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Monthly Archives: January 2012
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | The Science and Ethics of Contemporary Art Conservation: A Discussion with Tom Learner
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | The Science and Ethics of Contemporary Art Conservation: A Discussion with Tom Learner
Richard McCoy talks to Tom Learner, senior scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute, whose career has spanned a number of important institutions and projects.
Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
Cairo in Context | One Year Later: The Myth of Art in the Arab Spring
Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
Cairo in Context | One Year Later: The Myth of Art in the Arab Spring
How does art function in times of conflict? This new column looks at art’s importance, and its political potential, in post-revolutionary Egypt.
Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
New Column | Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
New Column | Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
The Art21 Blog debuts a new column focusing on the art scene in Cairo and the Middle East region.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #11
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #11
This month’s podcast features a review of Cathy Wilkes’s Chicago exhibition and discussion of a greatly-exaggerated report of Damien Hirst’s demise.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Andrea Fraser’s Men on the Line
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Andrea Fraser’s Men on the Line
Responding to the legacy of the Woman’s Building, Fraser’s new performance revisits 1970s-era gender issues and evaluates feminism’s progress.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art in the Elementary Classroom
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art in the Elementary Classroom
Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott made some important points in last week’s interview and this week we take the opportunity to point out two of them regarding how teachers construct elementary art-making experiences and use documentation to influence their work.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Art21 Educators: Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Art21 Educators: Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott
This week I want to share a conversation that took place between myself and two of our current, amazing Art21 Educators. Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott teach elementary art education for the Scott and Westdale Elementary Schools in Melrose Park near Chicago. Their work has been inspiring to all of us here at Art21, especially since they are finding ways to work with contemporary art and engage some very young students in the process.
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Unabashedly Beautiful Prints of Helen Frankenthaler
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Unabashedly Beautiful Prints of Helen Frankenthaler
The late Helen Frankenthaler’s contributions as a painter are renowned; Hanley argues that her achievements as a printmaker are equally important.
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Draw the Devil from this Boy
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Draw the Devil from this Boy
Traveling to India on a Fulbright scholarship, David MacLean woke up in a train station with no passport and no idea who he was. An excerpt from his forthcoming memoir.
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