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Open Enrollment
The Radical Workshop: For Students, By Students
Open Enrollment
The Radical Workshop: For Students, By Students
by Lily Rossebo and Carrie McGath Lily and Carrie add their two cents about the significance of radical workshops in art school programs. Lily Rossebo: Without student protests, what would …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 2
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 2
Below is the second part of my conversation with Laura Thompson, Director of Exhibitions and Education at Kidspace (part one of the interview can be found here). Many thanks to …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports: Interview with Jacob Meehan
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports: Interview with Jacob Meehan
Art21 is proud to present another new column, Center Field | Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports. Since 2005, Bad at Sports’s podcast and blog have acted as …
On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production
Art21 Extended Play
100th Exclusive & William Kentridge Exclusives, Carrie Mae Weems Uncut, the problem with talking, and screenings
On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production
Art21 Extended Play
100th Exclusive & William Kentridge Exclusives, Carrie Mae Weems Uncut, the problem with talking, and screenings
As usual, there’s a lot of production-related ground to cover I’d like to cover. First, I really need to publicly acknowledge what’s hopefully no longer a private landmark, the release …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Prelude: A Discussion with Tara Donovan
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Prelude: A Discussion with Tara Donovan
IMA Conservator Richard McCoy and SFMoMA Conservator Jill Sterrett talk to Tara Donovan about her new exhibition at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 1
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 1
On March 20, Kidspace at MASS MoCA celebrated its 10th anniversary. Kidspace, a contemporary art gallery, studio, and educational program, promotes the understanding and teaching of art through experiential learning …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Battlin’ Tatlin
Letter from London
Letter from London: Battlin’ Tatlin
Poor old Vladimir Tatlin. Having been ruthlessly picked-apart in numberless modernist critiques, his thwarted architectural ambitions have yet again provided the basis for a work of contemporary art. Anish Kapoor’s design …
What's Cookin': The Art21ndex
What’s Cookin’ at the Art21 Blog — A Weekly Index
What's Cookin': The Art21ndex
What’s Cookin’ at the Art21 Blog — A Weekly Index
This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco club either…but it is SUPER FUN! Art21 hosted the second installment of Culture Wars: A Night of Trivia with Art21 this past …
Looking at Los Angeles
Watts Up: L.A. Struggles to Salvage its Public Art Centers
Looking at Los Angeles
Watts Up: L.A. Struggles to Salvage its Public Art Centers
Fifty years after public outcry stopped the city of Los Angeles from demolishing the world-famous Watts Towers, Angelenos once again rallied to rescue the complex from the City Council chopping …
What's Cookin': The Art21ndex
What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index
What's Cookin': The Art21ndex
What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index
What is the relationship between the cheerfulness of technology, the recognition of cyber-ecology, and the profound sorrow of human expression? In his post, blogger Ivan Lozano quotes Ollivier Dyens’s essay …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Rachel Moore
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Rachel Moore
Rachel Moore is an American artist and currently a Fulbright Fellow at the Aristotle University in Thessaloniki, Greece. She holds a BFA from Alfred University and an MFA from the …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Jumping Right Into the Shark Tank
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Jumping Right Into the Shark Tank
Back in the fall, a good friend and colleague passed along Denis Dutton’s New York Times Op-Ed piece titled Has Conceptual Art Jumped the Shark Tank? Deborah knew that the …
What's Cookin': The Art21ndex
What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index
What's Cookin': The Art21ndex
What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index
Spring is just around the corner!!! Whew, finally. Meanwhile, here’s What’s Cookin: VIDEO EXCLUSIVE | Jeff Koons: Money & Value: Artist Jeff Koons discusses themes of money, desire, perfection, and …
Looking at Los Angeles
Mel Bochner’s Burnt Tongue
Looking at Los Angeles
Mel Bochner’s Burnt Tongue
Los Angeles galleries are brimming with minimal, kind-of-conceptual abstraction at the moment — Paul Davis’s successions of hinges and wood and Joe Fyfe’s felt and muslin Motherwell spin-offs at ACME; …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Cultural Landscapes, Aesthetics, and Tigers: A Conversation with Mitchell Hearns Bishop
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Cultural Landscapes, Aesthetics, and Tigers: A Conversation with Mitchell Hearns Bishop
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy speaks with L.A. Arboretum curator Mitchell Hearns Bishop about cultural landscapes within the context of aesthetics and even tigers.
On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production
Frederick Wiseman, Orphan Films, FIFA Montreal, & Other Documentary Screenings
On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production
Frederick Wiseman, Orphan Films, FIFA Montreal, & Other Documentary Screenings
Though it’s been a particularly busy past few weeks here at Art21 production HQ – creating new exclusive videos, shooting the preparation and rehearsals for William Kentridge’s Nose production at …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Test-Driving the New Season 5 Educators’ Guide: John Baldessari and Juxtaposition
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Test-Driving the New Season 5 Educators’ Guide: John Baldessari and Juxtaposition
Within the first few pages of the season 5 Educators’ Guide, readers are asked to think about the power and influence of juxtaposing images in order to give the viewer …
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