Tag Archives: Design

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | Absalon at Kunst-Werke

by Ethan Hayes-Chute | Mar 18, 2011

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | Absalon at Kunst-Werke

by Ethan Hayes-Chute | Mar 18, 2011

It was back in 2005 when I first encountered the work of Absalon at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof in a exhibition called Fast Nichts – Minimal Artworks from the Friedrich Christian …

Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture

Bedfellows: The Plaid Fad

by Victoria Gannon | Mar 1, 2011

Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture

Bedfellows: The Plaid Fad

by Victoria Gannon | Mar 1, 2011

In November 1991, Nirvana played on all of our car stereos. We smoked clove cigarettes and drove through the Oakland hills with Nevermind blaring over the speakers. Kurt Cobain drowned …

Clients, Pithy Quotes, and Jenny Holzer

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Feb 7, 2011

Clients, Pithy Quotes, and Jenny Holzer

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Feb 7, 2011

Clients are the difference between design and art.    — Michael Bierut Last week I looked at two nearly identical works by Felix Gonzalez-Torres and Tobias Wong as a way of …

Art, Design, and Clocks

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Feb 1, 2011

Art, Design, and Clocks

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Feb 1, 2011

My latest Internet obsession is Quora.com. Quora describes itself as “a continually improving collection of questions and answers created, edited, and organized by everyone who uses it.” It’s like Yahoo …

Turkish and Other Delights

Turkish and Other Delights: Extramücadele/Extrastruggle

by Elizabeth Wolfson | Jan 25, 2011

Turkish and Other Delights

Turkish and Other Delights: Extramücadele/Extrastruggle

by Elizabeth Wolfson | Jan 25, 2011

Extrastruggle is an enormous project which began in 1997. It works on imaginary demands from imaginary customers. Just like a graphic designer designing a logo for a client, it designs …

Techno-Trash: Mika Taanila and Pixelache

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 6, 2010

Techno-Trash: Mika Taanila and Pixelache

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 6, 2010

One of the best exhibitions I saw in Helsinki this summer was at Galleria Heino, a small space on the hip street Uudenmaankatu. On the recommendation of an artist friend, …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Back in the Kitchen

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 17, 2010

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Back in the Kitchen

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 17, 2010

The Museum of Modern Art could not have picked a better moment to mount Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen, an exhibition about the changing aesthetics and politics of …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Welcome Back

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 1, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Welcome Back

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 1, 2010

In case you’ve recently returned from summer vacation or have simply been away from the Art21 blog in July and August due to the fact that, like me, you promised …

The Nature of Art: Blueprints

by Meg Floryan | Aug 27, 2010

The Nature of Art: Blueprints

by Meg Floryan | Aug 27, 2010

As a visitor walking around an art venue, it’s refreshing and pleasing to stumble across green spaces. Open-air and enclosed courtyards featuring lush vegetation and bubbling fountains, outdoor terraces and …

The Nature of Art: Footprints

by Meg Floryan | Aug 24, 2010

The Nature of Art: Footprints

by Meg Floryan | Aug 24, 2010

It’s hip to be high-minded these days. In the cultural spheres, showing awareness of environmental concerns can prove to be a savvy PR move, and architectural firms and museum committees …
Relativity-escher

The Paradoxical Art of “Inception”

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 3, 2010

The Paradoxical Art of “Inception”

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 3, 2010

What is so compelling about riddles, mysteries, and puzzles?  Most people are fascinated by images and objects that are paradoxical or impossible in real life but look oddly convincing and …
Jenny Holtzer

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 2, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 2, 2010

Soon after last week’s roundup went live, I discovered a Jenny Holzer event happening in my backyard.  In this week’s roundup, CNN shows William Kentridge drawing apartheid, Scotland shows William …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Feeding Suburbia

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 16, 2010

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Feeding Suburbia

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 16, 2010

In the early 1970s, Bill Owens began to document the suburban boom in the California Bay Area. Every Saturday for a year, he photographed middle-class Americans in and around their …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 29, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 29, 2010

In this week’s roundup you’ll read about a retrospective in the Golden State, a pack of wolves in Singapore, a dreamy gift in Berlin, de-monumentalisation in Italy, Oprah culture the …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 15, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 15, 2010

In this week’s roundup you’ll find two island exhibitions, some curiosities of Monaco, a photographer who pushes buttons, and a group of artists who keep it real: Indianapolis Island, a floating …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Thinking Like an Artist, part 2 (and hold the Saltz)

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 9, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Thinking Like an Artist, part 2 (and hold the Saltz)

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 9, 2010

The Guggenheim Museum’s recent conference, Thinking Like an Artist: Creativity and Problem-Solving in the Classroom, turned out to be both an exciting and frustrating two days of panel-lectures and keynote …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 24, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 24, 2010

In today’s roundup: football art for South Africa, an overgrown baby in Los Angeles, an origami ship from London, body tissue in Bristol, humans behaving like pigs in Milan, flashing lights …

What’s it worth? Artist and community currencies

by Liz Sheehan | May 21, 2010

What’s it worth? Artist and community currencies

by Liz Sheehan | May 21, 2010

The territory of art that responds to, comments on, and intervenes in the art market is vast. There are a range of practices in contemporary art that involve currency as …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 17, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 17, 2010

An ancient proposition, a group of Modern women, life-restoring elixir, and more in this week’s roundup: Vancouver Art Gallery has organized Canada’s first solo exhibition of works by Season 1 …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 3, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 3, 2010

In today’s roundup you’ll read about 800 prints in Los Angeles, 100 acres of art in Indianapolis, 12 Polaroids near the Hudson, a 10-year survey in Ohio, two portrait busts …

Open Enrollment

The Radical Workshop: For Students, By Students

by Carrie McGath | Apr 14, 2010

Open Enrollment

The Radical Workshop: For Students, By Students

by Carrie McGath | Apr 14, 2010

by Lily Rossebo and Carrie McGath Lily and Carrie add their two cents about the significance of radical workshops in art school programs. Lily Rossebo: Without student protests, what would …

Packaging a Music Experience: Ryan Catbird and Catbird Records

by Jonathan Munar | Mar 12, 2010

Packaging a Music Experience: Ryan Catbird and Catbird Records

by Jonathan Munar | Mar 12, 2010

Moviola, “Dead Knowledge”. Catbird Records, CBR010, 2007. Image courtesy of Catbird Records. Ryan Catbird has commanded a silent influence on the independent music scene since he began his blog, The …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Esopus Editor, Tod Lippy, Part Two

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 3, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Esopus Editor, Tod Lippy, Part Two

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 3, 2010

This is part two of my interview with Esopus editor, Tod Lippy (click here for part one). In addition to the interview, readers may also want to check out “The …

Flash Points

Dan Phillips: Not Merely Vernacular, Pt. I

by Leanne Gilbertson | Feb 4, 2010

Flash Points

Dan Phillips: Not Merely Vernacular, Pt. I

by Leanne Gilbertson | Feb 4, 2010

As a northerner recently transplanted to the Greater Houston area, I admit to having reservations about all things Texan. I have found this a tough place to love at first …

Gastro-Vision

The Fruit of Experience

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 28, 2010

Gastro-Vision

The Fruit of Experience

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 28, 2010

Fallen Fruit Collective formed six years ago through a project by artists David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young for the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. The trio created a …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 4, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 4, 2010

This week Art21 artists illustrate NASA’s history, depict child’s play, map the Black Atlantic, render galaxies in glass, leave their mark on the last decade, and reflect on our future: …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

International Design Conservation: A Discussion with Tim Bechthold

by Richard McCoy | Nov 18, 2009

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

International Design Conservation: A Discussion with Tim Bechthold

by Richard McCoy | Nov 18, 2009

IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with Die Neue Sammlung conservator Tim Bechthold about conserving design arts.

Dermatographia

by Maria Stenina | Nov 9, 2009

Dermatographia

by Maria Stenina | Nov 9, 2009

Hello Art:21 interweb world! I hope to do you justice with my musings and bits and pieces of contemporary art knick-knacks. I think as an artist and designer working today, …

Art21 Extended Play

Josiah McElheny | History & Originality

by Jonathan Munar | Oct 9, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Josiah McElheny | History & Originality

by Jonathan Munar | Oct 9, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Artist Josiah McElheny discusses the relationship between artworks and the context in which they were created, highlighting the distinctions between history and …

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Krzysztof Wodiczko interviewed by Giuliana Bruno

by BOMB Magazine | Sep 18, 2009

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Krzysztof Wodiczko interviewed by Giuliana Bruno

by BOMB Magazine | Sep 18, 2009

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a BOMB contributor relating to a Season 5 artist. This week, inspired by Kimsooja’s videos and installations, we’re …

Let Them Read Books/Play Records: Taschen, Plattfon, Stampa, Aniston

by Quinn Latimer | Aug 24, 2009

Let Them Read Books/Play Records: Taschen, Plattfon, Stampa, Aniston

by Quinn Latimer | Aug 24, 2009

“This new edition is the fulfillment of an ambition conceived years ago. We jokingly referred to it as ‘Newton for the poor.’ ” Oh, Benedikt Taschen, it’s quotes like these—and your …

The Importance of Being Earnest

by Mary Cook | Jun 25, 2009

The Importance of Being Earnest

by Mary Cook | Jun 25, 2009

Making art is part of a ground level experience. The artmaking process can be sensory, visceral and seemingly fleeting, depending on the methods of record of an artist’s choosing, be …

Art21 Extended Play

Laylah Ali | Designer Nicole Parente

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 12, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Laylah Ali | Designer Nicole Parente

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 12, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Artist Laylah Ali and graphic designer Nicole Parente work together in the designer’s home office in Cambridge, MA. The artist’s hand-drawn notes …

Flash Points

An Interview with EnjoyBanking, New York’s $treet Artist$

by Hrag Vartanian | May 6, 2009

Flash Points

An Interview with EnjoyBanking, New York’s $treet Artist$

by Hrag Vartanian | May 6, 2009

For months, I’ve been spotting countless friendly and ironic stickers popping up across the city’s art-friendly zones. These cutesy bubble-lettered slogans scream “Enjoy Subprime Lending,” “Enjoy Credit Crunch,” “Enjoy Bailout …

Sikander Curates at Cooper-Hewitt

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 5, 2009

Sikander Curates at Cooper-Hewitt

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 5, 2009

Season 1 artist Shahzia Sikander will serve as the ninth guest curator of the Selects exhibition series at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.  Past Selects guest curators have included artist …

Sugimoto + U2

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jan 14, 2009

Sugimoto + U2

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jan 14, 2009

Word on the street is that one of Hiroshi Sugimoto‘s images will be used as the cover for U2‘s upcoming album No Line on the Horizon, scheduled for release March …