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Teaching with Contemporary Art
Year Four Art21 Educators | Carl Andersen and Craig Newsom
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Year Four Art21 Educators | Carl Andersen and Craig Newsom
Next up in our Year Four Art21 Educators series, we introduce Carl Anderson and Craig Newsom, who teach in Minneapolis and Carlinville, Illinois, respectively.
Art21 Extended Play
Exclusive | assume vivid astro focus: Masks
Art21 Extended Play
Exclusive | assume vivid astro focus: Masks
In our latest Exclusive video, Eli Sudbrack of assume vivid astro focus discusses the motivations behind the collective’s use of masks during public events and installations.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Long Walk
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Long Walk
I see Richard Long’s “A Line Made By Walking” as a metaphor for teaching. He makes visible his process, which is quietly relentless. He creates order through a meditative act. He provides focus. He makes us see something quite simple in a completely new way.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | In Search of Eve Babitz
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | In Search of Eve Babitz
Eve Babitz is more than just the nude woman famously photographed playing chess with Duchamp; she is an influential writer whose books are now much-coveted items.
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice | Melanie Gilligan
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice | Melanie Gilligan
Melanie Gilligan discusses “Popular Unrest” and other video and film works that address the global financial crisis.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Transforming Space into Place: An Interview with Leyya Tawil, co-creator of The Grand Re-Map
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Transforming Space into Place: An Interview with Leyya Tawil, co-creator of The Grand Re-Map
The collaborative project The Grand Re-Map seeks to observe and record the physical interactions between bodies and landscapes.
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Anti-Establishment in the Establishment: Dawn Kasper at the Whitney Biennial, Part 2
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Anti-Establishment in the Establishment: Dawn Kasper at the Whitney Biennial, Part 2
The second of a two-part conversation between Marissa Perel and Whitney Biennial artist Dawn Kasper.
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Anti-Establishment in the Establishment: Dawn Kasper at the Whitney Biennial, Part 1
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Anti-Establishment in the Establishment: Dawn Kasper at the Whitney Biennial, Part 1
The first of a two-part conversation between Marissa Perel and Whitney Biennial artist Dawn Kasper.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Test Driving the New Season 6 Educators’ Guide
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Test Driving the New Season 6 Educators’ Guide
The new Season 6 educators’ guide is now available as a quick and easy downloadable PDF. As we celebrate the broadcast of our new season, I thought this week might be a good time to highlight some of what the new guide has to offer educators interested in teaching with contemporary art.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #15: “Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations)”
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #15: “Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations)”
This month’s podcast features a discussion with artists Pamela Fraser and John Neff about color in art: how do artists use color? How do viewers experience it?
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | And the Money Came Rolling In . . . Or Not
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | And the Money Came Rolling In . . . Or Not
When the display of a luxury car leads Catherine Wagley to mistake a performance festival for a fundraiser, the slippery relations between art and commerce become clear.
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Creative Criticism with Christopher K. Ho | Hirsch E.P. Rothko
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Creative Criticism with Christopher K. Ho | Hirsch E.P. Rothko
Jacquelyn Gleisner talks to Christopher K. Ho, an artist, critic, and author of “Hirsch E.P. Rothko,” a book about an artist’s dip into delusion.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Persistence and Patience Paying Off
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Persistence and Patience Paying Off
It’s probably a good time for our semi-annual hockey post that highlights some bizarre (or perhaps, pertinent?) parallel between the New York Rangers and teaching with contemporary art. This post is devoted to persistence.
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