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Godflesh

by Rob Horning | Sep 8, 2015

Godflesh

by Rob Horning | Sep 8, 2015

Tinder presupposes that one can find happiness in not having to commit to anything because one is willing to commit to everything. Becoming meat, from this perspective, is not degradation so much as liberation from some of the ordinary constraints of the real world, the “meatspace.”

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor: Alicia Eler

by Alicia Eler | Sep 8, 2015

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor: Alicia Eler

by Alicia Eler | Sep 8, 2015

When I was twelve years old, I remember seeing it: my first smiley face. It was gigantic and bright yellow, hanging on the exterior brick wall of a car dealership, …

The Happy Artist

by Eve Peyser | Sep 8, 2015

The Happy Artist

by Eve Peyser | Sep 8, 2015

If you’re constantly suffering, how can you make art that thoughtfully reflects on suffering? To make art that is personal, good, and potentially curative, you, my dear artist, need to …

Art21 Extended Play

Lynda Benglis Reunites with a Lost Fountain

by Ian Forster | Sep 1, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Lynda Benglis Reunites with a Lost Fountain

by Ian Forster | Sep 1, 2015

“I’m not trying to satisfy anyone. I really make things because I’m curious – that’s the reason” — Lynda Benglis Today’s ART21 Exclusive features Lynda Benglis reuniting with her first …

The Walker Curates the News: 08.31.15

by Walker Art Center | Aug 31, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 08.31.15

by Walker Art Center | Aug 31, 2015

“After seeing an exhibition of [Shinro] Ohtake’s work in Japan, I became a contemporary artist,” shares Takashi Murakami. “But then I realised that he was imitating [Anselm] Kiefer. So my …

May Waver and the Sound of Sincerity

by Sam Wisneski | Aug 24, 2015

May Waver and the Sound of Sincerity

by Sam Wisneski | Aug 24, 2015

I first discovered May Waver’s work on Twitter, which makes sense. She’s an online persona, IRL online avatar, and interdisciplinary artist. Her work earnestly explores the consumption and practice of …

Still Points in Erin Wiersma’s Drawings

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Aug 17, 2015

Still Points in Erin Wiersma’s Drawings

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Aug 17, 2015

In June, I visited the studio of Erin Wiersma at the Two Coats of Paint Residency in the neighborhood of Downtown Brooklyn. Sharon Butler—artist, writer, and founder of the Two Coats …

Dogma (9 to 5)

by Keith J. Varadi | Aug 10, 2015

Dogma (9 to 5)

by Keith J. Varadi | Aug 10, 2015

Sincerity is almost always associated with goodness. A sincere person is understood to be earnest, honest, and straightforward. It is assumed he or she will not lie, cheat, or steal; …

The Walker Curates the News: 08.03.15

by Walker Art Center | Aug 3, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 08.03.15

by Walker Art Center | Aug 3, 2015

“I believe in doubt,” says Barbara Kruger, who recently worked with Los Angeles–area high schoolers in the Getty Artists Program to create her Whose Values? project. In an interview with …

Sincerity’s Checkered Past

by Inka Essenhigh | Aug 3, 2015

Sincerity’s Checkered Past

by Inka Essenhigh | Aug 3, 2015

I’m thinking about sincerity and the fact that it has had such a checkered past in Western culture, going in and out of vogue. At times, sincerity has been lauded …

Art21 New York Close Up

Caroline Woolard Steps Up to the Mic

by Nick Ravich | Jul 31, 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Caroline Woolard Steps Up to the Mic

by Nick Ravich | Jul 31, 2015

Today’s New York Close Up premiere—our first film with artist Caroline Woolard—is a little different. And that has everything to do with Caroline. Her work involving affordable space in New …

Art21 New York Close Up

Caroline Woolard Flips the Real Estate Script

by Nick Ravich | Jul 31, 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Caroline Woolard Flips the Real Estate Script

by Nick Ravich | Jul 31, 2015

An introduction to the latest “New York Close Up” film from series co-creator/co-producer Nick Ravich and artist Caroline Woolard .

The Walker Curates the News: 07.27.15

by Walker Art Center | Jul 27, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 07.27.15

by Walker Art Center | Jul 27, 2015

In her riveting new essay, “It’s Not Climate Change—It’s Everything Change,” Margaret Atwood namechecks art historian Barry Lord, whose book Art & Energy: How Culture Changes (The AAM Press, 2014) …

By Invitation Only

by Jayna Swartzman-Brosky | Jul 27, 2015

By Invitation Only

by Jayna Swartzman-Brosky | Jul 27, 2015

In 2009, Theaster Gates purchased the first of several vacant properties that would become the site for Dorchester Projects, on the South Side of Chicago. It was both an act …

The Walker Curates the News: 07.20.15

by Walker Art Center | Jul 20, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 07.20.15

by Walker Art Center | Jul 20, 2015

“The hope is that Bristol will hear itself.” For his first public project in the UK, Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates will fill Bristol’s Temple Church—a 14th-century structure bombed in 1940—with …

Passing Through

by Summer Wheat | Jul 20, 2015

Passing Through

by Summer Wheat | Jul 20, 2015

In my early twenties, I took Greyhound buses across the country, outfitted with my cassette tapes and philosophy books, in search of meaning.  Traveling through North Dakota, I sat next …

The Walker Curates the News: 07.13.15

by Walker Art Center | Jul 13, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 07.13.15

by Walker Art Center | Jul 13, 2015

Marking six months since her first arrest in Havana, when her passport was confiscated by police, Tania Bruguera made a formal demand on June 29 that “Cuban authorities permanently withdraw …

The Sincerest Form of #BlackJoy May Be Art, but Who Can Say for Sure?

by Damali Abrams | Jul 13, 2015

The Sincerest Form of #BlackJoy May Be Art, but Who Can Say for Sure?

by Damali Abrams | Jul 13, 2015

The artist talk is a peculiar form of presentation, a sincere attempt to communicate something beyond the work of art. For most artists, the artwork itself is the language. Artists …
"Areas for Action," an experiment facilitated by artist Oliver Herring and ART21 Educator Jethro Gillespie at "Creative Chemistries," Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2015.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Generating Creative Chemistries

by Jessica Hamlin and Joe Fusaro | Jul 8, 2015

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Generating Creative Chemistries

by Jessica Hamlin and Joe Fusaro | Jul 8, 2015

An overview of the inaugural “Creative Chemistries”—an experimental platform bringing artists and educators together to explore innovative practices for art and education.

The Walker Curates the News: 07.06.15

by Walker Art Center | Jul 6, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 07.06.15

by Walker Art Center | Jul 6, 2015

In one of her most iconic photos, Mary Ellen Mark—who passed away May 25 at age 75—captured the image of nine-year-old Amanda Ellison wearing makeup and smoking a cigarette in …

Irony, Sincerity…Is There a Third Pill?

by Angela DuFresne | Jul 6, 2015

Irony, Sincerity…Is There a Third Pill?

by Angela DuFresne | Jul 6, 2015

I will begin with a quote from Eric Fischl: “There’s nothing insincere about irony.” I couldn’t agree more. And I can’t bear the presumed opposition any longer. Can’t sincerity and …

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Jacquelyn Gleisner

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Jul 6, 2015

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Jacquelyn Gleisner

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Jul 6, 2015

I want to tell you about the most sincere guy I’ve ever known. In 2004, when I was an art student at Boston University, I responded to a part-time job …

Makeup and Birdcalls

by Dushko Petrovich | Jul 6, 2015

Makeup and Birdcalls

by Dushko Petrovich | Jul 6, 2015

Makeup Back in the 1950s—though it could have happened yesterday—the artist Marisol was invited to be on a panel with four older and more-established male artists. The first brilliant thing …
Artist Jamian Juliano-Villani in her Bedford-Stuyvesant studio, Brooklyn, NY, 2015. Production still from the ART21 "New York Close Up" film "Jamian Juliano-Villani's Painting Compulsion". © ART21, Inc. 2015.

Art21 New York Close Up

Jamian Juliano-Villani’s Painting Compulsion

by Nick Ravich | Jul 1, 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Jamian Juliano-Villani’s Painting Compulsion

by Nick Ravich | Jul 1, 2015

Filmed in her Bedford-Stuyvesant studio, artist Jamian Juliano-Villani uses a digital projector to create surreal paintings and discusses the graphic source material that inspires her.

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 …