Yearly Archives: 2012

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Alternatives in a Dark Room

Open Enrollment | Alternatives in a Dark Room

by Jenn Pascoe | Nov 7, 2012

Jenn Pascoe explores alternative photographic processes and remembers what she loves about working in the darkroom.

Join Art21 in Supporting Relief Efforts for Hurricane Sandy

by Claudine Isé | Nov 6, 2012

Join Art21 in Supporting Relief Efforts for Hurricane Sandy

by Claudine Isé | Nov 6, 2012

As Art21 returns to its lower Manhattan office after a week with no power, our thoughts are with those still enduring the effects of Hurricane Sandy. The New York Foundation …

New Guest Blogger: Honora Shea

by Claudine Isé | Nov 6, 2012

New Guest Blogger: Honora Shea

by Claudine Isé | Nov 6, 2012

The Art21 Blog’s newest writer-in-residence is Honora Shea, a freelance writer who is based in Beijing.

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Robert Mangold: Town & Country

by Claudine Isé | Nov 5, 2012

Exclusive | Robert Mangold: Town & Country

by Claudine Isé | Nov 5, 2012

Our latest Exclusive video is now live! Click to watch Robert Mangold: Town & Country on Art21.org. Filmed at Robert Mangold’s upstate New York home and studio in 2011, …

Carrie Mae Weems. "The Obama Project," 2012. Production still. Image courtesy of the artist.

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Nov 5, 2012

This week’s roundup has news on Andrea Zittel, Krzysztof Wodiczko, James Turrell and other artists featured in Art21 programs and documentaries.

Flash Points

The Undead Tree of Charles Ray

by Caroline Picard | Nov 2, 2012

The Undead Tree of Charles Ray

by Caroline Picard | Nov 2, 2012

Caroline Picard looks at Charles Ray’s “Hinoki” and asks, how does this sculpture–a reproduction of a fallen redwood tree–tell a story about survival, time, nature and humanity?

On View Now

On View Now | Cryptic Objects: Lin Tianmiao at the Asia Society Museum

by Max Weintraub | Nov 1, 2012

On View Now | Cryptic Objects: Lin Tianmiao at the Asia Society Museum

by Max Weintraub | Nov 1, 2012

Max Weintraub reviews Lin Tianmiao’s exhibition “Bound Unbound” at the Asia Society Museum in New York.

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Sharing is Caring, and Canny

by Michelle Millar Fisher | Nov 1, 2012

Open Enrollment | Sharing is Caring, and Canny

by Michelle Millar Fisher | Nov 1, 2012

Michelle Jubin updates us on her progress in building Art History Teaching Resources, a peer-to-peer platform for sharing teaching resources.

Hank Willis Thomas: Believe It.

by Nettrice Gaskins | Oct 29, 2012

Hank Willis Thomas: Believe It.

by Nettrice Gaskins | Oct 29, 2012

Nettrice Gaskins interviews artist Hank Willis Thomas about his work in the exhibition “Believe It,” on view at the Savannah College of Art and Design in Atlanta.

Ai Weiwei. "Grass-Mud Horse Style," (2012). Image courtesy of the artist.

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Oct 29, 2012

This week’s roundup has the latest news on Gabriel Orozco, Fred Wilson, Laurie Simmons and other artists featured in Art21’s programs and documentaries.

Flash Points

Eleanor Antin Takes Over @Art21 on Twitter Today at 2pm EST!

by Claudine Isé | Oct 26, 2012

Eleanor Antin Takes Over @Art21 on Twitter Today at 2pm EST!

by Claudine Isé | Oct 26, 2012

Today, artist Eleanor Antin will take over the @Art21 Twitter account to perform a special reading from 2:00–3:00 p.m. EST. Please follow along!

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | When Rock Star Fantasies Go Too Far

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 25, 2012

Looking at Los Angeles | When Rock Star Fantasies Go Too Far

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 25, 2012

Catherine Wagley looks at several LA shows that occupy the slippery space between truth and reality.

Praxis Makes Perfect

Praxis Makes Perfect | Having It Both Ways

by Kelsey Elisabeth Nelson | Oct 25, 2012

Praxis Makes Perfect | Having It Both Ways

by Kelsey Elisabeth Nelson | Oct 25, 2012

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

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.

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Forbidden Topics and Sheesh, Haven’t I Seen That Before?

by Katherine Pulido | Oct 24, 2012

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Forbidden Topics and Sheesh, Haven’t I Seen That Before?

by Katherine Pulido | Oct 24, 2012

Guest columnist Katherine Pulido wonders if all the original ideas are already taken…and finds the inspiration to keep on going in a clever, Sol LeWitt-inspired video.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field | Two Histories of the World: Part Two

by Caroline Picard | Oct 23, 2012

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field | Two Histories of the World: Part Two

by Caroline Picard | Oct 23, 2012

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.

Eleanor Antin Takes Over @Art21 on Twitter

by Jonathan Munar | Oct 22, 2012

Eleanor Antin Takes Over @Art21 on Twitter

by Jonathan Munar | Oct 22, 2012

Artist Eleanor Antin will take over the @Art21 Twitter account to perform a special reading on Friday, October 26, from 2:00–3:00 p.m. EST.

New Guest Blogger: Alex Allenchey

by Claudine Isé | Oct 22, 2012

New Guest Blogger: Alex Allenchey

by Claudine Isé | Oct 22, 2012

The Art21 Blog’s newest blogger-in-residence is Alex Allenchey, a Brooklyn-based writer.

Judy Pfaff. Humming in 5 Parts, 2012. Photo courtesy of the artist and Ameringer McEnery Yohe.

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Oct 22, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Oct 22, 2012

This week’s roundup has news on Eleanor Antin, Judy Pfaff, Rashid Johnson and other artists featured in Art21’s programs and documentaries.

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision | Lucy + Jorge Orta: Food-Water-Life

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 19, 2012

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision | Lucy + Jorge Orta: Food-Water-Life

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 19, 2012

Nicole Caruth on Lucy + Jorge Orta, whose first major traveling exhibition “Food-Water-Life” is now up at Tufts University Art Gallery in Boston.

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Rackstraw Downes: Some Painters

by Claudine Isé | Oct 19, 2012

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Rackstraw Downes: Some Painters

by Claudine Isé | Oct 19, 2012

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.

Accessing Knowledge Through Platform for Pedagogy

by Taylor Trabulus | Oct 19, 2012

Accessing Knowledge Through Platform for Pedagogy

by Taylor Trabulus | Oct 19, 2012

Taylor Trabulus talks to the founder of Platform for Pedagogy, a weekly email bulletin containing curated lists of public lectures and forums taking place in NYC.

Gimme Shelter: Performance Now

Gimme Shelter | The Rush of Fall Part 1: Archive of a Deluge

by Marissa Perel | Oct 19, 2012

Gimme Shelter: Performance Now

Gimme Shelter | The Rush of Fall Part 1: Archive of a Deluge

by Marissa Perel | Oct 19, 2012

Marissa Perel surveys a number of recent performance works taking place in and around Brooklyn.

“Terror and the Narrative Tendency”: A Book by Artist David Roesing

by Taylor Trabulus | Oct 18, 2012

“Terror and the Narrative Tendency”: A Book by Artist David Roesing

by Taylor Trabulus | Oct 18, 2012

Taylor Trabulus looks at an artist’s book focusing on the 2002 Beltway Sniper attacks.

Revolution 2.1

Revolution 2.1 | Talkin’ ‘Bout My Revolution

by Safa Samiezade'-Yazd | Oct 18, 2012

Revolution 2.1

Revolution 2.1 | Talkin’ ‘Bout My Revolution

by Safa Samiezade'-Yazd | Oct 18, 2012

Safa Samiezade’-Yazd on the power of protest signs and the concise, author-less slogans they bear.

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | Art Hangover, Berlin

by Ali Fitzgerald | Oct 18, 2012

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | Art Hangover, Berlin

by Ali Fitzgerald | Oct 18, 2012

Ali Fitzgerald looks back on Berlin Art Week and a busy past month of art events in the city.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Exploding a Theme

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 17, 2012

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Exploding a Theme

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 17, 2012

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.

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Think About the Void

by Lindsay Preston Zappas | Oct 17, 2012

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Think About the Void

by Lindsay Preston Zappas | Oct 17, 2012

Lindsay Preston Zappas asks her fellow Cranbrook students, “How do you distract yourself from studio stress in order to open up fresh creative space?”

Alchemy of Inspiration

Alchemy of Inspiration I Picasso Redux

by Jessica Lott | Oct 16, 2012

Alchemy of Inspiration

Alchemy of Inspiration I Picasso Redux

by Jessica Lott | Oct 16, 2012

Jessica Lott looks at “Picasso Black and White,” on view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York through January 23, 2013.

Word is a Virus

Word is a Virus | New Releases in Artist-Run Journals: MATERIAL and Prism of Reality

by Carol Cheh | Oct 15, 2012

Word is a Virus

Word is a Virus | New Releases in Artist-Run Journals: MATERIAL and Prism of Reality

by Carol Cheh | Oct 15, 2012

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.