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Teaching with Contemporary Art

Extending Beyond Craftsmanship, into Inquiry and Exploration

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Extending Beyond Craftsmanship, into Inquiry and Exploration

by Dana Helwick | Dec 4, 2019

Dana Joy Helwick explains how, and why, she uses contemporary artists as role models in her classroom.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Action Verbs

by Marie Elcin | Oct 29, 2019

Art21 Educator, Marie Elcin, discusses her use of “action verbs” inside of the classroom, inspired by Richard Serra’s Verb List (1967-68).

Mel Chin’s Fundred Project Takes the Next Step

by Art21 | Oct 23, 2019

Mel Chin’s Fundred Project Takes the Next Step

by Art21 | Oct 23, 2019

Mel Chin discusses the evolution of the Fundred Project, an art initiative that has expanded nationwide to end lead poisoning. Along with the director of the program, Amanda Wiles, Chin explains what the project has accomplished, next steps, and provides some sage advice to artists inspired to engage with social and environmental issues.

The Intrinsic Openness of the Hive Mind

by Avram Finkelstein | Sep 12, 2019

The Intrinsic Openness of the Hive Mind

by Avram Finkelstein | Sep 12, 2019

Writer, artist and activist Avram Finkelstein reflects on the Science=Death movement, image commons, and the strength of the collective voice.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Creating a Platform for New Voices

by Marie Elcin | Sep 12, 2019

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Creating a Platform for New Voices

by Marie Elcin | Sep 12, 2019

Art21 Educator, Marie Elcin, describes the impact of the social practice artworks and being inspired by the work of Mel Chin.

Francis Alÿs: A Moment of Collective Complicity

by Art21 | Sep 12, 2019

Francis Alÿs: A Moment of Collective Complicity

by Art21 | Sep 12, 2019

Francis Alÿs discusses the unexpected circumstances during the production of his collaborative film Don’t Cross the Bridge Before You Get to the River (2008).

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Cultivating Collections

by Maureen Hergott | Jul 3, 2019

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Cultivating Collections

by Maureen Hergott | Jul 3, 2019

Choice-based Art21 Educator, Maureen Hergott explains how she uses collections in the classroom to inspire creativity in her students.

Art21 Extended Play

New Video: Zanele Muholi Unplugs from the Studio

by Art21 | May 30, 2019

Art21 Extended Play

New Video: Zanele Muholi Unplugs from the Studio

by Art21 | May 30, 2019

Zanele Muholi explains the impetus behind creating what they call “mobile studios” to photograph members of the LGBTI community in South Africa. Freed from the limitations of a single studio space, Muholi travels to the homes and community spaces shared by the people depicted in their photographs.

Pictorial SpaceX

by Caitlin Cherry | May 30, 2019

Pictorial SpaceX

by Caitlin Cherry | May 30, 2019

Visual artist Caitlin Cherry connects her work to Donna Haraway’s 1985 essay, Cyborg Manifesto.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Harnessing the Penchant for Play

by Maureen Hergott | May 30, 2019

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Harnessing the Penchant for Play

by Maureen Hergott | May 30, 2019

Art21 Educator, Maureen Hergott, shares a lesson designed to inspire students to engage their imagination and construct artworks inspired by the human form.

A Tangible History of the American South

by Allison Janae Hamilton | May 9, 2019

A Tangible History of the American South

by Allison Janae Hamilton | May 9, 2019

Landscape has always been a foundational lens through which I interpret the world around me. As a product of the American South, I understood how landscape underscored my everyday experience and learned how natural materials hold a tangible history of lineage, labor, and land. My work reflects the role of landscape in the creation of Americana and how the natural environment is the central protagonist, not a backdrop, of everyday life.

In Conversation: Kevin Beasley and Mark Bradford

by Art21 | Apr 27, 2019

In Conversation: Kevin Beasley and Mark Bradford

by Art21 | Apr 27, 2019

An artist-to-artist conversation between Kevin Beasley and Mark Bradford, providing insight into two great creative minds at different stages of their careers. Originally published in the book Kevin Beasley, in tandem with Beasley’s first major museum exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA) Boston.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Landscape and Inquiry

by Dennis Greenwell | Mar 20, 2019

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Landscape and Inquiry

by Dennis Greenwell | Mar 20, 2019

Art21 Educator Dennis Greenwell screened the “Extended Play” film “Julie Mehretu: Politicized Landscapes” and shares the inspiring classroom discussion and activity that ensued as a result.

Family Business

by Lucia Hierro | Dec 21, 2018

Family Business

by Lucia Hierro | Dec 21, 2018

Lucia Hierro recites her path to becoming an artist. From investigating the cultural histories not available in art history to vindicating a career in the fine arts to her family, Hierro explains how she came to bring Caribbean iconography into the forefront in her work.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Agency in the Classroom: Who Makes the Decisions?

by Alisa Rodny | Nov 28, 2018

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Agency in the Classroom: Who Makes the Decisions?

by Alisa Rodny | Nov 28, 2018

Art21 Educator Alisa Rodny explains how she encourages students to take agency in their art-making and shares the story of two students who used artistic voice to express their stories of immigration to the United States.

Letter from the Editor

How to Choose

by Tina Kukielski | Oct 17, 2018

Letter from the Editor

How to Choose

by Tina Kukielski | Oct 17, 2018

Art 21 Executive Director, Tina Kukielski introduces the Fall 2018 Issue, “Choice” and the release of Art21’s newest publication, “Being an Artist,” which features previously unpublished interviews across the three video series, and 18-year tenure in letting artists share their experience and process in their own words.

Letter from the Editor

Whose Public?

by Tina Kukielski | Jan 26, 2018

Letter from the Editor

Whose Public?

by Tina Kukielski | Jan 26, 2018

Art21 Executive Director and Chief Curator Tina Kukielski introduces the new winter issue, stressing the need for contemporary art and artists in the current debates over public space, power, and ownership.

Meet the New Art21.org

by Jonathan Munar | Mar 9, 2017

Meet the New Art21.org

by Jonathan Munar | Mar 9, 2017

Art21’s Director of Digital Media and Strategy Jonathan Munar introduces our new website, and all the new features—like Playlists and Watchlists—that come with it.

Art21 Extended Play

Liz Magor: “Studios should be issued by the government as health-mandated items”

by Ian Forster | Feb 10, 2017

Art21 Extended Play

Liz Magor: “Studios should be issued by the government as health-mandated items”

by Ian Forster | Feb 10, 2017

In today’s Art21 “Exclusive,” Liz Magor describes her Vancouver studio as a place for pleasure as well as productivity while working on a cast sculpture of a paper bag.

Art21 Extended Play

Brian Jungen: Printing Two Perspectives

by Ian Forster | Dec 22, 2016

Art21 Extended Play

Brian Jungen: Printing Two Perspectives

by Ian Forster | Dec 22, 2016

In a new Art21 “Exclusive,” artist Brian Jungen creates two-sided prints from archival newspaper clippings, revealing the lens of otherness through which Native people are frequently viewed.

Art21 Extended Play

Do Ho Suh Memorializes His New York Apartment

by Ian Forster | Dec 9, 2016

Art21 Extended Play

Do Ho Suh Memorializes His New York Apartment

by Ian Forster | Dec 9, 2016

In a new Art21 “Exclusive,” Do Ho Suh rubs every surface in his NYC apartment with colored pencil, creating a three-dimensional drawing of the space that was his home and studio for 18 years.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Why Contemporary Art? Art21 & The Value of Inspiration

by Art21 | Nov 29, 2016

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Why Contemporary Art? Art21 & The Value of Inspiration

by Art21 | Nov 29, 2016

This Giving Tuesday, four Art21 Educators share how Art21’s films and programs have opened their students’ eyes to new possibilities.

Art21 Extended Play

Diana Thater’s Animal Activism

by Ian Forster | Oct 21, 2016

Art21 Extended Play

Diana Thater’s Animal Activism

by Ian Forster | Oct 21, 2016

In a new ART21 “Exclusive” episode, Diana Thater discusses her interest in improving the lives of both humans and animals through art and activism.

Art21 Extended Play

Nick Cave’s Thick Skin

by Ian Forster | Oct 7, 2016

Art21 Extended Play

Nick Cave’s Thick Skin

by Ian Forster | Oct 7, 2016

In a new ART21 “Exclusive,” Nick Cave discusses the experiences that force him to confront his identity as a black man—including being racially profiled by police—and how they fuel his impulse to create.

Art21 New York Close Up

Daniel Gordon Looks Back

by Nick Ravich | Aug 12, 2016

Art21 New York Close Up

Daniel Gordon Looks Back

by Nick Ravich | Aug 12, 2016

Photographer Daniel Gordon reflects on his decade-long commitment to intensive practice and artistic invention in a new film from the ART21 “New York Close Up” series.

Art21 Extended Play

Carrie Mae Weems Commemorates Black Lives

by Ian Forster | Aug 9, 2016

Art21 Extended Play

Carrie Mae Weems Commemorates Black Lives

by Ian Forster | Aug 9, 2016

In a new ART21 “Exclusive,” Carrie Mae Weems stages a performance that honors the deaths of black men in the U.S.

Season 8 Preview: Minerva Cuevas

by Art21 | Jul 20, 2016

Season 8 Preview: Minerva Cuevas

by Art21 | Jul 20, 2016

A look at the work of artist Minerva Cuevas, featured in Season 8 of Art in the Twenty-First Century, premiering on PBS this fall.

Announcing the ART21 Screening Society

by Art21 | Jul 7, 2016

Announcing the ART21 Screening Society

by Art21 | Jul 7, 2016

Announcing the ART21 Screening Society: bringing free screenings of “Art in the Twenty-First Century” Season 8 to venues worldwide.

Art21 Extended Play

Eleanor Antin Plays with Politics

by Ian Forster | Jun 29, 2016

Art21 Extended Play

Eleanor Antin Plays with Politics

by Ian Forster | Jun 29, 2016

Eleanor Antin discusses her use of paper dolls to create politically charged sculptures and videos in a new episode of ART21 “Exclusive.”

Deep Focus: Inside Art21 Films

Get the Inside Scoop on ART21 Films with “Deep Focus”

by Art21 | Jun 16, 2016

Deep Focus: Inside Art21 Films

Get the Inside Scoop on ART21 Films with “Deep Focus”

by Art21 | Jun 16, 2016

Announcing a new column that goes in-depth with ART21 artists, and takes you behind-the-scenes of ART21 films .

Art21 Extended Play

The Making of Martin Puryear’s “Big Bling”

by Ian Forster | Jun 10, 2016

Art21 Extended Play

The Making of Martin Puryear’s “Big Bling”

by Ian Forster | Jun 10, 2016

Today’s ART21 “Exclusive” follows Martin Puryear’s monumental public sculpture “Big Bling” as it’s created and installed in Madison Square Park.

Art21 New York Close Up

Bryan Zanisnik & Eric Winkler’s Animated Conversation

by Wesley Miller | Jun 3, 2016

Art21 New York Close Up

Bryan Zanisnik & Eric Winkler’s Animated Conversation

by Wesley Miller | Jun 3, 2016

Stories from Bryan Zanisnik’s life as an artist are transformed into animated comics by his friend Eric Winkler in a special new film from the ART21 “New York Close Up” series.