Articles by Ana Otero

Barry McGee’s Advanced Mature Work at REDCAT

Barry McGee’s Advanced Mature Work at REDCAT

Advanced Mature Work is a site-specific installation by Season 1 featured artist Barry McGee opening today at REDCAT in Los Angeles. The exhibition, McGee’s first solo show in L.A. since …

Simply Alfredo Jaar

Simply Alfredo Jaar

Alfredo Jaar, an eponymous solo show by the Season 4 featured artist, opens this Friday September 14 at The Ezra and Cecile Zilkha Gallery at Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT. …

Maya Lin’s Systematic Landscapes in St. Louis

Maya Lin’s Systematic Landscapes in St. Louis

  This Friday, the Contemporary Art Museum of St. Louis will open Systematic Landscapes by Season 1 artist Maya Lin. The exhibition, organized by the Henry Art Gallery at the …

Ursula von Rydingsvard at the Portland Art Museum

Ursula von Rydingsvard at the Portland Art Museum

  A new show of work by Season 4 artist Ursula von Rydingsvard opens tomorrow, September 1, at the Portland Art Museum in Oregon. This exhibition, the first one of …

Don’t Miss: Bruce Nauman in Montreal

Don’t Miss: Bruce Nauman in Montreal

Monday, September 3, is the last day to visit Bruce Nauman, an exhibition presenting the work of this Season 1 artist for the first time in Quebec and Canada. The …

Pierre Huyghe’s first Spanish venture

Pierre Huyghe’s first Spanish venture

Season 4 featured artist Pierre Huyghe is currently enjoying his first solo show in Spain. A Time Score is on view until September 9 at the MUSAC-Museo de Arte Contempor√°neo …

Last chance to visit Josiah McElheny’s The Last Scattering Surface

Last chance to visit Josiah McElheny’s The Last Scattering Surface

Through Monday August 27, the Rochester Art Center in Minnesota is featuring The Last Scattering Surface by Season 3 artist Josiah McElheny. In this exhibition, McElheny continues his investigation of …

Don’t Miss: Mark Dion’s European exhibitions

Don’t Miss: Mark Dion’s European exhibitions

Two exhibitions of work by Season 4 artist Mark Dion, The Natural History of the Museum and Systema Metropolis, are running concurrently in Sweden, Switzerland, and London, respectively, this summer …

In Memorium: Elizabeth Murray

In Memorium: Elizabeth Murray

It brings Art21 great sadness to announce that Elizabeth Murray, a featured artist in Season 2 of Art in the Twenty-First Century, passed away yesterday, August 12, at her home …

Art Newspaper interview: “Nancy Spero? still angry in her 80s”

Art Newspaper interview: “Nancy Spero? still angry in her 80s”

London’s The Art Newspaper recently published an interview with Season 4 artist Nancy Spero. The interview points out the important role that political, activist, and feminist activities play in Spero’s …

Time for Turkey: Allora & Calzadilla at Istanbul Biennial

Time for Turkey: Allora & Calzadilla at Istanbul Biennial

The collaborative artist team of Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla, better known simply as Allora & Calzadilla, and featured in Paradox, from the upcoming fourth season of Art in the …

Three Art21 artists exchange roles at Sean Kelly

Three Art21 artists exchange roles at Sean Kelly

Art21 featured artists Laurie Anderson (Season 1), Janine Antoni (Season 2) and Matthew Barney (Season 3) are all taking part in Role Exchange, a group show of twenty-seven artists at …

Alfredo Jaar retrospective opens in Switzerland

Alfredo Jaar retrospective opens in Switzerland

The Mus√©e Cantonal des Beaux-Arts in Lausanne, Switzerland, is hosting a major retrospective of the work of Alfredo Jaar, a Chilean artist based in New York City and featured in …

Major Hiroshi Sugimoto retrospective opens in Germany

Major Hiroshi Sugimoto retrospective opens in Germany

On July 14, the Kunstsammlung North Rhine-Westphalia in D√ºsseldorf opened an exhibition by Season 3-featured artist Hiroshi Sugimoto. The show, simply entitled Hiroshi Sugimoto, is the largest and most comprehensive …

Cai Guo-Qiang wins the Hiroshima Art Prize

Cai Guo-Qiang wins the Hiroshima Art Prize

The New York-based Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, featured in Season 3 of Art in the Twenty-First Century, has been honored with the 7th Hiroshima Art Prize. The prize, awarded by …

Roni Horn – Vatnasafn/Library of Water

Roni Horn – Vatnasafn/Library of Water

Season 3 featured artist Roni Horn, who has been intimately involved with the distinctive geography, geology, climate and culture of Iceland for the past 25 years, has developed in collaboration …