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Yearly Archives: 2012

Radical Receptivities

Radical Receptivities

Can listening more actively spur radical change? Elana Mann and Juliana Snapper on The People’s Mic and the power of attentive voices.

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | A Community of Engaged Amateurs

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | A Community of Engaged Amateurs

In grad school, the inspiration that our fellow students provide can be the greatest learning experience of all.

Open Enrollment

New Open Enrollment Blogger: Kelsey Elisabeth Nelson

Open Enrollment

New Open Enrollment Blogger: Kelsey Elisabeth Nelson

Meet our newest Open Enrollment blogger, a second-year grad student in the Art Education program at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.

Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture

Bedfellows | Blackout

Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture

Bedfellows | Blackout

Can a photograph stand in for an experience we had, but don’t recall? Victoria Gannon on the aesthetics of intoxication.

Bound: The Printed Object in Context

Bound | Art Talk AM on the Radio

Bound: The Printed Object in Context

Bound | Art Talk AM on the Radio

Meg Onli reviews a volume archiving the radio conversations held between artists and a student at Portland State University’s Art and Social Practice program.

Human Pyramids and the Capitalist System

Human Pyramids and the Capitalist System

Robby Herbst discusses his grandfather’s 1930s-era amateur acrobatic troupe, whose stunts symbolically enacted the power and pleasure of united workers.

Alfredo Jaar. Muxima, 2006. Film still courtesy of the artist.

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

Our first 2012 roundup features news on Louise Bourgeois, Alfredo Jaar, Mark Dion and other Art21 artists.

Occupying Art

Occupying Art

Carol Cheh explains why Occupy–a “tentative, inchoate, experimental utopia”–is fundamentally different from other protest movements.

New Guest Bloggers: #OccupyArt21

New Guest Bloggers: #OccupyArt21

We introduce our latest bloggers-in-residence: #OccupyArt21, a group of Los Angeles-based writers and artists active in the Occupy LA movement.