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Art21 Extended Play

Arlene Shechet Sculpts Time

by Ian Forster | Jun 29, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Arlene Shechet Sculpts Time

by Ian Forster | Jun 29, 2015

Arlene Shechet discusses a series of plaster sculptures that she created over the course of six years in the mid-1990s, following the death of a close friend.

The Walker Curates the News: 06.29.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 29, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 06.29.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 29, 2015

A project that predates the June 17 killings of nine African Americans at Charleston’s historic Emanuel AME Church, Sonya Clark’s Unravelling—on view in Mixed Greens Gallery’s New Dominion show—is echoed …

Art21 Extended Play

Arlene Shechet Reveals the Unseen

by Ian Forster | Jun 26, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Arlene Shechet Reveals the Unseen

by Ian Forster | Jun 26, 2015

“The thing that’s unseen is sometimes way more interesting than what people want you to see.” —Arlene Shechet In the first of two new ART21 Exclusive episodes featuring Arlene Shechet, …

The Walker Curates the News: 06.22.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 22, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 06.22.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 22, 2015

“The gap between American froth and Cuban reality at this year’s [Havana] Biennial warns that the pace of change will be stubborn,” writes Kevin Lees for the Washington Post on …

Art21 Extended Play

Tania Bruguera and the Art of Empowerment

by Ian Forster | Jun 19, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Tania Bruguera and the Art of Empowerment

by Ian Forster | Jun 19, 2015

“The idea of sitting face to face, it’s a very intimate experience. Having a model and painting them always makes people open up.” —Aliza Nisenbaum Today’s ART21 Exclusive features Immigrant Movement …

The Chosen Ones

by Alicia Eler | Jun 17, 2015

The Chosen Ones

by Alicia Eler | Jun 17, 2015

We are born with family, and we find our chosen family. Often whom we select overshadows our biology. Not always, but sometimes. It’s a balance. Peregrine Honig and Arrington de Dionyso …

The Walker Curates the News: 06.15.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 15, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 06.15.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 15, 2015

Steve McQueen’s photo Lynching Tree is being exhibited in the UK for the first time in Tate Britain’s new Fighting History show. Found in Louisiana while scouting locations for 12 …

Lise Haller Baggesen: On the Mother-Shaped Hole in Contemporary Art

by Julie Niemi | Jun 10, 2015

Lise Haller Baggesen: On the Mother-Shaped Hole in Contemporary Art

by Julie Niemi | Jun 10, 2015

I recently visited my former home, Chicago, to cohost a public program that I organize with fellow founding editors of Los Angeles–based print magazine VIA Publication. “I Like Your Work” …

The Walker Curates the News: 06.08.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 8, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 06.08.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 8, 2015

León Ferrari’s La Civilización Occidental y Cristiana, a six-foot sculpture depicting Christ crucified on a US war plane, “marks a moment in which pop art is radicalized in Argentina—all in …

Art21 Extended Play

Elliott Hundley Is Playing with Your Emotions

by Ian Forster | Jun 5, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Elliott Hundley Is Playing with Your Emotions

by Ian Forster | Jun 5, 2015

“What’s appealing to me about collage is the fact that it’s so straightforward—that it’s a good foil to my subject.” —Elliott Hundley Today’s ART21 Exclusive features Elliott Hundley describing an …

Itinerant Domestic

by Danny Orendorff | Jun 3, 2015

Itinerant Domestic

by Danny Orendorff | Jun 3, 2015

I first encountered the engrossing work of the multimedia artist Rashawn Griffin (b. 1980) in a 2014 group exhibition, The Center is a Moving Target, at Kemper at the Crossroads, …

The Walker Curates the News: 06.01.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 1, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 06.01.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 1, 2015

“I’ve always sensed that women artists have to prove themselves exceptional in order to get their foot in the door, to be considered for something, whereas many, many mediocre men …

Art21 New York Close Up

Welcome to Whoop Dee Doo! (with Matt Roche & Jaimie Warren Too)

by Wesley Miller | Jun 1, 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Welcome to Whoop Dee Doo! (with Matt Roche & Jaimie Warren Too)

by Wesley Miller | Jun 1, 2015

In a new “New York Close Up” film, artists Jaimie Warren and Matt Roche produce a one-day-only performance of their variety show, Whoop Dee Doo, at Abrons Arts Center.