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Letter from London
Letter from London: War(hol)! What is he good for?
Letter from London
Letter from London: War(hol)! What is he good for?
While the prospect of yet another Andy Warhol exhibition will be met by most gallery-goers with an indifferent shrug, Other Voices, Other Rooms, the new show at the Hayward Gallery, attempts to …
Letter from London
Letter from London: God Save McQueen!
Letter from London
Letter from London: God Save McQueen!
British artist Steve McQueen’s current feature film, Hunger, has received pretty much universally positive reviews. Tracing the last six weeks of the life of Bobby Sands, the IRA hunger striker imprisoned in …
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Turbine Hall
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Turbine Hall
Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall commissions have set a certain standard for scale in art making at a time when many artists have retreated from the big, brash statement towards the self-effacing, the …
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Contemporary Portrait
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Contemporary Portrait
It might seem a bit old-fashioned to bemoan the demise of the portrait tradition in contemporary art, but looking at a new show of Renaissance portraits, and having read a short …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Serra and Irwin
Letter from London
Letter from London: Serra and Irwin
Amid the noise and anxiety of the art fairs (read my review of Scope here), two significant exhibitions by major US artists have opened simultaneously in London: Richard Serra at Gagosian and Robert Irwin at …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking Through Possibilities
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking Through Possibilities
Sketchbooks can serve as places to work out big ideas, as we have seen over the past two Teaching With Contemporary Art columns where Sue Chenoweth’s students used sketchbook ideas …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Mining Ideas Part 3: From Sketchbook to Installation
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Mining Ideas Part 3: From Sketchbook to Installation
After our last two columns focusing on using sketchbooks in the classroom, teachers have been submitting absolutely BEAUTIFUL work inspired by sketching, planning and ideas for teaching about contemporary art. …
Letter from London
Letter From London: Protest Too Much
Letter from London
Letter From London: Protest Too Much
Whichever candidate succeeds this November, there will be a discernible effect in art. The last eight years have seen a resurgence of politically motivated art comparable to that produced during and …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Mining Ideas Part 2: Using Sketchbooks to Help Teach About Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Mining Ideas Part 2: Using Sketchbooks to Help Teach About Contemporary Art
Last week’s Teaching With Contemporary Art column, Mining Ideas, had some very interesting thoughts and perspectives submitted by Jennifer, Eric, and Sue. I want to continue the dialogue this week …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Art During Wartime
Letter from London
Letter from London: Art During Wartime
All the talk around the potential sale of two of the most important paintings in British collections (Titian’s Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto) has generated more interest than usual in …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hirst Among Equals
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hirst Among Equals
Art gets into the national news in the UK in four ways. One: a publically funded institution decides to purchase something of apparent worthlessness (a ‘pile of bricks,’ a can of poo) …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Questions for Artist-Educators
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Questions for Artist-Educators
Last week’s column reflected on the different ways to pair and juxtapose Art21 photographers and/or artists that use photography as a tool in their work. Throughout the conversations that inspired …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art Start at MoCA, Los Angeles
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Contemporary Art Start at MoCA, Los Angeles
Two weeks ago, from August 11-15, I had the pleasure of spending a week working with a number of outstanding art teachers at the MoCA, Los Angeles summer institute, Contemporary …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reality or Fiction at the Hirshhorn?
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reality or Fiction at the Hirshhorn?
Another exhibition of contemporary art to see this summer in Washington D.C. is The Cinema Effect Part II: Realisms through September 7, 2008 at the Hirshhorn. A two-part exhibition, the …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Positively Puryear
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Positively Puryear
There is no substitute for seeing Martin Puryear’s sculptures firsthand. Martin Puryear at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., spanning the museum’s two buildings, offers such an opportunity …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Starting Friday: Guest TWCA Writer Julie Thomson
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Starting Friday: Guest TWCA Writer Julie Thomson
Starting tomorrow and for the next two weeks, Julie Thomson will be guest writing for the Teaching With Contemporary Art column. Julie is the Associate Curator of Education at the …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Slowing Down and Visualizing Approaches, Part 2
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Slowing Down and Visualizing Approaches, Part 2
Following up on last week’s column, I was thinking about ways to slow down during the summer months and properly recharge for the upcoming school year. I also got to …
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