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Yearly Archives: 2011
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Characters, Not Caricatures: The Multifarious Art of Rachel Mason
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Characters, Not Caricatures: The Multifarious Art of Rachel Mason
Rachel Mason’s work is not easy to neatly summarize. I’ve been following her projects for several years now, and I still have difficulty explaining what exactly it is that she …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Amy Balkin
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Amy Balkin
For the past couple years, I have been teaching Bay Area-based artist Amy Balkin’s work within a curriculum about environmental art and “land expropriation.” I teach her work besides Karl …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment: Letters to a Young Art Historian?
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment: Letters to a Young Art Historian?
November 2009, I was in the middle of a dark blue funk, something along the lines of a post-collegiate quarter-life crisis. Working a menial, low-paying job in museum retail and …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives: Getting to Know Thornton Dial
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives: Getting to Know Thornton Dial
IMA conservator Richard McCoy talks about his experience working on Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial.
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | An Interview with Vasıf Kortun (Part II)
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | An Interview with Vasıf Kortun (Part II)
Following is the second half an interview Elizabeth Wolfson conducted with Vasif Kortun. Read part one here. — Ed. Perhaps more than any other individual, Vasıf Kortun has redirected the …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Owning Robert Mapplethorpe
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Owning Robert Mapplethorpe
“I don’t know why my pictures come out looking so good,” photographer Robert Mapplethorpe once told his brother. “I just don’t get it.” He had that innate knack for …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | An Interview with Vasıf Kortun (Part I)
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | An Interview with Vasıf Kortun (Part I)
Perhaps more than any other individual, Vasıf Kortun has redirected the trajectory of recent Turkish art history. As Chief Curator and Director of the 3rd Istanbul Biennial in 1992, Kortun …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Special “Center Field” Podcast: Fielding Practice with Bad at Sports
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Special “Center Field” Podcast: Fielding Practice with Bad at Sports
All of us here at Bad at Sports have loved working on our twice-monthly column for this blog, Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports. It gives …
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Scott Yoell’s “Tsunami”
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Scott Yoell’s “Tsunami”
When I interview an artist for radio format, I go in hoping for interesting and honest statements about his/her work and ideas, because I know that in the editing suite, …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | “Remembering so as not to forget the past is still not over”: Selected Meditations on Black History
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | “Remembering so as not to forget the past is still not over”: Selected Meditations on Black History
In celebration of National African American History month, this issue of Ink is focused on selected prints by Art21 artists that react to and re-interpret African-American history. Ellen Gallagher, Kerry …
Art21 Extended Play
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Cabinet of Curiosities
Art21 Extended Play
Hiroshi Sugimoto: Cabinet of Curiosities
SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #135: Filmed in his New York studio, artist Hiroshi Sugimoto gives a tour of his private cabinet of curiosities …
On View Now
On View Now: Piotr Uklański’s “Discharge!”
On View Now
On View Now: Piotr Uklański’s “Discharge!”
In the main gallery of Discharge!, Piotr Uklański’s current show at Gagosian Gallery, fourteen vibrantly colored large-scale paintings hang unusually close together on walls covered in equally dynamic wallpaper. The …
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