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Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 9, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 9, 2009

Where in the world are Art21 artists? In Germany — where the Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago today — a new suite of paintings by Season 5 artist Julie …

The Art21 Guide to PERFORMA 09

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 5, 2009

The Art21 Guide to PERFORMA 09

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 5, 2009

If you’re lucky enough to be in New York City during Performa 09 this month, there are a number of events featuring Art21 artists that are not to be missed! …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 2, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 2, 2009

White Snow, a solo exhibition of work by Season 5 artist Paul McCarthy, opens at Hauser & Wirth, New York on November 5. The gallery will debut pieces from a …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 26, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 26, 2009

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) will host a talk with Season 3 artist Matthew Ritchie and brothers Bryce and Aaron Dessner (of indie rock band The National) on Saturday, …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 19, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 19, 2009

New photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto (Season 3) are on view at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco through October 31. Sugimoto’s latest body of work titled Lightning Fields depicts electricity. To …

Meet the Artist: Florian Maier-Aichen | Ask Your Question Here

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 8, 2009

Meet the Artist: Florian Maier-Aichen | Ask Your Question Here

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 8, 2009

Meet the Artist: Florian Maier-Aichen Friday, October 9, 7:00 p.m. Apple Store, SoHo 103 Prince Street FREE As part of Art21’s Access 09 initiative celebrating Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 5, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 5, 2009

Vital Signals: Japanese and American Video Art from the 1960s and 70s is a three-part screening program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Presented in collaboration with Electronic …

Reminder: Allan McCollum and Josiah McElheny at New York Public Library Tomorrow

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 5, 2009

Reminder: Allan McCollum and Josiah McElheny at New York Public Library Tomorrow

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 5, 2009

A Conversation with Allan McCollum and Josiah McElheny Season 5 artist Allan McCollum will be speaking with Season 3 artist Josiah McElheny at the New York Public Library tomorrow, following …

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Berlin Wall Falls in L.A.

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 1, 2009

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Berlin Wall Falls in L.A.

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 1, 2009

Tuesday night, former U.S. Ambassador Richard Barkley called East Berlin a “profoundly boring place,” drab and depressing compared to other places he’d been. His callous observation loosely framed a panel …

Allan McCollum at the New York Public Library Oct 6 | Ask a Question

by Kelly Shindler | Sep 30, 2009

Allan McCollum at the New York Public Library Oct 6 | Ask a Question

by Kelly Shindler | Sep 30, 2009

UPDATE: Season 3 artist Josiah McElheny has been added to the event. A Conversation with Allan McCollum and Josiah McElheny Tuesday, October 6, 6:00 p.m New York Public Library South …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Ottawa Without a Passport

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 30, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Ottawa Without a Passport

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 30, 2009

On Monday I had the pleasure of working with 26 teachers from a variety of settings in the Ottawa Area Intermediate School District… located in western Michigan. That’s right, Michigan. …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Art of the Pub

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 22, 2009

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Art of the Pub

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 22, 2009

Gastro-Vision is a new monthly column dedicated to all things food in contemporary art and visual culture. Yara El-Sherbini has used pubs as a site for her work for the …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 14, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 14, 2009

New works by Season 3 artist Josiah McElheny are on view at Andrea Rosen Gallery through Oct. 17. The centerpiece of the exhibition is an eight-foot tall sculpture based on …

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

ArtPrize: An Experiment in Decentralized Curation and Competition

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Aug 27, 2009

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

ArtPrize: An Experiment in Decentralized Curation and Competition

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Aug 27, 2009

Maya Lin’s (Season One) “Ecliptic” in Rosa Parks Circle, Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Production still from the Art:21 episode, Identity, © Art21, Inc. 2001.) There’s been a fair bit of talk …

Ghost That Note: Harpstrings, Heartstrings, and Street Scenes

by Quinn Latimer | Aug 18, 2009

Ghost That Note: Harpstrings, Heartstrings, and Street Scenes

by Quinn Latimer | Aug 18, 2009

This past Sunday evening in Basel could have been like any other but it wasn’t. Not quite. My partner and I finished the strangely purple dinner I had crafted—beet pasta, …

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by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 17, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 17, 2009

Site-specific installations by Mary Heilmann (Season 5), Tony Oursler, Todd Eberle, and Sabina Streeter are currently on view at the Clocktower Gallery in Manhattan. This is the first group of …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Stepping Back….

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 29, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Stepping Back….

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 29, 2009

…. and taking a short vacation after a solid week of work with the Art21 Educators summer institute. Teaching with Contemporary Art will be back with a new column on …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Reflections on the Art21 Educators Institute

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 22, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Reflections on the Art21 Educators Institute

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 22, 2009

I’m sure everyone has had moments of blissful exhaustion- those times when you pushed yourself over a certain period, gotten to the end and said, “That was outstanding…. and I’m …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 20, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 20, 2009

Works by Art21 artists Pepón Osario (Season 1) and Eleanor Antin (Season 2) are currently on view in the exhibition Black&WhiteWorks at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. The show includes painting, …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Contemporary Art in Contemporary Classrooms: Art21 Educators 2009

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 15, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Contemporary Art in Contemporary Classrooms: Art21 Educators 2009

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 15, 2009

Starting today, Art21 is pleased to welcome K-12 teachers from across the country to participate in our first summer institute, Art21 Educators. Jessica Hamlin, Marc Mayer, Joy Lai (our amazing …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Wrestling with the Past: A TwCA 2008-2009 Roundup

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 1, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Wrestling with the Past: A TwCA 2008-2009 Roundup

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 1, 2009

It’s been quite a year. Quite an academic year, that is. Between the country voicing a collective NO to four more years of the same Bushed policies and Bernie Madoff …

Flash Points

Interview with Jackie Battenfield

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 30, 2009

Flash Points

Interview with Jackie Battenfield

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 30, 2009

As our Flash Points topic of Art and Economics comes to a close, I sat down and spoke with Jackie Battenfield, whose first book The Artist’s Guide: How to Make …

Announcing Art21 Access ’09

by Marc Mayer | Jun 26, 2009

Announcing Art21 Access ’09

by Marc Mayer | Jun 26, 2009

Sign up for Art21’s Access ‘09 – an international screening initiative that will present your audiences with a sneak preview of a Season 5 of Art:21-Art in the 21st Century …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Students about Christian Marclay’s “Video Quartet”

by Julie Thomson | Jun 24, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Students about Christian Marclay’s “Video Quartet”

by Julie Thomson | Jun 24, 2009

With the opening of Christian Marclay’s Video Quartet at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (on view through July 26, 2009), I have been thinking about how to …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 22, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 22, 2009

Matthew Barney (Season 2) and Elizabeth Peyton have collaborated on a site-specific installation for the Deste Foundation in Hydra, Greece. Blood of Two is on view through September 30 in …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 8, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 8, 2009

Bruce Nauman (Season 1) has won the Golden Lion award for Best National Participation at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Visit the Daily Best Media Gallery to see images of his …

Haberdashery Anyone?

by Mary Cook | Jun 5, 2009

Haberdashery Anyone?

by Mary Cook | Jun 5, 2009

179 Canal Street, 2nd Floor. Peeper Place, Dani Leventhal, May 16, 2009. Photo by Margaret Lee on Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/margaret-lee) Artists staging their own shows is nothing new. The French Impressionists …

An Interview with Simone Leigh

by Kemi Ilesanmi | May 21, 2009

An Interview with Simone Leigh

by Kemi Ilesanmi | May 21, 2009

Simone Leigh is a new world artist/ceramicist of the highest order. Her gnarly yet incredibly beautiful objects and installations provoke, inspire, and remain with you. She works her particular brand …

Don’t Miss: Eleanor Antin at the Drawing Center

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 20, 2009

Don’t Miss: Eleanor Antin at the Drawing Center

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 20, 2009

If you missed Eleanor Antin (Season 2) at Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) last night, you can catch her at the Drawing Center this evening. Antin will be reading from her memoir entitled, Conversations …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Reality Hits at CCS Bard

by Joe Fusaro | May 20, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Reality Hits at CCS Bard

by Joe Fusaro | May 20, 2009

In the final workshop of our three-part series at Bard College, titled “Teaching and Learning with Contemporary Art,” we were lucky enough to have Olafur Eliasson speak with us about …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 11, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 11, 2009

Jessica Stockholder (Season 3) has completed her first outdoor installation in the United States. Flooded Chambers Maid is a site-specific multimedia installation on and around the Oval Lawn at Madison Square Park in …

Flash Points

What a Way to Make a Living: New Artist Economies and the Role of the Arts Administrator

by Tracy Candido | May 7, 2009

Flash Points

What a Way to Make a Living: New Artist Economies and the Role of the Arts Administrator

by Tracy Candido | May 7, 2009

I am an arts administrator, which is arguably the second invisible position in line behind the artist. The administrator’s cultural discount is not only applied when independently presenting an exhibition …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Authoritarian?

by Joe Fusaro | May 6, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Authoritarian?

by Joe Fusaro | May 6, 2009

As I mentioned last week, the Teaching with Contemporary Art column over the next few weeks will focus on questions generated at the recent NAEA conference in Minneapolis. This week’s …

Flash Points

W.A.G.E. LIVE!

by Marc Mayer | Apr 30, 2009

Flash Points

W.A.G.E. LIVE!

by Marc Mayer | Apr 30, 2009

After reading Trong Gia Nyugen’s great interview with activist group Working Artists and the Greater Economy (W.A.G.E.), I become really interested in their work. I started to poke around the …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Getting Beyond

by Joe Fusaro | Apr 29, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Getting Beyond

by Joe Fusaro | Apr 29, 2009

Last week I promised to begin addressing some of the questions that came up at the recent National Art Education Association conference in Minneapolis. One of our first questions comes …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 27, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 27, 2009

Vernissage TV takes a close look at Let the Priests Tremble…(1998/2008), a large hand-printed wall installation by Season 4 artist Nancy Spero. The piece was included in Spero’s retrospective at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Sevilla, …