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Teaching with Contemporary Art
Ideas With Legs
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Ideas With Legs
Because I so love questions and quotes, and use them in my own teaching to get students thinking about process, predetermined notions about contemporary art and even prejudices, this week I wanted to offer three dynamite thoughts to get students thinking out of the gate…
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Doug Ashford
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Doug Ashford
Thom Donovan interviews Doug Ashford, who is widely known for his work with Group Material during the period 1983-1996.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Embodying the Disembodied: Leif Elggren at LAMPO
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Embodying the Disembodied: Leif Elggren at LAMPO
Caroline Picard shares her observations on Leif Elggren’s performance at the Graham Foundation (presented by LAMPO) last fall.
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Restored and Renewed: Milton Glaser’s 1975 Artwork, “Color Fuses”
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Restored and Renewed: Milton Glaser’s 1975 Artwork, “Color Fuses”
Mitlon Glaser’s 1975 art installation in Indianapolis, “Color Fuses,” recently underwent a dramatic restoration and can now be seen as the artist originally intended.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the present at L & M Arts
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the present at L & M Arts
Lily Simonson reviews a group show featuring collage works by Art21 artists John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Mark Bradford, and Paul McCarthy.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with New York Close Up: David Brooks Tears The Roof Off
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with New York Close Up: David Brooks Tears The Roof Off
David Brooks Tears The Roof Off is an apt title for one of our most recent New York Close Up films this summer. Within the first 60 seconds of a …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Anna Piaggi and the Summer One-Off
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Anna Piaggi and the Summer One-Off
The writer and fashion icon Anna Piaggi, who died this week at 81, serves as a reminder that in art, as life, one-off gestures are often the most memorable ones.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Kids on the Beach?
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Kids on the Beach?
There are times when you just have to sit for a while in order to experience a show… and sometimes you get lucky and there are also benches in the picture. I got lucky on steamy summer day and both elements came together for a recent visit to Rineke Dijkstra’s retrospective at the Guggenheim, on view through October 8th.
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Internships and the Graduate Student
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Internships and the Graduate Student
Jenn Pascoe talks to Denise Carbone, head conservator at the American Philosophical Society, about graduate internships and their value for young professionals.
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