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Copy That!

Beauty Is in the Streets

by Joy Garnett | Apr 29, 2015

Copy That!

Beauty Is in the Streets

by Joy Garnett | Apr 29, 2015

Walking the city streets offers the unexpected. I find interesting things, mostly garbage, some of it recently thrown away. My discoveries come in two parts: first, the reaction of surprise, …

The Zone

by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme | Apr 22, 2015

The Zone

by Basel Abbas and Ruanne Abou-Rahme | Apr 22, 2015

The Zone is an ongoing research project that has different extensions; previously it has been shown as a multiscreen video and sound installation at the New Art Exchange and the …

New Kids on the Block

The Archives of Kameelah Rasheed

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Apr 15, 2015

New Kids on the Block

The Archives of Kameelah Rasheed

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Apr 15, 2015

The artist Kameelah Rasheed was twelve years old in 1998, when her family—mother, father, and four brothers—had lost their home. The value of land in northern California near East Palo …

Audible Afterimages

by John McKissick | Apr 8, 2015

Audible Afterimages

by John McKissick | Apr 8, 2015

Collapse: Abandoned to the indifference of physical nature, any neglected artifact disintegrates. Places too are social artifacts, architectural masses sustained in space by forms of life. When customs falter or …

Being Protected

by Abigail Levine | Apr 1, 2015

Being Protected

by Abigail Levine | Apr 1, 2015

During the spring of 2010, I spent several hours each day, usually unclothed, either standing, sitting, lying, or perching on a bicycle seat in the sixth-floor galleries of the Museum …

Elite Properties

by James Hannaham | Mar 25, 2015

Elite Properties

by James Hannaham | Mar 25, 2015

There are ruins, and then there are ruiners. Urban areas in the western hemisphere no longer develop organically—or with regard to geographical features or agricultural or even industrial needs—but rather …

The Catch

by Lex Brown | Mar 18, 2015

The Catch

by Lex Brown | Mar 18, 2015

I am a transplant to Los Angeles, I’m a person of color, and I live in a rapidly gentrifying neighborhood. Witnessing and doing my best not to accelerate these changes, …

Rooms With A View

by Erin Sweeny | Mar 11, 2015

Rooms With A View

by Erin Sweeny | Mar 11, 2015

“Treat your body like it belongs to someone you love.” I spied this sentence in a health-food store recently. My thoughts wandered to catchphrases spouted in yoga classes, talking about …

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Clarinda Mac Low

by Clarinda Mac Low | Mar 3, 2015

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Clarinda Mac Low

by Clarinda Mac Low | Mar 3, 2015

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 …

Offshore Art: Artistic Strategies in a Ruined Democracy

by Mikkel Rosengaard | Mar 2, 2015

Offshore Art: Artistic Strategies in a Ruined Democracy

by Mikkel Rosengaard | Mar 2, 2015

The term post-democracy has recently emerged in political theory and sociology as part of an effort to grasp the contemporary social order. The term is used by theorists such as …

Three Muddled Blueprints for Ruin

by Anwar Batte | Mar 2, 2015

Three Muddled Blueprints for Ruin

by Anwar Batte | Mar 2, 2015

Please read the document that follows as a makeshift “program”, “manifesto”, “list of demands”, “wish list”, or “totally impenetrable academic nonsense” in favor of the moderately counterintuitive project of trying …

Alchemy in the Making

by Jocelyn Salaz | Feb 25, 2015

Alchemy in the Making

by Jocelyn Salaz | Feb 25, 2015

What questions arise when an artist encounters new materials?

Writer-in-Residence

The Ghosts Unearthed in the Films of Bill Morrison

by Brienne Walsh | Feb 18, 2015

Writer-in-Residence

The Ghosts Unearthed in the Films of Bill Morrison

by Brienne Walsh | Feb 18, 2015

Writer-in-Residence Brienne Walsh looks at the contemporary digital narratives of filmmaker Bill Morrison.

Asher Hartman’s Ritualistic Marathons

by Alicia Eler | Feb 11, 2015

Asher Hartman’s Ritualistic Marathons

by Alicia Eler | Feb 11, 2015

For twenty years, the Los Angeles–based artist and performer Asher Hartman has created spaces that foster deeply psychic intuition and allow audiences to create as a group.

New Kids on the Block

The Absurd Magic of Vincent Como

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Feb 5, 2015

New Kids on the Block

The Absurd Magic of Vincent Como

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Feb 5, 2015

Vincent Como would never describe his work as magical, yet his work is rife with mysticism.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Creative Chemistries

by Jessica Hamlin and Joe Fusaro | Feb 5, 2015

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Creative Chemistries

by Jessica Hamlin and Joe Fusaro | Feb 5, 2015

When artists and educators get together, extraordinary things can happen.

Found Magic

by Stephanie Barber | Jan 19, 2015

Found Magic

by Stephanie Barber | Jan 19, 2015

A slideshow of found photographs on the theme of magic.

Three-dimensional Allegory: Lucia Love’s Reflecting Pool

by Louis Doulas | Jan 19, 2015

Three-dimensional Allegory: Lucia Love’s Reflecting Pool

by Louis Doulas | Jan 19, 2015

Lucia Love’s resistance to reality manifests in her solo exhibition at CUE Art Foundation.

Writer-in-Residence

Ernst Fischer “18%”

by Brienne Walsh | Jan 7, 2015

Writer-in-Residence

Ernst Fischer “18%”

by Brienne Walsh | Jan 7, 2015

Brienne Walsh provides a preview of Ernst Fischer’s forthcoming exhibition at CUE Art Foundation.

Word is a Virus

Casting Spells over Los Angeles

by Carol Cheh | Jan 6, 2015

Word is a Virus

Casting Spells over Los Angeles

by Carol Cheh | Jan 6, 2015

Gurus, healers, psychics, and witches are common in Los Angeles—and their worlds often intersect with the world of artists.

Redefining Intention: Laurel Sparks and Ivan LOZANO

by Risa Puleo | Jan 6, 2015

Redefining Intention: Laurel Sparks and Ivan LOZANO

by Risa Puleo | Jan 6, 2015

Using the tools of magic, the artists Laurel Sparks and Ivan LOZANO take art’s potential for transformation to a new level.

Now Playing

Twenty-one Songs from Paolo Salvagione

by Dorothy Santos | Jan 6, 2015

Now Playing

Twenty-one Songs from Paolo Salvagione

by Dorothy Santos | Jan 6, 2015

In the studio of Paolo Salvagione, instrumental melodies inspire installations that delight the senses.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

How Can Small Gestures Provoke Big Change?

by Jessica Hamlin | Dec 31, 2014

Teaching with Contemporary Art

How Can Small Gestures Provoke Big Change?

by Jessica Hamlin | Dec 31, 2014

Little changes in art classrooms can have a big impact. Revolutions come in all sizes.

Booked

Reading by the Fire

by Jayna Swartzman-Brosky | Dec 29, 2014

Booked

Reading by the Fire

by Jayna Swartzman-Brosky | Dec 29, 2014

Bay Area artists, curators, and culture shifters recommend nine texts for the radical at heart.

The Revolution Will Be Painted

by Anne Sherwood Pundyk | Dec 22, 2014

The Revolution Will Be Painted

by Anne Sherwood Pundyk | Dec 22, 2014

The revolution will be painted. You will not be able to not know. You may not just be present. You will not be able to plug in, turn on, and cop out. Because the revolution will be painted.

Flashback

Catherine Opie: Shifting Observations

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 19, 2014

Flashback

Catherine Opie: Shifting Observations

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 19, 2014

In a newly published ART21 interview from 2011, Catherine Opie discusses concepts of utopia and dystopia, the idea of America as the great democracy, and more.

Flashback

Mark Bradford on Prospect.1 New Orleans

by Art21 | Dec 12, 2014

Flashback

Mark Bradford on Prospect.1 New Orleans

by Art21 | Dec 12, 2014

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.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Revamping Art Education for the Twenty-First Century

by Jessica Hamlin and Joe Fusaro | Dec 9, 2014

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Revamping Art Education for the Twenty-First Century

by Jessica Hamlin and Joe Fusaro | Dec 9, 2014

Do the new National Standards for Art Education support dynamic learning and twenty-first century artistic methods?

The Yams Collective: Insurrection and Resistance

by Bansie Vasvani | Dec 2, 2014

The Yams Collective: Insurrection and Resistance

by Bansie Vasvani | Dec 2, 2014

A look back at The Wayblack Machine, a multi-channel video installation by the Yams Collective that takes the death of Michael Brown as its focus.

1989—What We Lost

by Jim Hubbard | Dec 1, 2014

1989—What We Lost

by Jim Hubbard | Dec 1, 2014

The ART21 Magazine partners with the nonprofit organization Visual AIDS to honor the twenty-fifth anniversary of Day With(out) Art and World AIDS Day 2014.

Art21 Extended Play

Tania Bruguera’s Petition to the Pope

by Ian Forster | Nov 28, 2014

Art21 Extended Play

Tania Bruguera’s Petition to the Pope

by Ian Forster | Nov 28, 2014

Today’s ART21 Exclusive features Tania Bruguera collecting signatures as part of her project The Francis Effect.

Flashback

Ten Artists on Radicalism and Resistance

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 17, 2014

Flashback

Ten Artists on Radicalism and Resistance

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 17, 2014

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 …

War: Here, There, and Elsewhere

by Bansie Vasvani | Nov 10, 2014

War: Here, There, and Elsewhere

by Bansie Vasvani | Nov 10, 2014

Guest contributor Bansie Vasvani covers war and revolution in recent exhibitions of contemporary art from the Middle East.

Revolutions and Remembrances

by Wesley Miller | Nov 4, 2014

Revolutions and Remembrances

by Wesley Miller | Nov 4, 2014

ART21’s associate curator introduces the “Revolution” issue in remembrance of his mentor, ART21 founder and revolutionary thinker Susan Sollins.

New Kids on the Block

The Demands of Dread Scott

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Nov 4, 2014

New Kids on the Block

The Demands of Dread Scott

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Nov 4, 2014

Twenty-five years after his controversial installation What Is the Proper Way to Display a US Flag?, artist Dread Scott talks about art’s ability to change our vision of the world.

Homesteading as Art and Revolution

by Claudine Isé | Nov 4, 2014

Homesteading as Art and Revolution

by Claudine Isé | Nov 4, 2014

Is homesteading still radical? Artist Heidi Norton, her parents, and other generations of their family discuss art, craft, and the back-to-the-land movements.