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Yearly Archives: 2011
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Barbara Kruger, Shafted and Shining
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Barbara Kruger, Shafted and Shining
In 2008, when Eli Broad opened his big, brazen inaugural BCAM show on the Los Angeles County Museum’s Campus, Barbara Kruger (Season 1) was shafted, stuck accenting an elevator while …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Reflecting on Teaching with William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Reflecting on Teaching with William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible
This past Saturday I sat down with a small group of wonderful teachers at the Jacob Burns Film Center’s Media Arts Lab for the second part of a two-part workshop …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco Part 2
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco Part 2
New relationships are often built over food. We sit down to share a bowl of soup together and rise knowing each other better than before. But food’s not just a …
Problematic: Answering Questions with Questions
A Problematic Introduction
Problematic: Answering Questions with Questions
A Problematic Introduction
It’s complicated. Last year, over 3 million Facebook users willingly adopted this dubious relationship status even after the drop-down menu expanded to accommodate eleven statuses, including newer options like civil …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Screening Wood: Jessica Stockholder at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Screening Wood: Jessica Stockholder at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Following on the April post for this column, which explored recent works in print-based installation, this month’s Ink takes an in-depth look at Art21 artist Jessica Stockholder’s current project for …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Threading Infrastructure: An Interview with Anne Wilson
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Threading Infrastructure: An Interview with Anne Wilson
When I asked Anne Wilson if I could interview her for Art21, she sent me a preview copy of her book, Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave—a catalogue published collaboratively by White Walls and …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Gregory Sholette
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Gregory Sholette
Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, and founding member of Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D: 1980-1988), and REPOhistory (1989-2000). A graduate of The Cooper Union (BFA 1979), The University …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Nicole Eisenman and Wynne Greenwood
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Nicole Eisenman and Wynne Greenwood
Digging through Nicole Eisenman’s current show at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, one begins to understand why it’s so perfect that the artist presents us with 77 different titles for …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Glenn Ligon, Ai Weiwei and The Art Cops
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Glenn Ligon, Ai Weiwei and The Art Cops
Three things this week… Maika Pollack recently wrote a wonderful review in The New York Observer about the current Glenn Ligon show at the Whitney Museum. As I visited the …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Not An Alternative
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Not An Alternative
I encountered the art group Not An Alternative for the first time about a month ago in Corona, Queens, where Tania Bruguera (featured last month in 5 Questions) had assembled …
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