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Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Whippet Good! M.A. Peers at the Pomona College Museum of Art
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Whippet Good! M.A. Peers at the Pomona College Museum of Art
During last week’s panel discussion in conjunction with M.A. Peers‘s exhibition at the Pomona College Museum of Art, Peers recalled a pivotal moment during her graduate studies. Painter Linda Day told her …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Carin Kuoni of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Carin Kuoni of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics
For six years, Carin Kuoni has been director of the Vera List Center for Art and Politics at The New School in New York City. I wanted to pose my …
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
The Making of “William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible”
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
The Making of “William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible”
The leaders of Art21’s Production Department, Eve Moros Ortega and Nick Ravich, sat down for a casual conversation about the production of William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible. Their discussion sheds …
Flash Points
Experience at the Mattress Factory
Flash Points
Experience at the Mattress Factory
As an institution that exhibits contemporary, site-specific installation art through a fully supported artist residency program, we only ever get to experience exhibitions for a few months and then they …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink: New Transparency for the Tamarind Institute
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink: New Transparency for the Tamarind Institute
Printmaking is a vital and significant aspect of contemporary art, yet there is currently very little discussion or media coverage of this medium in the press. When Art on Paper announced …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Frances Whitehead, Embedded Artist
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Frances Whitehead, Embedded Artist
What do artists know? A few weeks ago, I spent an afternoon at the Chicago home of Frances Whitehead talking about the philosophical and pragmatic underpinnings of this question. To …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
The Suburban: A Space for Contemporary Art in Oak Park, Illinois
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
The Suburban: A Space for Contemporary Art in Oak Park, Illinois
Oak Park, Illinois is a very pretty and historically significant suburb that lies just outside of Chicago. Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple is located here, along with a number of …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Caring for What’s Living: a Discussion with Norah Fletchall
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Caring for What’s Living: a Discussion with Norah Fletchall
Indianapolis Museum of Art conservator Richard McCoy talks with Indianapolis Zoo conservator Norah Fletchall about ways in which their professional lives intersect.
Open Enrollment
The Exhibition in Art & Business
Open Enrollment
The Exhibition in Art & Business
Oliver Wunsch considers the role of exhibition work in an art historical education by looking at MASS MoCA’s current show InVisible, curated by one of his classmates. Mike Brenner discusses different cost structures of grassroots art exhibitions, and how changing economic times force artists to adapt to find space and funds.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 1
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 1
On March 20, Kidspace at MASS MoCA celebrated its 10th anniversary. Kidspace, a contemporary art gallery, studio, and educational program, promotes the understanding and teaching of art through experiential learning …
What's Cookin': The Art21ndex
What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index
What's Cookin': The Art21ndex
What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index
What are your manners? Where and how did you learn them? According to Ben Street’s most recent letter to us contemporary art and the Mannerist Movement could be holding hands …
What's Cookin': The Art21ndex
What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index
What's Cookin': The Art21ndex
What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index
Have you ever … …wanted to live on an island? Andrea Zittel did …so she’s making one! If you are in Indianapolis, visit the IMA and meet the “park ranger” …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Squeak Carnwath’s Unique Lexicon Channels the Universal
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Squeak Carnwath’s Unique Lexicon Channels the Universal
“Most of life is invisible to the naked eye,” proclaims Invisible, a painting in Squeak Carnwath’s new exhibition at Peter Mendenhall Gallery in Los Angeles. At first glance, it appears …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside The Artist’s Studio: Joulia Strauss
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside The Artist’s Studio: Joulia Strauss
It would be an oversimplification to introduce Joulia Strauss to you as a Russian visual artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Joulia is a Mari, from the Mari …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hot Scots, Part Deux
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hot Scots, Part Deux
Sometimes the most interesting thing about an artist is the disparity between their work and the established perception of it. Eva Hesse, the late German-American sculptor of ratty latex and …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Extending the Conservation Framework: A Site-Specific Conservation Discussion with Francesca Esmay
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Extending the Conservation Framework: A Site-Specific Conservation Discussion with Francesca Esmay
IMA conservator Richard McCoy discusses 100 Acres and Spiral Jetty with Dia conservator Francesca Esmay.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Wrestling with the Past: A TwCA 2008-2009 Roundup
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Wrestling with the Past: A TwCA 2008-2009 Roundup
It’s been quite a year. Quite an academic year, that is. Between the country voicing a collective NO to four more years of the same Bushed policies and Bernie Madoff …
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