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Kerri Schlottman-Bright Appointed Deputy Director of ART21

by Art21 | Mar 18, 2016

Kerri Schlottman-Bright Appointed Deputy Director of ART21

by Art21 | Mar 18, 2016

ART21’s Executive Director Tina Kukielski today announced the appointment of Kerri Schlottman-Bright as Deputy Director of the nonprofit contemporary art organization. Schlottman-Bright has served the New York arts community for …

This Week in Art: 3.14-3.20

by Lindsey Davis | Mar 14, 2016

This Week in Art: 3.14-3.20

by Lindsey Davis | Mar 14, 2016

A look at this week’s art news, including a new report on the stalling art market and the opening of the Met Breuer.

Reviving the Black Arts Movement Through the Speculative Black Imagination

by Nettrice Gaskins | Mar 9, 2016

Reviving the Black Arts Movement Through the Speculative Black Imagination

by Nettrice Gaskins | Mar 9, 2016

Scholar Nettrice Gaskins explores the Black Speculative Arts Movement where artists use futurism and science fiction to “re-see” mythologies and histories.

This Week in Art: 3.7-3.13

by Lindsey Davis | Mar 7, 2016

This Week in Art: 3.7-3.13

by Lindsey Davis | Mar 7, 2016

A look at this week’s art news, including the rebuilding of Palmyra and castles drawn on grains of sand.

Art21 Extended Play

Abraham Cruzvillegas: Self-Constructing Identity

by Ian Forster | Mar 4, 2016

Art21 Extended Play

Abraham Cruzvillegas: Self-Constructing Identity

by Ian Forster | Mar 4, 2016

In today’s ART21 Exclusive, Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas discusses his personal and artistic relationship to the concept of autoconstrucción.

Art21 New York Close Up

Marela Zacarías’s Great Expectations

by Nick Ravich | Mar 2, 2016

Art21 New York Close Up

Marela Zacarías’s Great Expectations

by Nick Ravich | Mar 2, 2016

Artist Marela Zacarías completes a large-scale project while anticipating the arrival of her first child in a new film from the ART21 “New York Close Up” series.

Center Field: Art in the Middle

The Sensation of Un-thought Thoughts: An Interview with Simone Forti

by Caroline Picard | Mar 1, 2016

Center Field: Art in the Middle

The Sensation of Un-thought Thoughts: An Interview with Simone Forti

by Caroline Picard | Mar 1, 2016

Caroline Picard interviews experimental dancer, choreographer, and writer Simone Forti, who recently held a two-day workshop at Northwestern University entitled “Thinking with the Body.”

Queer Berlin

Dark Art(s), Coven Berlin, and the Queer Erotic Occult

by Ali Fitzgerald | Mar 1, 2016

Queer Berlin

Dark Art(s), Coven Berlin, and the Queer Erotic Occult

by Ali Fitzgerald | Mar 1, 2016

Ali Fitzgerald investigates the emergence of mysticism and the occult in Berlin’s art scene, exploring the cyber-feminist collective Coven Berlin whose goal is to ‘conqueer’ the universe, and a new Berlin bookstore specializing in forbidden books.

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Willa Köerner

by Willa Köerner | Mar 1, 2016

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Willa Köerner

by Willa Köerner | Mar 1, 2016

Guest editor Willa Köerner delves deep into the theme of our new issue, “Renewal,” highlighting upcoming articles and interviews centered around rebirth and revival.

“Apricots from Damascus” — A Zine and Exhibition Project in Istanbul

by Elizabeth Larison | Feb 29, 2016

“Apricots from Damascus” — A Zine and Exhibition Project in Istanbul

by Elizabeth Larison | Feb 29, 2016

Contemporary movements of exodus and forced migration have sparked global anxiety as the number of displaced people worldwide approaches 60 million. All over, people necessarily cross borders, and in a …

This Week in Art: 2.29-3.6

by Lindsey Davis | Feb 29, 2016

This Week in Art: 2.29-3.6

by Lindsey Davis | Feb 29, 2016

A look at this week’s art news, including the upcoming Armory Show and Google’s first gallery show.

Creative Chemistries Turns One with a New Website!

by Art21 | Feb 29, 2016

Creative Chemistries Turns One with a New Website!

by Art21 | Feb 29, 2016

One year ago, 175 artists, students, educators, and arts administrators gathered at the Park Avenue Armory here in Manhattan for the inaugural edition of Creative Chemistries, a forum and experimental …

Playing with Numbers: Black Representation in American Art Institutions

by Olubukola Gbadegesin | Feb 26, 2016

Playing with Numbers: Black Representation in American Art Institutions

by Olubukola Gbadegesin | Feb 26, 2016

Art history professor Olubukola Gbadegesin cautions against celebrating the recent trend of art institutions finally collecting work by Black artists.

Hello world: A letter from ART21’s new director

by Tina Kukielski | Feb 24, 2016

Hello world: A letter from ART21’s new director

by Tina Kukielski | Feb 24, 2016

While my friends and colleagues were spending their winter breaks getting some R&R on sandy beaches in the Caribbean, I was happily watching some of ART21’s more than three hundred …

Flight Paths

by Sky Goodden | Feb 19, 2016

Flight Paths

by Sky Goodden | Feb 19, 2016

I know of artists who fly aloft and land like a glance, perpetually abreast of something—patterned renewal. I know of artists; I have sat nearby as they cock their collared …

How Movement Becomes Music: Transforming Images into Sound

by Julia Adolphe | Feb 12, 2016

How Movement Becomes Music: Transforming Images into Sound

by Julia Adolphe | Feb 12, 2016

How is a moving image captured in music? How does a melody evoke falling rain or the rustle of leaves in the wind? As a composer, I strive to paint …

Art21 Extended Play

Josiah McElheny Projects Maya Deren

by Ian Forster | Feb 12, 2016

Art21 Extended Play

Josiah McElheny Projects Maya Deren

by Ian Forster | Feb 12, 2016

“I’m trying to understand this relationship of abstraction and the body.” — Josiah McElheny Today’s ART21 Exclusive features Josiah McElheny exploring the relationship between abstraction and the body as he …

“Repellent Fence / Valla Repelente”

by Postcommodity | Feb 4, 2016

“Repellent Fence / Valla Repelente”

by Postcommodity | Feb 4, 2016

Continuing their exploration of contested spaces, Postcommodity recently presented Repellent Fence / Valla Repelente, the largest bi-national land art installation ever exhibited on the US/Mexico border. The temporary, two-mile-long fence …

Janitor for the Nation

by Joseph del Pesco | Feb 1, 2016

Janitor for the Nation

by Joseph del Pesco | Feb 1, 2016

“Imagine that this museum is a nation, and inside this nation is a museum.” That idea inspired this experimental text, in which each exhibition is envisioned as its own sovereign state.

Art21 Extended Play

Omer Fast Interrupts “Continuity”

by Ian Forster | Jan 29, 2016

Art21 Extended Play

Omer Fast Interrupts “Continuity”

by Ian Forster | Jan 29, 2016

“Those moments are magical in film—when we have a pure linear motion that approaches something and reveals it—but I’m interested in the stuff that gets in the way.” — Omer …

How to use the F-word in 2016: The Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover

by Megan Johnston | Jan 28, 2016

How to use the F-word in 2016: The Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover

by Megan Johnston | Jan 28, 2016

Museum director Megan Johnston shares the inside scoop on organizing the Guerrilla Girls Twin Cities Takeover, a series of exhibitions and events throughout Minnesota from January to March 2016.

New Kids on the Block

Gina Siepel’s Listening Trips

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Jan 26, 2016

New Kids on the Block

Gina Siepel’s Listening Trips

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Jan 26, 2016

In July 2011, the artist Gina Siepel paddled down the Bronx River with four strangers. This series of excursions in the northernmost borough of New York City, along with four …

The Walker Curates the News: 01.25.16

by Walker Art Center | Jan 25, 2016

The Walker Curates the News: 01.25.16

by Walker Art Center | Jan 25, 2016

Examining nudity “in the real world,” performance artist Deborah de Robertis recreated the nude in Edouard Manet’s Olympia in front of the work itself. In a telling parallel with the painting whose nude …

Confronting Crisis: An Interview with Syrian Artists Tammam Azzam, Sara Shamma & Kevork Mourad

by Lindsey Davis | Jan 21, 2016

Confronting Crisis: An Interview with Syrian Artists Tammam Azzam, Sara Shamma & Kevork Mourad

by Lindsey Davis | Jan 21, 2016

These three Syrian artists left their homes behind, and their bodies of work have been forever changed by the war that’s tearing their nation apart. In this extended interview we find answers to the question: What is life like as a refugee and artist?

Introducing ART21 Educators: Year 6

by Art21 | Jan 19, 2016

Introducing ART21 Educators: Year 6

by Art21 | Jan 19, 2016

Today ART21 is opening applications to Year 6 of our year-long professional development initiative, ART21 Educators. The program is designed to support K-12 educators interested in bringing contemporary art, artists …

The Walker Curates the News: 01.18.16

by Walker Art Center | Jan 18, 2016

The Walker Curates the News: 01.18.16

by Walker Art Center | Jan 18, 2016

A recent study has determined that most well-known British artists come from a middle-class background. Critic Ben Davis suggests the same might be the case in the rest of the art …

Are We There Yet? A brief history of art and Black Lives Matter

by Sheldon Scott | Jan 18, 2016

Are We There Yet? A brief history of art and Black Lives Matter

by Sheldon Scott | Jan 18, 2016

Artist Sheldon Scott surveys the historical longevity of the Black Lives Matter movement in art, long before the hashtag made the issue trending.

Representing Gender for Ballet’s Next Generation

by Robert Binet | Jan 12, 2016

Representing Gender for Ballet’s Next Generation

by Robert Binet | Jan 12, 2016

Ballet is perhaps the most gendered of all art forms. Male and female dancers are trained differently from an early age and are expected to emerge in the profession with …

The Walker Curates the News: 01.11.16

by Walker Art Center | Jan 11, 2016

The Walker Curates the News: 01.11.16

by Walker Art Center | Jan 11, 2016

“The public nature of a text-based work will always play with the idea of an official sign, or an advertisement, although the product being sold, or the office behind the …

The Walker Curates the News: 01.04.16

by Walker Art Center | Jan 4, 2016

The Walker Curates the News: 01.04.16

by Walker Art Center | Jan 4, 2016

Twenty-nine Washington Color School paintings hang in the CIA’s headquarters, but details about them are mysteriously confidential. Despite extensive bureaucratic roadblocks, a lack of images of individuals works, and very …

Picturing Motion in Photography: When Time Stands Still

by Arthur Shimamura | Jan 4, 2016

Picturing Motion in Photography: When Time Stands Still

by Arthur Shimamura | Jan 4, 2016

UC Berkeley professor Arthur Shimamura shares the history behind the work of early photographers Eadweard Muybridge, Harold Edgerton and Henri Cartier-Bresson, and how each used the camera to capture movement.

Movement and Stillness in Nira Pereg’s “Ishmael”

by Talia Heiman | Jan 4, 2016

Movement and Stillness in Nira Pereg’s “Ishmael”

by Talia Heiman | Jan 4, 2016

Nira Pereg’s four-channel video installation Ishmael (2015), was filmed in the Cave of the Patriarchs in Hebron, the West Bank’s largest city. Holy for both Muslims and Jews, the Cave …

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor: Chen Tamir

by Chen Tamir | Jan 4, 2016

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor: Chen Tamir

by Chen Tamir | Jan 4, 2016

“Aptitude for war is aptitude for movement,” said Napoleon, as quoted by Paul Virilio in his book, Speed and Politics.1 Virilio explains that “violence can be reduced to nothing but movement.”2 …