Columns & Features
Center Field: Art in the Middle
The Sensation of Un-thought Thoughts: An Interview with Simone Forti
Center Field: Art in the Middle
The Sensation of Un-thought Thoughts: An Interview with Simone Forti
Caroline Picard interviews experimental dancer, choreographer, and writer Simone Forti, who recently held a two-day workshop at Northwestern University entitled “Thinking with the Body.”
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor: Chen Tamir
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor: Chen Tamir
“Aptitude for war is aptitude for movement,” said Napoleon, as quoted by Paul Virilio in his book, Speed and Politics.1 Virilio explains that “violence can be reduced to nothing but movement.”2 …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Classroom Catalysts: Enabling Personal Revolutions Through Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Classroom Catalysts: Enabling Personal Revolutions Through Art
“What is art but a way of seeing?” —Thomas Berger Sometimes the most significant revolutions make no noise at all, happening completely within someone’s frame of mind. These individual transformations might …
Booked
Still Reading by the Fire
Booked
Still Reading by the Fire
Most of this past year’s proposed radical agendas contain nothing that’s actually revolutionary or visionary. Politicians, theocrats, and profiteers campaign on platforms of retroactive change: ideological preservation, religious orthodoxy. ‘A …
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor: Unending Revolution
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor: Unending Revolution
“All art is in revolution of tyranny.” —Atticus Our recent revolutionary movements feel… deflated. We tell ourselves “things aren’t that bad right?” and the fight we need to make change …
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor, Alicia Eler
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor, Alicia Eler
One’s experience of family can be joyous, painful, bizarre, revelatory, and intimate. To describe it with any single word wouldn’t do it justice. Like a parade, it’s a cacophony of …
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor, Clarinda Mac Low
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor, Clarinda Mac Low
To be ruined is to be spoiled beyond repair. It is “downfall, complete destruction, overthrow.” Ruin is the Tower card in the tarot deck—upheaval and harsh displacement, lightning striking, an …
Flashback
Mark Bradford on Prospect.1 New Orleans
Flashback
Mark Bradford on Prospect.1 New Orleans
On the occasion of ART21’s new film on Prospect.3 New Orleans, we look back to Mark Bradford’s keynote address at the 2009 National Art Education Association conference, in which the artist discussed his sculpture for Prospect.1.
Flashback
Ten Artists on Radicalism and Resistance
Flashback
Ten Artists on Radicalism and Resistance
ART21 films are doorways into social and political issues of our time. In this roundup ten artists comment on cultural exclusion and resistance, peace and protest, documentary war photography, revolutionary …
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