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Teaching with Contemporary Art
Well Beyond Everyday
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Well Beyond Everyday
If you are interested in how everyday materials can become bizarre and (sometimes) brilliant sculpture, there are three shows ready and waiting for you in Chelsea: Nayland Blake’s What Wont Wrong at Matthew Marks; B. Wurtz’s Recent Works at Metro Pictures; and Mark Dion’s two-floor delight titled Drawings, Prints, Multiples and Sculptures at Tanya Bonakdar.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Embracing the Cliché: An Interview with Michelle Grabner
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Embracing the Cliché: An Interview with Michelle Grabner
Caroline Picard interviews Michelle Grabner, artist, writer, and co-curator of the 2014 Whitney Biennial.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Barbara T. Smith: Cheek To Glass, Electric Impressions of the Material Body
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Barbara T. Smith: Cheek To Glass, Electric Impressions of the Material Body
Danielle McCullough recounts the life of politically-engaged performer and “body artist” Barbara T. Smith.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 New York Close Up
Teaching with New York Close Up | Liz Magic Laser and David Brooks
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 New York Close Up
Teaching with New York Close Up | Liz Magic Laser and David Brooks
Two recent New York Close Up films featuring artists Liz Magic Laser and David Brooks exemplify how the film series “can make strong interdisciplinary connections.”
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Speaking Truth to Culture: An Interview with Czech Curator Zuzana Štefková
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Speaking Truth to Culture: An Interview with Czech Curator Zuzana Štefková
Columnist Marissa Perel visits Czech curator Zuzana Štefková, “known for her challenging curatorial projects that work across religious, ethnic, and social divides.”
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Print and the Virtual, Authentic Image
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Print and the Virtual, Authentic Image
Guest writer Julia V. Hendrickson shares thoughts on “the intersections of printmaking and the digital image, and the subsequent constructions of an authentic image online.”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Being Difficult
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Being Difficult
Llyn Foulkes “has never had nor seemed to want any conceptual smoothness.” Columnist Catherine Wagley on the maverick artist’s retrospective exhibition at the Hammer Museum.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with El Anatsui
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with El Anatsui
El Anastui, one of my favorite artists from season 6, is in some ways an educator’s dream. His sculptures and installations reference history, culture and memory while simultaneously exploring the possibilities of found materials and different processes for making art. And while Anatsui is best known for his stunning, draped metal sculptures, there is more to the work with than meets the eye… and that’s quite a bit to begin with.
Center Field: Art in the Middle
Center Field | The Stage of Scientific Reproduction: An Interview with Jeremy Bolen
Center Field: Art in the Middle
Center Field | The Stage of Scientific Reproduction: An Interview with Jeremy Bolen
Columnist Caroline Picard speaks with Jeremy Bolen about his photographic investigations of phenomena invisible to the human eye.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 Educators: Success Stories
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 Educators: Success Stories
Over the past four years there have been many success stories from a what-still-feels-like-new Art21 Educators program. And while the experiences within and beyond Art21 Educators vary wildly from teacher to teacher, some of the educators we have worked with- in a range of disciplines and not just art- have provided us with specific comments and reflective narratives that often make smiles touch the back of our heads.
Alchemy of Inspiration
Alchemy of Inspiration I Sex, Skater Kids, and Gap Plaid: NYC in 1993
Alchemy of Inspiration
Alchemy of Inspiration I Sex, Skater Kids, and Gap Plaid: NYC in 1993
Jessica Lott reviews the “richly compelling, cohesive, and yet evasive” exhibition “NYC 1993,” now on view at the New Museum.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Slavs and Tatars: “Help the Militia, Beat Yourself Up–Only Solidarity and Patience Will Secure Our Victory”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Slavs and Tatars: “Help the Militia, Beat Yourself Up–Only Solidarity and Patience Will Secure Our Victory”
Danielle McCullough attends the Los Angeles Art Book Fair and is introduced to the Slavs and Tatars collective.
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | New Frontier at Sundance 2013: Augmented Space in “Cityscape 2095”
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | New Frontier at Sundance 2013: Augmented Space in “Cityscape 2095”
In a fourth and final post from New Frontier at Sundance, Nettrice Gaskins investigates “augmented space”—the technologies, objects, or symbols that overlay physical space with information.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Messing with the Stuff
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Messing with the Stuff
In order for students to feel comfortable expressing themselves with a particular medium, they often have to spend plenty of time messing with the stuff they are interested in shaping- be it car parts, plastics, plaster or paint- before they may be ready to create high quality works. A few artists I find myself recommending to students when it comes to specifically “messing” with paint and thinking like an abstract painter include Hans Hoffman, Helen Frankenthaler, Howard Hodgkin and Jessica Stockholder.
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
“Art Is What You Can Get Away With”: Intervening Warhol with Miguel Gutierrez
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
“Art Is What You Can Get Away With”: Intervening Warhol with Miguel Gutierrez
Marissa Perel interviews choreographer Miguel Gutierrez following his performance-slash-guided tour of “Regarding Warhol: Sixty Artists, Fifty Years” at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | New Frontier at Sundance 2013: “Pulse Index” and “Coral RKV”
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | New Frontier at Sundance 2013: “Pulse Index” and “Coral RKV”
Nettrice Gaskins revisits relational aesthetics in a third post from New Frontier at Sundance, looking at works by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Lynette Wallworth.
New Kids on the Block
New Kids on the Block | Angela Dufresne: Self-Confessed Storyteller, Punk, Image Maker, and Feminist
New Kids on the Block
New Kids on the Block | Angela Dufresne: Self-Confessed Storyteller, Punk, Image Maker, and Feminist
Jacquelyn Gleisner speaks with artist Angela Dufresne whose “landscapes are murky” and portraits are “brooding.”
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | New Frontier at Sundance 2013: 4D Art and Augmented Real
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | New Frontier at Sundance 2013: 4D Art and Augmented Real
Nettrice Gaskins speaks with “datamoshing, glitch-creating, meta-rapping” artist Yung Jake in a second post from New Frontier at Sundance.
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | New Frontier at Sundance 2013: The Pixelated Pavilion
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | New Frontier at Sundance 2013: The Pixelated Pavilion
Nettrice Gaskins introduces a series of reports from New Frontier: an experimental space at the 2013 Sundance Film Fesitval.
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | A Community of Printmakers at Manhattan Graphics Center
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | A Community of Printmakers at Manhattan Graphics Center
Guest writing for Ink, Nicole Simpson walks us through the Manhattan Graphics Center, an artist-run space established in 1986.
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