Monthly Archives: April 2012

Safa Samiezade’-Yazd looks at female identity in Middle Eastern art through “the one object that encapsulates and defines the average Muslim woman” to Western eyes: the veil.

Maya Lin, Dew Point 18 (detail), 2007, blown glass; © Maya Lin Studio, Inc., courtesy The Pace Gallery; Photo courtesy The Pace Gallery.

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 30, 2012

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 30, 2012

This week’s roundup has news on Maya Lin, Alfredo Jaar, Pepón Osorio and many other artists featured on Art21 programs.

Q&A with Marina Abramović, Mary Reid Kelley, and assume vivid astro focus

by Claudine Isé | Apr 27, 2012

Q&A with Marina Abramović, Mary Reid Kelley, and assume vivid astro focus

by Claudine Isé | Apr 27, 2012

Have a question for Marina Abramović, Mary Reid Kelley, or assume vivid astro focus? Send it to Art21, and selected questions will be answered!

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Leeza Ahmady (Part 1)

by Georgia Kotretsos | Apr 27, 2012

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Leeza Ahmady (Part 1)

by Georgia Kotretsos | Apr 27, 2012

Georgia Kotretsos talks with independent curator and arts administrator Leeza Ahmady, the director of Asian Contemporary Art Week in New York.

A Few Of Our Favorite Artists Are Throwing Us A Telethon!!

by Wesley Miller | Apr 26, 2012

A Few Of Our Favorite Artists Are Throwing Us A Telethon!!

by Wesley Miller | Apr 26, 2012

Join us for an Art21 Telethon on May 6th, 3-11pm, at Algus Greenspon Gallery in NYC for musical acts, animal talents, interviews and more!

Revolution 2.12, Part II: Gender in the Middle East Cause

by Safa Samiezade'-Yazd | Apr 26, 2012

Revolution 2.12, Part II: Gender in the Middle East Cause

by Safa Samiezade'-Yazd | Apr 26, 2012

Samiezade’-Yazd responds to Egyptian-American writer Mona El Tahawy’s controversial article “Why Do They Hate Us?” published in Foreign Policy magazine this week.

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | Sparks Fly from MOCA for Cai Guo-Qiang’s Sky Ladder

by Lily Simonson | Apr 26, 2012

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | Sparks Fly from MOCA for Cai Guo-Qiang’s Sky Ladder

by Lily Simonson | Apr 26, 2012

Lily Simonson confronts mortality and the expansive scale of the universe on viewing Cai Guo-Qiang’s “Sky Ladder” at MOCA Los Angeles.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Ten Years…… Right Between the Eyes: Zoe Strauss at the Philadelphia Museum

by Joe Fusaro | Apr 25, 2012

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Ten Years…… Right Between the Eyes: Zoe Strauss at the Philadelphia Museum

by Joe Fusaro | Apr 25, 2012

Every once in a blue moon you get surprised by an exhibit that takes your breath away. Kiki Smith did it to me in 2006 and last year Glenn Ligon …

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The New Aesthetic

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Apr 25, 2012

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The New Aesthetic

by Antonius Wiriadjaja | Apr 25, 2012

His thesis is due in two weeks, but Antonius Wiriadjaja takes time out to talk about the New Aesthetic, a nascent art movement that blurs the digital and the real.

Praxis Makes Perfect

Praxis Makes Perfect | How to Rule the Art World

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Apr 25, 2012

Praxis Makes Perfect

Praxis Makes Perfect | How to Rule the Art World

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Apr 25, 2012

Jeffrey Songco looks at the multiple roles he and other artists often perform–blogger, critic, curator–and how those activities inform and build on one another.

Revolution 2.12: This Year’s Arab Spring as Told By Its Art and Music, Part I

by Safa Samiezade'-Yazd | Apr 24, 2012

Revolution 2.12: This Year’s Arab Spring as Told By Its Art and Music, Part I

by Safa Samiezade'-Yazd | Apr 24, 2012

In the wake of the Arab Spring, Middle East region artists are learning to abandon fear and work for safety of expression in burgeoning public spaces.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield | Black Visual Archive

by Terri Griffith | Apr 24, 2012

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield | Black Visual Archive

by Terri Griffith | Apr 24, 2012

Terri Griffith talks with artist and Art21 Blog columnist Meg Onli about Black Visual Archive, a website of critical writings on the work of African American artists.

Sanford Biggers. Codex (2012). Courtesy the artist and The John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. Photography by Giovanni Lunardi.

Sanford Biggers’ Codex Navigates the Past, Present and Future

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 24, 2012

Sanford Biggers’ Codex Navigates the Past, Present and Future

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 24, 2012

Nettrice Gaskins reports on Sanford Biggers’ new work “Codex,” which repurposes historical quilts that may have been used as signposts on the Underground Railroad.

Inspired Reading

Inspired Reading | What is on YOUR list?

by Kelly Huang | Apr 23, 2012

Inspired Reading

Inspired Reading | What is on YOUR list?

by Kelly Huang | Apr 23, 2012

Kelly Huang shares some of her own personal favorite readings, and ask readers to get in touch and let her know what publications have inspired them.

Carrie Mae Weems. When and Where I Enter—Ancient Rome (2006). Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York/Carrie Mae Weems.

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 23, 2012

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 23, 2012

This week’s roundup contains the latest news on Ann Hamilton, Collier Schorr, Carrie Mae Weems and other Art21 artists.

New Guest Blogger: Safa Samiezade’-Yazd

by Claudine Isé | Apr 23, 2012

New Guest Blogger: Safa Samiezade’-Yazd

by Claudine Isé | Apr 23, 2012

Art21 blog’s latest blogger-in-residence is Safa Samiezade’-Yazd, a writer and editor who focuses on contemporary art and performance in the Middle East.

Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures* (My Final Take)

by Jamilee Polson Lacy | Apr 20, 2012

Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures* (My Final Take)

by Jamilee Polson Lacy | Apr 20, 2012

Polson Lacy discusses the Twelve Galleries Project, an transitory “exhibition experiment” that straddles the realms of visual art and literature.

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision | Queer Cakes for a Country Cookout

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 20, 2012

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision | Queer Cakes for a Country Cookout

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 20, 2012

Jacolby Satterwhite’s multi-media project “Country Ball” merges the practices of “insider” and “outsider” artists: he incorporates drawings made by his mentally ill mother, Patricia.

Support Art21: Give to the Power of Six!

by Heather Reyes | Apr 19, 2012

Support Art21: Give to the Power of Six!

by Heather Reyes | Apr 19, 2012

Support Art21’s Power of Six campaign to celebrate our latest milestone–the broadcast premiere of “Art in the Twenty-First Century” on PBS!

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Year 4 Art21 Educators Announced!

by Joe Fusaro | Apr 18, 2012

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Year 4 Art21 Educators Announced!

by Joe Fusaro | Apr 18, 2012

First of all, I cannot believe that we are approaching year FOUR of the Art21 Educators program. It seems like a very short time ago we were just hatching this …

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Get The Balance Right

by Jenn Pascoe | Apr 18, 2012

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Get The Balance Right

by Jenn Pascoe | Apr 18, 2012

Jenn Pascoe finds resonance in Sarah Sze’s discussion of flexibility in the Season 6 “Balance” episode of “Art in the Twenty-First Century,” on PBS.

Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures* (Take Three)

by Jamilee Polson Lacy | Apr 18, 2012

Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures* (Take Three)

by Jamilee Polson Lacy | Apr 18, 2012

Jamilee Polson Lacy looks at line and labyrinth in the construction of visual and textual narratives, from Jose Luis Borges to the collaborative Dexter Sinister.

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice | (It’s the Political Economy, Stupid)

by Thom Donovan | Apr 16, 2012

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice | (It’s the Political Economy, Stupid)

by Thom Donovan | Apr 16, 2012

Thom Donovan looks at Oliver Ressler and Gregory Sholette’s exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum, which foregrounds aesthetic responses to the ongoing financial crisis.

Rashid Johnson. Triple Consciousness (2009). Courtesy MCA Chicago. Collection of Dr. Daniel S. Berger, Chicago.

Art21 New York Close Up

The Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 16, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

The Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 16, 2012

This week’s roundup has the latest news on Rashid Johnson, Lynda Benglis, Kalup Linzy and other Art21 artists.

Season 6 of Art in the Twenty-First Century Premieres on PBS Tonight!

by Claudine Isé | Apr 13, 2012

Season 6 of Art in the Twenty-First Century Premieres on PBS Tonight!

by Claudine Isé | Apr 13, 2012

Season 6 of Art in the Twenty-First Century premieres nationally tonight and features artists Catherine Opie, El Anatsui, and Ai Weiwei.

Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures* (Take Two)

by Jamilee Polson Lacy | Apr 13, 2012

Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures* (Take Two)

by Jamilee Polson Lacy | Apr 13, 2012

Continuing her examination of art’s relation to literature and language, guest blogger Jamilee Polson Lacy looks at narrative in the paintings of Clare Rojas and others.

Gimme Shelter: Performance Now

Gimme Shelter | Talking with Sarah Michelson about “Devotion Study #1” at the Whitney Biennial

by Marissa Perel | Apr 13, 2012

Gimme Shelter: Performance Now

Gimme Shelter | Talking with Sarah Michelson about “Devotion Study #1” at the Whitney Biennial

by Marissa Perel | Apr 13, 2012

Sarah Michelson discusses the ideas and concepts leading her to create Devotion Study #1, a dance developed specifically for the Whitney Biennial.

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | The Painter of Light is Radically Not Me

by Catherine Wagley | Apr 12, 2012

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | The Painter of Light is Radically Not Me

by Catherine Wagley | Apr 12, 2012

Catherine Wagley reflects on the passing of Thomas Kinkade, the infamously popular “Painter of Light” who pushed the idea of coziness to mind-numbing extremes.