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Yearly Archives: 2012

Teaching with Contemporary Art

TASK Unplugged

Teaching with Contemporary Art

TASK Unplugged

This year, to begin the fourth annual Art21 Educators Institute, we will start our nine days with Oliver Herring and TASK at Luhring Augustine Gallery in Brooklyn. In a year that has in some ways been about “restraints” inspired by Matthew Barney, we will be running TASK with three materials: pencil, paper and string.

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | A Final Report

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | A Final Report

Antonius Wiriadjaja bids farewell to graduate school, and fondly remembers his first meeting with mentor Red Burns.

Building New Things (Going & Coming, Part 2)

Building New Things (Going & Coming, Part 2)

Wet Heat Project’s Bill Bilowit profiles the Miami Art Museum’s new curator Diana Nawi, and artist and former Miami resident Jesse Laino, who recently relocated to Brooklyn, NY.

Transmission

Transmission | An Interview with Nader Sadek: the Lexicon of “In the Flesh”: Petroleum, Death Metal, Masks, Hair, and Sulpher

Transmission

Transmission | An Interview with Nader Sadek: the Lexicon of “In the Flesh”: Petroleum, Death Metal, Masks, Hair, and Sulpher

Amelia Ishmael talks to Nader Sadek about the visual lexicon that informs his art and music.

Transmission

New Column: Transmission

Transmission

New Column: Transmission

The Art21 Blog announces “Transmission,” a new column focusing on the intersection of art and rock music.

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Zoe Beloff

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Zoe Beloff

Thom Donovan talks to Zoe Beloff, whose most recent project takes up Brecht’s learning play “Days of the Commune” within the context of OWS.

Julie Mehretu. "Untitled," 2012. Courtesy the artist and Salon 94.

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

This week’s Roundup has the latest news on Julie Mehretu, Janine Antoni, Mark Bradford and other artists featured in Art21 programs.

The Other Miami Heat (Going & Coming, Part 1)

The Other Miami Heat (Going & Coming, Part 1)

Bill Bilowit of Wet Heat Project explains why Miami art practitioners are hot–in more ways than one.

New Guest Bloggers: Wet Heat Project, Miami

New Guest Bloggers: Wet Heat Project, Miami

Our new guest bloggers are Bill Bilowit and Grela Orihuela of Wet Heat Project, a Miami-based independent film production company focusing on contemporary art.

Art21 New York Close Up

NYCU | “Liz Magic Laser Feeeeeeeeeeeeels Your Pain”

Art21 New York Close Up

NYCU | “Liz Magic Laser Feeeeeeeeeeeeels Your Pain”

Our latest New York Close Up is now live! Watch Liz Magic Laser direct the premiere of “I Feel Your Pain” at the SVA Theater in Chelsea, Manhattan.

The Tipping Point Between Laughter And Crying: An Interview With Martha Wilson

The Tipping Point Between Laughter And Crying: An Interview With Martha Wilson

Emily Colucci talks to Martha Wilson about the evolution of her art, Wilson’s relationship to feminism, and the Culture Wars.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Carol Becker

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Carol Becker

Georgia Kotretsos talks to Carol Becker, Dean of Columbia University’s School of the Arts, about art education and the process of building great art schools.

Year Four Art21 Educators | Marni Kotak and Hugo Rojas

Year Four Art21 Educators | Marni Kotak and Hugo Rojas

In this installment of our Art21 Educators series, we introduce Marni Kotak Rabinowitz and Hugo Rojas, teachers at Urban Assembly High School of Media Studies.

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | A Live One: Painting Joan Quinn

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | A Live One: Painting Joan Quinn

Fresh off her solo exhibition in LA, Lily Simonson has the opportunity to paint a portrait of Joan Quinn, the legendary West Coast editor of Interview magazine.

Praxis Makes Perfect

Praxis Makes Perfect | A is for Aphorism

Praxis Makes Perfect

Praxis Makes Perfect | A is for Aphorism

Kelsey Nelson shares five platitudes that ring surprisingly true when considered in the context of her own post-graduate ambitions.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

A Year of Contemporary Art in (and out of) Contemporary Classrooms

Teaching with Contemporary Art

A Year of Contemporary Art in (and out of) Contemporary Classrooms

This is part two of a three part series that will share the experiences of three Art21 Education staff members (Jessica Hamlin, Joe Fusaro, and Flossie Chua) after spending a year with a group of 16 incredible teachers. Each of us has a unique perspective on the past twelve months and this series will ruminate on what it means to teach with contemporary art, specifically contextualized by our experiences this year working with the Art21 Educators program.

You Can’t Plan Fun: An Interview With Kenny Scharf

You Can’t Plan Fun: An Interview With Kenny Scharf

Guest blogger Emily Colucci talks to artist Kenny Scharf about painting, process, the B-52s, and the art of “fun.”

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

Centerfield | Transformation of Permission: An Interview with Millie Kapp

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

Centerfield | Transformation of Permission: An Interview with Millie Kapp

Caroline Picard talks to Millie Kapp, an artist currently working with the collaborative performance group Husband, about the process of building a performance.

Alfredo Jaar. An Aesthetics of Resistance, 1992. Image courtesy the artist and Neue Gesellschaft für Bildende Kunst.

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

This week’s roundup has the latest news on Alfredo Jaar, Jeff Koons, Martha Colburn, and other artists featured in Art21 programs.

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Nancy Spero: Collaboration

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Nancy Spero: Collaboration

Watch Nancy Spero (1926-2009) discuss how collaborations with other artists activated her work in our latest Exclusive video.

Gimme Shelter: Performance Now

Movement Research Festival Spring 2012: Push It. Real. Good. Recap

Gimme Shelter: Performance Now

Movement Research Festival Spring 2012: Push It. Real. Good. Recap

Marissa Perel recaps the Movement Research Festival held in NYC, a four-day event that explored contemporary dance, performance and related media.

Creating A Visual Language: The Art of Michael Alan

Creating A Visual Language: The Art of Michael Alan

Emily Colucci looks at the drawings, paintings and performances of Michael Alan, whose unique sense of line joins his multitude of works together.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

A Year of Contemporary Art in Contemporary Classrooms

Teaching with Contemporary Art

A Year of Contemporary Art in Contemporary Classrooms

Jessica Hamlin kicks off a three-part series sharing the experiences of three Art21 Education staff members who spent a year with a group of sixteen incredible teachers.

Year Four Art21 Educators | Dillon Paul and Angela Larsen

Year Four Art21 Educators | Dillon Paul and Angela Larsen

In our latest installment of Year Four Art21 Educators Introductions, meet Dillon Paul and Angela Larsen, who teach in Brooklyn, NY and Seattle, Washington, respectively.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Kickstarters, Part 1

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Kickstarters, Part 1

In each of our new season 6 episodes, not to mention throughout the entire Art21 series, there are superb quotes to share with students, colleagues and friends as kickstarters for …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

No Preservatives | Jean Tinguely’s Last Major Artwork–20 Years Later

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

No Preservatives | Jean Tinguely’s Last Major Artwork–20 Years Later

Richard McCoy looks at Jean Tinguely’s 1991 masterpiece “Cascade” in Charlotte, NC.

Sanford Biggers. The Cartographer's Conundrum (2012). Courtesy the artist and Mass MoCA.

Sanford Biggers’ Conundrum: The Mothership Lands at Mass MoCA

Sanford Biggers’ Conundrum: The Mothership Lands at Mass MoCA

Nettrice Gaskins looks at the influence of Afrofuturism on Sanford Biggers’ “The Cartographer’s Conundrum,” a large-scale installation currently on view at Mass MoCA.

Word is a Virus

Word is a Virus | Cutting Up

Word is a Virus

Word is a Virus | Cutting Up

Carol Cheh launches this new column by employing William S. Burroughs’s “cut up” technique to generate a new text based on her own discarded writings.

Word is a Virus

New Column: Word is a Virus

Word is a Virus

New Column: Word is a Virus

Penned by Carol Cheh, the Art21 Blog’s newest column explores the relationship between art and the written word.

Playing with People’s Boundaries: An Interview with Hunter Reynolds

Playing with People’s Boundaries: An Interview with Hunter Reynolds

An interview with Hunter Reynolds about the preservation and documentation of performance art and the ability of art-making to deal with emotional and physical pain.

Marina Abramović. The Artist Is Present (2012). Courtesy Show of Force LLC and Mudpuppy Flims Inc. Photo by Marco Anelli © 2010.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup

This week’s roundup has news on Marina Abramović, Barry McGee, Fred Wilson and other Art21 artists.

New Guest Blogger: Emily Colucci, Writer and Curator, NY

New Guest Blogger: Emily Colucci, Writer and Curator, NY

Our new blogger-in-residence is Emily Colucci, a writer and curator based in New York City.

Art21 New York Close Up

Eddie Martinez Is Ready For His New York Close Up

Art21 New York Close Up

Eddie Martinez Is Ready For His New York Close Up

Hot off the Mac Pro tower (well, hot off the Mac Pro tower yesterday), our latest film: “Eddie Martinez Whistles While He Works.” I have to admit–shooting the material that …

Art21 New York Close Up

NYCU | Eddie Martinez Whistles While He Works

Art21 New York Close Up

NYCU | Eddie Martinez Whistles While He Works

Watch as Eddie Martinez starts a new, seven-by-ten foot canvas, advancing on and retreating from the composition in a process he likens to boxing.

Personal Effects

Personal Effects

Our final post from blogger-in-residence Nina Horisaki-Christens looks at several artists who explore the interpretive potential of objects in a performative context.

avaf + art21 comboworks: A Collaboration with assume vivid astro focus, Art21, and You

avaf + art21 comboworks: A Collaboration with assume vivid astro focus, Art21, and You

Introducing a new interactive and collaborative online artist project with artist collective, assume vivid astro focus.