Tag Archives: Chicago

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Hybrids

by Dehlia Hannah | Sep 11, 2009

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Hybrids

by Dehlia Hannah | Sep 11, 2009

In an exhibition currently on view at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago, artist Vesna Jovanovic both courts and antagonizes the intersection of art and science in the role of the medical …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Contemporary Art in Contemporary Classrooms: Art21 Educators 2009

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 15, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Contemporary Art in Contemporary Classrooms: Art21 Educators 2009

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 15, 2009

Starting today, Art21 is pleased to welcome K-12 teachers from across the country to participate in our first summer institute, Art21 Educators. Jessica Hamlin, Marc Mayer, Joy Lai (our amazing …

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Reflection in the Porcelain Pond

by Bert Stabler | May 22, 2009

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Reflection in the Porcelain Pond

by Bert Stabler | May 22, 2009

In the fine art world, the story of the thing is the stuff comprising the thing. Paint, bronze, steel, video, screenprinting, mud, written language—the work is about the medium. And …

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What a Way to Make a Living: New Artist Economies and the Role of the Arts Administrator

by Tracy Candido | May 7, 2009

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What a Way to Make a Living: New Artist Economies and the Role of the Arts Administrator

by Tracy Candido | May 7, 2009

I am an arts administrator, which is arguably the second invisible position in line behind the artist. The administrator’s cultural discount is not only applied when independently presenting an exhibition …

Concerning “newMedia” as one word

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 25, 2009

Concerning “newMedia” as one word

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 25, 2009

For my last guest post and in response to Kelly’s question, I thought I’d address the way that I spell newMedia and my intentions behind doing so. As I mentioned …

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Experimental Economies: Talking with Chicago’s InCUBATE

by Beth Capper | Apr 22, 2009

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Experimental Economies: Talking with Chicago’s InCUBATE

by Beth Capper | Apr 22, 2009

In the current state of financial precariousness, artists and arts administrators need to build mutually beneficial trust economies and supportive networks to rally for funding. And with arts institutions and …

Indie Games +/or Games as Art

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 22, 2009

Indie Games +/or Games as Art

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 22, 2009

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikNBn4wX8AU] Invisible Threads, Double Happiness Jeans by Stephanie Rothenberg and Jeff Crouse In continuing the thread (no pun intended with Double Happiness) of Play and it’s relationship to newMedia art, …

Obsolescence as Cultural Production

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 20, 2009

Obsolescence as Cultural Production

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 20, 2009

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C3Cq_JFzv2I&feature=channel_page] Thinking about this topic often reminds me of a section of Invisible Cities, where Marco Polo is describing a city to Kubla Kahn in which its center is made …

O hai :: Approaches + Modes

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 15, 2009

O hai :: Approaches + Modes

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 15, 2009

I thought before I get really started the guest blogging here, I’d speak a little bit about my intentions/directions/plans. BEFORE that, however, I’d like to thank Kelly Shindler for giving …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 Educators 2009-2010 – Apply Now!

by Marc Mayer | Apr 9, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 Educators 2009-2010 – Apply Now!

by Marc Mayer | Apr 9, 2009

Art21 Educators: Contemporary Art in Contemporary Classrooms 2009-2010 Are you interested in contemporary art? Are you a K-12 art and/or media teacher? Do you teach in Los Angeles, Chicago, or …

Art21 Extended Play

Jenny Holzer | “Projection for Chicago”

by Wesley Miller | Mar 9, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Jenny Holzer | “Projection for Chicago”

by Wesley Miller | Mar 9, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS Jenny Holzer discusses the process behind her series of Xenon Projections as part of the exhibition PROTECT PROTECT at the Museum of Contemporary …

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A better “we” through art? AREA Chicago’s Daniel Tucker on art and community

by Daniel Tucker | Mar 6, 2009

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A better “we” through art? AREA Chicago’s Daniel Tucker on art and community

by Daniel Tucker | Mar 6, 2009

This post is written as a dispatch from California, where I was at the College Art Association conference and speaking in classes at CalArts, SFAI, and the CCA Social Practices …

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Art21 Extended Play

Jenny Holzer | Programming

by Wesley Miller | Jan 29, 2009

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Art21 Extended Play

Jenny Holzer | Programming

by Wesley Miller | Jan 29, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Jenny Holzer discusses the programming of her LED sculptures during the installation of the exhibition PROTECT PROTECT at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Featured works include MONUMENT (2008), …

Art21 Extended Play

Jenny Holzer | Writing & Difficulty

by Wesley Miller | Jan 23, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Jenny Holzer | Writing & Difficulty

by Wesley Miller | Jan 23, 2009

EXCLUSIVE: Jenny Holzer discusses her difficult relationship to writing during the installation of the exhibition PROTECT PROTECT at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Featured works include Red Yellow Looming …

Migration Patterns

by Elijah Burgher | Jan 4, 2009

Migration Patterns

by Elijah Burgher | Jan 4, 2009

Each year the tide of the art world carries hundreds of young artists into Chicago’s several art schools to earn their MFAs. And each year the tide also carries a …

All the News We Hope to Print

by Marc Mayer | Nov 13, 2008

All the News We Hope to Print

by Marc Mayer | Nov 13, 2008

Living in the afterglow or wake (depending on your political leanings) of the 2008 presidential election, we are left to wonder where this talk of hope and change might lead …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Slowing Down and Visualizing Approaches

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 23, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Slowing Down and Visualizing Approaches

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 23, 2008

While vacationing locally this summer (since that’s all anyone has gas money for) and taking the necessary steps to slow down in order to feed your imagination and even your …

Hot Topic is not Punk Rock!

by Marc Mayer | Jun 6, 2008

Hot Topic is not Punk Rock!

by Marc Mayer | Jun 6, 2008

Reading Ben Street’s recent post Pop (and) Art, I started to consider links between music and art. It is easy to support Ben’s idea that the relationship between music and …

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle wins Richard H. Driehaus Foundation award

by Marc Mayer | Jun 3, 2008

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle wins Richard H. Driehaus Foundation award

by Marc Mayer | Jun 3, 2008

Art21 artist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (Season 4) is the winner of a 2008 individual artist award granted by the Richard H. Driehaus Foundation. This award recognizes artists living in the Chicago …

Gordon Matta-Clark: “You Are the Measure” at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

by Paul Ha | Mar 28, 2008

Gordon Matta-Clark: “You Are the Measure” at Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

by Paul Ha | Mar 28, 2008

Another guest blogger, Kat Parker, posted on March 12th, 2008 about this show so I wanted to let you know about a great opportunity to learn more about Gordon Matta-Clark …

James Bishop at The Art Institute of Chicago and The Modern Wing

by Kat Parker | Mar 14, 2008

James Bishop at The Art Institute of Chicago and The Modern Wing

by Kat Parker | Mar 14, 2008

A Focus exhibition of drawings and paintings by James Bishop opened this week at The Art Institute of Chicago. Bishop, who is American but has lived in France since the …

Gordon Matta-Clark at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

by Kat Parker | Mar 12, 2008

Gordon Matta-Clark at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

by Kat Parker | Mar 12, 2008

“You Are the Measure,” the first retrospective in twenty years of work by Gordon Matta-Clark (1943 – 1978) curated by Whitney Museum of American Art’s Elizabeth Sussman has come to …

Lilli Carr√®’s The Lagoon

by Kat Parker | Mar 12, 2008

Lilli Carr√®’s The Lagoon

by Kat Parker | Mar 12, 2008

Chicago-based filmmaker, illustrator, and comics artist Lilli Carr√® just completed her new book The Lagoon which will be available in October through Fantagraphics. You can view excerpts here. Her comic …

Current gallery exhibitions in Chicago

by Kat Parker | Mar 12, 2008

Current gallery exhibitions in Chicago

by Kat Parker | Mar 12, 2008

This is gonna take one more night, an exhibition of photographs by Chicago-based artist Jason Lazarus has opened at Bucket Rider Gallery. Lazarus’s work has always re-defined notions of self-portraiture …

Weekend: Robert Heinecken, Times New Viking, Onibaba

by Kat Parker | Mar 10, 2008

Weekend: Robert Heinecken, Times New Viking, Onibaba

by Kat Parker | Mar 10, 2008

Robert Heinecken: Dream/Circles/Cycles opened at Rhona Hoffman Gallery this past Friday. The first gallery show since his death in 2006, this exhibition features work created between 1964-1973, much of which …

Catherine Sullivan and Arturo Herrera in Adaptation in Chicago

by Kelly Shindler | Feb 25, 2008

Catherine Sullivan and Arturo Herrera in Adaptation in Chicago

by Kelly Shindler | Feb 25, 2008

While adaptation is a common practice in popular culture‚Äîfamiliar to moviegoers and booklovers who debate endlessly whether the film version is superior to the novel‚Äîit is perhaps less well known …

Josiah McElheny at Donald Young Gallery in Chicago

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 26, 2007

Josiah McElheny at Donald Young Gallery in Chicago

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 26, 2007

Through August 17, 2007, Donald Young Gallery in Chicago presents a solo show by Season 3 featured artist Josiah McElheny. Cosmology, Design and Landscape‚ÄîPart Two features four new sculptures by …