Anna Mayer shows how protest encampments are themselves a form of embodied activism that puts basic human needs front and center.
No matter where you live, you can Occupy. Conceptual artist Mikal Czech offers a series of proposals to get you started.
Teresa Carmody talks with Owen Driggs about the making of a giant Octopus puppet, which stands as a visual metaphor for corporate reach as well as leaderless organization.
Mathew Timmons constructs concrete poetry out of collective pronouns, all culled from #Occupy-related social media streams.
Can listening more actively spur radical change? Elana Mann and Juliana Snapper on The People’s Mic and the power of attentive voices.
Robby Herbst discusses his grandfather’s 1930s-era amateur acrobatic troupe, whose stunts symbolically enacted the power and pleasure of united workers.
Carol Cheh explains why Occupy–a “tentative, inchoate, experimental utopia”–is fundamentally different from other protest movements.
We introduce our latest bloggers-in-residence: #OccupyArt21, a group of Los Angeles-based writers and artists active in the Occupy LA movement.
Jason Lahman ends his two week guest-blogging run with a consideration of Holly Lane’s ornate architectural sculptures.
Hanasik’s compelling portraits of military men deconstruct the performance of self in public and private spheres of society.
Curator Tamara Loewenstein and artist Ben Wood discuss the 9/11 memorial at San Francisco’s St. Ignatius Church.
How can artists turn self-criticism into sources of inspiration? Prague-based Jessica Serran makes creative use of her own inner monologues.
The forms suggested by David King’s abstract collages evoke human conceptions of self and other.
Artist Daniel Goldstein constructs immaterial sculptural bodies that address the AIDS epidemic’s past and present.
Do Biblical narratives still have relevance to contemporary practices? A look at the paintings of David Maxim, which restage Biblical tales in abstract, emotional terms.
Meet our guest blogger Jason Lahman, a San Francisco-based historian, poet and essayist interested in the history of modern philosophy and material culture.
Guest blogger Amanda Friedman and Josh Kline discuss the aspirations of the creative sector, the commodity market, and Kline’s solo exhibition “Dignity and Self Respect.”
Guest blogger Amanda Beroza Friedman interviews New York-based curator Erin Sickler about her experience with the Arts & Labor movement.
Thanks to previous guest blogger Amelia Ishmael for a fantastic series of posts that provided Art21 Blog readers with a primer on Black Metal theory. If your interest has …
[Ed. note: We’re squeezing in one more post from Amelia Ishmael before we introduce our next blogger-in-residence later this week. Enjoy!] Stephen O’Malley is a wildly prolific musician and …
Terence Hannum is a musician and studio artist who has recently relocated from Chicago to Baltimore to teach at Stevenson University. I first met Terence shortly after moving to …
In September of this year I traveled to Wolverhampton, U.K. to present some of my research on Black Metal and contemporary art to the Home of Metal Conference, a …
Hunter Hunt-Hendrix’s work first caught my attention a year and a half ago when I came across his manifesto “Transcendental Black Metal” in Hideous Gnosis, a published compendium of the …
Earlier this year Gast Bouschet and Nadine Hilbert responded to a call for entries I posted for two separate curatorial endeavors: one for the Black Metal theory journal Helvete, …
Thanks to our previous guest bloggers Claire Breukel and Tina Acevedo of Dirty Pink 305 for their tour of the Miami art scene and their cogent analyses of a …
With Art Basel Miami Beach only two weeks away, we are all holding our breath in anticipation of the flurry of events that will be taking place throughout South Beach and …
[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1VyjIUUE3YY] Patti Her discussing community in Miami in a video produced for Dirty Pink 305. Art has the power to foster and ameliorate communities, to drive markets and economies; it …
I’ve lived in Miami my whole life, and yet I first heard about Art Basel when I was in my senior year of high school. That was 2009 and …
When I started Dirty Pink 305, I was well aware of two very important projects that have already taken big strides in documenting Miami’s artist community. The first was the Miami …
Most cities have their “art stars.” Instead, Miami has an art fair, a handful of renowned institutions, and some really impressive private collections. This is not due to a lack …
Thanks to our previous blogger-in-residence DeWitt Cheng for highlighting the fascinating work of several under-recognized artists from the San Francisco Bay area. You can read more of DeWitt’s SF Bay …
This past summer, San Franciscans were treated to an art smorgasbord from Paris’s Banquet Years, before the Great War. A Picasso exhibition came to the de Young Museum, and an …
Certain contemporary artists find so much to explore in one material that artist and medium become almost fused in the art-collective consciousness: think of Richard Serra and rolled steel, for …
If you saw the science fiction movie Starship Troopers a few years ago, you have already seen Oakland sculptor Cyrus Tilton’s handiwork—both literally and figuratively: the hands mangled in that alien-bug …
Thanks to last week’s guest blogger Tricia Van Eck for her inspiring series of posts on the Occupy movement and the political and aesthetics implications of happiness, which suggested that …
Recently, I visited three shows– September 11, Untitled (12th Istanbul Biennale), and Creative Time’s Living As Form – all of which I highly recommend. The shows were a treasure trove …
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