Columns & Features
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Richard McCoy’s Top 10 iPhone Images
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Richard McCoy’s Top 10 iPhone Images
In 2010 I took more than 3,300 pictures and videos with my iPhone. No matter where I am, I have the thing with me; it’s terribly useful, occasionally entertaining, and …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Artemis Potamianou
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Artemis Potamianou
Artemis Potamianou is a visual artist based in Athens, Greece. She attained a BFA Degree from the Athens School of Fine Arts in 1997 and an MFA from the Staffordshire …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Top 10 Chicago Art Events in 2010
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Top 10 Chicago Art Events in 2010
Meg Onli and Claudine Ise’s list of the ten best–or at least most interesting–events in Chicago art in 2010. 1. Best city-wide, sustained, multi-platform discussion of a single topic in …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Sustaining Practices
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Sustaining Practices
Lately I have been thinking a lot about sustainability and sustenance. Not the environmental kind of sustainability–the personal and emotional kind. Chicago’s art community is rich in relationships, but like …
Looking at Los Angeles
(Looking at Los Angeles) Top 10 of 2010: Entertainers Who Moonlight as Artists
Looking at Los Angeles
(Looking at Los Angeles) Top 10 of 2010: Entertainers Who Moonlight as Artists
Since last year’s Top 10 list was posted, we have seen the passing of two individuals who have greatly impacted both the art world as well and entertainment world. Dennis Hopper …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with David Wojnarowicz (and Not Teaching with the Smithsonian)
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with David Wojnarowicz (and Not Teaching with the Smithsonian)
In light of the recent debacle at the Smithsonian involving the removal of David Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly, I thought it might make sense to suggest some ways …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hell Is Other People
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hell Is Other People
It is a truth universally acknowledged that artists make the best curators. Mark Wallinger’s exhibition, The Russian Linesman at the Hayward Gallery last March, was a proposal about what creative …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Stage your Melodrama: An Elmgreen and a Dragset
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Stage your Melodrama: An Elmgreen and a Dragset
When the art historians start treading through Berlin’s turn-of-the-millennium years to chart artists’ march to Neukölln, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset‘s studio will be a main stop for tea and …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Nato Thompson
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Nato Thompson
I am a bit late coming to the curatorial work of Nato Thompson, which first became recognizable to me at this past October’s second annual Creative Time Summit, a gathering …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment: And the Nominations Are In…
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment: And the Nominations Are In…
Yesterday morning, the announcement of the Golden Globe nominations kick started the award season for excellence in television and movies. A variety of awards have already been given out this …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Interview with John Riepenhoff of The Green Gallery
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Interview with John Riepenhoff of The Green Gallery
In his artist statement for a recent exhibition at the Institute of Visual Arts, John Riepenhoff used Colby cheese to make a comment on regionalism. His bio describes him as …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Tuition and Hopin’
Letter from London
Letter from London: Tuition and Hopin’
This week, Britain’s coalition government (narrowly) passed a proposal to dramatically hike university tuition fees, the results of which were a number of occasionally violent protests in central London. The …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Notes from Underground: William Powhida
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Notes from Underground: William Powhida
The contemporary art fair Art Basel Miami Beach takes place this week, bringing with it a flurry of activity. In the spirit of participation, Ink is dedicated this month to …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jan-Henri Booyens
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jan-Henri Booyens
Jan-Henri Booyens is a South African artist based in Pretoria, South Africa. Jan holds a BFA in painting from the Durban Institute of Technology, in KwaZulu Natal. Since 2000, he …
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Translating Ai Weiwei: Bringing Chinese Social Media Art to the English Twittersphere, Part 2
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Translating Ai Weiwei: Bringing Chinese Social Media Art to the English Twittersphere, Part 2
Ai Weiwei. Sunflower Seeds, 2010. Installation view, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London. Photo courtesy of Aaron Chen. An Xiao follows up on yesterday’s post and continues her discussion with Bird’s …
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | Translating Ai Weiwei: Bringing Chinese Social Media Art to the English Twittersphere, Part 1
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | Translating Ai Weiwei: Bringing Chinese Social Media Art to the English Twittersphere, Part 1
Artist Ai Weiwei in conversation with Tate Modern curator Katie Hill, October 2010. Photo by An Xiao. This past summer, Jennifer Ng and I launched Bird’s Nest: Ai Weiwei in …
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision: Food and Technology in an Art Lab
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision: Food and Technology in an Art Lab
Last month, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York turned their main exhibition space into X-Lab, a “living” work space where the public can interact with Eyebeam’s fellows and …
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