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Transmission
Transmission | An Interview with Faith Coloccia: Sympathetic Magic, Visual Scores, Archives and Memory
Transmission
Transmission | An Interview with Faith Coloccia: Sympathetic Magic, Visual Scores, Archives and Memory
Amelia Ishmael talks to artist Faith Coloccia about her photography, mixed-media album works and her musical project Mamiffer.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Black Visual Archive
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Black Visual Archive
Terri Griffith talks with artist and Art21 Blog columnist Meg Onli about Black Visual Archive, a website of critical writings on the work of African American artists.
Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
Cairo in Context | Alluring Archives: On Memory, Omission, and Research in an Unstable Region
Cairo in Context: Art and Change in the Middle East
Cairo in Context | Alluring Archives: On Memory, Omission, and Research in an Unstable Region
Researchers working in the Middle East/North Africa region are challenged by a confusing bureaucracy, making access to archives and primary sources difficult.
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Looking Back to Nigeria [Part I]
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Looking Back to Nigeria [Part I]
In this five-part series, Richard McCoy looks back on his recent trip to Nigeria through the lens of artists working in the area.
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Claire Pentecost
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Claire Pentecost
By taking on the role of “public amateur,” artist Claire Pentecost models an alternative approach to the way that Western cultures typically produce knowledge.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Ideas as Medium: An Interview with Laurie Palmer
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Ideas as Medium: An Interview with Laurie Palmer
Caroline Picard talks to Chicago artist Laurie Palmer about collaborative practices, political action, and how we might save the world.
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | F for Fre$h: Beverly Fre$h on Artist Grants
Praxis Makes Perfect
Praxis Makes Perfect | F for Fre$h: Beverly Fre$h on Artist Grants
F stands for Fre$h. Beverly Fre$h, that is. Artist, performer, rap star, and former corporate graphic designer, Mr. Fre$h found his first flicker of fame when he was included in …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice With Gregory Sholette
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice With Gregory Sholette
Artist, scholar, organizer, and professor, Gregory Sholette embodies multiple ways that artists can interrogate history, politics, and public discourse. Through his initial work with the group REPOhistory (1989-2000) (as in, “repossessing …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art: The First Three Years
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art: The First Three Years
This week Teaching with Contemporary Art here on the blog turns 3. Frankly, I can’t believe that I’ve been writing this column for three years. At the same time, it …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Protest Songs and Lullabies: Susan Philipsz in Chicago
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Protest Songs and Lullabies: Susan Philipsz in Chicago
What does it mean to sing a protest song as if it were a lullaby? It’s a question I often ask myself. My five-year-old daughter has trouble falling asleep at …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
New column! Introducing “Bedfellows”
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
New column! Introducing “Bedfellows”
Art21 is pleased to announce our latest column, Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture, penned by guest blog alum Victoria Gannon. Art and visual culture have not always been friends. When …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | biriken
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | biriken
biriken is the five year old interdisciplinary, collaborative project of Melis Tezkan and Okan Urun. Working at the intersection of performance art, installation art, and traditional theater practice, Tezkan and …
Flash Points
Speaking of Influence: A Monument’s Invisible Man
Flash Points
Speaking of Influence: A Monument’s Invisible Man
“To make the monuments speak again we must question the often bland surface they show the world.” –Kirk Savage, Standing Soldiers, Kneeling Slaves “Do I speak for everyone? No. No …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives: Getting to Know Thornton Dial
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives: Getting to Know Thornton Dial
IMA conservator Richard McCoy talks about his experience working on Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial.
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | “Remembering so as not to forget the past is still not over”: Selected Meditations on Black History
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | “Remembering so as not to forget the past is still not over”: Selected Meditations on Black History
In celebration of National African American History month, this issue of Ink is focused on selected prints by Art21 artists that react to and re-interpret African-American history. Ellen Gallagher, Kerry …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Top 10 Chicago Art Events in 2010
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Top 10 Chicago Art Events in 2010
Meg Onli and Claudine Ise’s list of the ten best–or at least most interesting–events in Chicago art in 2010. 1. Best city-wide, sustained, multi-platform discussion of a single topic in …
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