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Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | “Feet on the Ground, Head in the Clouds”
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | “Feet on the Ground, Head in the Clouds”
In the Deer Forest “Hi, my name is Peter. Do you want to find out why?” With these words, I became acquainted with Katja Tukiainen. In the back room at …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | “Chaos 1” Returns to Life
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | “Chaos 1” Returns to Life
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks about the return of Jean Tinguely’s 1974 masterpiece “Chaos 1” in Columbus, Indiana.
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Juozas Cernius
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Juozas Cernius
Juozas Cernius is a Canadian visual artist based in Toronto. He has received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2004) and his BFA from Concordia …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Nine Months Later, a Master’s Degree
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Nine Months Later, a Master’s Degree
Last Friday, my invitation to graduation arrived in the mail. It seemed rather premature as I am but a fraction of the way through researching and writing my final dissertation, …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | Aslı Çavuşoğlu
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | Aslı Çavuşoğlu
A small black and white newspaper photograph hangs on the wall of Aslı Çavuşoğlu’s studio, located in an old warehouse in Istanbul’s Karaköy district. The photograph is crowd shot, taken …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice Episode 4: Chicago Art Fairs and Early Modernism Redux
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice Episode 4: Chicago Art Fairs and Early Modernism Redux
It’s time once again for Fielding Practice with Bad at Sports, a special podcast produced for the Art21 blog. On this month’s episode, Duncan MacKenzie, Dan Gunn, and I are …
Calling from Canada
Calling from Canada | An Interview with Tyson Parks
Calling from Canada
Calling from Canada | An Interview with Tyson Parks
The first really noticeable thing about new media artist Tyson Parks’s digital paintings is their fostering of tension between organic and synthetic elements. Images of readymades provide the tip of …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Ink | Notes from a Transforming Democracy: South African Prints
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Ink | Notes from a Transforming Democracy: South African Prints
As interest in William Kentridge’s work has grown over the past decade, so has interest in South African art as a whole. Printmaking is a central component of the cultural …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art: The First Three Years
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art: The First Three Years
This week Teaching with Contemporary Art here on the blog turns 3. Frankly, I can’t believe that I’ve been writing this column for three years. At the same time, it …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | He’s Not Here Right Now
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | He’s Not Here Right Now
Hi Everyone! My name is Olivia and I’m Jeffrey’s imaginary studio assistant. Unfortunately, Jeffrey isn’t here right now because he’s running around the city preparing for his thesis exhibition, but …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco
One hundred feet below the Starbucks and suits of San Francisco’s financial district, Grubhub.com’s posters beckon from the BART station walls. The online food delivery service offers every kind of …
Letter from London
Letter from London | Seeds of Discord
Letter from London
Letter from London | Seeds of Discord
When an artist dies, their work changes forever. Whatever it was they were doing at the time of their demise becomes loaded with retroactive meaning and spurious clairvoyance. With the …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Flat Affect
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Flat Affect
As I was walking through William Leavitt: Theater Objects, the LA-based artist’s first museum retrospective, a MOCA security guard stopped me. “Are you a writer?” It took me a moment …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Visons for Chicago: Public Art with Organizer Daniel Tucker
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Visons for Chicago: Public Art with Organizer Daniel Tucker
I’ve known Daniel Tucker for about five years now and I’ve always thought of him as a true Chicago artist, somewhere in between artist, organizer, writer, and administrator and always …
Letter from London
Letter from London | Eye of the Tiger
Letter from London
Letter from London | Eye of the Tiger
Tiger Woods is a profoundly uninteresting man, elevated to role model status in America by his unwavering commitment to brand promotion and the eradication of personal charisma, so when the …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Rochelle Feinstein
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Rochelle Feinstein
This week’s post should really be titled “Rochelle Feinstein Teaching Me” but I’m trying to be consistent… Prior to May 1st, please treat yourself and check out The Estate of …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | In Poor Taste,* Lunch with Jani Leinonen
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | In Poor Taste,* Lunch with Jani Leinonen
I was waiting in line to buy a movie ticket when I heard the news: Jani Leinonen had been incarcerated. Conversations with my Finnish friends in the previous weeks had …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Exploring the Freedom to Re-Present Value: A Discussion with Theaster Gates
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Exploring the Freedom to Re-Present Value: A Discussion with Theaster Gates
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with artist Theaster Gates about Thornton Dial in relations to Gate’s art practice in
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Tania Bruguera
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Tania Bruguera
Tania Bruguera’s long and various career as an artist starts with a series of works made after, but mainly through, the Cuban-born artist Ana Mendieta. I say “through,” because in …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Architects on Bicycles
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Architects on Bicycles
Reyner Banham, the British architectural historian whose blatant enthusiasm for Los Angeles nearly got him blacklisted in an era in which the cultured loved to hate this city, revered crisps, …
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