Tag Archives: Art21 Artists

This Week in Art: 2.29-3.6

by Lindsey Davis | Feb 29, 2016

This Week in Art: 2.29-3.6

by Lindsey Davis | Feb 29, 2016

A look at this week’s art news, including the upcoming Armory Show and Google’s first gallery show.

Who’s Keeping SKOR?

by Paige K. Johnston | Jul 16, 2010

Who’s Keeping SKOR?

by Paige K. Johnston | Jul 16, 2010

Living in Chicago, there’s little chance of avoiding public art. From murals to monuments, legs to eyeballs, the city is inundated. Though I will admit to enjoying cell phone photos …

Louise Bourgeois Left Nothing to be Desired

by Catherine Wagley | Jun 3, 2010

Louise Bourgeois Left Nothing to be Desired

by Catherine Wagley | Jun 3, 2010

When I heard that Louise Bourgeois (Season 1) passed away on the morning of May 31, I was genuinely surprised. It seemed only natural that she would live into a …

Flash Points

Nancy Spero’s Torture of Women

by Catherine Wagley | Apr 16, 2010

Flash Points

Nancy Spero’s Torture of Women

by Catherine Wagley | Apr 16, 2010

“In our day, [when] we came back from war,” said Seymour Hersh to Bill O’Reilly in 2004, “We would take our pictures and hide them behind the socks in the drawer and …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Janine Antoni, Part One

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 7, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Janine Antoni, Part One

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 7, 2009

To say it was a pleasure to be given the opportunity to interview Janine Antoni for this column is a gross understatement. In 2003, Janine Antoni‘s Season 2 segment was …

BOMB in the Building

Yinka Shonibare interviewed by Anthony Downey

by BOMB Magazine | Sep 4, 2009

BOMB in the Building

Yinka Shonibare interviewed by Anthony Downey

by BOMB Magazine | Sep 4, 2009

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a vintage BOMB interview relating to a Season 5 artist. Next up, Yinka Shonibare, whose exhibit at the …

Some Thoughts on China + Transformation

by Hrag Vartanian | Aug 31, 2009

Some Thoughts on China + Transformation

by Hrag Vartanian | Aug 31, 2009

In the final week of the Transformation series, I’ve asked a number of people with diverse points of view to offer their thoughts on the topic. To kick things off, …

Flash Points

For the Love of God: The Artist as Capitalist

by Julia Steinmetz | Apr 29, 2009

Flash Points

For the Love of God: The Artist as Capitalist

by Julia Steinmetz | Apr 29, 2009

In 2007, artist Damien Hirst exhibited a work at the White Cube gallery in London which is reputed to be the most expensive contemporary artwork ever made. Entitled For the …

MANIFESTA 7

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 18, 2008

MANIFESTA 7

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 18, 2008

Dubbed “The European Biennial of Contemporary Art, ” Manifesta 7 begins on July 19 and runs through November 2. The exhibition occurs in a different city every two years, but this is the first time Manifesta will take place …

Museum

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 20, 2008

Museum

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 20, 2008

The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was established eighteen years ago in Kansas City, Missouri on 18th and Vine Streets, just around the corner from the Paseo YMCA building where the …

Jörg Heiser at Austrian Cultural Forum

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 16, 2008

Jörg Heiser at Austrian Cultural Forum

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 16, 2008

On Wednesday June 25th at 7:00 p.m., the Goethe-Institut New York and the Austrian Cultural Forum will co-host a conversation between Jörg Heiser and Brian Sholis, editor at Artforum.com. The …

Matthew Ritchie at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

by Maria Nicanor | May 1, 2008

Matthew Ritchie at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao

by Maria Nicanor | May 1, 2008

Season 3 artist Matthew Ritchie’s The Hierarchy Problem (2003) and The Fine Constant (2003) are on view at the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao as part of Installations: Selections from the Guggenheim …

Jenny Holzer on Twitter

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 21, 2008

Jenny Holzer on Twitter

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 21, 2008

Current Jenny Holzer (Season 4) Twitter message: INHERITANCE MUST BE ABOLISHED To see more of the artist’s aphorisms on the social networking site, click here.

Nancy Spero at de Appel

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 18, 2008

Nancy Spero at de Appel

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 18, 2008

From April 19 through June 22, to mark the release of Codex Spero. Nancy Spero Selected Writings and Interviews 1950-2008 compiled by curator Roel Arkesteijn, de Appel in Amsterdam is …

Barry McGee in Newcastle

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 16, 2008

Barry McGee in Newcastle

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 16, 2008

There are only twelve days left to catch Art:21 Season One artist Barry McGee‘s – aka Twister – first major solo exhibition in the United Kingdom at the Baltic Centre …

Tim Hawkinson Down Under

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 14, 2008

Tim Hawkinson Down Under

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 14, 2008

Scout, an exhibition of work by Art21 Season 2 artist Tim Hawkinson, is on view at the Gow Langsford Gallery in Auckland, New Zealand until May 16th. Hawkinson‚Äôs full range …

Sally Mann at Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 11, 2008

Sally Mann at Jackson Fine Art in Atlanta

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 11, 2008

Atlanta’s Jackson Fine Art is currently showing a selection from Sally Mann‘s (Season 1) latest body of work, What Remains. Using her three children as subject matter, the up-close images …

Art21 artists in “TRANSactions” in Atlanta

by David Roesing | Apr 9, 2008

Art21 artists in “TRANSactions” in Atlanta

by David Roesing | Apr 9, 2008

TRANSactions: Contemporary Latin American and Latino Art, a group show which opened on March 15 at the High Museum in Atlanta features work from three Art21 artists. Alfredo Jaar, Inigo …

Anderson and Walker Among 85 Weirdest

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 8, 2008

Anderson and Walker Among 85 Weirdest

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 8, 2008

The March/April 85th anniversary issue of Weird Tales magazine is featuring ‚ÄúThe 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.‚Äù Each day since March 26th the Weird Tales website is …

James Turrell Skyspace at Pomona College

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 2, 2008

James Turrell Skyspace at Pomona College

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 2, 2008

Pomona College alumnus James Turrell (Season 1) has produced a Skyspace for his alma mater in the Draper Courtyard of the campus, realized in collaboration with consulting architects Marmol Radziner …

Beyond Green at Hartford Art School

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 31, 2008

Beyond Green at Hartford Art School

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 31, 2008

The traveling exhibition Beyond Green: Toward a Sustainable Art makes its way to the Joseloff Gallery at the Hartford Art School from April 4 – June 10. Eighteen artists and …

Kiki Smith: Her Home and Wallpaper

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 21, 2008

Kiki Smith: Her Home and Wallpaper

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 21, 2008

Studio Printworks has produced a hand-screened wallpaper in collaboration with Kiki Smith (Season 2). Maiden & Moonflower depicts an evening scene of a woman standing beneath a tree bough inhabited …

Prospect.1 New Orleans Coming in November

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 17, 2008

Prospect.1 New Orleans Coming in November

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 17, 2008

Slated as the largest biennial of international contemporary art ever organized in the United States, Prospect.1 New Orleans will open November 1, 2008 and run through January 18, 2009. Founding …

Whitney Biennial Model Tees

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 14, 2008

Whitney Biennial Model Tees

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 14, 2008

The Whitney Museum has collaborated with the Gap on a series of t-shirts designed by past Whitney Biennial artists, including Art21 artists Cai Guo-Qiang, Barbara Kruger (her design is pictured …