Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Leeza Ahmady (Part 2)
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Leeza Ahmady (Part 2)
Part 2 of Georgia Kotretsos’ interview with independent curator Leeza Ahmady, the director of Asian Contemporary Art Week in New York.
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Random! Jason Fulford and His Many Coincidences
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Random! Jason Fulford and His Many Coincidences
Victoria Gannon considers the role that randomness plays in the photographs of Jason Fulford, and in her own life.
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Suburban Seriality
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Suburban Seriality
We were not the same, though when we came together, we acted as one. Growing up together, seven girls in the suburbs of Northern California, we told each other’s stories and …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Both a Science and an Art, Part 2
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Both a Science and an Art, Part 2
Alison Kendall creates drawings and paintings in which viewers’ expectations are breached by dreamlike intruders. The San Francisco–based artist went to school for scientific illustration, learning to draw animals …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Both a Science and an Art
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Both a Science and an Art
Every Wednesday night, my grammar teacher takes chalk to blackboard to underline subjects and circle direct objects. White dust falling to the floor, she puts brackets around prepositional phrases and …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco Part 2
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco Part 2
New relationships are often built over food. We sit down to share a bowl of soup together and rise knowing each other better than before. But food’s not just a …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco
One hundred feet below the Starbucks and suits of San Francisco’s financial district, Grubhub.com’s posters beckon from the BART station walls. The online food delivery service offers every kind of …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Coded Cloth
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Coded Cloth
We speak in code when words aren’t safe to say. Faced with threats, our language goes subterranean, carving new passageways of communication. Encrypted messages use accepted forms of expression—recognizable letters, …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows: The Plaid Fad
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows: The Plaid Fad
In November 1991, Nirvana played on all of our car stereos. We smoked clove cigarettes and drove through the Oakland hills with Nevermind blaring over the speakers. Kurt Cobain drowned …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
New column! Introducing “Bedfellows”
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
New column! Introducing “Bedfellows”
Art21 is pleased to announce our latest column, Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture, penned by guest blog alum Victoria Gannon. Art and visual culture have not always been friends. When …
