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Teaching with Contemporary Art
Combining (Complicating?) Ideas
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Combining (Complicating?) Ideas
Years ago I had a professor who was a bit cruel when it came to giving feedback. But one piece of feedback he gave me has influenced my teaching, especially in units like this one. He once said, exasperated over my inability to get to the next step on a piece, “Joe, you call these ideas?? Put them together and make one good one!”
In the spirit of this advice which has resonated with me for years I have asked my own students to begin combining ideas in order to more fully explore and depict the theme and subject they have chosen.
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | The Evolution of Mike: Michael Smith in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | The Evolution of Mike: Michael Smith in Berlin
Ali Fitzgerald takes us through Michael Smith’s exhibition “Fountain” at Dan Gunn Gallery in Kreuzberg.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reflecting on Visual Conversations
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reflecting on Visual Conversations
In my previous post two weeks ago I said that I was interested in encouraging students to draw relationships between works of art and to think about how context affects what we see. Can works of art “speak” to the viewer or have “conversations” with other works? If so, how? Today was the day, after a long Thanksgiving weekend, for the group to share works in progress and get some feedback from one another.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | The Past Lives of Books
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | The Past Lives of Books
Caroline Picard on the many forms that textual marginalia may take.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Truth and Illusion, Pigeons and Freeways
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Truth and Illusion, Pigeons and Freeways
Catherine Wagley details an L.A. artist’s Quixotic efforts to hack freeway signs using homing pigeons. But was any of it for real?
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Spotlight Conversations
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Spotlight Conversations
During Art21’s yearlong professional development initiative, Art21 Educators, we ask that teachers coordinate a one-on-one or group conversation that allows them to reflect on and explore major successes and challenges …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Let the Good Work Prevail: Navigating Social Practice, Object Making, and the Market
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Let the Good Work Prevail: Navigating Social Practice, Object Making, and the Market
Must contemporary artists choose between object-making and “social practice” art? Lindsay Preston Zappas looks at what it takes to create a “new art world system.”
Art21 New York Close Up
NYCU | Liz Magic Laser Talks to the Hand
Art21 New York Close Up
NYCU | Liz Magic Laser Talks to the Hand
In our latest NYCU short, Liz Magic Laser develops “The Digital Face” (2012), a new performance that examines hand gestures in contemporary presidential State of the Union addresses.
Alchemy of Inspiration
Alchemy of Inspiration I “Fore”ward at The Studio Museum in Harlem
Alchemy of Inspiration
Alchemy of Inspiration I “Fore”ward at The Studio Museum in Harlem
Jessica Lott looks at The Studio Museum’s “Fore,” a group exhibition of young emerging artists of African descent whose works draw from multiple art historical traditions and lineages.
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | The Rush of Fall, Part 2: Archive of a Deluge
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | The Rush of Fall, Part 2: Archive of a Deluge
Marissa Perel surveys the damage wrought by Superstorm Sandy, and details the local relief efforts of Occupy Sandy and other local ad hoc groups to provide aid.
Art21 Extended Play
Exclusive | Mary Reid Kelley: “You Make Me Iliad”
Art21 Extended Play
Exclusive | Mary Reid Kelley: “You Make Me Iliad”
Watch video artist and painter Mary Reid Kelley discuss her work “You Make Me Iliad” (2010), which attempts to reconstitute the experience of women living during the first World War.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Moving Time: A Fossil-Fueled Journey from Appalachia to Los Angeles through Motion Pictures
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Moving Time: A Fossil-Fueled Journey from Appalachia to Los Angeles through Motion Pictures
New “Looking at Los Angeles” contributor Danielle McCullough surveys the independent film scene in Los Angeles.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Getting Set for Visual Conversations
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Getting Set for Visual Conversations
If you haven’t visited already, the Fisher Landau Center for Art is a wonderful oasis to add to the list of places you can see exciting work in Long Island City. This week, I am taking one of my classes to visit the current show, Visual Conversations. Through the visit I am interested in encouraging my students to draw relationships between works of art and to think about how context affects how we perceive what we see.
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Suzanne Lacy
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Suzanne Lacy
Thom Donovan interviews Suzanne Lacy, an artist, educator and activist whose career spans multiple decades and several major movements in contemporary art history.
New Kids on the Block
New Kids on the Block | Baudrillard for Bozos: An Interview with Sean Joseph Patrick Carney
New Kids on the Block
New Kids on the Block | Baudrillard for Bozos: An Interview with Sean Joseph Patrick Carney
Jacquelyn Gleisner talks to Sean Joseph Patrick Carney, an artist whose practice involves the translation of dense theoretical texts in amusing and provocative ways.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Now See This: Teaching with Hans-Peter Feldmann and John Baldessari
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Now See This: Teaching with Hans-Peter Feldmann and John Baldessari
I have always been interested in the way certain artists, more so than others, have the ability to take us by the hand (or the eye) and walk us through works of art very deliberately. Because the “subject” is often about the whole work and not a single focal point, these artists persuade us to compare and contrast, and see the small differences as well as the commonalities.
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