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Teaching with Contemporary Art
Can a successful work of art make you angry?
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Can a successful work of art make you angry?
Can a successful work of art make you angry, uncomfortable, or confused? This is one of the many questions we engage in as art educators and also one of the …
Open Enrollment
Concentrating on the Social in Portland
Open Enrollment
Concentrating on the Social in Portland
As the distinctions between artist, curator, writer and administrator are increasingly less definite, developments in how individuals should be educated follow these new hybrid categories of working. Recently, an intriguing …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Alison Ruttan’s “The Four Year War at Gombe”
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Alison Ruttan’s “The Four Year War at Gombe”
I’ve been reading with great interest some of the posts and friendly debates that have taken place recently on this site concerning the relationship between art and science. As I …
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision: Whack! Contemporary Artists and Piñatas
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision: Whack! Contemporary Artists and Piñatas
The much-talked-about Andy Warhol piñata, created by Jennifer Rubell for last month’s Brooklyn Ball, offered a witty art spin on an old party tradition. Instead of the usual candy contents, …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
What Makes Us (More) Human: The Vast Middle Ground Between Art and Science
Teaching with Contemporary Art
What Makes Us (More) Human: The Vast Middle Ground Between Art and Science
Many of you may remember quite a bit of public sparring that occurred between John Hammond and myself over the “What Makes Us Human” post back in September. Since then, …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Caring for What’s Living: a Discussion with Norah Fletchall
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Caring for What’s Living: a Discussion with Norah Fletchall
Indianapolis Museum of Art conservator Richard McCoy talks with Indianapolis Zoo conservator Norah Fletchall about ways in which their professional lives intersect.
Letter from London
Letter from London: Barnstormer
Letter from London
Letter from London: Barnstormer
“Time-based art” is a great new contemporary art phrase to drop into conversations, with the redoubtable Orwellian tautology of “movement-based dancing” or “sound-based music.” It’s one of those phrases that …
On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production
London Calling, Going Tapeless & Meta Madness
On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production
London Calling, Going Tapeless & Meta Madness
Art21’s Season 6, at least as far as video production is concerned, is getting a little more real everyday. We’re deep in the throes of pre-producing our first honest-to-god shoot …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Archiving Soul | Ken Shipley of Numero Group
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Archiving Soul | Ken Shipley of Numero Group
While sitting in his office listening to some soon to be released albums, Ken Shipley quickly noted, “we have found a way as a record label to be like a …
Flash Points
Some Alternatives to Institutional Critique
Flash Points
Some Alternatives to Institutional Critique
In 1974, Hans Haacke mounted an index of the museum’s corporate sponsors and board of trustees along the Guggenheim’s walls. The work, simply titled, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum Board of …
Open Enrollment
The Exhibition in Art & Business
Open Enrollment
The Exhibition in Art & Business
Oliver Wunsch considers the role of exhibition work in an art historical education by looking at MASS MoCA’s current show InVisible, curated by one of his classmates. Mike Brenner discusses different cost structures of grassroots art exhibitions, and how changing economic times force artists to adapt to find space and funds.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Exhibiting the Intangible
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Exhibiting the Intangible
Recently, Bad at Sports was invited to exhibit at apexart, an alternative gallery space in New York known for presenting innovative thematic exhibitions and public programs. In order to take …
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Beyond Boundaries: Art Exhibition & Virtual 3D Worlds
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Beyond Boundaries: Art Exhibition & Virtual 3D Worlds
I like using the word ‘totality’ as in the ‘totality of one’s surroundings.’ Self provides the essentials of our internal existence and environment is the external display of all that. …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Nourishment
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Nourishment
Each year the National Art Education Association holds a conference for a few thousand people and streams of art teachers, art professors, artist-educators, museum educators, administrators, starving artists, starving administrators, …
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