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Teaching with Contemporary Art
Join Us for Year Five of Art21 Educators
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Join Us for Year Five of Art21 Educators
Are you a teacher interested in learning more about utilizing contemporary art in your classroom? Does spending a week in New York City this summer collaborating with other educators and …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle | Mashed Up and Shredded into Space: An Interview with Candida Alvarez
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle | Mashed Up and Shredded into Space: An Interview with Candida Alvarez
Caroline Picard poses four questions to artist Candida Alvarez whose paintings are currently on view at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Creative Killing?
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Creative Killing?
While the NRA is quick to blame video games for violent behavior because they would much rather talk about something else besides banning assault weapons and ammunition (thank you, Governor Cuomo), I think that organizations like the International Game Developers Association could have a dramatic impact on the future of video games worldwide if the “creative” end of gaming wasn’t so consistently connected to killing people on a video screen.
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Happy (Belated) Birthday, Tony Smith!
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Happy (Belated) Birthday, Tony Smith!
You can help document the work of sculptor Tony Smith and get a limited-edition t-shirt, too! Columnist Richard McCoy has the details.
New Kids on the Block
New Kids on the Block | Nyssa Frank of The Living Gallery
New Kids on the Block
New Kids on the Block | Nyssa Frank of The Living Gallery
Columnist Jacquelyn Gleisner Google chats with Nyssa Frank, owner of The Living Gallery, an alternative art space and community outreach venue in Brooklyn.
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Toward a Possible Body: An Interview with Emily Roysdon
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Toward a Possible Body: An Interview with Emily Roysdon
Marissa Perel speaks with Emily Roysdon about her recent performance at the Tate Modern, and her participation in MoMA’s first annual performance symposium.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Heather Rasmussen: Cataclysmic Collections
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Heather Rasmussen: Cataclysmic Collections
Columnist Danielle McCullough writes about the work of Los Angeles-based artist Heather Rasmussen and her ongoing interest in catastrophe.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
When Works of Literature Make The Leap
Teaching with Contemporary Art
When Works of Literature Make The Leap
Contemporary artists and performers offer pathways into literature for the hard-to-inspire. Artists such as Glenn Ligon, Jenny Holzer, and even performances like the off-Broadway production of My Name is Asher Lev offer students ways to get inspired and involved with literature from different starting points.
Transmission
Transmission | An Interview with Niels Geybels: Sequences, Monoliths, and Beneath the Earth
Transmission
Transmission | An Interview with Niels Geybels: Sequences, Monoliths, and Beneath the Earth
Columnist Amelia Ishmael speaks with Antwerp-based visual artist, graphic designer, and musician Niels Geybels, whose various practices often overlap.
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation
Georgia Kotretsos interviews the founders of the ARTos Cultural and Research Foundation, artists Achilleas Kentonis and Maria Papacharalambous.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teachable Moments in 2012
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teachable Moments in 2012
Before we continue talking about last week’s “Speak About What’s Unspeakable,” I thought it might be good idea to end the year on a constructive note by looking back at some of the most teachable moments- events, exhibits, chance happenings and other opportunities – that made for uncanny entry points in the classroom…
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Afterimage: An Interview with Dahlia Tulett-Gross and Thea Liberty Nichols
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Afterimage: An Interview with Dahlia Tulett-Gross and Thea Liberty Nichols
Caroline Picard talks with Dahlia Tulett-Gross and Thea Liberty Nichols about some of the visual legacies between two Chicago generations in the exhibition “Afterimage,” held last summer at the DePaul Art Museum.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Speak About What’s Unspeakable
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Speak About What’s Unspeakable
In the contemporary art classroom, perhaps there is an opening to deconstruct what’s really behind our love of guns, the obsession with “killing”, and “hunting down” characters in things like video games? Can we make spaces where these things are discussed and responses are shared in order to educate a broader audience that really affects change?
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | On Perception: Katsutoshi Yuasa’s Woodcuts
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | On Perception: Katsutoshi Yuasa’s Woodcuts
Sarah Kirk Hanley looks at the woodcuts of Katsutoshi Yuasa, whose first solo exhibition in the US is at the ISE Cultural Foundation in New York, through January 4th.
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