Columns & Features
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle With Bad at Sports | Fielding Practice Podcast Episode #8
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle With Bad at Sports | Fielding Practice Podcast Episode #8
We are back with our next podcast featuring the latest in art news and reviews from Chicago and the Midwest! This month, Duncan Mackenzie, Dan Gunn, and Art21 Blog Editor …
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada | Haute Culture: General Idea Retrospective at AGO
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada | Haute Culture: General Idea Retrospective at AGO
Hundreds of giant, silver, cloud-like, helium-filled Mylar balloons reading “Magic Bullet” float in a white room in the Art Gallery of Ontario (AGO) in Toronto. Magic is right. The shiny, …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Taryn Simon
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon‘s solo-exhibition, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters (2008-2011) at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin is an imposing and exhaustive investigation of eighteen diverse bloodlines and their related stories. On the surface, …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Following the Eames Legacy: A Discussion with Daniel Ostroff [Part II]
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Following the Eames Legacy: A Discussion with Daniel Ostroff [Part II]
Richard McCoy and Tricia Gilson talk with Eames expert Daniel Ostroff about his ongoing work in studying, collecting, and exhibiting the designs of Charles and Ray Eames [Part II].
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Following the Eames Legacy: A Discussion with Daniel Ostroff [Part I]
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Following the Eames Legacy: A Discussion with Daniel Ostroff [Part I]
Richard McCoy and Tricia Gilson talk with Eames expert Daniel Ostroff about his ongoing work in study, collecting, and exhibiting the designs of Charles and Ray Eames [Part I].
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The Language of Materials: Janne Larsen and Sibyl Wickersheimer’s “Big Haul”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The Language of Materials: Janne Larsen and Sibyl Wickersheimer’s “Big Haul”
Editor’s Note: This week, Los Angeles-based writer Carol Cheh fills in for Lily Simonson, who is travelling. Cheh is a writer and curator based in Los Angeles. She is …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Taking the Long Way Home: Working With a Theme in a Series
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Taking the Long Way Home: Working With a Theme in a Series
One of the students in my advanced classes is taking on the theme of “looking vs. seeing” for her first semester portfolio. She wants to explore the things people tend …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Hand in Glove
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Hand in Glove
Between these two covers is artist Vince Leo’s Nobody Remembers Timetable Project, commissioned in 1990 by the now-defunct National …
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Trevor Paglen
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Trevor Paglen
Trevor Paglen is an artist, researcher, and writer based in New York and San Francisco. His art practice centers around making what is typically invisible visible—specifically, covert military and intelligence …
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Full Frontal
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Full Frontal
I am on my way to New York, but not before finding Exercises for Rebel Artists: Radical Performance Pedagogy by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes delivered to my door on my last …
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Introduction Part 1: Just Another Night in The Art World
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | Introduction Part 1: Just Another Night in The Art World
It’s 9 o’clock on a surprisingly warm September evening in San Francisco, and I’m already at my third art opening of the night. I should be in New York. Two …
Praxis Makes Perfect
New Column! Introducing “Praxis Makes Perfect”
Praxis Makes Perfect
New Column! Introducing “Praxis Makes Perfect”
Art21 Blog is pleased to announce our newest column, Praxis Makes Perfect, written by Jacquelyn Gleisner and Jeffrey Augustine Songco. While pursuing MFA degrees at Cranbrook Academy of Art and …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Document.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Document.
Do yourself a big favor by documenting your work with students.
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision | Picture Perfect
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision | Picture Perfect
Mainstream cookbooks tend to present a particular style of photography: food spreads done up like the models of fashion magazines. Stylized still lifes, cropped, color saturated, and Photoshopped look too perfect …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Joy and Revolution: Talking with Adam Weiler of Ambrose, Part 2
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Joy and Revolution: Talking with Adam Weiler of Ambrose, Part 2
This week’s column follows up on last week’s post and features part two of my interview with Adam Weiler of Ambrose, an atypical after school club in Holland, Michigan. If …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Fielding Practice Podcast Episode #7
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Fielding Practice Podcast Episode #7
After a brief hiatus last month, we’re back with Episode 7 of “Fielding Practice” for Centerfield: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports. This month, our roundtable gabfest includes …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Both a Science and an Art, Part 2
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Both a Science and an Art, Part 2
Alison Kendall creates drawings and paintings in which viewers’ expectations are breached by dreamlike intruders. The San Francisco–based artist went to school for scientific illustration, learning to draw animals …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Joy and Revolution: Talking with Adam Weiler of Ambrose
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Joy and Revolution: Talking with Adam Weiler of Ambrose
If you’re not familiar with Ambrose, well…. you should be. A few months ago on a trip to work with teachers at the Holland Area Arts Council in Michigan I …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Terike Haapoja
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Terike Haapoja
Terike Haapoja is a Finnish visual artist based in Helsinki. She has a Master’s degree from the Theater Academy of Finland (Department of Performance Art and Theory) and from the …
Letter from London
Letter from London | Rarely Pure, and Never Simple
Letter from London
Letter from London | Rarely Pure, and Never Simple
Maybe Thomas Struth’s 1995 photograph of the interior of the church of San Zaccaria in Venice is too obvious a way to epitomise the relationship between contemporary art and …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Full Circle: Ann Hamilton’s Recent Editions
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Full Circle: Ann Hamilton’s Recent Editions
Ann Hamilton’s work is founded on the idea of the line – both in its material form as thread, fiber, and hair; and its conceptual form in written and drawn …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Just When We Think It’s Safe…
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Just When We Think It’s Safe…
For the last seven years I have abandoned (mostly) Friday afternoon happy hours in favor of driving north and spending the late afternoons and nights in my studio. For anywhere …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice With Gregory Sholette
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice With Gregory Sholette
Artist, scholar, organizer, and professor, Gregory Sholette embodies multiple ways that artists can interrogate history, politics, and public discourse. Through his initial work with the group REPOhistory (1989-2000) (as in, “repossessing …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | “Rethink/LA” Exhibition Envisions Future Transformation
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | “Rethink/LA” Exhibition Envisions Future Transformation
Los Angeles has a reputation for not only its excess, sprawl, and exploding population, but also for its unruly, anarchic and highly changeable landscape. Rethink/LA: Perspectives on a Future …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 New York Close Up
Teaching with New York Close Up: Lucas Blalock’s 99¢ Store Still Lifes
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 New York Close Up
Teaching with New York Close Up: Lucas Blalock’s 99¢ Store Still Lifes
Lucas Blalock’s only plan is to work… preferably in the evenings. He deals with a set of parameters that his tools provide and brings things he purchases at local discount …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
Living in a fabulous art city like Chicago, it’s easy to become urban-centric when it comes to contemporary art. But there’s a place just on the border of Chicago that …
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