Columns & Features
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Calling All Art History Survey Teachers
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Calling All Art History Survey Teachers
Michelle Jubin is developing an online, peer-populated platform for sharing resources for teaching the art history survey, and asks readers for their input.
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | APAP 2012: Time Is Empty and Everything Is Real
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | APAP 2012: Time Is Empty and Everything Is Real
Perel reports on four highlight performances from the Association of Performing Arts Presenters Conference that took place January 6-10, 2012.
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | The Mystery of Anna Pavlova
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | The Mystery of Anna Pavlova
Ali Fitzgerald reviews Theo Solnik’s 2011 film “Anna Pavlova Lives in Berlin,” a nuanced portrait of the poetic and aggressive “Russian party queen” of the same iconic name.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Transformation and Distortion
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Transformation and Distortion
Two of my classes begin a new unit where students are asked to work with the themes of distortion and transformation. Especially for teens, the idea of transformation- of the self, objects, symbols, even the meaning of words- is an attractive proposal. Add the multiple implications associated with distortion and it becomes the kind of field day you really want in a classroom.
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Claire Pentecost
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Claire Pentecost
By taking on the role of “public amateur,” artist Claire Pentecost models an alternative approach to the way that Western cultures typically produce knowledge.
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | The Science and Ethics of Contemporary Art Conservation: A Discussion with Tom Learner
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | The Science and Ethics of Contemporary Art Conservation: A Discussion with Tom Learner
Richard McCoy talks to Tom Learner, senior scientist at the Getty Conservation Institute, whose career has spanned a number of important institutions and projects.
Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
Cairo in Context | One Year Later: The Myth of Art in the Arab Spring
Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
Cairo in Context | One Year Later: The Myth of Art in the Arab Spring
How does art function in times of conflict? This new column looks at art’s importance, and its political potential, in post-revolutionary Egypt.
Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
New Column | Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
New Column | Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
The Art21 Blog debuts a new column focusing on the art scene in Cairo and the Middle East region.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #11
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #11
This month’s podcast features a review of Cathy Wilkes’s Chicago exhibition and discussion of a greatly-exaggerated report of Damien Hirst’s demise.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Andrea Fraser’s Men on the Line
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Andrea Fraser’s Men on the Line
Responding to the legacy of the Woman’s Building, Fraser’s new performance revisits 1970s-era gender issues and evaluates feminism’s progress.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art in the Elementary Classroom
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art in the Elementary Classroom
Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott made some important points in last week’s interview and this week we take the opportunity to point out two of them regarding how teachers construct elementary art-making experiences and use documentation to influence their work.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Art21 Educators: Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Art21 Educators: Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott
This week I want to share a conversation that took place between myself and two of our current, amazing Art21 Educators. Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott teach elementary art education for the Scott and Westdale Elementary Schools in Melrose Park near Chicago. Their work has been inspiring to all of us here at Art21, especially since they are finding ways to work with contemporary art and engage some very young students in the process.
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Unabashedly Beautiful Prints of Helen Frankenthaler
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Unabashedly Beautiful Prints of Helen Frankenthaler
The late Helen Frankenthaler’s contributions as a painter are renowned; Hanley argues that her achievements as a printmaker are equally important.
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Draw the Devil from this Boy
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Draw the Devil from this Boy
Traveling to India on a Fulbright scholarship, David MacLean woke up in a train station with no passport and no idea who he was. An excerpt from his forthcoming memoir.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Ideas as Medium: An Interview with Laurie Palmer
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Ideas as Medium: An Interview with Laurie Palmer
Caroline Picard talks to Chicago artist Laurie Palmer about collaborative practices, political action, and how we might save the world.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Working with Memory
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Working with Memory
Working with memory presents challenges, like many themes and ideas we choose to teach with, that are terribly difficult to get rolling without an organized, broad and juicy introduction. This week’s column explores how looking back can help with planning forward for better introductions to thematic units.
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