Nov / Dec 2015 Issue
“Revolution Part II”

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Classroom Catalysts: Enabling Personal Revolutions Through Art

by Lindsey Davis | Dec 22, 2015

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Classroom Catalysts: Enabling Personal Revolutions Through Art

by Lindsey Davis | Dec 22, 2015

“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

by Jayna Swartzman-Brosky | Dec 14, 2015

Booked

Still Reading by the Fire

by Jayna Swartzman-Brosky | Dec 14, 2015

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 …

“The Revolution Will Be Painted” Revisited

by Anne Sherwood Pundyk | Dec 7, 2015

“The Revolution Will Be Painted” Revisited

by Anne Sherwood Pundyk | Dec 7, 2015

Last year, as part of ART21 Magazine’s “Revolution” issue, feminist new genre painter Anne Sherwood Pundyk rewrote the lyrics to Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” to create …

Dismantling History: An Interview with Titus Kaphar

by Lindsey Davis | Dec 2, 2015

Dismantling History: An Interview with Titus Kaphar

by Lindsey Davis | Dec 2, 2015

A canvas curtain slips from its place of prestige, revealing another that’s hidden beneath. The folds of a Thomas Jefferson portrait gracefully fall, and behind it we see an African …

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor: Unending Revolution

by Lindsey Davis | Nov 24, 2015

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor: Unending Revolution

by Lindsey Davis | Nov 24, 2015

“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 …

Flashback

Ten (More) Artists on Radicalism and Resistance

by Art21 | Nov 18, 2015

Flashback

Ten (More) Artists on Radicalism and Resistance

by Art21 | Nov 18, 2015

In last year’s November/December issue we investigated ideas of unrest and revolution, and the ways art can and has innovated in the name of change. The months that followed saw huge …

Art21 Extended Play

Politics and Dignity in Graciela Iturbide’s Photographs

by Ian Forster | Nov 6, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Politics and Dignity in Graciela Iturbide’s Photographs

by Ian Forster | Nov 6, 2015

“Politics are already implied when I’m working in Mexico. I don’t have to say ‘Look, what injustice!’ because it would be sensationalized.” — Graciela Iturbide Artist Graciela Iturbide discusses her personal and …