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Yearly Archives: 2012
Transmission
Transmission | An Interview with Aldo Tambellini: Black Zero, Avant-Garde Jazz, and the Cosmic Void
Transmission
Transmission | An Interview with Aldo Tambellini: Black Zero, Avant-Garde Jazz, and the Cosmic Void
An interview with the 82 year old experimental artist who is best known for exploring the color and concepts of black.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | I Already Know I Exist: Ken Price at LACMA
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | I Already Know I Exist: Ken Price at LACMA
Catherine Wagley considers the role that personal biography plays–or doesn’t–in LACMA’s newly-opened “Ken Price Sculpture: A Retrospective.”
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | A Good Wind: Forces of Nature in the New Age of Innocence
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | A Good Wind: Forces of Nature in the New Age of Innocence
How can artists and other cultural practitioners create the spaces they need to work and to exhibit? In part, says Erin Sweeny, by forming those spaces themselves, through partnerships and collaborations.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Uncovering Works of Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Uncovering Works of Art
Monday evening I had the pleasure of participating in a dynamite online conversation with our current group of Art21 Educators. We decided, based on some requests we received recently, to spend a little time actually looking at art together.
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Swimsuits and Ibiza: Lessons from Bob and Joni
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Swimsuits and Ibiza: Lessons from Bob and Joni
Does it still make sense to divide art-making into distinct genres? A look at Joni Mitchell, Robert Irwin, and other artists who actively resist labels and categorization.
Art21 Extended Play
Exclusive | Catherine Opie: Cleveland Clinic
Art21 Extended Play
Exclusive | Catherine Opie: Cleveland Clinic
Catherine Opie describes her intentions behind the permanent installation “Somewhere in the Middle” (2011) at Hillcrest Hospital, a branch of Cleveland Clinic, in Mayfield Heights, Ohio.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Building Trust On The Way In
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Building Trust On The Way In
Starting off each new school year, one of my biggest concerns in the first few weeks is getting to know my students better in order to build trust. Without trust students will not take the risks necessary to break free from the habitual and try new things, which teaching with contemporary art will ultimately call for.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Ideas With Legs
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Ideas With Legs
Because I so love questions and quotes, and use them in my own teaching to get students thinking about process, predetermined notions about contemporary art and even prejudices, this week I wanted to offer three dynamite thoughts to get students thinking out of the gate…
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Doug Ashford
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Doug Ashford
Thom Donovan interviews Doug Ashford, who is widely known for his work with Group Material during the period 1983-1996.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Embodying the Disembodied: Leif Elggren at LAMPO
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Embodying the Disembodied: Leif Elggren at LAMPO
Caroline Picard shares her observations on Leif Elggren’s performance at the Graham Foundation (presented by LAMPO) last fall.
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Restored and Renewed: Milton Glaser’s 1975 Artwork, “Color Fuses”
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Restored and Renewed: Milton Glaser’s 1975 Artwork, “Color Fuses”
Mitlon Glaser’s 1975 art installation in Indianapolis, “Color Fuses,” recently underwent a dramatic restoration and can now be seen as the artist originally intended.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the present at L & M Arts
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the present at L & M Arts
Lily Simonson reviews a group show featuring collage works by Art21 artists John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Mark Bradford, and Paul McCarthy.
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