Columns & Features

Word is a Virus

New Column: Word is a Virus

Word is a Virus

New Column: Word is a Virus

Penned by Carol Cheh, the Art21 Blog’s newest column explores the relationship between art and the written word.

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision | Absinthe and the Art World

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision | Absinthe and the Art World

Nicole Caruth looks at Marc Latamie’s solo exhibition at The Americas Society, which touches on the complex cultural and somatic histories of absinthe.

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | Anything but the Kitchen Sink

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | Anything but the Kitchen Sink

Catherine Wagley muses on family, history, and the relation of both in artworks by Patricia Fernandez and Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle in the Los Angeles Biennial.

Praxis Makes Perfect

Praxis Makes Perfect | How To Build A Fire

Praxis Makes Perfect

Praxis Makes Perfect | How To Build A Fire

New “Praxis Makes Perfect” columnist Erin Sweeny earned her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art last spring; she shares what’s happened in her life since then.

Praxis Makes Perfect

Meet Our New “Praxis Makes Perfect” Columnists!

Praxis Makes Perfect

Meet Our New “Praxis Makes Perfect” Columnists!

Meet the newest contributors to our “Praxis Makes Perfect” column!

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Things To Do On The Way Out

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Things To Do On The Way Out

Inspired recently by the quirky and often humorous Draw it with your eyes closed: the art of the art assignment, edited by Paper Monument, I asked one of my advanced …

Open Enrollment

East to West: Notes from the Road and the Slippage between Art and Life

Open Enrollment

East to West: Notes from the Road and the Slippage between Art and Life

When Jenn Pascoe road trips from Michigan to New York to San Diego, art and life spill together into memorable sites, sounds, galleries and landscapes.

Flash Points

Call for Writers: New Flash Points Series on “Storytelling”

Flash Points

Call for Writers: New Flash Points Series on “Storytelling”

The Art21 Blog is looking for writers to contribute to our upcoming Flash Points series on Storytelling!

On View Now

On View Now | Thomas Demand’s Photographic Memory

On View Now

On View Now | Thomas Demand’s Photographic Memory

Max Weintraub reviews an exhibition of Thomas Demand’s new photographs at Matthew Marks Gallery in New York.

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | Roman Ondák at the Deutsche Guggenheim

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | Roman Ondák at the Deutsche Guggenheim

Ali Fitzgerald reviews Roman Ondák’s exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim, which features an artwork incorporating the severed wing of an airplane.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Home Away

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Home Away

I wonder what it means when you feel at home somewhere else? Six years ago I spent a few weeks during the month of July at the School of the …

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Ich bin ein Berliner

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | Ich bin ein Berliner

As Michelle Jubin prepares for an intensive German language course in Berlin, she asks for tips from readers: what should she see–and do–while there?

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Ink | Jasper Johns’s Revolution in Print

Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print

Ink | Jasper Johns’s Revolution in Print

Sarah Kirk Hanley reviews “Jasper Johns/In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print,” on view at Harvard Art Museums through August 18.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Workshop at Deree, the American College of Greece

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Workshop at Deree, the American College of Greece

Georgia Kotretsos reports on the 2012 Arts Festival at the School of Fine and Performing Arts at the American College of Greece.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Year Four Art21 Educators | Carl Andersen and Craig Newsom

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Year Four Art21 Educators | Carl Andersen and Craig Newsom

Next up in our Year Four Art21 Educators series, we introduce Carl Anderson and Craig Newsom, who teach in Minneapolis and Carlinville, Illinois, respectively.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Long Walk

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Long Walk

I see Richard Long’s “A Line Made By Walking” as a metaphor for teaching. He makes visible his process, which is quietly relentless. He creates order through a meditative act. He provides focus. He makes us see something quite simple in a completely new way.

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The “I” and the “We”

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The “I” and the “We”

Chiara Galimberti argues that the artist’s identification with others, particularly working class people, is essential during these times of vast economic inequality.

Inspired Reading

Inspired Reading | Richard T. Walker

Inspired Reading

Inspired Reading | Richard T. Walker

British artist Richard T. Walker shares the reading list that inspires his practice, which includes videos, performances and photographs.

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | In Search of Eve Babitz

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | In Search of Eve Babitz

Eve Babitz is more than just the nude woman famously photographed playing chess with Duchamp; she is an influential writer whose books are now much-coveted items.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Change

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Change

Last week I presented a Season 6 Access screening of the Change episode featuring Catherine Opie, El Anatsui and Ai Weiwei. During the screening I made some notes to share …

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The Alienating “Blah”

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The Alienating “Blah”

Kelsey Elizabeth Nelson ponders the meaning of dialogue, while cautioning against “the alienating blah” that comes when words are not accompanied by actions.

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice | Melanie Gilligan

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice

5 Questions for Contemporary Practice | Melanie Gilligan

Melanie Gilligan discusses “Popular Unrest” and other video and film works that address the global financial crisis.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield | Transforming Space into Place: An Interview with Leyya Tawil, co-creator of The Grand Re-Map

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield | Transforming Space into Place: An Interview with Leyya Tawil, co-creator of The Grand Re-Map

The collaborative project The Grand Re-Map seeks to observe and record the physical interactions between bodies and landscapes.

On View Now

On View Now | Tim Hetherington and the Photographic Experience of War

On View Now

On View Now | Tim Hetherington and the Photographic Experience of War

Photographer Tim Hetherington captures the war experience through symbolically ambiguous images that resist generalization.

Gimme Shelter: Performance Now

Gimme Shelter | Anti-Establishment in the Establishment: Dawn Kasper at the Whitney Biennial, Part 2

Gimme Shelter: Performance Now

Gimme Shelter | Anti-Establishment in the Establishment: Dawn Kasper at the Whitney Biennial, Part 2

The second of a two-part conversation between Marissa Perel and Whitney Biennial artist Dawn Kasper.

Gimme Shelter: Performance Now

Gimme Shelter | Anti-Establishment in the Establishment: Dawn Kasper at the Whitney Biennial, Part 1

Gimme Shelter: Performance Now

Gimme Shelter | Anti-Establishment in the Establishment: Dawn Kasper at the Whitney Biennial, Part 1

The first of a two-part conversation between Marissa Perel and Whitney Biennial artist Dawn Kasper.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Test Driving the New Season 6 Educators’ Guide

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Test Driving the New Season 6 Educators’ Guide

The new Season 6 educators’ guide is now available as a quick and easy downloadable PDF. As we celebrate the broadcast of our new season, I thought this week might be a good time to highlight some of what the new guide has to offer educators interested in teaching with contemporary art.

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | BAMPS

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | BAMPS

Armed with a freshly-minted MPS degree, Antonius Wiriadjaja surveys some of the thesis projects presented during ITP Thesis Week at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts.

Yelling Fire in the Hall of Presidents

Yelling Fire in the Hall of Presidents

John P. Hogan considers Utah artist Jon McNaughton’s controversial print “The Forgotten Man” in the context of history painting and politically-charged contemporary artworks.

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

No Preservatives | News and Notes

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

No Preservatives | News and Notes

Richard McCoy catches Art21 Blog readers up on the latest news from the field of contemporary art conservation.

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | Chicago’s Big Youth in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | Chicago’s Big Youth in Berlin

The group show Big Youth II at Bourouina Gallery in Berlin introduces Chicago’s emerging artists to an international audience.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #15: “Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations)”

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #15: “Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations)”

This month’s podcast features a discussion with artists Pamela Fraser and John Neff about color in art: how do artists use color? How do viewers experience it?

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | And the Money Came Rolling In . . . Or Not

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | And the Money Came Rolling In . . . Or Not

When the display of a luxury car leads Catherine Wagley to mistake a performance festival for a fundraiser, the slippery relations between art and commerce become clear.

Praxis Makes Perfect

Praxis Makes Perfect | Creative Criticism with Christopher K. Ho | Hirsch E.P. Rothko

Praxis Makes Perfect

Praxis Makes Perfect | Creative Criticism with Christopher K. Ho | Hirsch E.P. Rothko

Jacquelyn Gleisner talks to Christopher K. Ho, an artist, critic, and author of “Hirsch E.P. Rothko,” a book about an artist’s dip into delusion.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Persistence and Patience Paying Off

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Persistence and Patience Paying Off

It’s probably a good time for our semi-annual hockey post that highlights some bizarre (or perhaps, pertinent?) parallel between the New York Rangers and teaching with contemporary art. This post is devoted to persistence.

Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture

Bedfellows | Seeking Refuge

Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture

Bedfellows | Seeking Refuge

Victoria Gannon considers a bird sanctuary in Oakland’s Lake Merritt in terms of landscape and the meaning of refuge.