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ART21 Magazine’s Year in Art

by Art21 | Dec 23, 2015

ART21 Magazine’s Year in Art

by Art21 | Dec 23, 2015

Our top articles The best performing posts on ART21 Magazine, determined by the number of views. “The Happy Artist” by Eve Peyser | Sep 8, 2015           Eve shares her steps …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Classroom Catalysts: Enabling Personal Revolutions Through Art

by Lindsey Davis | Dec 22, 2015

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Classroom Catalysts: Enabling Personal Revolutions Through Art

by Lindsey Davis | Dec 22, 2015

“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 …

The Walker Curates the News: 12. 21.15

by Walker Art Center | Dec 21, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 12. 21.15

by Walker Art Center | Dec 21, 2015

With other activists, Pussy Riot’s Maria Alyokhina plans to open a museum in Montenegro. The mantra “for women, by women, about women” will guide the museum’s every move, including the hiring of administrators, …

Art21 Extended Play

Omer Fast Distills Broadcasted Anxiety

by Ian Forster | Dec 18, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Omer Fast Distills Broadcasted Anxiety

by Ian Forster | Dec 18, 2015

“What have we done to deserve this? What could we have done to prevent it from happening? What can we learn?” — CNN Concatenated (2002) Today’s ART21 Exclusive features Omer Fast …

The Walker Curates the News: 12.14.15

by Walker Art Center | Dec 14, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 12.14.15

by Walker Art Center | Dec 14, 2015

“The work that I do is an invitation to co-produce the future.” Artist-engineer Natalie Jeremijenko is creating nature-oriented, scalable projects: the Farmacy urban-agriculture initiative, “tree offices,” and pencils made from–and …

Booked

Still Reading by the Fire

by Jayna Swartzman-Brosky | Dec 14, 2015

Booked

Still Reading by the Fire

by Jayna Swartzman-Brosky | Dec 14, 2015

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 …

Art21 New York Close Up

Jaimie Warren Is A Total Character

by Nick Ravich | Dec 14, 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Jaimie Warren Is A Total Character

by Nick Ravich | Dec 14, 2015

In a new “New York Close Up” film, artist Jaimie Warren as recreates a wild array of pop culture characters for her photographic and video work.

“The Revolution Will Be Painted” Revisited

by Anne Sherwood Pundyk | Dec 7, 2015

“The Revolution Will Be Painted” Revisited

by Anne Sherwood Pundyk | Dec 7, 2015

Last year, as part of ART21 Magazine’s “Revolution” issue, feminist new genre painter Anne Sherwood Pundyk rewrote the lyrics to Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” to create …

The Walker Curates the News: 12.07.15

by Walker Art Center | Dec 7, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 12.07.15

by Walker Art Center | Dec 7, 2015

Among Foreign Policy’s 100 Global Thinkers are 21 artists “bound by the belief that art serves a higher purpose,” including Cuban artists Tania Bruguera and María Magdalena Campos-Pons, playwright Suzan-Lori …

Dismantling History: An Interview with Titus Kaphar

by Lindsey Davis | Dec 2, 2015

Dismantling History: An Interview with Titus Kaphar

by Lindsey Davis | Dec 2, 2015

A canvas curtain slips from its place of prestige, revealing another that’s hidden beneath. The folds of a Thomas Jefferson portrait gracefully fall, and behind it we see an African …