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Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Art21 Educators: Jethro Gillespie and Jack Watson
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Art21 Educators: Jethro Gillespie and Jack Watson
Over the past few weeks I’ve thoroughly enjoyed talking and e-mailing with two more of our current Art21 Educators, Jethro Gillespie and Jack Watson. Jethro teaches Studio Art, 3D Design, Ceramics and other art courses at Maple Mountain High School in Utah while Jack teaches 2D Art and Art History at Chapel High School in North Carolina. Both look for ways to better engage their classes on a consistent basis and avoid “window dressing” projects that may look pretty but aren’t necessarily about very much…
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Contemplating Nicotine: Xu Bing’s “Tobacco Project”
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Contemplating Nicotine: Xu Bing’s “Tobacco Project”
Sarah Hanley looks at an exhibition of works by Xu Bing that explore the extensive, tangled relationship between human beings and tobacco.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Mike Kelley’s Elegance
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Mike Kelley’s Elegance
Mike Kelley gained renown for his sprawling, mixed-media installations, but Catherine Wagley argues that Kelley’s oeuvre should also be remembered for its elegance.
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Trial & Error: On Teaching with Beverly Fishman
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Trial & Error: On Teaching with Beverly Fishman
How do artists sustain both a studio practice and a full-time teaching career? Beverly Fishman, Head of Painting at Cranbrook, shares some hard-won knowledge.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
So, Three Thousand Art Educators Walk Into a Room….
Teaching with Contemporary Art
So, Three Thousand Art Educators Walk Into a Room….
From March 1st through March 4th the National Art Education Association holds their annual conference right here in New York City. Over 3,000 art educators from all levels have the opportunity to attend hundreds upon hundreds of workshops offered by colleagues from close to everywhere across the country.
Here at Art21, we have a few very special things planned….
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Calling All Art History Survey Teachers
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Calling All Art History Survey Teachers
Michelle Jubin is developing an online, peer-populated platform for sharing resources for teaching the art history survey, and asks readers for their input.
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | APAP 2012: Time Is Empty and Everything Is Real
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | APAP 2012: Time Is Empty and Everything Is Real
Perel reports on four highlight performances from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Conference that took place January 6-10, 2012.
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | The Mystery of Anna Pavlova
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | The Mystery of Anna Pavlova
Ali Fitzgerald reviews Theo Solnik’s 2011 film “Anna Pavlova Lives in Berlin,” a nuanced portrait of the poetic and aggressive “Russian party queen” of the same iconic name.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Transformation and Distortion
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Transformation and Distortion
Two of my classes begin a new unit where students are asked to work with the themes of distortion and transformation. Especially for teens, the idea of transformation- of the self, objects, symbols, even the meaning of words- is an attractive proposal. Add the multiple implications associated with distortion and it becomes the kind of field day you really want in a classroom.
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Claire Pentecost
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Claire Pentecost
By taking on the role of “public amateur,” artist Claire Pentecost models an alternative approach to the way that Western cultures typically produce knowledge.
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | The Science and Ethics of Contemporary Art Conservation: A Discussion with Tom Learner
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | The Science and Ethics of Contemporary Art Conservation: A Discussion with Tom Learner
Richard McCoy talks to Tom Learner, senior scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute, whose career has spanned a number of important institutions and projects.
Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
Cairo in Context | One Year Later: The Myth of Art in the Arab Spring
Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
Cairo in Context | One Year Later: The Myth of Art in the Arab Spring
How does art function in times of conflict? This new column looks at art’s importance, and its political potential, in post-revolutionary Egypt.
Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
New Column | Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
New Column | Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
The Art21 Blog debuts a new column focusing on the art scene in Cairo and the Middle East region.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #11
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #11
This month’s podcast features a review of Cathy Wilkes’s Chicago exhibition and discussion of a greatly-exaggerated report of Damien Hirst’s demise.
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