Tag Archives: critique

On Fables

by Dmitry Vilensky | Aug 20, 2018

On Fables

by Dmitry Vilensky | Aug 20, 2018

Russian collective Chto Delat debates a contemporary repurposing of fables as a potential means of activating the process of self-questioning and a common search for the truth.

Reading Critically: Alexandra Bell’s “Counternarratives”

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Dec 22, 2017

Reading Critically: Alexandra Bell’s “Counternarratives”

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Dec 22, 2017

Alexandra Bell’s “Counternarratives” series shows inscribed corrections of “New York Times” print articles, exposing editorial bias conveyed by ill-chosen images, poorly worded headlines, and textual masking of white crime.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Scenius, Inspiration, and Invention

by Todd Elkin | Oct 25, 2017

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Scenius, Inspiration, and Invention

by Todd Elkin | Oct 25, 2017

Educator-in-Residence Todd Elkin reflects on the ways in which his classroom embodies the concept of “scenius,” in which creative inventions emerge from social contexts, as the students working near each other riff off one another’s strategies and ideas.

Art21 New York Close Up

Josephine Halvorson Gets the Conversation Going

by Jonathan Munar | Mar 3, 2014

Art21 New York Close Up

Josephine Halvorson Gets the Conversation Going

by Jonathan Munar | Mar 3, 2014

New in New York Close Up, artist Josephine Halvorson guides an undergraduate painting class in a group critique at Cooper Union in Manhattan.