Yearly Archives: 2015
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Classroom Catalysts: Enabling Personal Revolutions Through Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Classroom Catalysts: Enabling Personal Revolutions Through Art
“What is art but a way of seeing?” —Thomas Berger Sometimes the most significant revolutions make no noise at all, happening completely within someone’s frame of mind. These individual transformations might …
Booked
Still Reading by the Fire
Booked
Still Reading by the Fire
Most of this past year’s proposed radical agendas contain nothing that’s actually revolutionary or visionary. Politicians, theocrats, and profiteers campaign on platforms of retroactive change: ideological preservation, religious orthodoxy. ‘A …
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor: Unending Revolution
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor: Unending Revolution
“All art is in revolution of tyranny.” —Atticus Our recent revolutionary movements feel… deflated. We tell ourselves “things aren’t that bad right?” and the fight we need to make change …
Art21 Extended Play
Politics and Dignity in Graciela Iturbide’s Photographs
Art21 Extended Play
Politics and Dignity in Graciela Iturbide’s Photographs
“Politics are already implied when I’m working in Mexico. I don’t have to say ‘Look, what injustice!’ because it would be sensationalized.” — Graciela Iturbide Artist Graciela Iturbide discusses her personal and …
Art21 Extended Play
Josiah McElheny Sees Potential in Painting
Art21 Extended Play
Josiah McElheny Sees Potential in Painting
“Abstraction – in its potential hopefulness for imagining a different world or imagining a world that’s not absolutely apparent – can tie us together.” — Josiah McElheny Today’s ART21 Exclusive features …