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Teaching with Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art in Contemporary Classrooms: Art21 Educators 2009
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art in Contemporary Classrooms: Art21 Educators 2009
Starting today, Art21 is pleased to welcome K-12 teachers from across the country to participate in our first summer institute, Art21 Educators. Jessica Hamlin, Marc Mayer, Joy Lai (our amazing …
Flash Points
Arts Stimulus Funding & the Art Economy Part 2: Talking to the House Arts Caucus Co-Chairs
Flash Points
Arts Stimulus Funding & the Art Economy Part 2: Talking to the House Arts Caucus Co-Chairs
A few months ago, I went to the Bronx for a studio visit with an accomplished artist, John Fekner, whose personal brand of street graphics helped define a tumultuous era …
Flash Points
The value of didactic art and the gift economy—from object ownership to object affiliation
Flash Points
The value of didactic art and the gift economy—from object ownership to object affiliation
There is quite a tradition around visualizing information that reaches beyond the more familiar pie charts and quantifications used in science and commerce, dealing with the communication of complex thought …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Wrestling with the Past: A TwCA 2008-2009 Roundup
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Wrestling with the Past: A TwCA 2008-2009 Roundup
It’s been quite a year. Quite an academic year, that is. Between the country voicing a collective NO to four more years of the same Bushed policies and Bernie Madoff …
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
@Platea: Art in the Web 2.0 Ethos
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
@Platea: Art in the Web 2.0 Ethos
Social technologies have been around for decades, but mainstream use of social media platforms has grown exponentially only over recent years. This column explores uses of social media platforms relevant …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Students about Christian Marclay’s “Video Quartet”
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Students about Christian Marclay’s “Video Quartet”
With the opening of Christian Marclay’s Video Quartet at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (on view through July 26, 2009), I have been thinking about how to …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Everybody Be Cool, This Is An Art Gallery!
Letter from London
Letter from London: Everybody Be Cool, This Is An Art Gallery!
If Abstract America, the new show of contemporary American painting and sculpture at the Saatchi Gallery, were a film, it’d be one of those earnest indie dramas made for hipster …
Flash Points
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives: The Clocks’ Tic Tic Tic …
Flash Points
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives: The Clocks’ Tic Tic Tic …
Spearheaded by Richard McCoy, a conservator at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, this site’s newest column, “No Preservatives,” seeks to define the conservator’s role in the conservation of art in …
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