clove cigarettes and drove through the Oakland hills with Nevermind blaring over the speakers. Kurt Cobain drowned …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
New column! Introducing “Bedfellows”
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
New column! Introducing “Bedfellows”
Art21 is pleased to announce our latest column, Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture, penned by guest blog alum Victoria Gannon. Art and visual culture have not always been friends. When …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Brandon Anschultz
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Brandon Anschultz
Full disclosure: I have spent many happy hours in Brandon Anschultz‘s studio, located near Lafayette Square in St. Louis, MO, drinking wine, laughing hysterically at his sharp wit, and admiring …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Ephemerality and Eternity in “All of this and nothing”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Ephemerality and Eternity in “All of this and nothing”
“It’s really about the magical and the mysterious in the everyday,” says Hammer senior curator Anne Ellegood, in the online video introducing the museum’s newest exhibition, All of this and nothing. …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | biriken
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | biriken
biriken is the five year old interdisciplinary, collaborative project of Melis Tezkan and Okan Urun. Working at the intersection of performance art, installation art, and traditional theater practice, Tezkan and …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Graffiti in the Classroom
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Graffiti in the Classroom
Students often have lots of interest and questions about graffiti, graffiti art and street art. My response usually includes the fact that I love graffiti art and street art, especially …
Open Enrollment
The What? The CUNY Graduate Center? Is that, like, part of NYU?
Open Enrollment
The What? The CUNY Graduate Center? Is that, like, part of NYU?
I’ve really been enjoying reading the posts from my fellow Open Enrollment bloggers over the last month, but Stefan’s post on his current experience at the Courtauld in London caught …
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