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Teaching with Contemporary Art
Rethinking “The Critique”: Possibilities
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Rethinking “The Critique”: Possibilities
As promised in last week’s column I want to share some possibilities when it comes to facilitating in-progress critiques with students. Critiques that take place as an idea is taking …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Work after work after work…
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Work after work after work…
On Friday, April 8th, two members from Temporary Services, Brett Bloom and Salem Collo-Julin, gave a presentation on their practice at Outpost for Contemporary Art here in Los Angeles. The …
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Open Enrollment | On the Precipice of Reality: This and That
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | On the Precipice of Reality: This and That
For this month’s post, I’ve mulled and pondered, thought and reflected, yet I could not come up with any sort of brilliant topic for my penultimate post. So I thought …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | PiST///
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | PiST///
PiST///Interdisciplinary Art Space is storefront gallery space and artist project co-directed by artists Didem Özbek and Osman Bozkurt. Opened in 2006, PiST/// is located in Istanbul’s Pangaltı neighborhood, a …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice: Episode 3
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice: Episode 3
We’re back with the latest edition of “Fielding Practice,” a podcast produced by Bad at Sports for Art21 readers and listeners. Before giving you the rundown on this month’s chatfest, …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Lexicon of Tomorrow: Print-Based Installation
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Lexicon of Tomorrow: Print-Based Installation
With the onset of spring, renewal is in the air. In the world of contemporary prints, a fresh format that seems to be popping up everywhere is print-based installation. In …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Georgia Kotretsos
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Georgia Kotretsos
Georgia Kotretsos is a visual artist, writer, and curator currently based in Athens, Greece. She earned a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Coded Cloth
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Coded Cloth
We speak in code when words aren’t safe to say. Faced with threats, our language goes subterranean, carving new passageways of communication. Encrypted messages use accepted forms of expression—recognizable letters, …
Letter from London
Letter from London | Grave Architecture
Letter from London
Letter from London | Grave Architecture
There’s a long history of painters becoming architects and carrying their pictorial imaginations with them. Bramante’s Tempietto in Rome and Michelangelo’s Laurentian Library in Florence are examples of the painter’s …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Wrapping Up Art21 at NAEA 2011
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Wrapping Up Art21 at NAEA 2011
It was suggested that perhaps the TWCA column could provide a a wrap-up of the National Art Education Association’s annual conference in pictures this year, and while I would like …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Los Angeles: Nice Meeting You Again and Again
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Los Angeles: Nice Meeting You Again and Again
This week began with Dean Rochelle Steiner of the USC Roski School of Fine Arts signing off on my thesis and me paying the publishing and binding fee. My thesis …
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Open Enrollment | BFA and MFA Shows: The New Collector’s Market?
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Open Enrollment | BFA and MFA Shows: The New Collector’s Market?
Last Friday, I got off the subway and felt the crisp, eight o’clock Chicago evening air and saw something I was not expecting: a line around The School of the …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Protest Songs and Lullabies: Susan Philipsz in Chicago
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Protest Songs and Lullabies: Susan Philipsz in Chicago
What does it mean to sing a protest song as if it were a lullaby? It’s a question I often ask myself. My five-year-old daughter has trouble falling asleep at …
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Price is Right
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Price is Right
Funny how very expensive paintings become metaphors of themselves. The 45-million-dollar Duccio bought by the Met in 2005 shows the incarnate deity supported with infinite care by his reverentially gazing …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Vija Celmins’s Visions of Violence
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Vija Celmins’s Visions of Violence
Last Saturday, March 19—the day that the US began air strikes in Libya—I passed an anti-war demonstration while driving to LACMA to see Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966. It …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Lots of Questions and Lots of Coffee: NAEA 2011
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Lots of Questions and Lots of Coffee: NAEA 2011
As I mentioned last week, Art21’s Education and Public Programs team recently took to Seattle for the National Art Education Association’s annual conference. Over 3,000 educators from across the country …
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Open Enrollment | I Do Art, Here’s My Card: A Trip to SXSW
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Open Enrollment | I Do Art, Here’s My Card: A Trip to SXSW
I have a pretty set routine that very delicately balances work and school, sandwiching meals and sleep somewhere in the nooks and crannies of my schedule. So my friends and …
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Open Enrollment | What up, Internet? Saxophonist Throws Mad Wrenches in Capitalism’s Machinations
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Open Enrollment | What up, Internet? Saxophonist Throws Mad Wrenches in Capitalism’s Machinations
I’m happy to report that I’m alive. I made it through my first conference presentation as part of The Now Museum Graduate Student Symposium last Sunday at the New Museum. …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Absalon at Kunst-Werke
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Absalon at Kunst-Werke
It was back in 2005 when I first encountered the work of Absalon at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof in a exhibition called Fast Nichts – Minimal Artworks from the Friedrich Christian …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Colectivo Situaciones
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Colectivo Situaciones
* This interview has been translated and co-edited by Brian Whitener. I first heard about Colectivo Situaciones about a year ago, when I received a publication in the mail titled …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Looking at LARGE SCALE; A Conversation with Jonathan Lippincott
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Looking at LARGE SCALE; A Conversation with Jonathan Lippincott
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with Jonathan Lippincott about his new book, “LARGE SCALE: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s.”
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Ken Lum 30 Year Retrospective at Vancouver Art Gallery
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Ken Lum 30 Year Retrospective at Vancouver Art Gallery
Ever watch a three month old baby stare into a mirror for the first time? Its face is an expression of pure awe and confusion. What is the thing in …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Killed Posterity
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Killed Posterity
Roy Stryker, the man who ran the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and sent some of the best-known 20th century photographers out on their first assignments, “didn’t …
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Open Enrollment | On Hierarchies: Thoughts after Sarah Thornton
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Open Enrollment | On Hierarchies: Thoughts after Sarah Thornton
Sarah Thornton, the author of Seven Days in the Art World — a book that made me book laugh, giggle, and weep — spoke last night at the Museum of …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice: Episode #2
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice: Episode #2
We’re back with our second edition of “Fielding Practice,” a podcast produced exclusively for Art21’s listeners and readers. On today’s episode, Duncan MacKenzie, Dan Gunn, and I are joined by …
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