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Teaching with Contemporary Art Turns Four
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art Turns Four
No sooner are we celebrating our upcoming fourth year with Art21 Educators as I am reminded that the Teaching with Contemporary Art column also turns four this week. Looks like I’ll be playing the fourth horse in the fourth race this weekend. Last year I celebrated by looking back over the first three years but today I’d like to just look back over the past twelve months because it’s been quite a ride. Here are some highlights since last spring.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Sparks Fly from MOCA for Cai Guo-Qiang’s Sky Ladder
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Sparks Fly from MOCA for Cai Guo-Qiang’s Sky Ladder
Lily Simonson confronts mortality and the expansive scale of the universe on viewing Cai Guo-Qiang’s “Sky Ladder” at MOCA Los Angeles.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Ten Years…… Right Between the Eyes: Zoe Strauss at the Philadelphia Museum
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Ten Years…… Right Between the Eyes: Zoe Strauss at the Philadelphia Museum
Every once in a blue moon you get surprised by an exhibit that takes your breath away. Kiki Smith did it to me in 2006 and last year Glenn Ligon …
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | How to Rule the Art World
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | How to Rule the Art World
Jeffrey Songco looks at the multiple roles he and other artists often perform–blogger, critic, curator–and how those activities inform and build on one another.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Black Visual Archive
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Black Visual Archive
Terri Griffith talks with artist and Art21 Blog columnist Meg Onli about Black Visual Archive, a website of critical writings on the work of African American artists.
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision | Queer Cakes for a Country Cookout
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision | Queer Cakes for a Country Cookout
Jacolby Satterwhite’s multi-media project “Country Ball” merges the practices of “insider” and “outsider” artists: he incorporates drawings made by his mentally ill mother, Patricia.
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice | (It’s the Political Economy, Stupid)
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice | (It’s the Political Economy, Stupid)
Thom Donovan looks at Oliver Ressler and Gregory Sholette’s exhibition at the Austrian Cultural Forum, which foregrounds aesthetic responses to the ongoing financial crisis.
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Talking with Sarah Michelson about “Devotion Study #1” at the Whitney Biennial
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Talking with Sarah Michelson about “Devotion Study #1” at the Whitney Biennial
Sarah Michelson discusses the ideas and concepts leading her to create Devotion Study #1, a dance developed specifically for the Whitney Biennial.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The Painter of Light is Radically Not Me
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The Painter of Light is Radically Not Me
Catherine Wagley reflects on the passing of Thomas Kinkade, the infamously popular “Painter of Light” who pushed the idea of coziness to mind-numbing extremes.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 Extended Play
Ambiguity and Teaching with the Photography Robert Adams
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 Extended Play
Ambiguity and Teaching with the Photography Robert Adams
Teaching with and sharing Robert Adams’ photography with students can allow for a broader understanding of what makes a great picture.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #14: The New Art Examiner, Re-Examined
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #14: The New Art Examiner, Re-Examined
A discussion with editor Terri Griffith about “The Essential New Art Examiner,” an anthology of writings from Chicago’s only major art periodical, which folded in 2002.
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Brilliance Under Pressure: Dana Schutz’s Monotypes at Gallery Met
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Brilliance Under Pressure: Dana Schutz’s Monotypes at Gallery Met
Sarah Kirk Hanley looks at Dana Schutz’s most recent body of work: a series of large watercolor monotypes created at Two Palms, New York.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 Meets Fluxus
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 Meets Fluxus
This past Saturday I had the pleasure of working with the University of Michigan Museum of Art to present “Art21 Meets Fluxus”. Over thirty teachers from a variety of disciplines came together to learn more about working with Art21 education materials and to brainstorm ways of bringing this smart and provocative exhibition, titled Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life, into their classrooms.
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose.
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Clear Eyes, Full Hearts, Can’t Lose.
The US television series “Friday Night Lights” helps Michelle Jubin find the motivation to tackle a marathon pile of grading, essay writing, and lecture preparations.
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Sofía Hernández Chong Cuy
The Curator of Contemporary Art at Colección Patricia Phelps de Cisneros (CPPC) talks about the state of contemporary Latin American Art and the role of art institutions today.
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Sometimes Doing Something Poetic Can Become Political and Sometimes Doing Something Political Can Become Poetic
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Sometimes Doing Something Poetic Can Become Political and Sometimes Doing Something Political Can Become Poetic
Galimberti looks at several recent exhibitions that subtly foreground politics.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Talking to the Moon
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Talking to the Moon
Silence speaks volumes in the work of artist Katie Paterson as well as in Theater Oobleck’s stage performance of “The Hunchback Variations.”
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Comfort the Disturbed, Disturb the Comfortable
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Comfort the Disturbed, Disturb the Comfortable
Spurred by her thesis writing, M.A. candidate Kelsey Elisabeth Nelson reflects on the meaning of dialogue and the role that opposition plays in arts education.
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