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Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | My Dissertation as Document of a Moment
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | My Dissertation as Document of a Moment
Nearly eleven months in my year-long masters program, I am now in crunch time. The first two-thirds of the program was spent in three taught courses, and from May on, …
Problematic: Answering Questions with Questions
Problematic | The Artist As Entrepreneur
Problematic: Answering Questions with Questions
Problematic | The Artist As Entrepreneur
Most artists assume the role of an artist, perhaps by going to school, perhaps by having a studio, or not. Bruce Nauman made it simple by deciding that anything he …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Lynda Benglis, The Anti-Kitchen Artist
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Lynda Benglis, The Anti-Kitchen Artist
Once, when artists Liam Gillick and Sarah Morris had legendary minimalist Carl Andre over for dinner, Andre drank a bit much and let his tongue loose. To Morris, he said, …
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada | Healthy Mind/Healthy Body? Berlinde De Bruyckere at Montreal’s DHC
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada | Healthy Mind/Healthy Body? Berlinde De Bruyckere at Montreal’s DHC
Before the analysis comes rushing in like an insuppressible wave, I am struck with the straight-up “thingness” of Flemish artist, Berlinde De Bruyckere’s corporeal sculptures at gallery DHC in Montreal. …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Siemon Allen
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Siemon Allen
Siemon Allen is a South African artist who currently lives and works in the United States. He received his MFA from Natal Technikon (now Durban Institute of Technology) and was …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Curators Gone Viral: “Chain Letter” at Shoshana Wayne
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Curators Gone Viral: “Chain Letter” at Shoshana Wayne
Did you receive any unusual email forwards this month? Unrelated to funny cats? Initially sent out by Christian Cummings and Doug Harvey, a chain letter has been circulating among artists …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | South African Photography and the Lingering Political Anxieties of Identity
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | South African Photography and the Lingering Political Anxieties of Identity
Last month, I had the privilege and pleasure of attending a symposium that served roughly as a capstone to one of my graduate courses. The symposium was coordinated in conjunction …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Embodying Echoes: An Interview with Matthew Goulish
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Embodying Echoes: An Interview with Matthew Goulish
“WE MAY AGREE on the premise that each work of art is at least in part perfect, while each critic is at least in part imperfect. We may then look …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Sanford Biggers
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Sanford Biggers
Images from popular culture abound in Sanford Biggers’s work, and particularly from hip-hop, East Asian Buddhism, and the Antebellum and Afro-Futurist African-American. Two images that have become particularly emblematic for …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Looking Back on an Inspiring Art21 Educators Institute
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Looking Back on an Inspiring Art21 Educators Institute
From July 6th through the 13th Art21 hosted our third annual Art21 Educators summer institute, which kicks off a year-long professional development initiative between the organization and 16 teachers from …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Making Work: A Continued Discussion with Jeff Jamieson
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Making Work: A Continued Discussion with Jeff Jamieson
Artist Jeff Jamieson talks with IMA Conservator Richard McCoy about working with Robert Irwin and other artists.
Letter from London
Letter from London | World on a String
Letter from London
Letter from London | World on a String
Language draws an imaginary line around objects. That demarcation follows through in all the lines in our lives: the Morse code of a Risk board’s borders, anticipatory lines dragged across …
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
It’s About Time: Gimme Shelter, A New Column on Performance Now
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
It’s About Time: Gimme Shelter, A New Column on Performance Now
In an interview for Rolling Stone, Mick Jagger described the 1969 hit “Gimme Shelter” as a song about apocalypse, about the end of the world. He channeled the rage of …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Since When Is Red a Conservative Color?
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Since When Is Red a Conservative Color?
At a meeting on Tuesday, July 12, officials in California’s Riverside County decided seceding from the rest of the state might not be such a good idea after all. The …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 Educators in Full Swing
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 Educators in Full Swing
Art21 Educators has been in full swing over the past week with professional development workshops, curriculum planning, artist talks, studio visits, special events, museum programs and lots of soul-searching. Tune …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Based in Berlin: Best of
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Based in Berlin: Best of
I’ve been thinking about Based In Berlin for weeks. And while it’s been difficult to keep my pretentious guffaws in check, I have recognized that the show tackles the formidable …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice Podcast #6: MCA Shifts Gears; Ikea Hacking as Art; and Ai Wei Wei
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice Podcast #6: MCA Shifts Gears; Ikea Hacking as Art; and Ai Wei Wei
This month’s episode of Fielding Practice, a special podcast produced by Bad at Sports exclusively for the Art21 blog, is action-packed and filled with discussion of the latest art happenings …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | Cengiz Tekin
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | Cengiz Tekin
If Şener Özmen (the subject of last month’s Turkish and Other Delights post) is the godfather of Diyarbakır’s contemporary art community, then his long-time collaborateur, artist Cengiz Tekin, is its …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Possibilities of Paper Pulp
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Possibilities of Paper Pulp
For this month’s edition of Ink, guest writer Nicole Simpson fills in for regular columnist Sarah Kirk Hanley. — Ed. During these hot days of summer, visions of ice cream, …
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