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Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights: Nazım Hikmet Richard Dikbaş
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights: Nazım Hikmet Richard Dikbaş
In talking to dozens of artists, curators, and critics over the past few months, over and over I have heard the same term used by those located within the community …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | A Print World Compendium: IPCNY Celebrates Ten Years
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | A Print World Compendium: IPCNY Celebrates Ten Years
In 1995, a group of print-world professionals and collectors based in New York joined forces to establish a non-profit organization that would be “dedicated to the appreciation and understanding of …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Spring Thaw
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Spring Thaw
I fly back to Berlin tomorrow, finally ending a prolonged Kerouac walk-through of mid-sized southern cities; a spring break for the “mild girl.” During my Texas stay, a sun constitutional …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows: The Plaid Fad
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows: The Plaid Fad
In November 1991, Nirvana played on all of our car stereos. We smoked clove cigarettes and drove through the Oakland hills with Nevermind blaring over the speakers. Kurt Cobain drowned …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
New column! Introducing “Bedfellows”
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
New column! Introducing “Bedfellows”
Art21 is pleased to announce our latest column, Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture, penned by guest blog alum Victoria Gannon. Art and visual culture have not always been friends. When …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Brandon Anschultz
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Brandon Anschultz
Full disclosure: I have spent many happy hours in Brandon Anschultz‘s studio, located near Lafayette Square in St. Louis, MO, drinking wine, laughing hysterically at his sharp wit, and admiring …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Ephemerality and Eternity in “All of this and nothing”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Ephemerality and Eternity in “All of this and nothing”
“It’s really about the magical and the mysterious in the everyday,” says Hammer senior curator Anne Ellegood, in the online video introducing the museum’s newest exhibition, All of this and nothing. …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | biriken
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | biriken
biriken is the five year old interdisciplinary, collaborative project of Melis Tezkan and Okan Urun. Working at the intersection of performance art, installation art, and traditional theater practice, Tezkan and …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Graffiti in the Classroom
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Graffiti in the Classroom
Students often have lots of interest and questions about graffiti, graffiti art and street art. My response usually includes the fact that I love graffiti art and street art, especially …
Open Enrollment
The What? The CUNY Graduate Center? Is that, like, part of NYU?
Open Enrollment
The What? The CUNY Graduate Center? Is that, like, part of NYU?
I’ve really been enjoying reading the posts from my fellow Open Enrollment bloggers over the last month, but Stefan’s post on his current experience at the Courtauld in London caught …
Flash Points
Speaking of Influence: A Monument’s Invisible Man
Flash Points
Speaking of Influence: A Monument’s Invisible Man
“To make the monuments speak again we must question the often bland surface they show the world.” –Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves “Do I speak for everyone? No. No …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Characters, Not Caricatures: The Multifarious Art of Rachel Mason
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Characters, Not Caricatures: The Multifarious Art of Rachel Mason
Rachel Mason’s work is not easy to neatly summarize. I’ve been following her projects for several years now, and I still have difficulty explaining what exactly it is that she …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Amy Balkin
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Amy Balkin
For the past couple years, I have been teaching Bay Area-based artist Amy Balkin’s work within a curriculum about environmental art and “land expropriation.” I teach her work besides Karl …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment: Letters to a Young Art Historian?
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment: Letters to a Young Art Historian?
November 2009, I was in the middle of a dark blue funk, something along the lines of a post-collegiate quarter-life crisis. Working a menial, low-paying job in museum retail and …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives: Getting to Know Thornton Dial
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives: Getting to Know Thornton Dial
IMA conservator Richard McCoy talks about his experience working on Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial.
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | An Interview with Vasıf Kortun (Part II)
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | An Interview with Vasıf Kortun (Part II)
Following is the second half an interview Elizabeth Wolfson conducted with Vasif Kortun. Read part one here. — Ed. Perhaps more than any other individual, Vasıf Kortun has redirected the …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Owning Robert Mapplethorpe
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Owning Robert Mapplethorpe
“I don’t know why my pictures come out looking so good,” photographer Robert Mapplethorpe once told his brother. “I just don’t get it.” He had that innate knack for …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | An Interview with Vasıf Kortun (Part I)
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | An Interview with Vasıf Kortun (Part I)
Perhaps more than any other individual, Vasıf Kortun has redirected the trajectory of recent Turkish art history. As Chief Curator and Director of the 3rd Istanbul Biennial in 1992, Kortun …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Special “Center Field” Podcast: Fielding Practice with Bad at Sports
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Special “Center Field” Podcast: Fielding Practice with Bad at Sports
All of us here at Bad at Sports have loved working on our twice-monthly column for this blog, Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports. It gives …
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Scott Yoell’s “Tsunami”
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Scott Yoell’s “Tsunami”
When I interview an artist for radio format, I go in hoping for interesting and honest statements about his/her work and ideas, because I know that in the editing suite, …
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