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The Walker Curates the News: 10.19.15

by Walker Art Center | Oct 19, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 10.19.15

by Walker Art Center | Oct 19, 2015

“Even when artists of color are embraced by the canon,” says artist Rashid Johnson, “there is often a strict focus on a particular moment, rather than their career as a whole.” Such …

The Walker Curates the News: 10.12.15

by Walker Art Center | Oct 12, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 10.12.15

by Walker Art Center | Oct 12, 2015

The “unselfie,” writes the New York Times’s Sam Anderson on Alec Soth’s Instagram series of self-portraits obscured by snow, leaves, pixels, and the like, “documents and annihilates. What we most …

The Walker Curates the News: 10.05.15

by Walker Art Center | Oct 5, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 10.05.15

by Walker Art Center | Oct 5, 2015

The title alone—Empty Lot—conjures an urban outdoorsiness, but beyond that, details of Abraham Cruzvillegas’ s installation for Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall, opening October 13, remain under wraps. A request by Tate to …

The Walker Curates the News: 09.28.15

by Walker Art Center | Sep 28, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 09.28.15

by Walker Art Center | Sep 28, 2015

“I think meditators are the people who will understand this best,” says Laurie Anderson of her new work. For Habeas Corpus, she’ll project live video of Mohammed el Gharani, who …

The Walker Curates the News: 09.21.15

by Walker Art Center | Sep 21, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 09.21.15

by Walker Art Center | Sep 21, 2015

Likening Manet’s process to his own video/performance art practice, Kalup Linzy shared his thoughts on the painter’s matador portraits for The Met’s Artist Project. “He was experimenting,” he says, noting …

The Walker Curates the News: 09.14.15

by Walker Art Center | Sep 14, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 09.14.15

by Walker Art Center | Sep 14, 2015

German conceptualist Wolfgang Laib and Japanese Pop artist Tadanori Yokoo are among winners of the 2015 Praemium Imperiale Awards. Now in its 27th year, the Japan Art Association’s prize includes …

Art21 New York Close Up

Lucas Blalock’s Digital Toolkit

by Wesley Miller | Sep 11, 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Lucas Blalock’s Digital Toolkit

by Wesley Miller | Sep 11, 2015

Artist Lucas Blalock creates uncanny pictures using simple tools in Photoshop in the latest “New York Close Up” film.

The Walker Curates the News: 09.08.15

by Walker Art Center | Sep 8, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 09.08.15

by Walker Art Center | Sep 8, 2015

To create Triumphs and Laments—an 1,800-foot mural on walls along the Tiber River in Rome—William Kentridge will power-wash stencils depicting Roman history, creating “reverse-graffiti” as grime and pollution are cleaned …

Art21 Extended Play

Lynda Benglis Reunites with a Lost Fountain

by Ian Forster | Sep 1, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Lynda Benglis Reunites with a Lost Fountain

by Ian Forster | Sep 1, 2015

“I’m not trying to satisfy anyone. I really make things because I’m curious – that’s the reason” — Lynda Benglis Today’s ART21 Exclusive features Lynda Benglis reuniting with her first …

The Walker Curates the News: 08.31.15

by Walker Art Center | Aug 31, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 08.31.15

by Walker Art Center | Aug 31, 2015

“After seeing an exhibition of [Shinro] Ohtake’s work in Japan, I became a contemporary artist,” shares Takashi Murakami. “But then I realised that he was imitating [Anselm] Kiefer. So my …

The Walker Curates the News: 08.03.15

by Walker Art Center | Aug 3, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 08.03.15

by Walker Art Center | Aug 3, 2015

“I believe in doubt,” says Barbara Kruger, who recently worked with Los Angeles–area high schoolers in the Getty Artists Program to create her Whose Values? project. In an interview with …

Art21 New York Close Up

Caroline Woolard Steps Up to the Mic

by Nick Ravich | Jul 31, 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Caroline Woolard Steps Up to the Mic

by Nick Ravich | Jul 31, 2015

Today’s New York Close Up premiere—our first film with artist Caroline Woolard—is a little different. And that has everything to do with Caroline. Her work involving affordable space in New …

Art21 New York Close Up

Caroline Woolard Flips the Real Estate Script

by Nick Ravich | Jul 31, 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Caroline Woolard Flips the Real Estate Script

by Nick Ravich | Jul 31, 2015

An introduction to the latest “New York Close Up” film from series co-creator/co-producer Nick Ravich and artist Caroline Woolard .

The Walker Curates the News: 07.27.15

by Walker Art Center | Jul 27, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 07.27.15

by Walker Art Center | Jul 27, 2015

In her riveting new essay, “It’s Not Climate Change—It’s Everything Change,” Margaret Atwood namechecks art historian Barry Lord, whose book Art & Energy: How Culture Changes (The AAM Press, 2014) …

The Walker Curates the News: 07.20.15

by Walker Art Center | Jul 20, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 07.20.15

by Walker Art Center | Jul 20, 2015

“The hope is that Bristol will hear itself.” For his first public project in the UK, Chicago-based artist Theaster Gates will fill Bristol’s Temple Church—a 14th-century structure bombed in 1940—with …

The Walker Curates the News: 07.13.15

by Walker Art Center | Jul 13, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 07.13.15

by Walker Art Center | Jul 13, 2015

Marking six months since her first arrest in Havana, when her passport was confiscated by police, Tania Bruguera made a formal demand on June 29 that “Cuban authorities permanently withdraw …
"Areas for Action," an experiment facilitated by artist Oliver Herring and ART21 Educator Jethro Gillespie at "Creative Chemistries," Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2015.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Generating Creative Chemistries

by Jessica Hamlin and Joe Fusaro | Jul 8, 2015

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Generating Creative Chemistries

by Jessica Hamlin and Joe Fusaro | Jul 8, 2015

An overview of the inaugural “Creative Chemistries”—an experimental platform bringing artists and educators together to explore innovative practices for art and education.

The Walker Curates the News: 07.06.15

by Walker Art Center | Jul 6, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 07.06.15

by Walker Art Center | Jul 6, 2015

In one of her most iconic photos, Mary Ellen Mark—who passed away May 25 at age 75—captured the image of nine-year-old Amanda Ellison wearing makeup and smoking a cigarette in …
Artist Jamian Juliano-Villani in her Bedford-Stuyvesant studio, Brooklyn, NY, 2015. Production still from the ART21 "New York Close Up" film "Jamian Juliano-Villani's Painting Compulsion". © ART21, Inc. 2015.

Art21 New York Close Up

Jamian Juliano-Villani’s Painting Compulsion

by Nick Ravich | Jul 1, 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Jamian Juliano-Villani’s Painting Compulsion

by Nick Ravich | Jul 1, 2015

Filmed in her Bedford-Stuyvesant studio, artist Jamian Juliano-Villani uses a digital projector to create surreal paintings and discusses the graphic source material that inspires her.

Art21 Extended Play

Arlene Shechet Sculpts Time

by Ian Forster | Jun 29, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Arlene Shechet Sculpts Time

by Ian Forster | Jun 29, 2015

Arlene Shechet discusses a series of plaster sculptures that she created over the course of six years in the mid-1990s, following the death of a close friend.

The Walker Curates the News: 06.29.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 29, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 06.29.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 29, 2015

A project that predates the June 17 killings of nine African Americans at Charleston’s historic Emanuel AME Church, Sonya Clark’s Unravelling—on view in Mixed Greens Gallery’s New Dominion show—is echoed …

Art21 Extended Play

Arlene Shechet Reveals the Unseen

by Ian Forster | Jun 26, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Arlene Shechet Reveals the Unseen

by Ian Forster | Jun 26, 2015

“The thing that’s unseen is sometimes way more interesting than what people want you to see.” —Arlene Shechet In the first of two new ART21 Exclusive episodes featuring Arlene Shechet, …

The Walker Curates the News: 06.22.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 22, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 06.22.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 22, 2015

“The gap between American froth and Cuban reality at this year’s [Havana] Biennial warns that the pace of change will be stubborn,” writes Kevin Lees for the Washington Post on …

Art21 Extended Play

Tania Bruguera and the Art of Empowerment

by Ian Forster | Jun 19, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Tania Bruguera and the Art of Empowerment

by Ian Forster | Jun 19, 2015

“The idea of sitting face to face, it’s a very intimate experience. Having a model and painting them always makes people open up.” —Aliza Nisenbaum Today’s ART21 Exclusive features Immigrant Movement …

The Walker Curates the News: 06.15.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 15, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 06.15.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 15, 2015

Steve McQueen’s photo Lynching Tree is being exhibited in the UK for the first time in Tate Britain’s new Fighting History show. Found in Louisiana while scouting locations for 12 …

The Walker Curates the News: 06.08.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 8, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 06.08.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 8, 2015

León Ferrari’s La Civilización Occidental y Cristiana, a six-foot sculpture depicting Christ crucified on a US war plane, “marks a moment in which pop art is radicalized in Argentina—all in …

Art21 Extended Play

Elliott Hundley Is Playing with Your Emotions

by Ian Forster | Jun 5, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Elliott Hundley Is Playing with Your Emotions

by Ian Forster | Jun 5, 2015

“What’s appealing to me about collage is the fact that it’s so straightforward—that it’s a good foil to my subject.” —Elliott Hundley Today’s ART21 Exclusive features Elliott Hundley describing an …

The Walker Curates the News: 06.01.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 1, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 06.01.15

by Walker Art Center | Jun 1, 2015

“I’ve always sensed that women artists have to prove themselves exceptional in order to get their foot in the door, to be considered for something, whereas many, many mediocre men …

Art21 New York Close Up

Welcome to Whoop Dee Doo! (with Matt Roche & Jaimie Warren Too)

by Wesley Miller | Jun 1, 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Welcome to Whoop Dee Doo! (with Matt Roche & Jaimie Warren Too)

by Wesley Miller | Jun 1, 2015

In a new “New York Close Up” film, artists Jaimie Warren and Matt Roche produce a one-day-only performance of their variety show, Whoop Dee Doo, at Abrons Arts Center.

The Walker Curates the News: 05.25.15

by Walker Art Center | May 25, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 05.25.15

by Walker Art Center | May 25, 2015

Pierre Huyghe’s new work at the Met resembles both a natural history museum display and a land art installation. The French conceptual artist displaced some of the rooftop terrace’s paving stones, …

Art21 Extended Play

Perspectives from the “Gramsci Monument”

by Ian Forster | May 22, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Perspectives from the “Gramsci Monument”

by Ian Forster | May 22, 2015

“I don’t do something for the community, I do something, I hope, for art and the understanding of art – my goal is this.” —Thomas Hirschhorn Today’s ART21 Exclusive features the …

The Walker Curates the News: 05.18.15

by Walker Art Center | May 18, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 05.18.15

by Walker Art Center | May 18, 2015

Joan Jonas‘s “triumphal exhibition” at the Venice Biennale “doesn’t simply look back on a long and fruitful career: It extends that career,” writes Roberta Smith of the 70-year-old artist’s US …

Art21 Extended Play

Leonardo Drew and Piet Mondrian Meet on the Grid

by Ian Forster | May 15, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Leonardo Drew and Piet Mondrian Meet on the Grid

by Ian Forster | May 15, 2015

“What can I say about Mondrian, he’s just the man. As far as the grid and composition, obviously I’m working off of him and standing on the shoulders of giants.” …

The Walker Curates the News: 05.11.15

by Walker Art Center | May 12, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 05.11.15

by Walker Art Center | May 12, 2015

Nearly 60 top arts figures—including Chuck Close, Cindy Sherman, Jeff Koons, and Richard Prince—have signed a letter urging NYC officials to deny the Frick Collection’s expansion proposal on the grounds …

Art21 Extended Play

Joan Jonas Performs in the Streets of New York

by Ian Forster | May 6, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Joan Jonas Performs in the Streets of New York

by Ian Forster | May 6, 2015

“I wanted to develop my own language and the minute I started performing I began to invent in a different way.” —Joan Jonas Today’s ART21 Exclusive features Joan Jonas discussing her decision to …

The Walker Curates the News: 05.04.15

by Walker Art Center | May 4, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 05.04.15

by Walker Art Center | May 4, 2015

“There are so many kids in this country who look at places like museums and concert halls and other cultural centers and they think to themselves, well, that’s not a …