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On Returning Home and Works in Progress: A Conversation with Bukola Koiki

by Brannon Rockwell-Charland | May 27, 2015

On Returning Home and Works in Progress: A Conversation with Bukola Koiki

by Brannon Rockwell-Charland | May 27, 2015

I first learned about Bukola Koiki’s art through Facebook. She posted an essay about her work in the group named “BCC: BrownHall Community,” a networking forum for Black artists in …

The Walker Curates the News: 05.25.15

by Walker Art Center | May 25, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 05.25.15

by Walker Art Center | May 25, 2015

Pierre Huyghe’s new work at the Met resembles both a natural history museum display and a land art installation. The French conceptual artist displaced some of the rooftop terrace’s paving stones, …

Art21 Extended Play

Perspectives from the “Gramsci Monument”

by Ian Forster | May 22, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Perspectives from the “Gramsci Monument”

by Ian Forster | May 22, 2015

“I don’t do something for the community, I do something, I hope, for art and the understanding of art – my goal is this.” —Thomas Hirschhorn Today’s ART21 Exclusive features the …

Behind Voids and Dissonance: Experimental Music of Fluxus and the Source Family

by Casey Winkleman | May 20, 2015

Behind Voids and Dissonance: Experimental Music of Fluxus and the Source Family

by Casey Winkleman | May 20, 2015

“Purge the world of bourgeois sickness, ‘intellectual,’ professional and commercialized culture; Purge the world of dead art, imitation, artificial art, abstract art, illusionistic art—PURGE THE WORLD OF ‘EUROPANISM!’” [1]. Written with …

The Walker Curates the News: 05.18.15

by Walker Art Center | May 18, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 05.18.15

by Walker Art Center | May 18, 2015

Joan Jonas‘s “triumphal exhibition” at the Venice Biennale “doesn’t simply look back on a long and fruitful career: It extends that career,” writes Roberta Smith of the 70-year-old artist’s US …

Art21 Extended Play

Leonardo Drew and Piet Mondrian Meet on the Grid

by Ian Forster | May 15, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Leonardo Drew and Piet Mondrian Meet on the Grid

by Ian Forster | May 15, 2015

“What can I say about Mondrian, he’s just the man. As far as the grid and composition, obviously I’m working off of him and standing on the shoulders of giants.” …

Personal Digital Networks

by Sara Schnadt & Kristy Baltezore | May 13, 2015

Personal Digital Networks

by Sara Schnadt & Kristy Baltezore | May 13, 2015

Sara Schnadt and Kristy Baltezore met three years ago at the kitchen table of their mutual friend and fellow new-media artist Rob Ray, who is like a chosen family member. …

The Walker Curates the News: 05.11.15

by Walker Art Center | May 12, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 05.11.15

by Walker Art Center | May 12, 2015

Nearly 60 top arts figures—including Chuck Close, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, and Richard Prince—have signed a letter urging NYC officials to deny the Frick Collection’s expansion proposal on the grounds …

Art21 Extended Play

Joan Jonas Performs in the Streets of New York

by Ian Forster | May 6, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Joan Jonas Performs in the Streets of New York

by Ian Forster | May 6, 2015

“I wanted to develop my own language and the minute I started performing I began to invent in a different way.” —Joan Jonas Today’s ART21 Exclusive features Joan Jonas discussing her decision to …

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Alicia Eler

by Alicia Eler | May 6, 2015

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Alicia Eler

by Alicia Eler | May 6, 2015

One’s experience of family can be joyous, painful, bizarre, revelatory, and intimate. To describe it with any single word wouldn’t do it justice. Like a parade, it’s a cacophony of …

Subverting Mass Media: The Collection of the Girls of the Internet Museum Accentuates Sincerity

by Alexis Avedisian | May 6, 2015

Subverting Mass Media: The Collection of the Girls of the Internet Museum Accentuates Sincerity

by Alexis Avedisian | May 6, 2015

Gaby Cepeda, an independent curator based in Lima, Peru, founded the Girls of the Internet Museum as a way to archive Internet works made by an international group of women. Controlled …

Mom in the Mirror

by Roni Ginach | May 6, 2015

Mom in the Mirror

by Roni Ginach | May 6, 2015

In December 2013, I received a master’s degree in psychoanalysis at the Center for Modern Psychoanalytic Studies in New York, the same institute where my mother trained, starting in the …

The Walker Curates the News: 05.04.15

by Walker Art Center | May 4, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 05.04.15

by Walker Art Center | May 4, 2015

“There are so many kids in this country who look at places like museums and concert halls and other cultural centers and they think to themselves, well, that’s not a …

Art21 New York Close Up

Diana Al-Hadid Plays the Classics

by Nick Ravich | May 1, 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Diana Al-Hadid Plays the Classics

by Nick Ravich | May 1, 2015

Artist Diana Al-Hadid creates a singularly hybrid artwork, transforming brushstrokes on a wall into architectural sculpture, in a new film from the ART21 “New York Close Up” series.