Columns & Features
Deep Focus: Inside Art21 Films
Six Tips for Shooting Underwater Video
Deep Focus: Inside Art21 Films
Six Tips for Shooting Underwater Video
Art21’s Director of Production offers helpful tips for shooting video underwater after filming Caroline Woolard’s sculptures on a Rockaway beach for a “New York Close Up” film.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Inside, Outside, Online: Dissecting social media, escape and identity
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Inside, Outside, Online: Dissecting social media, escape and identity
Educator-in-Residence Stacey Abramson relates the experience of art-making to that of constructing an identity online—both are a means of self-presentation and escape.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Rust, Decay and Decomposition: Four Artists to Teach With
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Rust, Decay and Decomposition: Four Artists to Teach With
Art21 Senior Education Advisor Joe Fusaro shares four artists who use rust and decay to tell stories, illuminate histories, and prompt us to think about beauty in new ways.
New Kids on the Block
Mohamad Hafez’s Complex Models of Syrian Devastation
New Kids on the Block
Mohamad Hafez’s Complex Models of Syrian Devastation
Mohamad Hafez creates elaborate models of annihilated streetscapes and ruined buildings, replicating the devastation of the war in Syria, where he was born.
Letter from the Editor
Rust in Detroit: Ingenuity, Process, and Natural Order
Letter from the Editor
Rust in Detroit: Ingenuity, Process, and Natural Order
Art21 Magazine’s first co-guest editors, curators Laura Mott and Taylor Renee Aldridge, introduce the issue’s theme: “Rust,” and its complicated relationship to the city of Detroit.
Artist Introspectives
The Practice of Walking: Somewhere Near Zabar’s
Artist Introspectives
The Practice of Walking: Somewhere Near Zabar’s
Erin Sweeny recounts her performative action of walking the length of Manhattan on Good Friday, and relates the project to other artists who incorporate walking in their practice.
Center Field: Art in the Middle
Open Engagement: An Interview with Jen Delos Reyes
Center Field: Art in the Middle
Open Engagement: An Interview with Jen Delos Reyes
Mark Reamy interviews the founder of Open Engagement, an annual conference on the field of socially engaged art, happening this year in Chicago April 21–23.
The New Situationists
Implicit Politics: August Sander and the Fallacy of Objectivity
The New Situationists
Implicit Politics: August Sander and the Fallacy of Objectivity
Erin Sweeny uncovers the complexities of accepting photography as an objective representation of reality, through the work of twentieth century German photographer August Sander.
Writer-in-Residence
Beverly Fishman: Color-Coding Big Pharma
Writer-in-Residence
Beverly Fishman: Color-Coding Big Pharma
Writer-in-Residence Zachary Small uncovers the psychological implications of Beverly Fishman’s brightly colored pill-paintings that explore the consequences of an unchecked medical industry.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Nick Cave’s Until, Until Conversations Emerge
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Nick Cave’s Until, Until Conversations Emerge
Art21 Senior Education Advisor Joe Fusaro discusses how Nick Cave’s immersive installation “Until” can serve as a conversation starter for difficult subjects like racism and violence.
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
The Role of Online Archives in Contemporary Art and Activism
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
The Role of Online Archives in Contemporary Art and Activism
Rachel Heidenry shares the significance and recent resurgence of utilizing online archives as a method for activism and engagement.
Letter from the Editor
On the Power of Art and Challenging Cultural Inequity
Letter from the Editor
On the Power of Art and Challenging Cultural Inequity
Artist and activist Favianna Rodriguez introduces the “Momentum” issue with a call to action: end cultural inequity by challenging the art world’s existing power structures.