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Josiah McElheny at White Cube

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 15, 2008

Josiah McElheny at White Cube

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 15, 2008

Josiah McElheny opened this week at White Cube’s Hoxton Square space. Island Universe is an installation consisting of five sculptural elements made of chrome-plated aluminum, each composed of a central …

Three Questions

by Rachel Gagnon | Oct 15, 2008

Three Questions

by Rachel Gagnon | Oct 15, 2008

Boots Contemporary Art Space White Flag Projects For my third post about the arts scene in St. Louis, I wanted to get the perspective of two newer arts spaces in …

A Conversation with Kiki Smith and Others at Deitch Projects

by Seth Curcio | Oct 11, 2008

A Conversation with Kiki Smith and Others at Deitch Projects

by Seth Curcio | Oct 11, 2008

On Thursday evening, Deitch Projects hosted a conversation featuring Kiki Smith (Season Two), alongside Ann Messner and Swoon. The talk was held at Deitch Studios in Long Island City, NY, …

Mark Bradford and Hurricane Katrina

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 10, 2008

Mark Bradford and Hurricane Katrina

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 10, 2008

Tomorrow, October 11, the Carnegie Museum of Art will host a public conversation between Art21 artist Mark Bradford (Season 4) and 2008 Carnegie International curator, Douglas Fogle. Topics include the artist’s rooftop installation Help …

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Gabriel Orozco | “Obit”

by Wesley Miller | Oct 9, 2008

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Gabriel Orozco | “Obit”

by Wesley Miller | Oct 9, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Orozco discusses his installation Obit (2008), on view at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York. Gabriel Orozco’s sculptures and photographs disrupt conventional notions of reality. Drawing our attention …

Collier Schorr & Mark Bradford in Los Angeles

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 7, 2008

Collier Schorr & Mark Bradford in Los Angeles

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 7, 2008

On October 10, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will host a public conversation between Collier Schorr (Season 2) and curator Christopher Bedford in conjunction with the exhibition Contemporary Projects 11: Hard Targets-Masculinity and …

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Matthew Ritchie | Architect Benjamin Aranda

by Wesley Miller | Oct 2, 2008

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Matthew Ritchie | Architect Benjamin Aranda

by Wesley Miller | Oct 2, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Architect Benjamin Aranda, of Aranda/Lasch, discusses his contribution to artist Matthew Ritchie’s anti-pavillion project The Morning Line (2008), produced in collaboration with engineer-architect Daniel Bosia & Arup AGU, and …

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Kerry James Marshall | On Museums

by Wesley Miller | Sep 25, 2008

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Kerry James Marshall | On Museums

by Wesley Miller | Sep 25, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Kerry James Marshall discusses his relationship to museums during the installation of the exhibition Black Romantic at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, which features five paintings from the artist’s …

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Roundup: 30 Weeks & 30 Exclusive Videos

by Wesley Miller | Sep 18, 2008

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Roundup: 30 Weeks & 30 Exclusive Videos

by Wesley Miller | Sep 18, 2008

Hooray! We’re celebrating thirty consecutive weeks of thirty exclusive online videos! Looking back over these past few months, we’ve featured several 2008 exhibitions by artists such as Eleanor Antin, Kerry …

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Gabriel Orozco | “Mobile Matrix”

by Wesley Miller | Sep 18, 2008

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Gabriel Orozco | “Mobile Matrix”

by Wesley Miller | Sep 18, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Orozco discusses the process behind his sculpture Mobile Matrix (2006), a permanent installation for the José Vasconcelos Library in Mexico City. Gabriel Orozco’s sculptures and photographs disrupt conventional …

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Nancy Spero | Leon Golub’s “Gigantomachy II”

by Wesley Miller | Sep 11, 2008

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Nancy Spero | Leon Golub’s “Gigantomachy II”

by Wesley Miller | Sep 11, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Leon Golub’s Gigantomachy II (1966) and Nancy Spero’s Maypole: Take No Prisoners (2007) in her New York studio. A pioneer of feminist art, Nancy Spero’s work since the 1960s …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Lackluster Blockbuster

by Ben Street | Sep 8, 2008

Letter from London

Letter from London: Lackluster Blockbuster

by Ben Street | Sep 8, 2008

Assuming they couldn’t speak our language, read our minds, develop a communicable form of sign language, or were made out of gas, a good way for aliens to gauge the …

Letter from London

New blog features!

by Kelly Shindler | Sep 8, 2008

Letter from London

New blog features!

by Kelly Shindler | Sep 8, 2008

In addition to our new guest blogger for the next fortnight, whom you will learn more about soon, we are pleased to introduce a new regular column to the blog. …

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Matthew Ritchie | “The Morning Line”

by Wesley Miller | Sep 4, 2008

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Matthew Ritchie | “The Morning Line”

by Wesley Miller | Sep 4, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Ritchie discusses his upcoming exhibition The Morning Line (2008) in his New York studio, with animated architectural schematics of the installation. The Morning Line will be on view …

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Alfredo Jaar | Gramsci & Pasolini

by Wesley Miller | Aug 28, 2008

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Alfredo Jaar | Gramsci & Pasolini

by Wesley Miller | Aug 28, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Alfredo Jaar in his installation Infinite Cell (2004) in Santiago, Chile, and various works. Through installations, photographs, and community-based projects, Alfredo Jaar explores the public’s desensitization to images and …

Remembering to Remember

by Mary Cook | Aug 27, 2008

Remembering to Remember

by Mary Cook | Aug 27, 2008

On view until September 21st at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a collection of J.M.W. Turner’s picturesque paintings of the harrowing sea as well as some ships and their …

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Matthew Ritchie | Apocalypse

by Wesley Miller | Aug 21, 2008

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Matthew Ritchie | Apocalypse

by Wesley Miller | Aug 21, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Ritchie discusses the apocalyptic themes in his videos The Iron City (2007) and Raphael (2007), featured in his upcoming exhibition The Morning Line (2008) for the 3rd Bienal …

Richard Serra at Film Forum

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 20, 2008

Richard Serra at Film Forum

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 20, 2008

Maria Anna Tappeiner’s documentary Richard Serra: Thinking on Your Feet (2005) screens at Film Forum in New York City through September 2nd. The 94-minute film follows Serra (Season 1) through …

Update: Beautiful Losers in New York

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 15, 2008

Update: Beautiful Losers in New York

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 15, 2008

Beautiful Losers, the 2008 Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard film about contemporary art and urban creative culture, is currently showing at the IFC Center in Manhattan. Featuring a group of …

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Ursula von Rydingsvard | Giotto

by Wesley Miller | Aug 14, 2008

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Ursula von Rydingsvard | Giotto

by Wesley Miller | Aug 14, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Ursula von Rydingsvard in her Brooklyn, New York studio. Ursula von Rydingsvard builds towering cedar structures, creating an intricate network of individual beams and sensuous, puzzle-like surfaces. While abstract …

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Mark Dion | “Herbarium Perrine (Marine Algae)”

by Wesley Miller | Aug 7, 2008

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Mark Dion | “Herbarium Perrine (Marine Algae)”

by Wesley Miller | Aug 7, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Dion with Herbarium Perrine (Marine Algae) (2006) at his Pennsylvania home and studio. Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public institutions shape our …

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Mark Bradford | Paper

by Wesley Miller | Jul 31, 2008

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Mark Bradford | Paper

by Wesley Miller | Jul 31, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Bradford painting Ridin’ Dirty (2006) in his Los Angeles studio. Mark Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall-sized collages and installations that respond to the impromptu …

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Pierre Huyghe | “Anlee”

by Wesley Miller | Jul 24, 2008

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Pierre Huyghe | “Anlee”

by Wesley Miller | Jul 24, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Pierre Huyghe’s videos One Million Kingdoms (2001) and Two Minutes Out of Time (2000), part of the collaborative project No Ghost Just a Shell (1999-2003) with Philippe Parreno. Pierre …

Sound and Vision: A Night with Barry McGee, Japanther, and PAPER RAD

by Marc Mayer | Jul 23, 2008

Sound and Vision: A Night with Barry McGee, Japanther, and PAPER RAD

by Marc Mayer | Jul 23, 2008

A full roster of public programs accompany Life on Mars, the Carnegie International 2008. On Thursday, July 24th Douglas Fogle, curator of the 55th Carnegie International, will host a conversation …

Laurie Anderson at Lincoln Center

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 21, 2008

Laurie Anderson at Lincoln Center

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 21, 2008

Starting tomorrow, July 22, Laurie Anderson (Season 1) performs her acclaimed piece Homeland at the Rose Theater as part of the 2008 Lincoln Center Festival. Backed by four musicians, the artist offers “an editorial narrative …

SIDE X SIDE

by Amy Mackie | Jul 17, 2008

SIDE X SIDE

by Amy Mackie | Jul 17, 2008

Art and activism have been intimately engaged throughout contemporary art history, reiterating the notion that the personal is political. In 2007, Art:21’s Season 4 addressed activist strategies (in particular, the …

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Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle | Casta Paintings

by Wesley Miller | Jul 17, 2008

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Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle | Casta Paintings

by Wesley Miller | Jul 17, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle at home in Chicago, with photographs of the installation The Garden of Delights (1998) at the XXIV Sao Paulo Bienal. Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s technologically sophisticated works use natural …

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Eleanor Antin | Inventing Histories

by Wesley Miller | Jul 10, 2008

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Eleanor Antin | Inventing Histories

by Wesley Miller | Jul 10, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Eleanor Antin reveals the process behind her photographic series Helen’s Odyssey (2007), installed at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York, in particular the work The Tourists (2007) that …

Mark Bradford at Artpace

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 9, 2008

Mark Bradford at Artpace

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 9, 2008

Artpace annually invites nine artists to conceive and create new art projects as part of their International Artist-in-Residence program in San Antonio, TX. Each residency is for a period of two months …

Conversations: An-My Lê with Michael Almereyda part 2

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 9, 2008

Conversations: An-My Lê with Michael Almereyda part 2

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 9, 2008

Following is the second half of the conversation between An-My Lê and filmmaker Michael Almereyda that took place on May 5, 2008 at the Mid-Manhattan Library. This event was co-presented …

Allora & Calzadilla’s Munich Harmonies

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 9, 2008

Allora & Calzadilla’s Munich Harmonies

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 9, 2008

Check out this interview and footage from Vernissage TV’s coverage of Allora & Calzadilla’s (Season 4) concurrent exhibitions at Kunstverein München and Haus der Kunst in Munich. Kunstverein München includes …

Conversations: An-My Lê with Michael Almereyda part 1

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 8, 2008

Conversations: An-My Lê with Michael Almereyda part 1

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 8, 2008

The following is a conversation between An-My Lê and Michael Almereyda that took place at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library on May 5th, 2008. This event …

Pierre Huyghe Performance at the Sydney Biennale

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 8, 2008

Pierre Huyghe Performance at the Sydney Biennale

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 8, 2008

On Thursday, Jul 10, Art21 artist Pierre Huyghe (Season 4) will discuss the thoughts and processes behind his work including his latest project for the 2008 Biennale of Sydney, A Forest of …

Bourgeois at Anthology Film Archives

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 7, 2008

Bourgeois at Anthology Film Archives

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 7, 2008

On the occasion of Louise Bourgeois’s Guggenheim retrospective exhibition, Anthology Film Archives will present Brigitte Cornand’s trilogy of films about the artist. Screening July 9-20, Louise Bourgeois: Portrait Trilogy 1995-2007 …

Task in Seattle | Photos

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 4, 2008

Task in Seattle | Photos

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 4, 2008

Right on the heels of last Saturday’s performance at the Seattle Public Library, the Frye Museum just sent over some photos of Oliver Herring‘s Task in action. Check them out. …

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Kerry James Marshall | Being an Artist

by Wesley Miller | Jul 3, 2008

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Kerry James Marshall | Being an Artist

by Wesley Miller | Jul 3, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Kerry James Marshall discusses three recent paintings, all Untitled (2008), during the installation of his exhibition Black Romantic at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. The exhibition is on view …