How do we experience art?

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Freewaves: Video Between Their Toes

Freewaves: Video Between Their Toes

by Catherine Wagley | Jul 29, 2010

Freewaves turned 20 this year. The grassroots new media organization that began in 1989 with a gaping, loosely defined mission to show Los Angeles to itself celebrated its birthday on …

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Experience in Art Education

by Whitney Ford-Terry | Jul 14, 2010

“An art school, it would appear, does not teach art, but sets up the conditions necessary for creative production, and by extension the conditions for collaboration and social engagement.” — …

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Machine Project: A.I.R. at the Hammer

by Mark Allen | Jul 12, 2010

Machine Project: A.I.R. at the Hammer

by Mark Allen | Jul 12, 2010

On a recent weekend at the Hammer Museum, you may have stumbled across other visitors napping on the gallery floor and wondered if they had succumbed to museum fatigue. In …

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Looking at Los Angeles

One Day Only De Maria

by Catherine Wagley | Jul 8, 2010

In 1969, when Lee Lozano began her Dialogue Piece, a project for which she simply invited artists and others to talk with her, she called Walter De Maria twice, once …

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Seeing and Time: Video Art as Experience

by Stephanie Vegh | Jul 6, 2010

Seeing and Time: Video Art as Experience

by Stephanie Vegh | Jul 6, 2010

It is neither a secret nor a surprise to know that, regardless of broad worldly appeal, the average Louvre visitor views the Mona Lisa for a scarce fifteen seconds before …

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Creat(ive) Expectations

by Kate Goyette | Jun 24, 2010

Earlier this spring, I ventured to MoMA with my parents who were visiting from New Hampshire for the weekend. Since I can recall, my folks have consistently supported my own …

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Art Beyond Excerpts

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 23, 2010

Jon Scieszka and Lane Smith’s book, “Seen Art?”, starts this way: It all started when I told my friend Art I would meet him on the corner of 5th and …

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The Experience of Unknowing

by Ty Clever | Jun 11, 2010

“We lay hold of the full import of a work of art only as we go through in our own vital processes the processes the artist went through in producing …

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Good experience, bad experience. Life experience, work experience. First experience, years of experience. Learning experience. Sensory experience. Out-of-body experience. Shared experience. We experience life in innumerable, and oftentimes indescribable, ways. …

(UC Crisis) Post 3: Try Not to Do This Again

by Catherine Wagley | Jun 4, 2010

(UC Crisis) Post 3: Try Not to Do This Again

by Catherine Wagley | Jun 4, 2010

In a series of special posts, guest blogger alum Marc Herbst and regular contributor Catherine Wagley chronicle the University of California education crisis. Following is Wagley’s take. — Ed. When …

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Interactive and Participatory Art

by Meg Floryan | Jun 3, 2010

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Interactive and Participatory Art

by Meg Floryan | Jun 3, 2010

“Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Can a successful work of art make you angry?

by Joe Fusaro | May 26, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Can a successful work of art make you angry?

by Joe Fusaro | May 26, 2010

Can a successful work of art make you angry, uncomfortable, or confused? This is one of the many questions we engage in as art educators and also one of the …

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Multiple Intelligences

by Shannah Burton | May 20, 2010

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Multiple Intelligences

by Shannah Burton | May 20, 2010

I teach art at a school where the subject is not just a once-a-week occurrence. New City School is a Multiple Intelligences school where art (using spatial intelligence) is used …

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Flash Points: Art & Experience

by Rachel Gagnon | May 13, 2010

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Flash Points: Art & Experience

by Rachel Gagnon | May 13, 2010

We each look at the world from our own individual perspectives, within contexts that are constantly shifting. Our unique outlook as viewers, the specific viewpoint of the artist, the curatorial …

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Freewaves: Video Between Their Toes

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Machine Project: A.I.R. at the Hammer

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Looking at Los Angeles

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One Day Only De Maria

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Seeing and Time: Video Art as Experience

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Creat(ive) Expectations

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Art Beyond Excerpts

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The Experience of Unknowing

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Come Curious

(UC Crisis) Post 3: Try Not to Do This Again

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Can a successful work of art make you angry?

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Multiple Intelligences

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Better Than Ketchup and Vaseline

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