Artist Dmitry Samarov finds that moving into a new home can be a source of fresh inspiration.
What happens when an artist’s real-life experiences are fictionalized for television? Dmitry Samarov reflects on the differences between art and reality.
Guest blogger Dmitry Samarov looks at the highly personal watercolor and fiber works of Shay DeGrandis, who combines humor with the unexpected.
Our newest blogger-in-residence is Dmitry Samarov, a painter, writer and cabdriver who is the author of “Hack: Stories from a Chicago Cab.”
At what age is it appropriate to expose students to “difficult” works of art? Marcel Duchamp’s “Étant donnés” offers a case-in-point.
Artist Lisa Anne Auerbach spends a skill-building weekend spinning fiber, taking improv classes, and discharging weapons at close range.
L.A. artist Michael Parker built a large, mirrored, egg-shaped steam chamber that serves as an unlikely communal gathering spot.
What do artists look at for inspiration? L.A. artist Alyse Emdur seeks out images that humanize political struggle through self-empowerment.
Guest blogger Lisa Anne Auerbach visits Los Angeles artist Daniel Marlos, a photographer who makes quilts, gardens, and delicious Pirohi dumplings.
Lisa Anne Auerbach visits New Mexico State University, where she meets art students, stages a fiber Spin-in, and wonders who the ‘stroker girls’ are.
Lisa Anne Auerbach shares highlights from her recent trip to Chicago, including a memorable encounter with an iconic Mike Kelley piece.
Our new guest blogger is Lisa Anne Auerbach, an artist who bikes, knits, and runs a publishing house based in a downtown L.A. commune.
Shane McAdams shares his thoughts on a blissful afternoon spent wandering alone through the Chazen Museum at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.
As guest blogger Shane McAdams gears up for the Whitney Museum of American Art’s 2012 Biennial, he visits the Metropolitan Museum to reflect on this country’s past.
Meet our newest guest blogger Shane McAdams, an artist, curator, writer and professor who divides his time between Brooklyn, New York and Cedarburg, Wisconsin.
Cahill’s “The Orphanage Project” is a sprawling discourse on the parental nation-state, pseudo-propaganda art, and the parallels between the museum and the orphanage.
What happens when a critic and artist collaborate on a work of art?
How do visual artists and writers engage one another in conversations from within their own mediums?
Westin reviews a new exhibition surveying the art of the 1980s that includes the work of numerous artists featured in “Art in the Twenty-First Century.”
How do artists use time as a material? The collaborative duo Cupola Bobber create epic, continually-unfolding projects that take years to complete.
The Art21 Blog’s newest blogger-in-residence is Monica Westin, a Chicago-based arts writer, educator, and PhD candidate in rhetorical studies.
An appropriationist collage of texts and images on the subject of queerness, AIDS, and desire concludes Aldrin Valdez’s two-week guest blogging residency.
For Aldrin Valdez, a painting about differences coming together at a seder resonates with a recently-held forum on the history of AIDS.
Queer artists and writers must negotiate between many kinds of silence, and many kinds of speech.
What can the Occupy movement learn from the history of HIV/AIDS activism? Ted Kerr’s “Questions for a Revolution” offers a starting point.
Introducing our latest blogger-in-residence: Aldrin Valdez, an artist and writer who is currently a fellow at Queer/Art/Mentorship.
What do postmodern architecture, Black Metal culture and ‘holy minimalist’ musical compositions have in common? Read on to find out.
Artists like Joan Pamboukes draw on the Grand Theft Auto videogames to explore real-world issues of violence, gender, and social and economic ills.
Video games have become a serious art form, as Jansson’s interview with Australian “machinima” artist Chris Howlett reveals.
Kristoffer Zetterstrand’s works draw equally from old-school computer graphics and Romantic landscape paintings.
Based on violent videogame interfaces, Swedish artist Mikael Vesavuori’s provocative artworks are the opposite of “fun and games.”
Guest blogger Mathias Jansson sketches a brief history of video game art.
Our latest blogger-in-residence is a Swedish arts writer and critic who specializes in game art.
Matias Viegener offers different ways of thinking about Occupy LA in the wake of its LA City Hall site’s forced closure.
Artist and Occupy LA mediator Dorit Cypis reflects on one challenge facing the movement: to build its participants’ skills in democratic social engagement.
Is it time for artists to start unionizing? Christy Roberts is one of many who thinks it is, and tells us why now is the perfect moment.
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