Writer-in-Residence

Jasmine Justice: Style Is Just Another Tool

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Aug 8, 2011

Jasmine Justice: Style Is Just Another Tool

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Aug 8, 2011

Thea Liberty Nichols: I had the pleasure of getting to know you while working in my previous post at 65GRAND gallery, and it was lovely seeing you in town again …

The Sun Never Sets on Aurora Picture Show

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Aug 3, 2011

The Sun Never Sets on Aurora Picture Show

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Aug 3, 2011

Thea Liberty Nichols: On my first trip to Houston several years ago, I was able to visit Aurora Picture Show in its previous converted-church location. There was a palpable sense …

Selina Trepp: Artist Avoiding Painting

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Aug 2, 2011

Selina Trepp: Artist Avoiding Painting

by Thea Liberty Nichols | Aug 2, 2011

Thea Liberty Nichols: I left your studio, which you were kind enough to have me visit the other day, inspired to make new work because hearing about the “instructions” you …

New guest blogger: Thea Liberty Nichols

by Kelly Shindler | Aug 2, 2011

New guest blogger: Thea Liberty Nichols

by Kelly Shindler | Aug 2, 2011

Thanks to Francesca Wilmott for her take on the St. Louis art scene. Up next is Thea Liberty Nichols, who is returning to the guest blog after a stint earlier …

Community Arts Training Institute: A Conversation with Roseann Weiss

by Francesca Wilmott | Aug 1, 2011

Community Arts Training Institute: A Conversation with Roseann Weiss

by Francesca Wilmott | Aug 1, 2011

During my time as a guest blogger for Art21, I’ve examined various initiatives that have transformed the cultural landscape of St. Louis. Despite the city’s dwindling population, the arts are …

Creative Rebuild: Theaster Gates in Hyde Park, St. Louis

by Francesca Wilmott | Aug 1, 2011

Creative Rebuild: Theaster Gates in Hyde Park, St. Louis

by Francesca Wilmott | Aug 1, 2011

Artist Theaster Gates likes systems. And what he likes more than a system itself is knowing how to leverage it. Though formally trained in handling clay, Gates also uses the …

Of Monuments and Memorials: St. Louis Modernism and Juan William Chávez’s Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary

by Francesca Wilmott | Jul 26, 2011

Of Monuments and Memorials: St. Louis Modernism and Juan William Chávez’s Pruitt-Igoe Bee Sanctuary

by Francesca Wilmott | Jul 26, 2011

Notable attention has turned to what many consider the golden age of modern St. Louis—the 1950s—when the city reached its highest population and garnered international attention for its architectural contributions. …

Testing the Limits: Cultural Activism in the Gateway City

by Francesca Wilmott | Jul 19, 2011

Testing the Limits: Cultural Activism in the Gateway City

by Francesca Wilmott | Jul 19, 2011

When the 2010 U.S. Census figures were released in February of this year, many in St. Louis were alarmed. According to census data, the city’s population declined eight percent in …

Activist Archiving with Mona Jimenez

by Beth Capper | Jul 19, 2011

Activist Archiving with Mona Jimenez

by Beth Capper | Jul 19, 2011

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8qh6jRzjmcY] The oft-repeated cliche about the early video movement in the United States is that it was driven by groups of people who came together with a collective desire to …

New guest blogger: Francesca Wilmott

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 18, 2011

New guest blogger: Francesca Wilmott

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 18, 2011

Thanks to Beth Capper for guest blogging for us these last two weeks. Up next is Francesca Wilmott. Francesca is the co-founder of Los Caminos, an apartment gallery in St. Louis’s …

JoAnn Elam’s Everyday People

by Beth Capper | Jul 18, 2011

JoAnn Elam’s Everyday People

by Beth Capper | Jul 18, 2011

For the past year, I have been volunteering at Chicago Film Archives, an organization that serves as a repository for films regional to the Midwest. Recently, I have been archiving …

Building The Pleasure Palace Theater of the Future: Archiving Shirley Clarke’s Early Video Work

by Beth Capper | Jul 11, 2011

Building The Pleasure Palace Theater of the Future: Archiving Shirley Clarke’s Early Video Work

by Beth Capper | Jul 11, 2011

Being a fan of “themes,” my posts as guest blogger for Art21 will revolve around (digital) archives and feminist/women’s art (histories), issues that my own work is heavily concerned with. …

A Good Engineer [interview w/Todd Bailey]

by Nick Briz | Jul 7, 2011

A Good Engineer [interview w/Todd Bailey]

by Nick Briz | Jul 7, 2011

Within the underground, DIY, and circuit-bending communities of Chicago, NYC, and elsewhere Todd Bailey is the name associated with the 8bit sampler/kit WTPA (Where’s The Party At) and other unique …

New guest blogger: Beth Capper

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 6, 2011

New guest blogger: Beth Capper

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 6, 2011

Thanks to Nick Briz for his inventive Skype mashup interviews with new media practitioners. You can follow his pursuits at www.nickbriz.com. Up next is Beth Capper. Beth is an independent …

Pop Culture Pirate [interview w/Elisa Kreisinger]

by Nick Briz | Jun 30, 2011

Pop Culture Pirate [interview w/Elisa Kreisinger]

by Nick Briz | Jun 30, 2011

Elisa Kreisinger is a video remix artist, writer, curator, and educator whose work often addresses feminist, queer, and social issues. While there is a long history of appropriation-based political critique …

Work Smarter, Not Harder [an interview w/Evan Roth]

by Nick Briz | Jun 29, 2011

Work Smarter, Not Harder [an interview w/Evan Roth]

by Nick Briz | Jun 29, 2011

Evan Roth is a prolific producer whose activities take on many different forms, including teaching, collaborating, engineering, collecting gifs, analyzing graffiti, enriching the public domain, developing tools of empowerment and …

A Better Ghost [Interview w/Evan Meaney]

by Nick Briz | Jun 27, 2011

A Better Ghost [Interview w/Evan Meaney]

by Nick Briz | Jun 27, 2011

Evan Meaney is an artist, curator and educator currently teaching time-based media design at the University of Tennessee. His practice dives into the “liminalities and glitches of all sorts, equating …

New guest blogger: Nick Briz

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 20, 2011

New guest blogger: Nick Briz

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 20, 2011

Thanks to Tom McCormack for his series of media- and newer media-centric posts. Up next is Nick Briz. About his practice, Nick writes: I am a new media artist living …

Questionnaire for Ed Halter

by Tom McCormack | Jun 17, 2011

Questionnaire for Ed Halter

by Tom McCormack | Jun 17, 2011

Founded in 2008, Light Industry, which is run by Ed Halter and Thomas Beard, is already thought by many to be one of the premiere venues for cinema and new …

Internet Connoisseurship

by Tom McCormack | Jun 16, 2011

Internet Connoisseurship

by Tom McCormack | Jun 16, 2011

Since the 60s, cinephilia—obsessive movie love—has proved to be a particularly popular, durable, and visible form of connoisseurship. Susan Sontag wrote that camp aesthetics tried to address the question of …

Cory Arcangel and New Media One-Liners

by Tom McCormack | Jun 10, 2011

Cory Arcangel and New Media One-Liners

by Tom McCormack | Jun 10, 2011

New media artist Nick Briz has defined a “new media one-liner” this way: The new media one-liner is a sub-genre of new media art. Enthusiasts and practitioners of the new …

Street Photography and Google Street View

by Tom McCormack | Jun 7, 2011

Street Photography and Google Street View

by Tom McCormack | Jun 7, 2011

In her essay “Certainties and Possibilities,” Janet Malcolm offers a brief genealogy of what she sees as a particularly American form of street photography. Malcolm starts by talking about European …

New guest blogger: Tom McCormack

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 6, 2011

New guest blogger: Tom McCormack

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 6, 2011

Thanks to Din Heagney for his posts on Australian artists Lily Hibberd and Carl Scrase. Look out for more from him later this week. Up next is Tom McCormack. Tom …

Flash Points

EMPATHY VIRUS

by Din Heagney | Jun 6, 2011

Flash Points

EMPATHY VIRUS

by Din Heagney | Jun 6, 2011

“People kept telling me art can’t change the world; so I stopped calling what I do art,” says Carl Scrase, a young Australian artist who shot to local fame with his …

Flash Points

PUBLIC AMNESIA

by Din Heagney | Jun 2, 2011

Flash Points

PUBLIC AMNESIA

by Din Heagney | Jun 2, 2011

History isn’t was. History is. No matter how much we wipe our feet at the front door, we track history through the house. Leaving its muddy footprints all over the …

New guest blogger: Din Heagney

by Kelly Shindler | May 24, 2011

New guest blogger: Din Heagney

by Kelly Shindler | May 24, 2011

Thanks to Amy Whitaker for her series of posts on all things art and economics. Up next on the guest blog is Din Heagney. Din is an Australian writer, editor, …

The Space Outside Your Head: Some Concluding Thoughts

by Amy Whitaker | May 24, 2011

The Space Outside Your Head: Some Concluding Thoughts

by Amy Whitaker | May 24, 2011

Over the course of writing this blog, I have learned that many of my posts are about art and economics.  More broadly, they are about creativity and friendship, and how …

Department of Audience Participation: Wall Label Winners

by Amy Whitaker | May 23, 2011

Department of Audience Participation: Wall Label Winners

by Amy Whitaker | May 23, 2011

I hesitate to say that exactly one person replied to the wall label writing contest, and one to the Mad Lib.  I could wonder about flaws in the design of …

Adam Smith As an Artist

by Amy Whitaker | May 19, 2011

Adam Smith As an Artist

by Amy Whitaker | May 19, 2011

Part 2 of what art and economics have to do with each other. . . . A few years ago I came across a biographical sketch of Adam Smith, founding …

The Friends and Family Plan: Sol LeWitt and Eva Hesse

by Amy Whitaker | May 17, 2011

The Friends and Family Plan: Sol LeWitt and Eva Hesse

by Amy Whitaker | May 17, 2011

This post is about a show that’s up at Craig F. Starr Gallery until May 27—a collection of artworks by Sol LeWitt and Eva Hesse. This isn’t a review because …

Better Not Bigger: What’s Next for Art Museums?

by Amy Whitaker | May 16, 2011

Better Not Bigger: What’s Next for Art Museums?

by Amy Whitaker | May 16, 2011

In the next two weeks, museum leaders gather in two places—art curators in New York May 15-17 and everyone in Houston May 22-25—to contemplate the future of the field.  How …

Contest! DIY Wall Labels. . .

by Amy Whitaker | May 12, 2011

Contest! DIY Wall Labels. . .

by Amy Whitaker | May 12, 2011

My publisher Greg Albers of Hol Art Books got me thinking about museum wall labels again recently.  In Greg’s honor, I thought I would host a (drum roll, please)… Wall …

Monday Painter/Sunday Banker

by Amy Whitaker | May 10, 2011

Monday Painter/Sunday Banker

by Amy Whitaker | May 10, 2011

I am so pleased to be a new guest blogger at Art21.  We were encouraged to introduce ourselves in our first blog post, and so I thought I would write …

New guest blogger: Amy Whitaker

by Kelly Shindler | May 10, 2011

New guest blogger: Amy Whitaker

by Kelly Shindler | May 10, 2011

Thanks to Rebecca Leopold for her posts these last two weeks. Up next is Amy Whitaker, a writer, professor, and creative consultant.  Her great passion in life right now is …

Explosive Fragments: Poems and Photographs

by Rebecca Leopold | May 9, 2011

Explosive Fragments: Poems and Photographs

by Rebecca Leopold | May 9, 2011

At some time, somewhere I read or heard some one say something equating novels with films and poems with photographs. I think it had something to do with time and …

Sustain Ability

by Rebecca Leopold | May 5, 2011

Sustain Ability

by Rebecca Leopold | May 5, 2011

Thoughts, to an artist, writer, or any individual who wants to live thoughtfully Influence. The personal narration that comes with cinematic fiction, the fragmentary staccato of poetry or song, the …