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Teaching with Contemporary Art
Transformation and Distortion
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Transformation and Distortion
Two of my classes begin a new unit where students are asked to work with the themes of distortion and transformation. Especially for teens, the idea of transformation- of the self, objects, symbols, even the meaning of words- is an attractive proposal. Add the multiple implications associated with distortion and it becomes the kind of field day you really want in a classroom.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Under the Radar: Best of 2011, Part 2
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Under the Radar: Best of 2011, Part 2
Following up on last week’s post, here are a few more shows that flew under the radar in 2011, including Dana Schutz at the Neuberger and Katharina Grosse at Mass MoCA.
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Tales for Our Time: Amy Cutler’s Prints
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Tales for Our Time: Amy Cutler’s Prints
Fantastical narrative is a guiding principle for many artists who have come to prominence in the past decade; Amy Cutler and Dana Schutz are foremost among these. Both possess …
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Alena Williams on Nancy Holt
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Alena Williams on Nancy Holt
Nancy Holt, perhaps best known for her Sun Tunnels installed the Utah desert, is currently the subject of a traveling exhibition, Nancy Holt: Sightlines, curated by Alena Williams. The exhibition originated at …
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven
Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven is an artist based in Antwerp, Belgium. Her work is currently being featured in a solo exhibition, In a Saturnian World, at the Renaissance Society (on view …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Taking the Long Way Home: Working With a Theme in a Series
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Taking the Long Way Home: Working With a Theme in a Series
One of the students in my advanced classes is taking on the theme of “looking vs. seeing” for her first semester portfolio. She wants to explore the things people tend …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Both a Science and an Art, Part 2
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Both a Science and an Art, Part 2
Alison Kendall creates drawings and paintings in which viewers’ expectations are breached by dreamlike intruders. The San Francisco–based artist went to school for scientific illustration, learning to draw animals …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | “Rethink/LA” Exhibition Envisions Future Transformation
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | “Rethink/LA” Exhibition Envisions Future Transformation
Los Angeles has a reputation for not only its excess, sprawl, and exploding population, but also for its unruly, anarchic and highly changeable landscape. Rethink/LA: Perspectives on a Future …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Both a Science and an Art
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Both a Science and an Art
Every Wednesday night, my grammar teacher takes chalk to blackboard to underline subjects and circle direct objects. White dust falling to the floor, she puts brackets around prepositional phrases and …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
It’s a Wrap: Looking Backward and Thinking Forward
Teaching with Contemporary Art
It’s a Wrap: Looking Backward and Thinking Forward
Atsuko Tanaka (1932-2005), “Round on Sand”, 1968 Right around this time I usually write a post that relates to things we as art educators often think about at the end …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Reflecting on Teaching with William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Reflecting on Teaching with William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible
This past Saturday I sat down with a small group of wonderful teachers at the Jacob Burns Film Center’s Media Arts Lab for the second part of a two-part workshop …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Threading Infrastructure: An Interview with Anne Wilson
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Threading Infrastructure: An Interview with Anne Wilson
When I asked Anne Wilson if I could interview her for Art21, she sent me a preview copy of her book, Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave—a catalogue published collaboratively by White Walls and …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art: The First Three Years
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art: The First Three Years
This week Teaching with Contemporary Art here on the blog turns 3. Frankly, I can’t believe that I’ve been writing this column for three years. At the same time, it …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Vija Celmins’s Visions of Violence
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Vija Celmins’s Visions of Violence
Last Saturday, March 19—the day that the US began air strikes in Libya—I passed an anti-war demonstration while driving to LACMA to see Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966. It …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Killed Posterity
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Killed Posterity
Roy Stryker, the man who ran the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and sent some of the best-known 20th century photographers out on their first assignments, “didn’t …
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