Film & Video

BOMB in the Building

BOMB in the Building: Books (and Zombies) Edition!

by BOMB Magazine | Feb 27, 2009

BOMB in the Building

BOMB in the Building: Books (and Zombies) Edition!

by BOMB Magazine | Feb 27, 2009

Since Art21 rotted our little brains with their Audio Visual edition last week, we decided to retaliate with some literary mind-expanding material. Writers who write a lot. Hipster Runoff is …

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Oliver Herring | Legacy

by Wesley Miller | Feb 20, 2009

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Oliver Herring | Legacy

by Wesley Miller | Feb 20, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Artist Oliver Herring discusses what he perceives as generational shifts in our relationship to the camera, mortality, and legacy, accompanied by scenes …

I Have Decided to Love Contemporary Art

by Naomi Beckwith | Feb 20, 2009

I Have Decided to Love Contemporary Art

by Naomi Beckwith | Feb 20, 2009

Days have passed since St. Valentine’s Day and the flowers are giving off a sweet waft of imminent mortality, which may make them a dubious token of love. But I …

BOMB in the Building

BOMB in the building week 3

by BOMB Magazine | Feb 20, 2009

BOMB in the Building

BOMB in the building week 3

by BOMB Magazine | Feb 20, 2009

This week we find BOMB artists all over the Internets: If you haven’t yet it’s about time you checked out Paul Chan’s National Philistine. Bruce Mau will curate the first …

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Obama Special, Part 2

by Daniel Quiles | Feb 19, 2009

Flash Points

Obama Special, Part 2

by Daniel Quiles | Feb 19, 2009

This continues my previous post about the laptop DJ/performance artist Girl Talk, in which I situate him in a lineage of intersections between art and music and suggest a link …

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Jessica Stockholder | Beauty & Politics

by Wesley Miller | Feb 12, 2009

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Jessica Stockholder | Beauty & Politics

by Wesley Miller | Feb 12, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: In her New Haven, Connecticut studio, artist Jessica Stockholder discusses the relationship between beauty, pleasure and taste, and how all three have …

BOMB in the Building

BOMB in the building

by BOMB Magazine | Feb 6, 2009

BOMB in the Building

BOMB in the building

by BOMB Magazine | Feb 6, 2009

Not as incendiary as you thought, just the friendly folks from BOMB magazine here for the first round of our Friday column. In case you didn’t know, BOMB—like Art21—is a …

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Laylah Ali | Newspaper Clippings

by Wesley Miller | Feb 5, 2009

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Laylah Ali | Newspaper Clippings

by Wesley Miller | Feb 5, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: In her Williamstown, MA studio, artist Laylah Ali discusses her system of organizing newspaper clippings, which includes photographs of swimmer Michael Phelps, …

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Lilly Ledbetter* Art

by Naomi Beckwith | Feb 4, 2009

Flash Points

Lilly Ledbetter* Art

by Naomi Beckwith | Feb 4, 2009

It is only a coincidence that the world’s largest franchised art fair and the international banking regulatory body share a moniker from their shared base, Basel, Switzerland, but no coincidence …

What do Art21, NASA, and “The L Word” have in common?

by Wesley Miller | Jan 29, 2009

What do Art21, NASA, and “The L Word” have in common?

by Wesley Miller | Jan 29, 2009

We’re all featured podcasts on iTunes! As in, as of yesterday. I’m sure there are other things we have in common…but that’s for the comments section below. I spent most …

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Jenny Holzer | Programming

by Wesley Miller | Jan 29, 2009

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Jenny Holzer | Programming

by Wesley Miller | Jan 29, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Jenny Holzer discusses the programming of her LED sculptures during the installation of the exhibition PROTECT PROTECT at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Featured works include MONUMENT (2008), …

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Jenny Holzer | Writing & Difficulty

by Wesley Miller | Jan 23, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Jenny Holzer | Writing & Difficulty

by Wesley Miller | Jan 23, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Jenny Holzer discusses her difficult relationship to writing during the installation of the exhibition PROTECT PROTECT at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Featured works include Red Yellow Looming …

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A Fairey Tale

by Tavia Nyong'o | Jan 22, 2009

Flash Points

A Fairey Tale

by Tavia Nyong'o | Jan 22, 2009

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q_EOzZ9iaJQ] The German-Jewish philosopher Walter Benjamin concludes his 1935 essay on “The Work of Art in the Age of Mechanical Reproduction” with a dialectical challenge. He called on would-be art …

@ EMST in Athens

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 18, 2009

@ EMST in Athens

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 18, 2009

The National Museum of Contemporary Art (EMST) is currently presenting Bia Davou’s A Retrospective and Young-hae Chang Heavy Industries‘ solo exhibition entitled Close your Eyes. Starting with Davou, she was …

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Robert Ryman | Possibilities

by Wesley Miller | Jan 15, 2009

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Robert Ryman | Possibilities

by Wesley Miller | Jan 15, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Ryman installing Philadelphia Prototype (2002) at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia. Robert Ryman’s work explodes the classical distinctions between art as object and art as …

What does new and interesting mean?

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 13, 2009

What does new and interesting mean?

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 13, 2009

If you find yourself in Athens between now and January 24th, follow my advice and visit the What does new and interesting mean? exhibition at AD gallery. This group show is curated …

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Robert Adams | Light

by Wesley Miller | Jan 1, 2009

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Robert Adams | Light

by Wesley Miller | Jan 1, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Adams in his Oregon home. Robert Adams’s black-and-white photographs document scenes of the American West, revealing the impact of human activity on the last vestiges of wilderness and …

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Judy Pfaff | Assistant Rob van Erve

by Wesley Miller | Jan 1, 2009

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Judy Pfaff | Assistant Rob van Erve

by Wesley Miller | Jan 1, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Assistant Rob van Erve during the making of Judy Pfaff’s installation Buckets of Rain (2006) in the artist’s studio in Tivoli, New York. Balancing intense planning with improvisational decision-making, …

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Letter from London

Teaching with Contemporary Art

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Best of the Art21 Blog, 2008 edition

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 23, 2008

Flash Points

Letter from London

Teaching with Contemporary Art

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Best of the Art21 Blog, 2008 edition

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 23, 2008

With our blog’s redesign in February, we hoped to see the site take off this year with a slew of new features. Following are some of our favorites, all of …

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Art21 “Exclusive” Video, Year 1

by Wesley Miller | Dec 19, 2008

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Art21 “Exclusive” Video, Year 1

by Wesley Miller | Dec 19, 2008

What a year it’s been! We’re taking a look back at the 45 Exclusive videos that premiered here on the Art21 Blog, and subsequently on YouTube and  iTunes. We hope …

Tropic of Miami

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Dec 18, 2008

Tropic of Miami

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Dec 18, 2008

In addition to the fairs themselves, one of the highlights during Art Basel Miami Beach is the bevy of private collections and foundations. This is the kind of thing that …

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Lari Pittman | Teaching

by Wesley Miller | Dec 18, 2008

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Lari Pittman | Teaching

by Wesley Miller | Dec 18, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Lari Pittman at his home in Los Angeles; an exhibition of paintings at c/o – Atle Gerhardsen, Berlin. Inspired by commercial advertising, folk art, and decorative traditions, Lari Pittman’s …

Trenton Doyle Hancock in Chelsea (with video!)

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 12, 2008

Trenton Doyle Hancock in Chelsea (with video!)

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 12, 2008

At last! An update from Art:21 Season 2 artist Trenton Doyle Hancock’s Lower Realm has reached us in Chelsea. Hancock recently opened a new chapter in his ongoing saga of the war …

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Mark Dion | Methodology

by Wesley Miller | Dec 11, 2008

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Mark Dion | Methodology

by Wesley Miller | Dec 11, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Dion at his Pennsylvania home and studio. Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our understanding of history, knowledge, and the …

Perfect Strangers – Man or Beast?

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 9, 2008

Perfect Strangers – Man or Beast?

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 9, 2008

Surely one of the stranger sights in the Chelsea galleries this month is the running coyote pack in the window of Claire Oliver Gallery. In sculptor Kate Clark’s first New …

24th Street Showdown: Cindy Sherman v. Richard Prince

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 9, 2008

24th Street Showdown: Cindy Sherman v. Richard Prince

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 9, 2008

Score a victory for female artists in Chelsea galleries this month. Women are still routinely underrepresented in museum collections (see Jerry Saltz’s debate-sparking tally of MoMA’s permanent collection), but not …

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Robert Adams | Working Along Freeways

by Wesley Miller | Dec 4, 2008

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Robert Adams | Working Along Freeways

by Wesley Miller | Dec 4, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Robert Adams with photographs in his Oregon studio. Robert Adams’s black-and-white photographs document scenes of the American West, revealing the impact of human activity on the last vestiges of …

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Laurie Simmons | Choreographer Helen Pickett

by Wesley Miller | Nov 27, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Laurie Simmons | Choreographer Helen Pickett

by Wesley Miller | Nov 27, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Choreographer Helen Pickett during the making of Laurie Simmons’s The Music of Regret (2006) at the Alvin Ailey Dance Studio, New York. Laurie Simmons stages photographs and films with …

art twenty-one and a half

by Wesley Miller | Nov 24, 2008

art twenty-one and a half

by Wesley Miller | Nov 24, 2008

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOBMAN2JN3o] ‘Tis the season for spoofs it seems. This impressive video — aptly named Art:21.5 — comes from artist Scoop Brancisco in Hawaii. Appearing as a paper bag-head, alien, robot, …

Exclusive Videos Now on iTunes

by Wesley Miller | Nov 21, 2008

Exclusive Videos Now on iTunes

by Wesley Miller | Nov 21, 2008

In its first week on iTunes, Art21’s series of Exclusive videos debuted as the Top Video Podcast for both the overall Arts and Visual Arts categories! Sorry Martha Stewart and …

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Gabriel Orozco | On Photography

by Wesley Miller | Nov 20, 2008

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Gabriel Orozco | On Photography

by Wesley Miller | Nov 20, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Orozco discusses recent photographs taken in Mexico and Ecuador in 2007, and the role photography plays in his broader artistic practice. Gabriel Orozco’s sculptures and photographs disrupt conventional …

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Ursula Von Rydingsvard | “Weeping Plates”

by Wesley Miller | Nov 13, 2008

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Ursula Von Rydingsvard | “Weeping Plates”

by Wesley Miller | Nov 13, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Ursula von Rydingsvard’s sculpture Weeping Plates (2005) at her studio in Brooklyn, New York. Ursula von Rydingsvard builds towering cedar structures, creating an intricate network of individual beams and …

All the News We Hope to Print

by Marc Mayer | Nov 13, 2008

All the News We Hope to Print

by Marc Mayer | Nov 13, 2008

Living in the afterglow or wake (depending on your political leanings) of the 2008 presidential election, we are left to wonder where this talk of hope and change might lead …

“New York Times” video on Maya Lin’s “Wave Field”

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 10, 2008

“New York Times” video on Maya Lin’s “Wave Field”

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 10, 2008

The New York Times just published a video on Maya Lin‘s Wave Field at Storm King Art Center in upstate New York. Click here to watch it. Wave Field can …

There Goes the Neighborhood

by Wesley Miller | Nov 7, 2008

There Goes the Neighborhood

by Wesley Miller | Nov 7, 2008

Artistic interventions in neighborhoods and community-inspired artworks are popping up all around us, from Pierre Huyghe‘s playfully ritualistic Streamside Day (2003) to Mel Chin‘s New Orleans recovery effort SAFEHOUSE (2008). …

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Gabriel Orozco | “Samurai Tree”

by Wesley Miller | Nov 6, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Gabriel Orozco | “Samurai Tree”

by Wesley Miller | Nov 6, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Orozco discusses recent paintings from his ongoing Samurai Tree series, including the works Fugaz, Tuttifruti and Red Roots (all 2008), and the computer animation Dandelion Animation (2008), shown …