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Yearly Archives: 2011
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Just When We Think It’s Safe…
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Just When We Think It’s Safe…
For the last seven years I have abandoned (mostly) Friday afternoon happy hours in favor of driving north and spending the late afternoons and nights in my studio. For anywhere …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice With Gregory Sholette
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice With Gregory Sholette
Artist, scholar, organizer, and professor, Gregory Sholette embodies multiple ways that artists can interrogate history, politics, and public discourse. Through his initial work with the group REPOhistory (1989-2000) (as in, “repossessing …
Art21 New York Close Up
One week left to join Art21’s “New York Close Up” Film Fund!
Art21 New York Close Up
One week left to join Art21’s “New York Close Up” Film Fund!
The New York Close Up Film Fund closes on August 31, leaving you only six more days to become a member! Don’t wait — join now to enjoy the benefits …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | “Rethink/LA” Exhibition Envisions Future Transformation
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | “Rethink/LA” Exhibition Envisions Future Transformation
Los Angeles has a reputation for not only its excess, sprawl, and exploding population, but also for its unruly, anarchic and highly changeable landscape. Rethink/LA: Perspectives on a Future …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 New York Close Up
Teaching with New York Close Up: Lucas Blalock’s 99¢ Store Still Lifes
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 New York Close Up
Teaching with New York Close Up: Lucas Blalock’s 99¢ Store Still Lifes
Lucas Blalock’s only plan is to work… preferably in the evenings. He deals with a set of parameters that his tools provide and brings things he purchases at local discount …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
Living in a fabulous art city like Chicago, it’s easy to become urban-centric when it comes to contemporary art. But there’s a place just on the border of Chicago that …
Art21 New York Close Up
Mika Tajima Customizes Herman Miller
Art21 New York Close Up
Mika Tajima Customizes Herman Miller
Calling everybody with a love/hate relationship to modernist furniture design, we’ve got the film for you–”Mika Tajima Versus the Cubicle.” When we first visited artist Mika Tajima at her studio …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | My Dissertation as Document of a Moment
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | My Dissertation as Document of a Moment
Nearly eleven months in my year-long masters program, I am now in crunch time. The first two-thirds of the program was spent in three taught courses, and from May on, …
Problematic: Answering Questions with Questions
Problematic | The Artist As Entrepreneur
Problematic: Answering Questions with Questions
Problematic | The Artist As Entrepreneur
Most artists assume the role of an artist, perhaps by going to school, perhaps by having a studio, or not. Bruce Nauman made it simple by deciding that anything he …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Lynda Benglis, The Anti-Kitchen Artist
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Lynda Benglis, The Anti-Kitchen Artist
Once, when artists Liam Gillick and Sarah Morris had legendary minimalist Carl Andre over for dinner, Andre drank a bit much and let his tongue loose. To Morris, he said, …
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada | Healthy Mind/Healthy Body? Berlinde De Bruyckere at Montreal’s DHC
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada | Healthy Mind/Healthy Body? Berlinde De Bruyckere at Montreal’s DHC
Before the analysis comes rushing in like an insuppressible wave, I am struck with the straight-up “thingness” of Flemish artist, Berlinde De Bruyckere’s corporeal sculptures at gallery DHC in Montreal. …
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