Yearly Archives: 2016

Educator Spotlight

Art21 Educator Spotlight: Jack Watson

Art21 Educator Spotlight: Jack Watson

by Art21 | Nov 4, 2016

An interview with Art21 Educator Jack Watson on how incorporating contemporary art practices in his classroom has expanded and informed his teaching.

Writer-in-Residence

Testament to Long Loves

by Mimi Cheng | Nov 3, 2016

Writer-in-Residence Mimi Cheng uncovers the love and loss explored in Christina P. Day’s exhibition “Stills and Composites,” on view through December 16, 2016 at CUE Art Foundation.

Booked

The Variations of its Shadows: An Interview with Jorge Méndez Blake

by Caroline Picard | Nov 3, 2016

The Variations of its Shadows: An Interview with Jorge Méndez Blake

by Caroline Picard | Nov 3, 2016

Artist Jorge Méndez Blake discusses his method of translating the psychological places within books and poems into sculptures and installations.

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor: Lee Plested

by Lee Plested | Nov 3, 2016

Letter from the Editor: Lee Plested

by Lee Plested | Nov 3, 2016

Curator Lee Plested joins Art21 Magazine as guest editor for the final 2016 issue, “Place Part II,” investigating notions of place with an emphasis on the art and artists in Vancouver and Chicago.

Art21 New York Close Up

SCREENING 11.2.16 | Big Apple Film Festival

by Art21 | Oct 31, 2016

SCREENING 11.2.16 | Big Apple Film Festival

by Art21 | Oct 31, 2016

The “New York Close Up” film “Bryan Zanisnik & Eric Winkler’s Animated Conversation” is screening in New York on Wednesday as part of this year’s Big Apple Film Festival.

Season 8 Screening Society: November 2016

by Lindsey Davis | Oct 31, 2016

Season 8 Screening Society: November 2016

by Lindsey Davis | Oct 31, 2016

Event details for 80+ November screenings of Season 8, happening throughout the U.S. and around the world as part of the ART21 Screening Society.

Humming Two…a Different Tune

by Gabriela Jauregui | Oct 31, 2016

Author Gabriela Jauregui reflects on the similarities of the art scenes in Mexico City and Los Angeles.

This Week in Art: 10.31-11.6

by Lindsey Davis | Oct 31, 2016

A look at this week’s art news, including the final week of Pedro Reyes’ “Doomocracy,” and events and exhibitions everywhere from Australia to Iceland.

Looking at Los Angeles

Devin Farrand, Ariel Herwitz and the Phenomenon of Gravitation

by Erin Sweeny | Oct 28, 2016

Devin Farrand, Ariel Herwitz and the Phenomenon of Gravitation

by Erin Sweeny | Oct 28, 2016

Erin Sweeny explores the lives and work of LA-based artists Devin Farrand and Ariel Herwitz, a couple investigating vastly different materials in their independent art practices.

Art21 Artist to Artist

Change from Within: Kerry James Marshall Corrects the Canon

by Ian Forster | Oct 28, 2016

Change from Within: Kerry James Marshall Corrects the Canon

by Ian Forster | Oct 28, 2016

In this previously unpublished interview, artist Kerry James Marshall discusses his strategy for centralizing the Black figure in contemporary art.

Staff Pick

Staff Picks: October 2016

by Art21 | Oct 27, 2016

The Art21 staff shares their favorite exhibitions on view now in New York City.

Gimme Shelter: Performance Now

Fortress Inside a City

by Anna Tome | Oct 26, 2016

Writer-in-Residence Anna Tome explores the work of Russian artist Petr Pavlensky whose demanding performance pieces recontextualize government spaces by mimicking the violence of the state.

Open Access: A Conversation with Sria Chatterjee and Hanna Husberg

by Caroline Picard | Oct 24, 2016

Open Access: A Conversation with Sria Chatterjee and Hanna Husberg

by Caroline Picard | Oct 24, 2016

After meeting at the “Anthropocene Campus” in April, poet and scholar Sria Chatterjee and visual artist Hanna Husberg discuss their plans for collaboration, blending research and art to reorient our understanding of climate change.

This Week in Art: 10.24-10.30

by Kelly Olshan | Oct 24, 2016

This Week in Art: 10.24-10.30

by Kelly Olshan | Oct 24, 2016

A look at this week’s art news, including Mark Bradford’s new logo for the ICA LA, and events and exhibitions everywhere from Paris to Los Angeles.

The Implication of the Barragán Archive: An Interview with Daniel Garza-Usabiaga, Part II

by Pamela Ballesteros | Oct 21, 2016

The Implication of the Barragán Archive: An Interview with Daniel Garza-Usabiaga, Part II

by Pamela Ballesteros | Oct 21, 2016

Scholar and curator Daniel Garza-Usabiaga continues his discussion of archival practice in Mexico City, examining the implications of Jill Magid’s “The Proposal” that have remained beyond the scope of public discussion.

Art21 Extended Play

Diana Thater’s Animal Activism

by Ian Forster | Oct 21, 2016

Art21 Extended Play

Diana Thater’s Animal Activism

by Ian Forster | Oct 21, 2016

In a new ART21 “Exclusive” episode, Diana Thater discusses her interest in improving the lives of both humans and animals through art and activism.

Performance Playground: Whoop Dee Doo at the ART21 Educators Institute

by May Cohan | Oct 20, 2016

Performance Playground: Whoop Dee Doo at the ART21 Educators Institute

by May Cohan | Oct 20, 2016

ART21 Summer Intern May Cohan shares her experience with Whoop Dee Doo and the artist duo’s workshop/performance at the ART21 Educators’ Institute.

Mexico City’s Artsphere

by Claudia Arozqueta | Oct 19, 2016

Mexico City’s Artsphere

by Claudia Arozqueta | Oct 19, 2016

Claudia Arozqueta outlines the cultural landscape of Mexico City, carefully framing it within crucial societal contexts.

Mount Rushmore: An Early Placemaking Abomination

by Jayna Swartzman-Brosky and D. G. Brosky | Oct 17, 2016

Mount Rushmore: An Early Placemaking Abomination

by Jayna Swartzman-Brosky and D. G. Brosky | Oct 17, 2016

Writers J. L. S. Brosky and D. G. Brosky offer a critique of creative placemaking and one of the U.S.’s earliest examples, Mount Rushmore.

This Week in Art: 10.17-10.23

by Lindsey Davis | Oct 17, 2016

This Week in Art: 10.17-10.23

by Lindsey Davis | Oct 17, 2016

A look at this week’s art news, including Doris Saledeco’s installation in Bogotá, and events and exhibitions everywhere from London to D.C.

The Implication of the Barragán Archive: An Interview with Daniel Garza-Usabiaga, Part I

by Pamela Ballesteros | Oct 14, 2016

The Implication of the Barragán Archive: An Interview with Daniel Garza-Usabiaga, Part I

by Pamela Ballesteros | Oct 14, 2016

Scholar and curator Daniel Garza-Usabiaga discusses archival practice in Mexico City, and the complexities of demanding the repatriation of an archive that was legally sold.

Filmmaking and Todo lo demás: An Interview with Natalia Almada

by Art21 | Oct 14, 2016

Filmmaking and Todo lo demás: An Interview with Natalia Almada

by Art21 | Oct 14, 2016

Season 8 artist Natalia Almada discusses filmmaking as a woman in Mexico and her latest project “Todo lo demás,” with “Mexico City” director Deborah Dickson in a new interview.

PANEL 10.14.16 | Art Institute of Chicago

by Art21 | Oct 12, 2016

PANEL 10.14.16 | Art Institute of Chicago

by Art21 | Oct 12, 2016

Season 8’s Chris Ware will sit down with ART21 executive director Tina Kukielski, artist Gary Panter, and literary scholar Hillary Chute for a panel discussion at the Art Institute of Chicago on Friday.

New Kids on the Block

Places Within Us: Jesse Chun’s On Paper Series

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Oct 12, 2016

New Kids on the Block

Places Within Us: Jesse Chun’s On Paper Series

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Oct 12, 2016

An exploration of Jesse Chun’s “On Paper” series, which appropriates immigration paperwork and passports, searching for a place of belonging that extends beyond geography.

This Week in Art: 10.10-10.16

by Kelly Olshan | Oct 10, 2016

This Week in Art: 10.10-10.16

by Kelly Olshan | Oct 10, 2016

A look at this week’s art news, including Natalia Almada’s film premiere at the New York Film Festival, and events and exhibitions everywhere from Bremen to Belgium.

Art21 Extended Play

Nick Cave’s Thick Skin

by Ian Forster | Oct 7, 2016

Art21 Extended Play

Nick Cave’s Thick Skin

by Ian Forster | Oct 7, 2016

In a new ART21 “Exclusive,” Nick Cave discusses the experiences that force him to confront his identity as a black man—including being racially profiled by police—and how they fuel his impulse to create.

SCREENING 10.8.16 | Artecinema

by Art21 | Oct 7, 2016

SCREENING 10.8.16 | Artecinema

by Art21 | Oct 7, 2016

Damián Ortega and Jeff Wall’s segments in “Art in the Twenty-First Century” Season 8 are screening in Naples, Italy this Saturday as part of Artecinema, an international film festival of contemporary art documentaries.

Writer-in-Residence

New Works by Marilyn Lerner: A Sustained Spontaneity

by Anna Tome | Oct 6, 2016

Writer-in-Residence

New Works by Marilyn Lerner: A Sustained Spontaneity

by Anna Tome | Oct 6, 2016

In this essay, Writer-in-Residence Anna Tome explores the rich abstracted colors in Marilyn Lerner’s exhibition “Harmonies,” closing next week at CUE Art Foundation.

SCREENING 10.8.16 | New Urbanism Film Festival

by Art21 | Oct 6, 2016

SCREENING 10.8.16 | New Urbanism Film Festival

by Art21 | Oct 6, 2016

The “New York Close Up” film “Caroline Woolard Flips the Real Estate Script” is screening in Los Angeles this Saturday as part of this year’s New Urbanism Film Festival.