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Art Journalism in the Twenty-First Century: Where Is It Headed?
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Art Journalism in the Twenty-First Century: Where Is It Headed?
This fall, I will be beginning my final year as a Masters candidate in New Arts Journalism (NAJ) at The School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC). According to …
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The Collaborators: Artists Working Across Disciplines
Open Enrollment
The Collaborators: Artists Working Across Disciplines
This spring, in lieu of yet another show of disparate student work, my MFA class decided to create an entirely collaborative exhibition. The seemingly idyllic idea was to work as …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking Like an Artist, part 2 (and hold the Saltz)
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking Like an Artist, part 2 (and hold the Saltz)
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 …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking Like an Artist, Part 1
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking Like an Artist, Part 1
This Thursday and Friday the Guggenheim Museum hosts Thinking Like an Artist: Creativity and Problem Solving in the Classroom. Educators will arrive by plane, train, automobile, even on foot, to …
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Meandering art school, advocating outsiderness
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Meandering art school, advocating outsiderness
Beginning with the writings of Michel de Certeau, over the past several months, I’ve thought a lot about the idea of meandering an institutional presence. That thinking bled into my …
Looking at Los Angeles
Breaking the Rules: MOCA Reaches Out to a Younger Audience
Looking at Los Angeles
Breaking the Rules: MOCA Reaches Out to a Younger Audience
Last month, MOCA published a new book dedicated to engaging children with its permanent collection. Aimed at children age 8-12, Breaking the Rules: What is Contemporary Art? exploring works by …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Can a successful work of art make you angry?
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Can a successful work of art make you angry?
Can a successful work of art make you angry, uncomfortable, or confused? This is one of the many questions we engage in as art educators and also one of the …
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Concentrating on the Social in Portland
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Concentrating on the Social in Portland
As the distinctions between artist, curator, writer and administrator are increasingly less definite, developments in how individuals should be educated follow these new hybrid categories of working. Recently, an intriguing …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
What Makes Us (More) Human: The Vast Middle Ground Between Art and Science
Teaching with Contemporary Art
What Makes Us (More) Human: The Vast Middle Ground Between Art and Science
Many of you may remember quite a bit of public sparring that occurred between John Hammond and myself over the “What Makes Us Human” post back in September. Since then, …
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The Exhibition in Art & Business
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The Exhibition in Art & Business
Oliver Wunsch considers the role of exhibition work in an art historical education by looking at MASS MoCA’s current show InVisible, curated by one of his classmates. Mike Brenner discusses different cost structures of grassroots art exhibitions, and how changing economic times force artists to adapt to find space and funds.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Nourishment
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Nourishment
Each year the National Art Education Association holds a conference for a few thousand people and streams of art teachers, art professors, artist-educators, museum educators, administrators, starving artists, starving administrators, …
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The Radical Workshop: For Students, By Students
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The Radical Workshop: For Students, By Students
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 …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 2
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 2
Below is the second part of my conversation with Laura Thompson, Director of Exhibitions and Education at Kidspace (part one of the interview can be found here). Many thanks to …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 1
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Laura Thompson at MASS MoCA’s Kidspace, Part 1
On March 20, Kidspace at MASS MoCA celebrated its 10th anniversary. Kidspace, a contemporary art gallery, studio, and educational program, promotes the understanding and teaching of art through experiential learning …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Jumping Right Into the Shark Tank
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Jumping Right Into the Shark Tank
Back in the fall, a good friend and colleague passed along Denis Dutton’s New York Times Op-Ed piece titled Has Conceptual Art Jumped the Shark Tank? Deborah knew that the …
Looking at Los Angeles
Mel Bochner’s Burnt Tongue
Looking at Los Angeles
Mel Bochner’s Burnt Tongue
Los Angeles galleries are brimming with minimal, kind-of-conceptual abstraction at the moment — Paul Davis’s successions of hinges and wood and Joe Fyfe’s felt and muslin Motherwell spin-offs at ACME; …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Test-Driving the New Season 5 Educators’ Guide: John Baldessari and Juxtaposition
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Test-Driving the New Season 5 Educators’ Guide: John Baldessari and Juxtaposition
Within the first few pages of the season 5 Educators’ Guide, readers are asked to think about the power and influence of juxtaposing images in order to give the viewer …
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