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Collier Schorr: Freeway Balconies

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 2, 2008

Collier Schorr: Freeway Balconies

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 2, 2008

Freeway Balconies, a group exhibition curated by Collier Schorr (Season 2) is on view July 5 through September 21, 2008 at Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin. The exhibition is “at once …

“Oliver Herring | Task” in Seattle tomorrow

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 27, 2008

“Oliver Herring | Task” in Seattle tomorrow

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 27, 2008

Season 3 artist Oliver Herring brings Task, his ongoing collaborative performance, to the Seattle Public Library tomorrow. In an unprecedented collaboration between the Frye Art Museum, Tacoma Art Museum, On …

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Kerry James Marshall | “Black Romantic”

by Wesley Miller | Jun 26, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Kerry James Marshall | “Black Romantic”

by Wesley Miller | Jun 26, 2008

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

Bourgeois at NY Film Forum

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 24, 2008

Bourgeois at NY Film Forum

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 24, 2008

The traveling retrospective exhibition of works by Season 2 artist Louise Bourgeois opens at the Guggenheim Museum, New York on Friday, June 27. Corresponding with the exhibition, Louise Bourgeois: The …

Last Day – Art21 Online Fundraising Drive

by Beth Allen | Jun 20, 2008

Last Day – Art21 Online Fundraising Drive

by Beth Allen | Jun 20, 2008

Art21’s first ever online fundraising drive ends at midnight tonight! If you haven’t yet donated, there are still several hours left to support Art21’s many projects including the ongoing initiatives: …

Louise Bourgeois—Songs Remembered

by Marc Mayer | Jun 20, 2008

Louise Bourgeois—Songs Remembered

by Marc Mayer | Jun 20, 2008

In anticipation of Art21 (Season 1) artist Louise Bourgeois‘ full-career retrospective, the Guggenheim Museum in New York presents a free concert on Saturday evening, June 21 titled Louise Bourgeois—Songs Remembered. …

Day 9 – Art21 Online Fundraising Drive

by Beth Allen | Jun 19, 2008

Day 9 – Art21 Online Fundraising Drive

by Beth Allen | Jun 19, 2008

We’d like to welcome the 58 first-time donors who have donated to Art21 during the last 9 days! Thank you for offering your support of Art21. There are still 30 …

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Mel Chin | “Paydirt”

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 19, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Mel Chin | “Paydirt”

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 19, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Mel Chin describes the origins and motivations behind the nationwide art project Paydirt in a keynote address to the 2008 National Art Education Association Convention, and visits multiple sites …

Mark Bradford Inaugurates Nerman Lecture Series

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 18, 2008

Mark Bradford Inaugurates Nerman Lecture Series

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 18, 2008

Season 4 artist Mark Bradford will be the inaugural speaker for the Jerome Nerman Lecture Series at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in Overland Park, Kansas. Located on the …

Day 8 – Art21 Online Fundraising Drive

by Beth Allen | Jun 18, 2008

Day 8 – Art21 Online Fundraising Drive

by Beth Allen | Jun 18, 2008

We are heartened by the many donations received during the first Art21 Online Fundraising Drive via Art21.org/donate and the Art21 Facebook Cause. Individuals in 13 U.S. states and 1 foreign …

Day 6 – Art21 Online Fundraising Drive

by Beth Allen | Jun 16, 2008

Day 6 – Art21 Online Fundraising Drive

by Beth Allen | Jun 16, 2008

As I write, Art21’s founder and executive director, Susan Sollins, is attending the 37th Annual George Foster Peabody Award ceremony to accept the award being given to the Protest episode …

Jörg Heiser at Austrian Cultural Forum

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 16, 2008

Jörg Heiser at Austrian Cultural Forum

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 16, 2008

On Wednesday June 25th at 7:00 p.m., the Goethe-Institut New York and the Austrian Cultural Forum will co-host a conversation between Jörg Heiser and Brian Sholis, editor at Artforum.com. The …

Oilver Herring: TASK at Regent Park

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 13, 2008

Oilver Herring: TASK at Regent Park

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 13, 2008

Season 3 artist Oliver Herring–in collaboration with a committee of young, local volunteers–will present Canada’s first TASK event tomorrow, June 14. Part of Toronto’s Luminato 2008 festival, this “participatory-performance-art-making-party” will …

Day 2 – Art21 Online Fundraising Drive

by Beth Allen | Jun 12, 2008

Day 2 – Art21 Online Fundraising Drive

by Beth Allen | Jun 12, 2008

First off, we’d like to give props to everyone who has already made a donation to Art21 or joined our Facebook Cause. THANK YOU for a terrific first-day response! Did …

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Eleanor Antin | “Helen’s Odyssey”

by Wesley Miller | Jun 12, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Eleanor Antin | “Helen’s Odyssey”

by Wesley Miller | Jun 12, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Eleanor Antin’s exhibition Helen’s Odyssey (2007) installed at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York. Antin discusses the historical figure Helen of Troy, and how she became the inspiration …

Conversations | Charles Atlas with Lia Gangitano | Ask questions for follow-up interview

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 12, 2008

Conversations | Charles Atlas with Lia Gangitano | Ask questions for follow-up interview

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 12, 2008

The following interview took place at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library on April 7, 2008, following a screening of the Art:21 episode Paradox. Consulting Director and …

Support Art21 – Win DVDs and Books!

by Beth Allen | Jun 11, 2008

Support Art21 – Win DVDs and Books!

by Beth Allen | Jun 11, 2008

Welcome to Art21’s first ever online fundraising drive! The drive launches today and will run through June 20, 2008, simultaneously at Art21.org/donate and via the Art21 Facebook Cause. Throughout the …

Berliner Salon: Sensitive Thinking Post-Basel

by Emilie Trice | Jun 6, 2008

Berliner Salon: Sensitive Thinking Post-Basel

by Emilie Trice | Jun 6, 2008

Berlin was oddly still this week. It seems everyone has gone to Art Basel. Although I’m sure Basel is the circus of fabulous wealth, beautiful objects and pretty people that …

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An-My Lê | Becoming an Artist

by Wesley Miller | Jun 5, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

An-My Lê | Becoming an Artist

by Wesley Miller | Jun 5, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: An-My Lê discusses how she came to be an artist after studying biology, while printing a photograph from the series Trap Rock (2006) in her New York studio. An-My …

New guest blogger: Karen Johanne Bruhn

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 3, 2008

New guest blogger: Karen Johanne Bruhn

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 3, 2008

Hot on the heels of her review of Sally Mann’s exhibition at the National Museum of Photography in Copenhagen, we are pleased to welcome Karen Johanne Bruhn to the guest …

Sally Mann on Denmark’s radar

by Kelly Shindler | May 30, 2008

Sally Mann on Denmark’s radar

by Kelly Shindler | May 30, 2008

Following is a special report on Season 1 artist Sally Mann, just in from our fabulous former intern Karen Johanne Bruhn, now back home in Copenhagen… During the past few …

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Josiah McElheny | “Conceptual Drawings for a Chandelier, 1965”

by Wesley Miller | May 29, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Josiah McElheny | “Conceptual Drawings for a Chandelier, 1965”

by Wesley Miller | May 29, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Josiah McElheny discusses his film Conceptual Drawings for a Chandelier, 1965 (2005), shot at The Metropolitan Opera in New York. Josiah McElheny creates finely crafted, handmade glass objects that …

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Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg

by Susan Sollins-Brown, Executive Director, Art21 | May 23, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg

by Susan Sollins-Brown, Executive Director, Art21 | May 23, 2008

Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.) — Robert Rauschenberg, 1959 Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg is …

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Mark Dion | “Neukom Vivarium”

by Wesley Miller | May 22, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Mark Dion | “Neukom Vivarium”

by Wesley Miller | May 22, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Dion leads a discussion of his installation Neukom Vivarium (2006) at the Olympic Sculpture Park, Seattle. Mark Dion’s work examines the ways in which dominant ideologies and public …

Cai Guo-Qiang media explosion

by Wesley Miller | May 22, 2008

Cai Guo-Qiang media explosion

by Wesley Miller | May 22, 2008

Art21 artist (Season 3) Cai Guo-Qiang‘s exhibition I Want to Believe at the Guggenheim Museum may go down as the most-documented show on video of 2008 in New York. However, …

Conversations | Judy Pfaff with Betsy Sussler part 3

by Kelly Shindler | May 21, 2008

Conversations | Judy Pfaff with Betsy Sussler part 3

by Kelly Shindler | May 21, 2008

Following is the conclusion of the conversation between Judy Pfaff and BOMB Magazine‘s Betsy Sussler that took place on March 3, 2008 at the Mid-Manhattan Library. BS: I’m going to …

Conversations | Judy Pfaff with Betsy Sussler part 2

by Kelly Shindler | May 20, 2008

Conversations | Judy Pfaff with Betsy Sussler part 2

by Kelly Shindler | May 20, 2008

The following is the second part of the conversation between Judy Pfaff and BOMB Magazine‘s Betsy Sussler that took place on March 3, 2008 at the Mid-Manhattan Library. BS: I …

Conversations | Judy Pfaff with Betsy Sussler part 1

by Kelly Shindler | May 19, 2008

Conversations | Judy Pfaff with Betsy Sussler part 1

by Kelly Shindler | May 19, 2008

The following interview took place at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library on March 3, 2008, following a screening of the Art:21 episode Romance. Featured artist Judy …

New guest blogger: Ben Street

by Kelly Shindler | May 19, 2008

New guest blogger: Ben Street

by Kelly Shindler | May 19, 2008

Thanks to Rosanna Flouty of the ICA Boston for all her colorful, engaging posts. Up next is Ben Street, who teaches Art History at Westminster School in central London and …

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Josiah McElheny | “The Alpine Cathedral and the City-Crown”

by Wesley Miller | May 15, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Josiah McElheny | “The Alpine Cathedral and the City-Crown”

by Wesley Miller | May 15, 2008

(Also watch Josiah McElheny’s “Conceptual Drawings for a Chandelier, 1965” on the Art21 blog.) EXCLUSIVE: Josiah McElheny discusses his installation The Alpine Cathedral and the City-Crown (2007) at the Museum …

McElheny, Mies, & Modernism

by Wesley Miller | May 15, 2008

McElheny, Mies, & Modernism

by Wesley Miller | May 15, 2008

In this week’s Art:21 video and interview The Alpine Cathedral and the City-Crown, artist Josiah McElheny references a number of modernist figures and projects, from architects Bruno Taut and Mies …

Trenton Doyle Hancock at the Institute of Contemporary Art | University of Pennsylvania

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 12, 2008

Trenton Doyle Hancock at the Institute of Contemporary Art | University of Pennsylvania

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 12, 2008

Art21 artist Trenton Doyle Hancock (Season 2) will lecture at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Contemporary Art this Wednesday, May 14 (7pm). The lecture is held in conjunction with …

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Lari Pittman | Craft

by Wesley Miller | May 8, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Lari Pittman | Craft

by Wesley Miller | May 8, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Lari Pittman painting Palace (2006) in his Los Angeles studio. Inspired by commercial advertising, folk art, and decorative traditions, Lari Pittman’s meticulously layered paintings transform pattern and signage into …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art: An Introduction

by Joe Fusaro | May 7, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art: An Introduction

by Joe Fusaro | May 7, 2008

This is my first-ever blog post. There…. I said it. Everyone and their Mom has a blog somewhere and I guess it was bound to happen to me, too. Blogging, …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

New column: Teaching with Contemporary Art

by Kelly Shindler | May 6, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

New column: Teaching with Contemporary Art

by Kelly Shindler | May 6, 2008

Art21 is pleased to introduce a new column on our blog, written specifically for art educators. Teaching with Contemporary Art, written by our Senior Education Advisor, Joe Fusaro, will appear …

Tonight! An-My Lê with Michael Almereyda at NY Public Library

by Kelly Shindler | May 5, 2008

Tonight! An-My Lê with Michael Almereyda at NY Public Library

by Kelly Shindler | May 5, 2008

Art21, BOMB, & the Mid-Manhattan Library present a film screening and conversation Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 4 episode Protest After the screening Michael Almereyda, filmmaker and writer, will …