Tag Archives: Cai Guo-Qiang

Weekly Round Up

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 20, 2009

Weekly Round Up

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 20, 2009

Robert Adams has won the 2009 Hasselblad Foundation International Award in Photography. Based in Astoria, Oregon, the Season 4 artist received the $61,000 prize at a ceremony in San Francisco …

Flash Points

Flash Points #3: What is the Value of Art?

by Beth Allen | Apr 2, 2009

Flash Points

Flash Points #3: What is the Value of Art?

by Beth Allen | Apr 2, 2009

In the late-1990s I took a graduate seminar on “museums and institutional critique” that focused on artistic and curatorial practices in the 1980s and 90s, and included a series of …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Power(ful) Painting

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 18, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Power(ful) Painting

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 18, 2009

In a recent unit with an introductory Studio Art class, my students created paintings that redefined power visually in a variety of ways. After looking at the work of Season …

Touring Prospect.1 (Part 4), French District & Marigny

by Hrag Vartanian | Jan 15, 2009

Touring Prospect.1 (Part 4), French District & Marigny

by Hrag Vartanian | Jan 15, 2009

I was surprised that Prospect.1 shied away from New Orleans’ infamous French District as much as it did. The epicenter of New Orleans’ global brand, and one of the world’s …

Touring Prospect.1 in Photos (Part 2)

by Hrag Vartanian | Jan 13, 2009

Touring Prospect.1 in Photos (Part 2)

by Hrag Vartanian | Jan 13, 2009

As promised, here is a small visual taste of the sights and sounds of New Orleans’ Prospect.1 biennial. More detailed posts about the art in the Lower Ninth Ward, the …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

In-Progress

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 7, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

In-Progress

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 7, 2009

Teaching in the arts requires, at one ugly point or another, to have veiled conversations called critiques. They are hideous things that most students from middle school through graduate school …

Visionaire 55 Surprise

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Dec 12, 2008

Visionaire 55 Surprise

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Dec 12, 2008

  Collaborating with the House of Krug, Visionaire has just released its new issue packed with goodies.  Keeping in line with the magazine’s tradition of producing unusual, thematic, and multi-formatted …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Shaping Paintings

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 3, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Shaping Paintings

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 3, 2008

In the next few days, two high school classes I’m working with will be creating paintings inspired by the multiple meanings and interpretations of POWER. Three Art21 artists – Nancy …

I Left My Heart in New Orleans

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 1, 2008

I Left My Heart in New Orleans

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 1, 2008

Prospect. 1 New Orleans, the largest biennial international contemporary art ever held in the United States, opened to the public today. Produced by U.S. Biennial, Inc. and directed by Dan Cameron, …

Cai Guo-Qiang Awarded 7th Hiroshima Art Prize

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 17, 2008

Cai Guo-Qiang Awarded 7th Hiroshima Art Prize

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Oct 17, 2008

Cai Guo-Qiang (Season 3) has been awarded the 7th Hiroshima Art Prize, which comes with a solo exhibition at the Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art. Opening October 25th, the …

Cai Guo-Qiang Responds to Olympics Fireworks “Controversy”

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 22, 2008

Cai Guo-Qiang Responds to Olympics Fireworks “Controversy”

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 22, 2008

Over 34 million people watched the dazzling opening ceremony of the 2008 Olympics in Beijing. Days later, eager buzz-killers were quick to point out that deceptive “augmentations” were actually employed …

U.S. Embassy in Beijing

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 13, 2008

U.S. Embassy in Beijing

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 13, 2008

On the occassion of the 2008 Olympic Games, the new American Embassy in Beijing opened last Friday with a ribbon-cutting ceremony. Though not as prominent as the architectural “monuments” of …

Cai Guo-Qiang at the Beijing Olympics

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 8, 2008

Cai Guo-Qiang at the Beijing Olympics

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 8, 2008

When the opening ceremony for the 2008 Beijing Olympics kicks off today, the pyrotechnics spectacle silhouetting the “Bird’s Nest” Olympic stadium will spark familiarity to many in the art world. …

Cai Guo-Qiang media explosion

by Wesley Miller | May 22, 2008

Cai Guo-Qiang media explosion

by Wesley Miller | May 22, 2008

Art21 artist (Season 3) Cai Guo-Qiang‘s exhibition I Want to Believe at the Guggenheim Museum may go down as the most-documented show on video of 2008 in New York. However, …

Up to the Minute: Cai Guo-Qiang

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 21, 2008

Up to the Minute: Cai Guo-Qiang

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 21, 2008

Exhibition: I Want to Believe, the acclaimed retrospective exhibition of works by Cai Guo-Qiang (Season 3) closes at the Guggenheim Museum, New York next Wednesday, May 28. Also closing is …

(Artist) Frays Book

by Ben Street | May 20, 2008

(Artist) Frays Book

by Ben Street | May 20, 2008

The Victoria and Albert Museum’s latest exhibition, Blood on Paper: The Art of The Book, showcases book-based work by a wealth of modern and contemporary artists, including Cai Guo-Qiang and …

U.S. Embassy Makes Olympic Rings

by Rosanna Flouty | May 12, 2008

U.S. Embassy Makes Olympic Rings

by Rosanna Flouty | May 12, 2008

These big metallic tulips aren’t just going to be on view in Spain, where they are permanently installed along the Guggenheim Museum Bilbao‘s riverside façade, above. An edition of Tulips …

Martian Museum show at Barbican features real Art21 artists

by David Roesing | Mar 18, 2008

Martian Museum show at Barbican features real Art21 artists

by David Roesing | Mar 18, 2008

Examining contemporary art from the perspective of an extraterrestrial, the group show Martian Museum of Terrestrial Art, which opens this week at the Barbican Art Gallery in London, features the …

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 …

Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe at the Guggenheim in NYC

by Kelly Shindler | Feb 20, 2008

Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe at the Guggenheim in NYC

by Kelly Shindler | Feb 20, 2008

On view at the Guggenheim Museum in New York City from Friday, February 22 until May 28, Cai Guo-Qiang: I Want to Believe surveys the innovative body of work of …

2007: a brief recap

by Ana Otero | Jan 9, 2008

2007: a brief recap

by Ana Otero | Jan 9, 2008

2007 was a landmark year for many Art21 artists. Apart from the accolades and prizes bestowed upon such artists as Kara Walker, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Jessica Stockholder, Kerry James Marshall, …

Cai Guo-Qiang wins the Hiroshima Art Prize

by Ana Otero | Jul 26, 2007

Cai Guo-Qiang wins the Hiroshima Art Prize

by Ana Otero | Jul 26, 2007

The New York-based Chinese artist Cai Guo-Qiang, featured in Season 3 of Art in the Twenty-First Century, has been honored with the 7th Hiroshima Art Prize. The prize, awarded by …