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Monthly Archives: March 2012
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
The Curator of Contemporary Art at Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) talks about the state of contemporary Latin American Art and the role of art institutions today.
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Sometimes Doing Something Poetic Can Become Political and Sometimes Doing Something Political Can Become Poetic
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Sometimes Doing Something Poetic Can Become Political and Sometimes Doing Something Political Can Become Poetic
Galimberti looks at several recent exhibitions that subtly foreground politics.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Talking to the Moon
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Talking to the Moon
Silence speaks volumes in the work of artist Katie Paterson as well as in Theater Oobleck’s stage performance of “The Hunchback Variations.”
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Comfort the Disturbed, Disturb the Comfortable
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Comfort the Disturbed, Disturb the Comfortable
Spurred by her thesis writing, M.A. candidate Kelsey Elisabeth Nelson reflects on the meaning of dialogue and the role that opposition plays in arts education.
Art21 Extended Play
Exclusive | Paul McCarthy: Chaos & Debauchery
Art21 Extended Play
Exclusive | Paul McCarthy: Chaos & Debauchery
In Art21’s latest Exclusive video, two of Paul McCarthy’s longtime assistants describe the process of sculpting, molding, and fabricating the artist’s large-scale works.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Balancing Skill-Building and the Formation of Ideas
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Balancing Skill-Building and the Formation of Ideas
Finding a balance between teaching specific skills and techniques with teaching about how to explore process in order to form and pursue ideas is not easy. If you teach in a culture (or department, or school, or district, or university…) that emphasizes skills and techniques as the “meat” of the curriculum, it’s probably a good idea to begin talking about the kinds of skills that everyone really considers “essential”.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #13: “Feast” (or Famine?)
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #13: “Feast” (or Famine?)
This month’s podcast from Bad at Sports features a review of the exhibition “Feast” at the Smart Museum of Art.
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Brenna Murphy and the Future
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Brenna Murphy and the Future
Ali Fitzgerald looks at the digital prints, videos and installations of Brenna Murphy, whose works are both painterly and otherworldly.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | A Wonderland That Wasn’t Meant to Be
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | A Wonderland That Wasn’t Meant to Be
Catherine Wagley reviews the group show “In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States” on view now at LACMA.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Slow Turn
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Slow Turn
On Sunday, the National Art Education Association wrapped up their 65th conference here in New York City and more than ever I am encouraged by the state of affairs at NAEA. In just the past four years, as Art21 has brought contemporary artists such as Mark Bradford, Carrie Mae Weems, Mark Dion and most recently, Janine Antoni and Oliver Herring, the change is noticeable.
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