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Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teachable Moments in 2012
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teachable Moments in 2012
Before we continue talking about last week’s “Speak About What’s Unspeakable,” I thought it might be good idea to end the year on a constructive note by looking back at some of the most teachable moments- events, exhibits, chance happenings and other opportunities – that made for uncanny entry points in the classroom…
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Afterimage: An Interview with Dahlia Tulett-Gross and Thea Liberty Nichols
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Afterimage: An Interview with Dahlia Tulett-Gross and Thea Liberty Nichols
Caroline Picard talks with Dahlia Tulett-Gross and Thea Liberty Nichols about some of the visual legacies between two Chicago generations in the exhibition “Afterimage,” held last summer at the DePaul Art Museum.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Speak About What’s Unspeakable
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Speak About What’s Unspeakable
In the contemporary art classroom, perhaps there is an opening to deconstruct what’s really behind our love of guns, the obsession with “killing”, and “hunting down” characters in things like video games? Can we make spaces where these things are discussed and responses are shared in order to educate a broader audience that really affects change?
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | On Perception: Katsutoshi Yuasa’s Woodcuts
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | On Perception: Katsutoshi Yuasa’s Woodcuts
Sarah Kirk Hanley looks at the woodcuts of Katsutoshi Yuasa, whose first solo exhibition in the US is at the ISE Cultural Foundation in New York, through January 4th.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Tanya Aguiñiga / Transnational Arts Operative
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Tanya Aguiñiga / Transnational Arts Operative
Danielle McCullough profiles Tanya Aguiñiga, an artist/activist whose works take many forms, many of which engage notions of transnational autobiography.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Lynda Benglis in the Elementary Classroom
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Lynda Benglis in the Elementary Classroom
Sharing contemporary art is a wonderful way to generate questions and discussions about art, and in turn, motivate young artists to take risks with their own art making.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Guest Bloggers This Week: Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Guest Bloggers This Week: Teaching with Contemporary Art
This week I am pleased to say that the Teaching with Contemporary Art column some guest bloggers…
Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott are both alumni of the Art21 Educators program and teach elementary art education at Scott and Westdale Elementary Schools in Melrose Park and Northlake near Chicago. Their work has been inspiring to all of us here at Art21 for the past two years, especially since they are finding ways to work with contemporary art and engage some very young students in the process.
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | My Cure for End-of-Semester Kvetching
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | My Cure for End-of-Semester Kvetching
Katherine Pulido finds inspiration in the fiber works and drawings of the late artist Lenore Tawney, whose works are currently on view at the Maryland Institute College of Art.
Alchemy of Inspiration
Alchemy of Inspiration I Baryshnikov in Conversation: “Art I’ve Lived With”
Alchemy of Inspiration
Alchemy of Inspiration I Baryshnikov in Conversation: “Art I’ve Lived With”
Jessica Lott talks to famed dancer/choreographer Mikhail Baryshnikov about his art collection, on view now in the exhibition “The Art I’ve Lived With” at ABA Gallery in Manhattan.
New Kids on the Block
New Kids on the Block | “Brain Work” with Pilvi Takala
New Kids on the Block
New Kids on the Block | “Brain Work” with Pilvi Takala
Jacquelyn Gleisner talks to the Istanbul-based artist Pilvi Takala, whose performance-based “interventions” challenge social and behavioral norms.
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Tumelo Mosaka (Part 2)
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Tumelo Mosaka (Part 2)
Part 2 of Georgia Kotretsos’ conversation with curator Tumelo Mosaka, in which he discusses his upcoming curatorial project “Blind Field” at the Krannert Museum.
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Infiltrating the MoMA Atrium, Part 1: An Interview with Ralph Lemon on the Curation of “Some sweet day”
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Infiltrating the MoMA Atrium, Part 1: An Interview with Ralph Lemon on the Curation of “Some sweet day”
Marissa Perel talks to Ralph Lemon about the series “Some sweet day,” which was shown in the MoMA’s atrium from October 15 to November 4th, 2012.
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