Tag Archives: Chicago

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Adelheid Mers (Part 2)

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Adelheid Mers (Part 2)

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 31, 2013

Part two of Georgia Kotretsos’s interview with Chicago–based artist, writer, editor, professor, and curator Adelheid Mers.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Adelheid Mers (Part 1)

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 29, 2013

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Adelheid Mers (Part 1)

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 29, 2013

Georgia Kotretsos chats with Chicago–based artist, writer, editor, professor, and curator Adelheid Mers.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield: Art in the Middle | Mashed Up and Shredded into Space: An Interview with Candida Alvarez

by Caroline Picard | Jan 22, 2013

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield: Art in the Middle | Mashed Up and Shredded into Space: An Interview with Candida Alvarez

by Caroline Picard | Jan 22, 2013

Caroline Picard poses four questions to artist Candida Alvarez whose paintings are currently on view at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Afterimage: An Interview with Dahlia Tulett-Gross and Thea Liberty Nichols

by Caroline Picard | Dec 26, 2012

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Afterimage: An Interview with Dahlia Tulett-Gross and Thea Liberty Nichols

by Caroline Picard | Dec 26, 2012

Caroline Picard talks with Dahlia Tulett-Gross and Thea Liberty Nichols about some of the visual legacies between two Chicago generations in the exhibition “Afterimage,” held last summer at the DePaul Art Museum.

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision | The Best in Food-Art 2012

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 21, 2012

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision | The Best in Food-Art 2012

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 21, 2012

Writers Megan Fizzel and Andrew Russeth join Nicole Caruth for a look at the year’s best food-art projects.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Lynda Benglis in the Elementary Classroom

by Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott | Dec 12, 2012

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Lynda Benglis in the Elementary Classroom

by Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott | Dec 12, 2012

Sharing contemporary art is a wonderful way to generate questions and discussions about art, and in turn, motivate young artists to take risks with their own art making.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Guest Bloggers This Week: Teaching with Contemporary Art

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 12, 2012

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Guest Bloggers This Week: Teaching with Contemporary Art

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 12, 2012

This week I am pleased to say that the Teaching with Contemporary Art column some guest bloggers…
Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott are both alumni of the Art21 Educators program and teach elementary art education at Scott and Westdale Elementary Schools in Melrose Park and Northlake near Chicago. Their work has been inspiring to all of us here at Art21 for the past two years, especially since they are finding ways to work with contemporary art and engage some very young students in the process.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield | The Past Lives of Books

by Caroline Picard | Nov 27, 2012

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield | The Past Lives of Books

by Caroline Picard | Nov 27, 2012

Caroline Picard on the many forms that textual marginalia may take.

Flash Points

The Undead Tree of Charles Ray

by Caroline Picard | Nov 2, 2012

Flash Points

The Undead Tree of Charles Ray

by Caroline Picard | Nov 2, 2012

Caroline Picard looks at Charles Ray’s “Hinoki” and asks, how does this sculpture–a reproduction of a fallen redwood tree–tell a story about survival, time, nature and humanity?

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field | Two Histories of the World: Part Two

by Caroline Picard | Oct 23, 2012

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Center Field | Two Histories of the World: Part Two

by Caroline Picard | Oct 23, 2012

Caroline Picard looks at “Two Histories of the World,” a two-part exhibition taking place at two different venues and at two different points in time.

Evolution (the whole point of no return*)

by Stephen Lacy | Sep 7, 2012

Evolution (the whole point of no return*)

by Stephen Lacy | Sep 7, 2012

Stephen Lacy winds up his guest blog series with an ode to friendship and to a lost friend, the artist Matt Hanner.

ON TO DISCIPLINE (my head is my only house unless it rains*)

by Stephen Lacy | Sep 4, 2012

ON TO DISCIPLINE (my head is my only house unless it rains*)

by Stephen Lacy | Sep 4, 2012

Stephen Lacy continues his guest blog series looking back at his experience as an artist-in-residence at The Good Hatchery in Ireland with a meditation on discipline and the surprising forms it can take.

Distances Can Be Deceiving

by Stephen Lacy | Aug 29, 2012

Distances Can Be Deceiving

by Stephen Lacy | Aug 29, 2012

Recalling his experiences while on residency in Ireland, artist and guest blogger Stephen Lacy muses on the relation of introspection, distance and time.

Mining the Local: Ya Dig? (While on Residency in Ireland)

by Stephen Lacy | Aug 27, 2012

Mining the Local: Ya Dig? (While on Residency in Ireland)

by Stephen Lacy | Aug 27, 2012

Artist Stephen Lacy, who recently returned from a residency at The Good Hatchery in Ireland, will reflect on that experience during his two-week blogger-in-residence stint.

New Guest Blogger: Stephen Lacy, Artist, Chicago

by Claudine Isé | Aug 27, 2012

New Guest Blogger: Stephen Lacy, Artist, Chicago

by Claudine Isé | Aug 27, 2012

Stephen Lacy, an artist who helms Academy Records in Chicago, is the Art21 Blog’s newest writer-in-residence.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #16: Review-o-Rama

by Bad at Sports | Jul 19, 2012

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #16: Review-o-Rama

by Bad at Sports | Jul 19, 2012

The Bad at Sports team is back with another podcast filled with irreverent reviews and discussions about the latest art events taking place in Chicago.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

A Year of Contemporary Art in (and out of) Contemporary Classrooms

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 27, 2012

Teaching with Contemporary Art

A Year of Contemporary Art in (and out of) Contemporary Classrooms

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 27, 2012

This is part two of a three part series that will share the experiences of three Art21 Education staff members (Jessica Hamlin, Joe Fusaro, and Flossie Chua) after spending a year with a group of 16 incredible teachers. Each of us has a unique perspective on the past twelve months and this series will ruminate on what it means to teach with contemporary art, specifically contextualized by our experiences this year working with the Art21 Educators program.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Home Away

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 6, 2012

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Home Away

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 6, 2012

I wonder what it means when you feel at home somewhere else? Six years ago I spent a few weeks during the month of July at the School of the …

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The “I” and the “We”

by Chiara Galimberti | May 30, 2012

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | The “I” and the “We”

by Chiara Galimberti | May 30, 2012

Chiara Galimberti argues that the artist’s identification with others, particularly working class people, is essential during these times of vast economic inequality.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #15: “Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations)”

by Bad at Sports | May 11, 2012

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #15: “Spectral Landscape (with Viewing Stations)”

by Bad at Sports | May 11, 2012

This month’s podcast features a discussion with artists Pamela Fraser and John Neff about color in art: how do artists use color? How do viewers experience it?

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #14: The New Art Examiner, Re-Examined

by Bad at Sports | Apr 10, 2012

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #14: The New Art Examiner, Re-Examined

by Bad at Sports | Apr 10, 2012

A discussion with editor Terri Griffith about “The Essential New Art Examiner,” an anthology of writings from Chicago’s only major art periodical, which folded in 2002.

Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures* (Take One)

by Jamilee Polson Lacy | Apr 9, 2012

Painting with Words, Writing with Pictures* (Take One)

by Jamilee Polson Lacy | Apr 9, 2012

Jamilee Polson Lacy looks at intertextuality–the intrinsic relation of words and images–in the writings of Italo Calvino and works by several contemporary artists.

Pictures of Chicago

by Dmitry Samarov | Apr 5, 2012

Pictures of Chicago

by Dmitry Samarov | Apr 5, 2012

Guest blogger Dmitry Samarov looks at several websites devoted to archival images of old Chicago, along with another that documents the city’s filmic portrayals.

Moving In

by Dmitry Samarov | Apr 2, 2012

Moving In

by Dmitry Samarov | Apr 2, 2012

Artist Dmitry Samarov finds that moving into a new home can be a source of fresh inspiration.

Fictionalized

by Dmitry Samarov | Mar 29, 2012

Fictionalized

by Dmitry Samarov | Mar 29, 2012

What happens when an artist’s real-life experiences are fictionalized for television? Dmitry Samarov reflects on the differences between art and reality.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield | Talking to the Moon

by Caroline Picard | Mar 27, 2012

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield | Talking to the Moon

by Caroline Picard | Mar 27, 2012

Silence speaks volumes in the work of artist Katie Paterson as well as in Theater Oobleck’s stage performance of “The Hunchback Variations.”

Shay DeGrandis

by Dmitry Samarov | Mar 26, 2012

Shay DeGrandis

by Dmitry Samarov | Mar 26, 2012

Guest blogger Dmitry Samarov looks at the highly personal watercolor and fiber works of Shay DeGrandis, who combines humor with the unexpected.

The First Post

by Lisa Anne Auerbach | Mar 12, 2012

The First Post

by Lisa Anne Auerbach | Mar 12, 2012

Lisa Anne Auerbach shares highlights from her recent trip to Chicago, including a memorable encounter with an iconic Mike Kelley piece.

Microscripts and Visual Conversations: “In the Spirit of Robert Walser” at Donald Young Gallery

by Monica Westin | Feb 20, 2012

Microscripts and Visual Conversations: “In the Spirit of Robert Walser” at Donald Young Gallery

by Monica Westin | Feb 20, 2012

How do visual artists and writers engage one another in conversations from within their own mediums?

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision | Iraqi Cuisine Goes Mobile

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 17, 2012

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision | Iraqi Cuisine Goes Mobile

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 17, 2012

Artist Michael Rakowitz’s “Enemy Kitchen (Food Truck)” is a roving eatery where local Iraqi cooks and US veterans of the Iraq war serve meals to the public.

The Art of Enduring: An Interview with Cupola Bobber

by Monica Westin | Feb 13, 2012

The Art of Enduring: An Interview with Cupola Bobber

by Monica Westin | Feb 13, 2012

How do artists use time as a material? The collaborative duo Cupola Bobber create epic, continually-unfolding projects that take years to complete.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #11

by Bad at Sports | Jan 26, 2012

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Centerfield | Fielding Practice Podcast #11

by Bad at Sports | Jan 26, 2012

This month’s podcast features a review of Cathy Wilkes’s Chicago exhibition and discussion of a greatly-exaggerated report of Damien Hirst’s demise.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art in the Elementary Classroom

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 25, 2012

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Contemporary Art in the Elementary Classroom

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 25, 2012

Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott made some important points in last week’s interview and this week we take the opportunity to point out two of them regarding how teachers construct elementary art-making experiences and use documentation to influence their work.

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | A Place to Call Home

by Chiara Galimberti | Jan 25, 2012

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment | A Place to Call Home

by Chiara Galimberti | Jan 25, 2012

What are some of the factors artists consider when deciding what city to live in?

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Art21 Educators: Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 18, 2012

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Art21 Educators: Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 18, 2012

This week I want to share a conversation that took place between myself and two of our current, amazing Art21 Educators. Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott teach elementary art education for the Scott and Westdale Elementary Schools in Melrose Park near Chicago. Their work has been inspiring to all of us here at Art21, especially since they are finding ways to work with contemporary art and engage some very young students in the process.