Columns & Features
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle With Bad at Sports | An Interview with Thomas Comerford
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle With Bad at Sports | An Interview with Thomas Comerford
Thomas Comerford is an experimental filmmaker from Chicago with a background in performance and sculpture. His current work considers ideas of place, and the relationship of history to our physical …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Ben Kinmont
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Ben Kinmont
This past month, I encountered Ben Kinmont’s work for the first time, appropriately enough at the Fales special collection in New York University’s Bobst library. Walking through the double …
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Performa 2011: Performance Art Is Dead. Long Live Performance Art!
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Performa 2011: Performance Art Is Dead. Long Live Performance Art!
November brings with it the sweeping Performa 2011 Biennial, filling theaters, galleries, churches and plazas across New York City. This is the fourth Biennial to date, and the most far-reaching, ambitious …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | The State of Affairs in the Conservation of Contemporary Art
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | The State of Affairs in the Conservation of Contemporary Art
IMA Conservator Richard McCoy looks back at two international conferences that dealt with the conservation of contemporary art.
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada | Roboti Art, “Cinétose” by Projet EVA
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada | Roboti Art, “Cinétose” by Projet EVA
There I was, lying on my back, the sharp bang of shots coming closer and louder. I stood up and I could feel air pressure from the vibrations of the …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Fielding Practice Podcast Episode #9
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Fielding Practice Podcast Episode #9
On this month’s edition of our Fielding Practice podcast, Duncan MacKenzie, Dan Gunn and Art21 Blog Editor Claudine Isé discuss the upcoming New Art Dealer’s Alliance (NADA) Art Fair in …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Ladies of Old School L.A.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Ladies of Old School L.A.
Rampart, an “L.A. Noir” set for limited release the day before Thanksgiving, is a relentless film with a hero who’s impossible to love but a narrative thrust that forces …
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Hustling with Jennifer Catron and Paul Outlaw
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Hustling with Jennifer Catron and Paul Outlaw
“All paid jobs absorb and degrade the mind.” -Aristotle “Most artists work all the time, they do actually, especially good artists, they work all the time, what else is there …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Put your money where your mouth is
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Put your money where your mouth is
So, this morning I’m off to sunny Savannah, Georgia, for SECAC (the Southeastern College Art Conference) to present on some of the ideas I shared at the Now Museum earlier …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking About Interdisciplinary Teaching with Mark Dion’s Neukom Vivarium
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking About Interdisciplinary Teaching with Mark Dion’s Neukom Vivarium
This past spring at the National Art Education Association’s annual conference in Seattle, Art21 brought Mark Dion not only as a keynote speaker, but also to explore his work and …
Open Enrollment
Introducing New Open Enrollment Blogger Lindsay Preston Zappas
Open Enrollment
Introducing New Open Enrollment Blogger Lindsay Preston Zappas
In the coming weeks, we’ll be introducing our newest class of Open Enrollment bloggers, saying farewell to our recent graduates, and welcoming back those whose studies continue. Stay tuned for …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Suburban Seriality
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Suburban Seriality
We were not the same, though when we came together, we acted as one. Growing up together, seven girls in the suburbs of Northern California, we told each other’s stories and …
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision: On Bottle Poppin
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision: On Bottle Poppin
Artist-designer Tahir Hemphill is gathering quirky facts about popular culture via Hip-Hop Word Count, his searchable directory of over 40,000 hip-hop songs. If you’ve ever wanted to know the education level …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Jenny Marketou
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Jenny Marketou
Jenny Marketou was born and raised in Athens, Greece and educated in the United States. She lives and works in New York. Marketou earned a BFA from the Corcoran School …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Working for The Man: Building Burning Man’s Infrastructure
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Working for The Man: Building Burning Man’s Infrastructure
When I first found out about the Black Rock City Department of Public Works, it was like finding out that Santa Claus did not exist. I was disappointed, and …
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Drifting: My Day Job
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Drifting: My Day Job
I wake up surprisingly refreshed this morning with enough time to make my usual breakfast, browse the Internet, and watch Academy Award-winner Whoopi Goldberg moderate the ladies on The View. …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Two Anecdotes Concerning the Architecture of Bertrand Goldberg
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Two Anecdotes Concerning the Architecture of Bertrand Goldberg
I don’t live in Chicago anymore, but I frequently visit. Over the past summer I was invited to a housewarming party for friends who had rented a large loft space …
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven
Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven is an artist based in Antwerp, Belgium. Her work is currently being featured in a solo exhibition, In a Saturnian World, at the Renaissance Society (on view …
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Exorcising the Post-Democratic Body
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Exorcising the Post-Democratic Body
At St. Mark’s Church in New York City, the home of Danspace Project, Jeremy Wade performed fountain. With the house lights on, Wade stumbled along the carpeted edge of the church floor, …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 New York Close Up
Teaching with New York Close Up: Keltie Ferris Spray Paints in Solitude
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 New York Close Up
Teaching with New York Close Up: Keltie Ferris Spray Paints in Solitude
While watching Keltie Ferris Spray Paints in Solitude, I kept wondering to myself… What can students and teachers learn from engaging with this five minutes of film? I wanted a …
Open Enrollment
Seeking Graduate Student Writers for Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment
Seeking Graduate Student Writers for Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment chronicles the experience of graduate school via the perspective of current students. As MA and MFA degrees become ever more the norm for the professional training of artists, educators, …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Maureen Connor
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Maureen Connor
In the past decade the visual arts have seen a retreat from traditional locations of meaning making and power. This retreat can be partially attributed to the increasing disparity between …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Birth of the Underground: Fluxus Editions
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Birth of the Underground: Fluxus Editions
Fluxus, an international counter-culture collective of artists, musicians, and designers, was formed 50 years ago in 1961/2. Its goals were laid out in the 1963 offset lithograph Fluxus Manifesto (on …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Boosterism
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Boosterism
Dave Hickey has called us out. “It’s corny,” the critic told the New York Times, referring to Pacific Standard Time, L.A.’s current, Getty-funded initiative to canonize L.A.’s post-war art …
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