Columns & Features
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Is Locale Needed? Netart in the Midwest
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Is Locale Needed? Netart in the Midwest
Since moving away from Chicago this past summer, I’ve seen how Chicago and the Midwest have influenced my work, as well as my work ethic. The spirit of experimentation and …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Carin Kuoni of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Carin Kuoni of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
For six years, Carin Kuoni has been director of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School in New York City. I wanted to pose my …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | A Fresh Path at the Met: A Discussion with Kendra E. Roth
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | A Fresh Path at the Met: A Discussion with Kendra E. Roth
Indianapolis Museum of Art conservator speaks with Metropolitan Museum conservator Kendra Roth about ancient chariots, fish, and kinetic sculptures, among other things.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Seen and Felt
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Seen and Felt
When I first encountered the warm voluptuousness of Mary Cassatt’s paintings, it annoyed me. Then I realized the artist had never married, living much of her life frequenting Paris salons, …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Kentridge in the Classroom
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Kentridge in the Classroom
Support Art21 The William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible BACK TO SCHOOL campaign is dedicated to raising awareness and funds for Art21’s free education programs and resources accompanying William Kentridge: Anything …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Hard Conversations (Exploring Inequality)
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Hard Conversations (Exploring Inequality)
In the New York Times last week, Nicholas Kristof reported that the richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of the income, up from 9 percent …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment: Disciplinary Complex
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment: Disciplinary Complex
Over the past few decades, “interdisciplinary” has emerged as a popular designation in academic culture, particularly in the arts and humanities. Both as an undergraduate in studio art and as …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Minneapolis! Art Review and Preview
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Minneapolis! Art Review and Preview
When I think of Minneapolis, MN, two things typically come to mind: the first being Janet Jackson’s song “Escapade” off of her 1989 album, Janet Jackson’s Rhythm Nation 1814, where …
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Musée des Beaux-Arts Goes Loco for Local
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Musée des Beaux-Arts Goes Loco for Local
In 1913, Marcel Duchamp created a ruckus with an assembled inverted bicycle wheel mounted on a stool. The provocateur stirred controversy soon after with more found objects, most famously a …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Ink | Thinking Aloud: The Prints of William Kentridge
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Ink | Thinking Aloud: The Prints of William Kentridge
The recent release of William Kentridge: Anything is Possible invites exploration of the artist’s significant body of prints, which currently numbers over 400. A natural match for his artistic philosophy …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Feathers, Magic Mushrooms and Bicycle Tours
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Feathers, Magic Mushrooms and Bicycle Tours
Bundle up, Berlin: winter is almost here, and it might be a long one, again. If you haven’t fallen prey to the sniffling, the sneezing, the nose-blowing and coughing, germ-spreading …
Flash Points
From the Flat Surface to the Curved Mirror
Flash Points
From the Flat Surface to the Curved Mirror
[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL3lVDrqNXY] Using variable media – taking the form of tapestry and sculpture to performance, cinema, and stereoscopic imagery— William Kentridge calculates a not so obvious curve to create socially informed …
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Time of Your Life
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Time of Your Life
Christian Marclay’s The Clock (now on show at White Cube, Mason’s Yard) is a twenty-four hour long film which, unlike other very long art films like Douglas Gordon’s Twenty-Four Hour …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Pesce Khete
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Pesce Khete
Pesce Khete is an Italian painter based primarily in Rome, Italy. He has studied at the Classical Studies Department at the Liceo Ginnasio Torquato Tasso, later on at the Istituto …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Skills Worth Teaching
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Skills Worth Teaching
This past April at the National Art Education Association’s annual conference in Baltimore, Craig Roland hosted and participated in a panel presentation called “What’s Worth Teaching in Art?” But before …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Interview with Derek Chan
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Interview with Derek Chan
Derek Chan and I have been friends for a little over four years. We both moved from Los Angeles to Chicago in the Fall of 2005. We had several mutual …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Considering Gravity’s Loom: A Discussion with Ball-Nogues
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Considering Gravity’s Loom: A Discussion with Ball-Nogues
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with the Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues (Ball-Nogues Studio) about their recent installation, Gravity’s Loom, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Temporary Services
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Temporary Services
Art21 is pleased to announce our latest column: 5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice), written by guest blog alum Thom Donovan (bio here). 5 Questions showcases the work of contemporary practitioners …
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