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Teaching with Contemporary Art

….and the Not-So-Powerful, Part 2

Teaching with Contemporary Art

….and the Not-So-Powerful, Part 2

This week I want to continue sharing a few stories in the Not-So-Powerful series about units that didn’t go well and the things that happened as a result… Years ago …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Imaging Conservation at the Guggenheim: A Discussion with Carol Stringari

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Imaging Conservation at the Guggenheim: A Discussion with Carol Stringari

IMA art conservator talks with Carol Stringari, the Chief Conservator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Letter from London

Letter from London: Beck to the Future!

Letter from London

Letter from London: Beck to the Future!

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkcvrV4UhTM] The “cultural cringe” – the crippling inferiority complex that members of a particular country feel about their homeland, as evidenced in the bluffed provenance of just about every college …

Flash Points

Fabricating the DNA Fingerprint

Flash Points

Fabricating the DNA Fingerprint

The most exciting moments of the intersection of art and science, for me, are when artists’ use of scientific materials and methods reveal new aspects of their media. Genetic evidence …

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

What’s Cookin at Art21: A Weekly Index

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

What’s Cookin at Art21: A Weekly Index

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7J_XpDRJX-Y] Hungry? Here’s some arty brain food for you all… “Sometimes the most interesting thing about an artist is the disparity between their work and the established perception of it. …

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Barbara Kruger interviewed by Richard Prince

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Barbara Kruger interviewed by Richard Prince

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a vintage BOMB interview relating to a Season 5 artist. This week, we stepped back into our archive …

Flash Points

New Flash Points topic: Systems

Flash Points

New Flash Points topic: Systems

In celebration of the fifth season of Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century, premiering this fall on PBS, the current round of Flash Points topics correspond to our four thematic episodes: …

Flash Points

Hybrids

Flash Points

Hybrids

In an exhibition currently on view at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago, artist Vesna Jovanovic both courts and antagonizes the intersection of art and science in the role of the medical …

Flash Points

Yinka Shonibare at the Brooklyn Museum

Flash Points

Yinka Shonibare at the Brooklyn Museum

Yinka Shonibare MBE (Season 5) has a mid-career retrospective currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum through September 20, 2009. The exhibition was organized and toured by the Museum of …

Meet the Season 5 Artist: John Baldessari

Meet the Season 5 Artist: John Baldessari

The above video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode Systems, premiering on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Systems features four artists — …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Where Am I?

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Where Am I?

The beginning of a school year, especially the first days of school, can be beautiful or brutal. I remember as a kid sitting in class after class on the first …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Hot Scots, Part Deux

Letter from London

Letter from London: Hot Scots, Part Deux

Sometimes the most interesting thing about an artist is the disparity between their work and the established perception of it. Eva Hesse, the late German-American sculptor of ratty latex and …

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

It’s on the table! Enjoy! Where in the world are Art21 artists? Everywhere…and Nicole Caruth gives us the scoop. Hrag introduces Ellen Pearlman, a Brooklyn & Beijing-based writer, curator, critic …

Flash Points

Some Thoughts on Art + Transformation in American’s Oldest Continuous Artist Colony

Flash Points

Some Thoughts on Art + Transformation in American’s Oldest Continuous Artist Colony

I admit to being surprised at the role the visual arts plays in Provincetown, Massachusetts. In college, I remember learning about Hans Hofmann’s famous school, which taught artists (Helen Frankenthaler, …

BOMB in the Building

Yinka Shonibare interviewed by Anthony Downey

BOMB in the Building

Yinka Shonibare interviewed by Anthony Downey

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a vintage BOMB interview relating to a Season 5 artist. Next up, Yinka Shonibare, whose exhibit at the …

Flash Points

Some Thoughts on Art + Transformation + Pop Culture

Flash Points

Some Thoughts on Art + Transformation + Pop Culture

Our latest reflection on the theme of art + transformation comes from two popular Philadelphia-based art bloggers, Roberta Fallon & Libby Rosof. The founders of TheArtBlog.org, the pair shared some thoughts …

Meet the Season 5 Artist: Yinka Shonibare MBE

Meet the Season 5 Artist: Yinka Shonibare MBE

The above video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode Transformation, premiering on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Whether satirizing society or reinventing …

Flash Points

Some Thoughts on the Transformative Power of Walking + Art

Flash Points

Some Thoughts on the Transformative Power of Walking + Art

Austin Thomas is a New York-based artist, curator & sometimes salon host. When I asked her about art + transformation, she offered these thoughts about the transformative power of walking …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

What Makes Us Human

Teaching with Contemporary Art

What Makes Us Human

I’m addicted to Harper’s Magazine. I started reading it in 1985 as a freshman in college and have somehow managed, through multiple moves and roommates, to keep every single issue …

Flash Points

Some Thoughts on Art + Transformation in Williamsburg

Flash Points

Some Thoughts on Art + Transformation in Williamsburg

Loren Munk–of the infamous DIY online video program James Kalm Report–is a walking encyclopedia of the history of Brooklyn’s Williamsburg art community. So when I asked him about his take …

Some Thoughts on China + Transformation

Some Thoughts on China + Transformation

In the final week of the Transformation series, I’ve asked a number of people with diverse points of view to offer their thoughts on the topic. To kick things off, …

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

So many places to go and art to see…let’s get started… Thank you Trong for updating us on the whereabouts of some very special Art21 artists. Guest blogger Quinn Latimer …

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Cindy Sherman interviewed by Betsy Sussler

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Cindy Sherman interviewed by Betsy Sussler

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a vintage BOMB interview relating to a Season 5 artist. Inspired by Cindy Sherman’s “Transformations,” this week we …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Flo McGarrell

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Flo McGarrell

Flo McGarrell is a visual artist based in Newbury, Vermont, USA and Jacmel, Haiti. He was born in Rome, Italy to American expatriate artists. McGarrell received a B.F.A. in Fibers …

From Here To There (and Back Again)

From Here To There (and Back Again)

Collection shows, by their very nature, often feel more like “Best of…” CDs than a well-curated mix-tape. They usually feature the hits—a stripe-y Barnett Newman, an invariably awesome Pablo Picasso—but …

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

ArtPrize: An Experiment in Decentralized Curation and Competition

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

ArtPrize: An Experiment in Decentralized Curation and Competition

Maya Lin’s (Season One) “Ecliptic” in Rosa Parks Circle, Grand Rapids, Michigan. (Production still from the Art:21 episode, Identity, © Art21, Inc. 2001.) There’s been a fair bit of talk …

Meet the Season 5 Artist: Cindy Sherman

Meet the Season 5 Artist: Cindy Sherman

The above video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode Transformation, premiering on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Whether satirizing society or reinventing …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

….and the Not-So-Powerful (Part One)

Teaching with Contemporary Art

….and the Not-So-Powerful (Part One)

Ever since the blog post Jessica Hamlin wrote a few weeks back regarding my “Teaching About Power” unit I’ve been feeling a little guilty. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve gotten …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Aesthetics of Urban Farming, Part II

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Aesthetics of Urban Farming, Part II

I closed Part 1 of this post with an e-mail from Truck Farmers Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney in which they encouraged others to reclaim unused open spaces in New …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Hot Scots, Part Un

Letter from London

Letter from London: Hot Scots, Part Un

In a big, sprawling, multi-tentacular artsfest like the Edinburgh Festival, certain forms of art – like, say, one-woman mime interpretations of the career of Robin Williams, or freestyle macrame workshops …

Let Them Read Books/Play Records: Taschen, Plattfon, Stampa, Aniston

Let Them Read Books/Play Records: Taschen, Plattfon, Stampa, Aniston

“This new edition is the fulfillment of an ambition conceived years ago. We jokingly referred to it as ‘Newton for the poor.’ ” Oh, Benedikt Taschen, it’s quotes like these—and your …

BOMB in the Building

Letter from London

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

Art21 Extended Play

What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

BOMB in the Building

Letter from London

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

Art21 Extended Play

What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

It’s mealtime! Join Sonya for a fine helping of nutrients and adventure with this week’s Index: Round ‘em up Nicole! Here’s what Art21 artists have been up to this past …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Aesthetics of Urban Farming, Part I

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Aesthetics of Urban Farming, Part I

Gastro-Vision is a new monthly column dedicated to all things food. It probably goes without saying that depictions of food in art are as old as art itself. Since the …

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Paul McCarthy interviewed by Benjamin Weissman

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Paul McCarthy interviewed by Benjamin Weissman

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’ll be featuring a vintage BOMB interview relating to a Season 5 artist. This week we present Paul McCarthy’s interview …

Meet the Season 5 Artist: Paul McCarthy

Meet the Season 5 Artist: Paul McCarthy

The above video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode Transformation, premiering on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Whether satirizing society or reinventing …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Dove and O’Keeffe… Get ‘Em While It’s Hot

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Dove and O’Keeffe… Get ‘Em While It’s Hot

There are many reasons that educators want to visit the Circles of Influence exhibit featuring Arthur Dove and Georgia O’Keeffe at The Clark Art Institute through September 7th, but one …