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Monthly Archives: October 2012
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Having It Both Ways
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Having It Both Ways
Kelsey Nelson delves into Vladimir Nabokov’s and Roland Barthes’ diametrically opposed methods of interpreting art and texts, and asks, is it possible to have it both ways?
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Feedback Control
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Feedback Control
Giving good quality feedback can sometimes make the difference between students completing mediocre assignments and high quality works of art. This week I want to offer some suggestions for what to do when students are “done” but we know they aren’t.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Two Histories of the World: Part Two
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Two Histories of the World: Part Two
Caroline Picard looks at “Two Histories of the World,” a two-part exhibition taking place at two different venues and at two different points in time.
Art21 Extended Play
Exclusive | Rackstraw Downes: Some Painters
Art21 Extended Play
Exclusive | Rackstraw Downes: Some Painters
Watch Art21’s latest Exclusive video, where Rackstraw Downes describes why he views the work of some long-deceased painters to be relevant to his own contemporary practice.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Exploding a Theme
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Exploding a Theme
This week began with one of my advanced classes looking into the paintings of season 6 artist, Rackstraw Downes. As students start up a thematic series of their own work I wanted to see if we could “explode a theme” and “frame” Downes’ paintings in three different ways- as a topic, a theme, and as a question.
Word is a Virus
Word is a Virus | New Releases in Artist-Run Journals: MATERIAL and Prism of Reality
Word is a Virus
Word is a Virus | New Releases in Artist-Run Journals: MATERIAL and Prism of Reality
Carol Cheh looks at two artist-run journals, both of which provide compelling textual windows into L.A.’s rich community of artists and artistic practices.
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Disorderly Conduct: The Imperfect Librarians
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Disorderly Conduct: The Imperfect Librarians
Erin Sweeny on the “new Order” governing her post-graduate life, where any sense of normalcy or routine has largely disappeared.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Visionary Studios: Getting Started
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Visionary Studios: Getting Started
Anyone who knows me often asks about how I coordinate three jobs. I teach two high school classes and serve as department chair in my school district, work as Art21’s …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | The One in Which I Accidentally Got Political.
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | The One in Which I Accidentally Got Political.
After watching the first Presidential debates, Sarah Merianos wonders, should we (as artists, as practitioners, as supporters) keep up the good fight, or let federal funding for the arts die out?
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