Monthly Archives: September 2017

Almost four decades after her design for the Vietnam Veterans Memorial brought her work to the national stage, Maya Lin is reinventing the memorial again through her environmental activist foundation, What is Missing.

This Week in Art 9.25-10.1: Theaster Gates Wins Nasher Sculpture Prize

by Lindsey Davis | Sep 25, 2017

This Week in Art 9.25-10.1: Theaster Gates Wins Nasher Sculpture Prize

by Lindsey Davis | Sep 25, 2017

A look at this week’s art news, including the third Nasher Sculpture Prize to be won by an Art21 artist, and events and exhibitions from Las Vegas to London.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Assessment as Dialogue: Shifting Power Dynamics in the Classroom

by Todd Elkin | Sep 21, 2017

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Assessment as Dialogue: Shifting Power Dynamics in the Classroom

by Todd Elkin | Sep 21, 2017

Educator-in-Residence Todd Elkin explains the origins of his experimental curriculum “Assessment as Dialogue,” which upends the traditional power dynamics in a classroom and asks students and teachers to collaborate on the most effective methods of learning.

Roundup

Art21 News Roundup: Julie Mehretu Recontextualizes the History of American Landscape Painting

by Tina Kukielski | Sep 20, 2017

Roundup

Art21 News Roundup: Julie Mehretu Recontextualizes the History of American Landscape Painting

by Tina Kukielski | Sep 20, 2017

In September, Art21 released the a new “Extended Play” film documenting Julie Mehretu’s monumental commission for the new SFMOMA.

On View Now

Philadelphia Illuminated

by Heather Holmes | Sep 19, 2017

On View Now

Philadelphia Illuminated

by Heather Holmes | Sep 19, 2017

Philadelphia writer Heather Holmes offers her thoughts on Cai Guo-Qiang’s public art project “Fireflies,” in which 27 pedicabs lit with Chinese lanterns circle Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway.