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Art and Ecology at the University of New Mexico

by Matthias Merkel Hess | Dec 28, 2009

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Art and Ecology at the University of New Mexico

by Matthias Merkel Hess | Dec 28, 2009

There is plenty of environmentally-minded art these days, but very few academic classes on the subject, let alone degree programs. That changed this fall when the University of New Mexico …

Eve Essex and Cornelius Cardew

by Nova Benway | Dec 27, 2009

Eve Essex and Cornelius Cardew

by Nova Benway | Dec 27, 2009

Continuing the tenuous thread I’ve begun to weave, today’s post concerns Eve Essex, an artist I’ve been interested in since she was a resident with the Berwick Research Institute in …

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When Nature Takes Over

by Catherine Wagley | Dec 21, 2009

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When Nature Takes Over

by Catherine Wagley | Dec 21, 2009

“It is the common mission of the entire mankind to curb global warming and save our planet.” So said China’s Prime Minister, Wen Jiabao, addressing the Copenhagen Summit on December …

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Art and Nature at Storm King

by Rachel Gagnon | Dec 16, 2009

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Art and Nature at Storm King

by Rachel Gagnon | Dec 16, 2009

Flash Points Editor Rachel Craft interviewed David R. Collens, Director and Curator of Storm King Art Center, about the institution’s focus on the relationship between art and nature. —Ed. Rachel …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

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

by Mary Cook | Dec 12, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

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

by Mary Cook | Dec 12, 2009

VIDEO EXCLUSIVE — Doris Salcedo | Third World Identity New Guest Blogger: Kelly Rakowski, a graphic designer and Head of the Book Department at Todd Oldham Studio. Check out this …

Blogalogueing with Lee Montgomery

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 12, 2009

Blogalogueing with Lee Montgomery

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 12, 2009

LeE: this is me.. LeE… the one I told you about. You: Hi Lee! You know I just realized I could have probably been doing the interview this whole time, …

Blogalogue, Part 4: Lee Montgomery

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 12, 2009

Blogalogue, Part 4: Lee Montgomery

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 12, 2009

Lee Montgomery got his BA in Film at Bard College, and an MFA in New Genres from the San Francisco Art Institute. As the founder of Neighborhood Public Radio, Lee …

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Athletes & Artists: Riyas Komu’s “Mark Him”

by Jennifer Doyle | Dec 10, 2009

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Athletes & Artists: Riyas Komu’s “Mark Him”

by Jennifer Doyle | Dec 10, 2009

Flash Points contributor and University of Riverside professor Jennifer Doyle is currently spending 2 weeks in India, traveling with the Indian artist Riyas Komu. Following is the first in a …

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Tree Museum

by Katie Holten | Dec 10, 2009

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Tree Museum

by Katie Holten | Dec 10, 2009

We invited artist Katie Holten to write about her current project, Tree Museum, a public artwork in the Bronx, New York.  — Ed. I think it’s fair to say that …

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Deference to the Vernacular

by Anna Kryczka | Dec 9, 2009

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Deference to the Vernacular

by Anna Kryczka | Dec 9, 2009

In a short essay dealing with the peculiarities of the West Texas that Donald Judd called home, he writes, Here, everywhere, the destruction of new land is a brutality…Within a …

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Electrical Forest: Made in Troy

by Noah Fischer | Dec 4, 2009

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Electrical Forest: Made in Troy

by Noah Fischer | Dec 4, 2009

We invited artist Noah Fischer to write about his current project, Electrical Forest: Made in Troy, a site-specific installation in Troy, New York.  — Ed. During my initial research missions …

Blogalogueing with Kristin Lucas

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 3, 2009

Blogalogueing with Kristin Lucas

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 3, 2009

Leave it to a web artist to push the boundaries in interview formats! Keep reading to experience mine and Kristin Lucas’s systems vs. networks conversation, Twitter style… Nikksters: How do …

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ETeam Reflections…

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 3, 2009

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ETeam Reflections…

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 3, 2009

In case you didn’t notice, ETeam did a pretty good job of turning the tables on me. It would seem that systems and networks are tricky and unpredictable that way… …

Blogalogueing with ETeam

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 2, 2009

Blogalogueing with ETeam

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 2, 2009

Preface: The following conversation took place in Second Life, at ETeam’s Second Life dumpster. I am Salty Clarity; ETeam is Lothar Apfelbaum and Tempo Strom. Tempo Strom is Online Lothar …

Blogalogue, Part 2: About ETeam

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 2, 2009

Blogalogue, Part 2: About ETeam

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 2, 2009

ETeam is comprised of Hajoe and Franziska. They were introduced to me by Cary Peppermint, who met them at an exhibition they all participated in, called Ebay. ETeam’s work includes …

EcoArtTech Reflections…

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 2, 2009

EcoArtTech Reflections…

by Nicole Sansone | Dec 2, 2009

My conversation with Eco Art Tech left me feeling a wee bit in the throes of an existential nihilistic crisis. Were systems and networks so radically out of our control? …

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Blogalogueing with EcoArtTech

by Nicole Sansone | Nov 30, 2009

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Blogalogueing with EcoArtTech

by Nicole Sansone | Nov 30, 2009

Behold! The experiment begins! Listen in on our first Systems vs. Networks conversation with Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir of EcoArtTech… PS. This is a better spelling of “blogalogueing” right? …

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Exploring the Makeshift Landscape

by Eirik Johnson | Nov 30, 2009

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Exploring the Makeshift Landscape

by Eirik Johnson | Nov 30, 2009

We invited photographer Eirik Johnson to write about his ongoing exploration of humankind’s environmental impact.  Works in his most recent series, Sawdust Mountain, are on view at the Henry Art …

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Blogalog, Part 1: About EcoArtTech

by Nicole Sansone | Nov 26, 2009

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Blogalog, Part 1: About EcoArtTech

by Nicole Sansone | Nov 26, 2009

Cary Peppermint and Christine Nadir founded EcoArtTech as their collaborative platform for digital environmental art in 2005. They are 2009 Artist Fellowship recipients from the New York Foundation for the …

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Sustainable Architecture: Style vs. Substance

by Julia Walker | Nov 25, 2009

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Sustainable Architecture: Style vs. Substance

by Julia Walker | Nov 25, 2009

Sustainable architecture is in danger. This might sound like a surprising claim, given the fact that never before has “green” living been such a popular concept, nor has “eco-consciousness” been …

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Making It Happen

by Nicole Sansone | Nov 25, 2009

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Making It Happen

by Nicole Sansone | Nov 25, 2009

I have “email balls.” I sit behind my computer screen, protected by a Gmail-cloak of anonymity and I email whomever, whenever, whatever. I landed my first job out of college …

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What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

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

by Mary Cook | Nov 21, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

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

by Mary Cook | Nov 21, 2009

It’s a cage that went in search of a bird…Sreshta Rit Premnath explores the ocean as a territory that lies outside the realm of governmentality. Nicole rounds them up! From …

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Teaching Ecoartivism

by Stacey Ward Kelly | Nov 19, 2009

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Teaching Ecoartivism

by Stacey Ward Kelly | Nov 19, 2009

— “ecoartivism”; Pronunciation: ēko’ar –ti,- vi-zəm; Function: noun The practice of using art as a tool for the advocacy of the preservation, restoration, or improvement of the natural environment; especially: …

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Mythic Environments: Robert Smithson and Eames Demetrios

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Nov 16, 2009

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Mythic Environments: Robert Smithson and Eames Demetrios

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Nov 16, 2009

When I first saw that this site’s new Flash Points topic was Art and the Environment, I immediately thought of two artists: Robert Smithson and Eames Demetrios. They are not …

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Landscape Revisited

by Catherine Wagley | Nov 12, 2009

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Landscape Revisited

by Catherine Wagley | Nov 12, 2009

“Life is boring,” said Matthew Coolidge, talking about how most of us live in the uneventful “periods between the monuments.” Coolidge, the director of the Center for Land Use Interpretation, …

Dermatographia

by Maria Stenina | Nov 9, 2009

Dermatographia

by Maria Stenina | Nov 9, 2009

Hello Art:21 interweb world! I hope to do you justice with my musings and bits and pieces of contemporary art knick-knacks. I think as an artist and designer working today, …

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Roni Horn | Water

by Wesley Miller | Nov 6, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Roni Horn | Water

by Wesley Miller | Nov 6, 2009

Artist Roni Horn discusses the paradoxical identity and dependency of water, paired with scenes of Icelandic landscapes. Water and Iceland serve as both subjects and metaphors in the artist’s work, …

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Flash Points: Art and the Environment

by Rachel Gagnon | Nov 2, 2009

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Flash Points: Art and the Environment

by Rachel Gagnon | Nov 2, 2009

Today we launch the next Flash Points topic, Art & the Environment. We first addressed this issue in Season Four’s episode, Ecology, which delved into the work of artists who …

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New Flash Points Editor, Rachel Craft

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 2, 2009

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New Flash Points Editor, Rachel Craft

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 2, 2009

Art21 is pleased to introduce our new Flash Points editor, Rachel Craft. Rachel is the Communications and Web Manager for the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts.  In addition to managing …

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Scenes from a Globalized Art World

by Kelly Huang | Oct 26, 2009

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Scenes from a Globalized Art World

by Kelly Huang | Oct 26, 2009

I’d like to start my guest blogging with Art21 by bringing up a series of questions surrounding globalization and artistic representation. My primary research interest is in the art market …

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Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Breaking Bread

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 22, 2009

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Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Breaking Bread

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 22, 2009

Gastro-Vision is a new monthly column dedicated to all things food in contemporary art and visual culture. This month’s post also falls under the Flash Points topic, Systems. Yours in …

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Julie Mehretu interviewed by Lawrence Chua

by BOMB Magazine | Oct 2, 2009

BOMB in the Building

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Julie Mehretu interviewed by Lawrence Chua

by BOMB Magazine | Oct 2, 2009

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a BOMB contributor relating to an Art:21 Season 5 artist. This is our final week before the official …

Meet the Season 5 Artist: Julie Mehretu

by Wesley Miller | Oct 1, 2009

Meet the Season 5 Artist: Julie Mehretu

by Wesley Miller | Oct 1, 2009

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 — …

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Unconventional Residencies

by Bryce Dwyer | Sep 28, 2009

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Unconventional Residencies

by Bryce Dwyer | Sep 28, 2009

Last November, the National Endowment for the Arts established a new funding category explicitly for artist communities. The NEA defines an artist community as “an organization, whether focused on a …

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Harrell Fletcher interviewed by Allan McCollum

by BOMB Magazine | Sep 25, 2009

BOMB in the Building

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Harrell Fletcher interviewed by Allan McCollum

by BOMB Magazine | Sep 25, 2009

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a BOMB contributor relating to a Season 5 artist. This week, we’re switching it up again and featuring …

Meet the Season 5 Artist: Allan McCollum

by Wesley Miller | Sep 24, 2009

Meet the Season 5 Artist: Allan McCollum

by Wesley Miller | Sep 24, 2009

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 — …