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Yearly Archives: 2011
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, …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Following the Eames Legacy: A Discussion with Daniel Ostroff [Part II]
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Following the Eames Legacy: A Discussion with Daniel Ostroff [Part II]
Richard McCoy and Tricia Gilson talk with Eames expert Daniel Ostroff about his ongoing work in studying, collecting, and exhibiting the designs of Charles and Ray Eames [Part II].
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Following the Eames Legacy: A Discussion with Daniel Ostroff [Part I]
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Following the Eames Legacy: A Discussion with Daniel Ostroff [Part I]
Richard McCoy and Tricia Gilson talk with Eames expert Daniel Ostroff about his ongoing work in study, collecting, and exhibiting the designs of Charles and Ray Eames [Part I].
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The Language of Materials: Janne Larsen and Sibyl Wickersheimer’s “Big Haul”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The Language of Materials: Janne Larsen and Sibyl Wickersheimer’s “Big Haul”
Editor’s Note: This week, Los Angeles-based writer Carol Cheh fills in for Lily Simonson, who is travelling. Cheh is a writer and curator based in Los Angeles. She is …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Taking the Long Way Home: Working With a Theme in a Series
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Taking the Long Way Home: Working With a Theme in a Series
One of the students in my advanced classes is taking on the theme of “looking vs. seeing” for her first semester portfolio. She wants to explore the things people tend …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Hand in Glove
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Hand in Glove
Between these two covers is artist Vince Leo’s Nobody Remembers Timetable Project, commissioned in 1990 by the now-defunct National …
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Trevor Paglen
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen is an artist, researcher, and writer based in New York and San Francisco. His art practice centers around making what is typically invisible visible—specifically, covert military and intelligence …
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