Film & Video

Merce Cunningham (1919-2009)

by Wesley Miller | Jul 27, 2009

Merce Cunningham (1919-2009)

by Wesley Miller | Jul 27, 2009

For Merce. Tap dancing in the opening segment for Time (Season Two). A collaboration with Charles Atlas. Announcement: The New York Times.

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Jessica Stockholder | “Vortex in the Play of Theater with Real Passion: In Memory of Kay Stockholder

by Jonathan Munar | Jul 24, 2009

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Jessica Stockholder | “Vortex in the Play of Theater with Real Passion: In Memory of Kay Stockholder

by Jonathan Munar | Jul 24, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: At her home in New Haven, Jessica Stockholder discusses the inspiration for “Vortex in the Play of Theater with Real Passion: In …

Things That Made Me Go Hmmm…

by Adrian Duran | Jul 21, 2009

Things That Made Me Go Hmmm…

by Adrian Duran | Jul 21, 2009

Hello again and Happy Scopes Monkey Trial Day, though it wasn’t a good day for the monkey. That went fairly well, or so I’d like to think. People responded (your …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Extending the Conservation Framework: A Site-Specific Conservation Discussion with Francesca Esmay

by Richard McCoy | Jul 21, 2009

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Extending the Conservation Framework: A Site-Specific Conservation Discussion with Francesca Esmay

by Richard McCoy | Jul 21, 2009

IMA conservator Richard McCoy discusses 100 Acres and Spiral Jetty with Dia conservator Francesca Esmay.

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Oliver Herring | Participant Davide Borella

by Jonathan Munar | Jul 17, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Oliver Herring | Participant Davide Borella

by Jonathan Munar | Jul 17, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: On the roof of his Brooklyn studio, artist Oliver Herring photographs Davide Borella during an exhausting performance as Borella spits various colors …

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Ida Applebroog | Inspiration

by Jonathan Munar | Jul 10, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Ida Applebroog | Inspiration

by Jonathan Munar | Jul 10, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Ida Applebroog discusses her life as an “image scavenger” in her New York studio, while working on her “Photogenetics” series—a blend of …

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Meet the Season 5 Artist: William Kentridge

by Wesley Miller | Jul 7, 2009

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Meet the Season 5 Artist: William Kentridge

by Wesley Miller | Jul 7, 2009

The above video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode Compassion, premiering on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Compassion features three artists — …

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Richard Tuttle | Art & Life

by Jonathan Munar | Jul 2, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Richard Tuttle | Art & Life

by Jonathan Munar | Jul 2, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Richard Tuttle discusses his philosophical relationship to art and life in his New Mexico studio. Richard Tuttle commonly refers to his art …

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 …

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Josiah McElheny | Beauty & Seduction

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 26, 2009

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Josiah McElheny | Beauty & Seduction

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 26, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Artist Josiah McElheny discusses the intentionally problematic nature of beauty and seduction in his “Total Reflective Abstraction” (2004) installation, on view at …

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 …

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Arturo Herrera | Powerful Images

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 19, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Arturo Herrera | Powerful Images

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 19, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: In his Berlin studio, Arturo Herrera discusses his relationship to creating abstract collages and images. Herrera takes the process of abstraction a …

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Weekly Roundup

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 15, 2009

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Weekly Roundup

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 15, 2009

Krzysztof Wodiczko is the sole artist representing Poland at this summer’s Venice Biennale. The striking video installation of milky windows depicts the shadows of immigrant workers as they take on …

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Laylah Ali | Designer Nicole Parente

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 12, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Laylah Ali | Designer Nicole Parente

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 12, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Artist Laylah Ali and graphic designer Nicole Parente work together in the designer’s home office in Cambridge, MA. The artist’s hand-drawn notes …

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 …

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Ellen Gallagher | Master Printer Craig Zammiello

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 5, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Ellen Gallagher | Master Printer Craig Zammiello

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 5, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Master Printer Craig Zammiello and artist Ellen Gallagher discuss their working relationship during the process of creating “DeLuxe” (2004–05), a suite of …

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Ida Applebroog | Collecting

by Jonathan Munar | May 29, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Ida Applebroog | Collecting

by Jonathan Munar | May 29, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Artist Ida Applebroog leads a tour of her personal collection of thrift store and auction finds, in her home and studio in …

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Josiah McElheny | Assistant Martha Friedman

by Jonathan Munar | May 22, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Josiah McElheny | Assistant Martha Friedman

by Jonathan Munar | May 22, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Watch artist Josiah McElheny and assistant Martha Friedman transform clear hand-blown glass objects into mirrored surfaces in his Brooklyn, NY studio. Josiah …

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Richard Tuttle | Reality & Illusion

by Jonathan Munar | May 15, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Richard Tuttle | Reality & Illusion

by Jonathan Munar | May 15, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Artist Richard Tuttle installs the work Ten Kinds of Memory and Memory Itself (1973) at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New …

Once more, with feeling

by Julia Steinmetz | May 10, 2009

Once more, with feeling

by Julia Steinmetz | May 10, 2009

Imagine the evening news meets Flight of the Conchords in a project mapping an effusion of feeling onto the flattened affect of reporters and politicians. YouTube video art sensation “Auto-Tune …

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Arturo Herrera | Music

by Jonathan Munar | May 7, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Arturo Herrera | Music

by Jonathan Munar | May 7, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Filmed in his Berlin studio, artist Arturo Herrera discusses themes of subjectivity and abstraction while drawing connections between his love of music …

Catching Feelings

by Julia Steinmetz | May 6, 2009

Catching Feelings

by Julia Steinmetz | May 6, 2009

I’ve been trying to ignore all of the panic and mania surrounding swine flu, since as far as I know anxiety has not yet been proven to afford protection against …

Feline Theatricality

by Julia Steinmetz | May 1, 2009

Feline Theatricality

by Julia Steinmetz | May 1, 2009

I stumbled on this YouTube video today, and immediately stopped to think about how much Michael Fried has given me. Sometimes a critic’s description of a phenomenon can be truly …

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Ellen Gallagher | Projections

by Jonathan Munar | Apr 30, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Ellen Gallagher | Projections

by Jonathan Munar | Apr 30, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Artist Ellen Gallagher recounts her childhood obsession with projecting films, paired with documentation of her work Murmur (2003–04) installed at Gagosian Gallery …

Flash Points

For the Love of God: The Artist as Capitalist

by Julia Steinmetz | Apr 29, 2009

Flash Points

For the Love of God: The Artist as Capitalist

by Julia Steinmetz | Apr 29, 2009

In 2007, artist Damien Hirst exhibited a work at the White Cube gallery in London which is reputed to be the most expensive contemporary artwork ever made. Entitled For the …

BOMB in the Building

BOMB is (back) in the building

by BOMB Magazine | Apr 24, 2009

BOMB in the Building

BOMB is (back) in the building

by BOMB Magazine | Apr 24, 2009

After a hiatus, we (the folks from BOMB Magazine) are back to resume our fun and educational guest blogging. We’ll be chiming in once a month with some cool stuff …

Indie Games +/or Games as Art

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 22, 2009

Indie Games +/or Games as Art

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 22, 2009

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikNBn4wX8AU] Invisible Threads, Double Happiness Jeans by Stephanie Rothenberg and Jeff Crouse In continuing the thread (no pun intended with Double Happiness) of Play and it’s relationship to newMedia art, …

Season 5 Trailer: Sneak Peek!

by Wesley Miller | Apr 21, 2009

Season 5 Trailer: Sneak Peek!

by Wesley Miller | Apr 21, 2009

Season Five of the Peabody Award-winning television series Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century premieres on PBS in the United States (Fall 2009). This trailer spotlights the artists Mary Heilmann, William …

Open for Babble, ArtBabble is Live!

by Marc Mayer | Apr 7, 2009

Open for Babble, ArtBabble is Live!

by Marc Mayer | Apr 7, 2009

Art-Bab-ble [ahrt-bab-uhl] noun; verb (used without object) -bled, -bling 1. free flowing conversation, about art, for anyone. 2. a place where everyone is invited to join an open, ongoing discussion …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 at NAEA 2009

by Marc Mayer | Apr 6, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 at NAEA 2009

by Marc Mayer | Apr 6, 2009

Art21 @ NAEA Convention, Minneapolis April 18 & 19, 2009 Once again Art21 is bringing contemporary art to this year’s National Art Education Association Annual Convention. Season Four artist Mark …

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Jenny Holzer talks about her Whitney show

by Hrag Vartanian | Mar 13, 2009

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Jenny Holzer talks about her Whitney show

by Hrag Vartanian | Mar 13, 2009

Paddy Johnson interviewed Jenny Holzer for New York Press about her new show at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York City (it opened yesterday, March 12). Titled …

Flash Points

Election 2008: Seizing the moment in the classroom

by Dillon Paul | Mar 12, 2009

Flash Points

Election 2008: Seizing the moment in the classroom

by Dillon Paul | Mar 12, 2009

One of the things I love most about teaching 12th grade is the sense that I am meeting students on the border between their child and adult selves. They are …

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Jenny Holzer | “Projection for Chicago”

by Wesley Miller | Mar 9, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Jenny Holzer | “Projection for Chicago”

by Wesley Miller | Mar 9, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS Jenny Holzer discusses the process behind her series of Xenon Projections as part of the exhibition PROTECT PROTECT at the Museum of Contemporary …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On representations of the artist at work (Part 2)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 6, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On representations of the artist at work (Part 2)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 6, 2009

Following up our discussion about documentation of the creative process in the cases of Mark Bradford and Jackson Pollock, my students and I talked about what we might include in …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On representations of the artist at work

by Audrey Chan | Mar 5, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On representations of the artist at work

by Audrey Chan | Mar 5, 2009

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX9SVg6L5vA] In the Art:21 Season 4 episode Paradox, artist Mark Bradford cites the legacy of Abstract Expressionism as an influence on his process-oriented paintings and collages. On a formal level, …

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Fight the man! Three activist artists to watch

by Paddy Johnson | Mar 4, 2009

Flash Points

Fight the man! Three activist artists to watch

by Paddy Johnson | Mar 4, 2009

True story: I used to hate activist art. “Why so shrill?” I thought. “Can’t we just talk about this rather than producing a bunch of bad art?” I don’t always …