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New guest blogger: Audrey Chan

by Kelly Shindler | Mar 2, 2009

New guest blogger: Audrey Chan

by Kelly Shindler | Mar 2, 2009

Thanks to Paul Schmelzer for his wonderful series of posts tackling our Flash Points topic head-on. Follow his daily exploits back on his own blog, Eyeteeth. Up next is Audrey …

Women in the City – One Year Later

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 28, 2009

Women in the City – One Year Later

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 28, 2009

Last year, gallerist Emi Fontana curated Women in the City, a public art exhibition spread throughout the streets of Los Angeles. Works by Barbara Kruger (Season 1), Jenny Holzer (Season 4), Louise …

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 …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

What Light?

by Joe Fusaro | Feb 25, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

What Light?

by Joe Fusaro | Feb 25, 2009

On Monday I had the pleasure of attending the last edition of this season’s Art21’s Salon Series with Robert Ryman and Urs Raussmüller. Going into the evening, I kept thinking …

New guest blogger: Paul Schmelzer

by Kelly Shindler | Feb 23, 2009

New guest blogger: Paul Schmelzer

by Kelly Shindler | Feb 23, 2009

Thanks to Naomi Beckwith for her series of clever and perceptive posts. Up next is Paul Schmelzer. Paul is a Minneapolis-based writer and editor focusing on the intersection of art, …

Art21 Extended Play

Oliver Herring | Legacy

by Wesley Miller | Feb 20, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

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 …

Flash Points

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 …

Flash Points

“Imperfect Moments: Mapplethorpe & Censorship Twenty Years Later” at ICA in Philadelphia

by Hrag Vartanian | Feb 18, 2009

Flash Points

“Imperfect Moments: Mapplethorpe & Censorship Twenty Years Later” at ICA in Philadelphia

by Hrag Vartanian | Feb 18, 2009

Last week, people from far and wide gathered for a special conference titled “Imperfect Moments: Mapplethorpe and Censorship Twenty Years Later,” which was co-presented by the Institute of Contemporary Art …

Flash Points

Sade 2.0

by Thomas Micchelli | Feb 17, 2009

Flash Points

Sade 2.0

by Thomas Micchelli | Feb 17, 2009

On February 7th I drove to the Kasser Theater at Montclair State University to see a performance of The Investigation, a 1966 documentary drama by Peter Weiss (1916-1982), the expatriate German artist and …

Momenting: Our City Dreams

by Mary Cook | Feb 12, 2009

Momenting: Our City Dreams

by Mary Cook | Feb 12, 2009

Chiara Clemente’s documentary Our City Dreams, currently on view at NYC’s Film Forum, gives us a glimpse into the lives of five women artists living in New York City: Swoon, …

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Jessica Stockholder | Beauty & Politics

by Wesley Miller | Feb 12, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

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 …

Calling all photographers: Museums (and Wikipedia) want to recruit you!

by Jonathan Munar | Feb 6, 2009

Calling all photographers: Museums (and Wikipedia) want to recruit you!

by Jonathan Munar | Feb 6, 2009

“Henry VIII,” Hiroshi Sugimoto (Season 3) February may very well be the unofficial month of the photography contest. Earlier this week, Joe Fusaro wrote about art contests in the classroom, …

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 …

Art21 Extended Play

Laylah Ali | Newspaper Clippings

by Wesley Miller | Feb 5, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

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, …

Flash Points

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 …

New guest blogger: Naomi Beckwith

by Kelly Shindler | Feb 2, 2009

New guest blogger: Naomi Beckwith

by Kelly Shindler | Feb 2, 2009

Thanks for Daniel Quiles for his series of inquiries into a wide range of contemporary art issues. Stay tuned for another post from him related to our Flash Points feature …

Mmmm…Cake

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 30, 2009

Mmmm…Cake

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 30, 2009

Chez Bushwick, an organization based in Brooklyn, has launched a new art and performance series called CAKE. The weekly program offers “carte blanche” to an individual artist to present new work and ideas of his or her choosing. The …

Flash Points

Extimasies: Art, Politics, Society in Times of Crisis

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 30, 2009

Flash Points

Extimasies: Art, Politics, Society in Times of Crisis

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 30, 2009

The Extimasies: Art, Politics, Society in Times of Crisis symposium recently took place on Saturday, January 10 at the Benaki Musuem on Pireos Street in Athens, Greece. Co-organized by Costis …

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the Internet…

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 29, 2009

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the Internet…

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 29, 2009

Early supercomputer part (CDC 160A) courtesy of Cedmen Wes covered our iTunes coup already but here are a few other links worth perusing. A double shot of art at NYFA …

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 …

Flash Points

Art21 Extended Play

Jenny Holzer | Programming

by Wesley Miller | Jan 29, 2009

Flash Points

Art21 Extended Play

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), …

Ping Pong Night

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 28, 2009

Ping Pong Night

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 28, 2009

The Gramercy Park exhibition space, Nyehaus, will present its first-ever invitational table-tennis tournament tonight. The private event is held in conjunction with the exhibition Rirkrit Tiravanija: Reflection. The mirror polished aluminum table, Untitled (The …

Art21 Extended Play

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 …

Flash Points

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 …

Art21 Professional Development at MoMA

by Marc Mayer | Jan 21, 2009

Art21 Professional Development at MoMA

by Marc Mayer | Jan 21, 2009

On Saturday, January 24 Art21 is partnering with the Museum of Modern Art to offer a full day professional development workshops titled Teaching with Objects and Film: Focus on Contemporary …

New guest blogger: Daniel Quiles

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 20, 2009

New guest blogger: Daniel Quiles

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 20, 2009

  Thanks to Georgia Kotretsos for ringing in the new year with her up-to-date posts on the Greek contemporary art scene. Look out for another post from her in the …

@ 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 …

Art21 Extended Play

Robert Ryman | Possibilities

by Wesley Miller | Jan 15, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

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 …

Art21 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

by Marc Mayer | Jan 12, 2009

Art21 at the Smithsonian American Art Museum

by Marc Mayer | Jan 12, 2009

Art21 is collaborating with the Smithsonian American Art Museum (SAAM) on a public program series titled Art:21 at SAAM. The film series presents episodes from the award winning television program …

The Age of Images

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 9, 2009

The Age of Images

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 9, 2009

Television: the small screen, the idiot box, the tube, the boob tube, or the box. With all that’s on television nowadays, Katerina Zacharopoulou presents The Age of Images – a …

Art21 Extended Play

Robert Adams | Light

by Wesley Miller | Jan 1, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

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 …

Art21 Extended Play

Judy Pfaff | Assistant Rob van Erve

by Wesley Miller | Jan 1, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

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, …

Flash Points

Letter from London

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 Extended Play

Best of the Art21 Blog, 2008 edition

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 23, 2008

Flash Points

Letter from London

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 Extended Play

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 …