Writer-in-Residence

Art Exhibit as Swap Meet: “Have a Painting? Leave a Painting. Need a Painting? Take a Painting”

by Hrag Vartanian | Sep 23, 2008

Art Exhibit as Swap Meet: “Have a Painting? Leave a Painting. Need a Painting? Take a Painting”

by Hrag Vartanian | Sep 23, 2008

Space is at a premium in New York and for that reason the idea of an art swap meet appealed to me. A longtime fan of alternatives to the art …

Two Weeks in the Life of a New York Art Blogger

by Hrag Vartanian | Sep 22, 2008

Two Weeks in the Life of a New York Art Blogger

by Hrag Vartanian | Sep 22, 2008

Hi, my name is Hrag Vartanian (Her-ug Var-tan-ian) and for the next few weeks I want to offer you a glimpse of New York’s vibrant art blogging, art non-profit, small …

New guest blogger: Hrag Vartanian

by Kelly Shindler | Sep 22, 2008

New guest blogger: Hrag Vartanian

by Kelly Shindler | Sep 22, 2008

  Thanks to Erin Riley-Lopez over at the Bronx Museum for highlighting some very intriguing exhibitions. Up next is Hrag Vartanian, a New York-based writer and critic. Born to Armenian …

Art of the 1960s at the Blanton Museum of Art

by Erin Riley-Lopez | Sep 19, 2008

Art of the 1960s at the Blanton Museum of Art

by Erin Riley-Lopez | Sep 19, 2008

Two new exhibitions opening September 28, 2008 and running through January 18, 2009 at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas explore an overlooked chapter in regional art history. …

Agitators Collective at Jersey City Museum

by Erin Riley-Lopez | Sep 17, 2008

Agitators Collective at Jersey City Museum

by Erin Riley-Lopez | Sep 17, 2008

Be sure to catch a glimpse of the newest Agitators Collective installation, Be Wary (Evil Eye), on view at the Jersey City Museum in the Atrium Gallery from September 18 …

Conflux 2008

by Erin Riley-Lopez | Sep 13, 2008

Conflux 2008

by Erin Riley-Lopez | Sep 13, 2008

From Thursday through Sunday, September 14th, Conflux, the art and technology festival for the creative exploration of urban public space, will present a number of art installations, street art interventions, …

RADIO APARTMENT 22: GWANGJU 2008

by Erin Riley-Lopez | Sep 9, 2008

RADIO APARTMENT 22: GWANGJU 2008

by Erin Riley-Lopez | Sep 9, 2008

Last Sunday, September 6th, Nicole Caruth posted information about the 7th Gwangju Biennale. As a compliment to the events and festivities surrounding the Biennale, Abdellah Karroum will present RADIO APARTMENT …

New guest blogger: Erin Riley-Lopez

by Kelly Shindler | Sep 8, 2008

New guest blogger: Erin Riley-Lopez

by Kelly Shindler | Sep 8, 2008

Thanks to our very own Mary Cook for her thoughtful posts on all things art and exhibitions. Our friends at C-Monster even called her entry A Cult, Some Vegans, A …

Freeway Balconies Extended!

by Mary Cook | Sep 8, 2008

Freeway Balconies Extended!

by Mary Cook | Sep 8, 2008

Plan to be in Berlin anytime soon? If so, you are in luck – the exhibition Freeway Balconies, at the Deutsche Guggenheim has been extended and will not close until …

A Cult, Some Vegans, A Ballet, Oh My!

by Mary Cook | Sep 2, 2008

A Cult, Some Vegans, A Ballet, Oh My!

by Mary Cook | Sep 2, 2008

What do you get when you mix religious overtones, memories of a few former vegan college roommates, comic book-inspired heroes and elegant ballerinas prancing around the stage in funny costumes? …

Remembering to Remember

by Mary Cook | Aug 27, 2008

Remembering to Remember

by Mary Cook | Aug 27, 2008

On view until September 21st at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a collection of J.M.W. Turner’s picturesque paintings of the harrowing sea as well as some ships and their …

New guest blogger: Mary Cook

by Kelly Shindler | Aug 26, 2008

New guest blogger: Mary Cook

by Kelly Shindler | Aug 26, 2008

Thanks to Sarah Sliwa for taking time away from her Belgian adventures to entice us with her delicious posts. Up next is Mary Cook. Mary is an artist who received …

It’s Not Only Rock ‘N’ Roll, Baby!

by Sarah Sliwa | Aug 23, 2008

It’s Not Only Rock ‘N’ Roll, Baby!

by Sarah Sliwa | Aug 23, 2008

“London.” Pet Shop Boys/Martin Parr. Earlier posts by Marc Mayer and Ben Street have noted the relationship between pop culture, art, and music as well as recent attempts to curate …

Body Bakery

by Sarah Sliwa | Aug 19, 2008

Body Bakery

by Sarah Sliwa | Aug 19, 2008

Kittiwat Unarrom is the son of a baker and has a masters degree in fine arts. His medium is bread; his subject is human flesh. Since 2006, he has been …

Meat After Meat Joy

by Sarah Sliwa | Aug 16, 2008

Meat After Meat Joy

by Sarah Sliwa | Aug 16, 2008

Zhang Huan, My New York, 2002, still from video performance. Courtesy of Pierre Menard Gallery. One of the last shows I saw in the United States before leaving for Belgium …

CarbSmart

by Sarah Sliwa | Aug 15, 2008

CarbSmart

by Sarah Sliwa | Aug 15, 2008

It’s summertime and, if you believe the junk magazines—I see that InTouch stashed between the pages of your ArtForum—carbohydrates will ruin you and your chances of bikini (or board short) …

Quiet on the set: keep noise to a Minimum

by Sarah Sliwa | Aug 13, 2008

Quiet on the set: keep noise to a Minimum

by Sarah Sliwa | Aug 13, 2008

I was rereading a batch of the previous posts to avoid being redundant, but that won’t stop me from piggybacking. Ben Street’s post “Best Supporting Artists” reminded me of a …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Reality or Fiction at the Hirshhorn?

by Julie Thomson | Aug 13, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Reality or Fiction at the Hirshhorn?

by Julie Thomson | Aug 13, 2008

Another exhibition of contemporary art to see this summer in Washington D.C. is The Cinema Effect Part II: Realisms through September 7, 2008 at the Hirshhorn. A two-part exhibition, the …

New guest blogger: Sarah Sliwa

by Kelly Shindler | Aug 12, 2008

New guest blogger: Sarah Sliwa

by Kelly Shindler | Aug 12, 2008

Thanks to Emily Liebert for the plethora of enthusiastic and engaging posts. Next up is Sarah Sliwa. A former intern at Art21, Sarah is currently finishing her master’s degree in …

Off the Page: Flat Daddies and Other Live Photographs

by Emily Liebert | Aug 10, 2008

Off the Page: Flat Daddies and Other Live Photographs

by Emily Liebert | Aug 10, 2008

On September 30, 2006, I read an article in The New York Times that I don’t think I’ll forget. “When Soldiers Go to War, Flat Daddies Hold Their Place at …

Welcome to the Good Life

by Emily Liebert | Aug 8, 2008

Welcome to the Good Life

by Emily Liebert | Aug 8, 2008

Until recently, it hadn’t crossed my mind that I could be Kanye West. I did a double take the first time I saw the advertisement one morning on a downtown …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Positively Puryear

by Julie Thomson | Aug 8, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Positively Puryear

by Julie Thomson | Aug 8, 2008

There is no substitute for seeing Martin Puryear’s sculptures firsthand. Martin Puryear at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C., spanning the museum’s two buildings, offers such an opportunity …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Starting Friday: Guest TWCA Writer Julie Thomson

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 6, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Starting Friday: Guest TWCA Writer Julie Thomson

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 6, 2008

Starting tomorrow and for the next two weeks, Julie Thomson will be guest writing for the Teaching With Contemporary Art column. Julie is the Associate Curator of Education at the …

Give Up and Laugh About It

by Emily Liebert | Aug 4, 2008

Give Up and Laugh About It

by Emily Liebert | Aug 4, 2008

The other day I had accidentally hit the strikethrough function in Microsoft Word and so as I was typing my carefully chosen words, they were simultaneously being crossed out. “Okay, …

“Qué Hay Que Hacer Mas?”: Reflections on “The Disasters of War” at Peter Blum SoHo

by Emily Liebert | Jul 31, 2008

“Qué Hay Que Hacer Mas?”: Reflections on “The Disasters of War” at Peter Blum SoHo

by Emily Liebert | Jul 31, 2008

    I’m hard-pressed to remember the last time I found a thank you note from a President Elect presidential candidate in a gallery exhibition’s press file. But there it …

New Guest Blogger: Emily Liebert

by Marc Mayer | Jul 28, 2008

New Guest Blogger: Emily Liebert

by Marc Mayer | Jul 28, 2008

Join me in welcoming Emily Liebert, our next guest blogger. At the moment, Emily is getting her PhD in art history at Columbia where she studies American art of the …

Eternal Twilight at the New Museum

by Amy Mackie | Jul 21, 2008

Eternal Twilight at the New Museum

by Amy Mackie | Jul 21, 2008

Several Art21 artists temporarily engage in a moment of symbiosis in the New Museum’s new group exhibition, After Nature, curated by Massimiliano Gioni with the assistance of Jarrett Gregory and …

SIDE X SIDE

by Amy Mackie | Jul 17, 2008

SIDE X SIDE

by Amy Mackie | Jul 17, 2008

Art and activism have been intimately engaged throughout contemporary art history, reiterating the notion that the personal is political. In 2007, Art:21’s Season 4 addressed activist strategies (in particular, the …

Socially Acceptable

by Amy Mackie | Jul 15, 2008

Socially Acceptable

by Amy Mackie | Jul 15, 2008

My biggest pet peeve in New York City is watching men (and women) of all walks of life, hack and cough, then swiftly discharge a slimy wad of saliva on …

New Guest Blogger: Amy Mackie of the New Museum

by Marc Mayer | Jul 14, 2008

New Guest Blogger: Amy Mackie of the New Museum

by Marc Mayer | Jul 14, 2008

Many thanks to Laurel Ptak for her interesting posts and The Best of the Web recommendations. You can continue to follow Laurel’s blog at iheartphotograph. Next we welcome Amy Mackie …

A new reason to go to M.I.T.

by Laurel Ptak | Jul 11, 2008

A new reason to go to M.I.T.

by Laurel Ptak | Jul 11, 2008

The Massachusetts Institute of Technology has an amazing program where students can borrow a framed work by major artists from their List Visual Arts Center‘s collection for an entire academic …

The Best Of The Web

by Laurel Ptak | Jul 3, 2008

The Best Of The Web

by Laurel Ptak | Jul 3, 2008

Recently I’ve noticed a huge change in my art-going habits. I’m much more likely to spend time looking at/thinking about art online than I am to step foot inside traditional …

New guest blogger: Laurel Ptak of I Heart Photograph

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 2, 2008

New guest blogger: Laurel Ptak of I Heart Photograph

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 2, 2008

Many thanks to Arezoo Moseni for her thoughtful posts linking contemporary artists with broader considerations of time, space, and place. You can follow her musings on her own site here. …

Spaceship Earth

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 27, 2008

Spaceship Earth

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 27, 2008

Buckminster Fuller was one of the most inventive and prolific visionaries of 20th century who was keenly intuitive. Much of the work in the new Whitney exhibition, Buckminster Fuller: Starting …

Sound & Language

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 26, 2008

Sound & Language

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 26, 2008

The human voice is the most specific expression of an individual. With its infinite potential for sound effects and imitation along with its prime role in communication, it is clearly …

1968 | 2008

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 24, 2008

1968 | 2008

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 24, 2008

This is not the first time that Summer Olympics Games are embroiled in environmental and political controversies. In 1968, Mexico City, with its high altitude containing 30% less oxygen than …