Tag Archives: Exhibitions
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Lynda Benglis, The Anti-Kitchen Artist
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Lynda Benglis, The Anti-Kitchen Artist
Once, when artists Liam Gillick and Sarah Morris had legendary minimalist Carl Andre over for dinner, Andre drank a bit much and let his tongue loose. To Morris, he said, …
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada | Healthy Mind/Healthy Body? Berlinde De Bruyckere at Montreal’s DHC
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada | Healthy Mind/Healthy Body? Berlinde De Bruyckere at Montreal’s DHC
Before the analysis comes rushing in like an insuppressible wave, I am struck with the straight-up “thingness” of Flemish artist, Berlinde De Bruyckere’s corporeal sculptures at gallery DHC in Montreal. …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Siemon Allen
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Siemon Allen
Siemon Allen is a South African artist who currently lives and works in the United States. He received his MFA from Natal Technikon (now Durban Institute of Technology) and was …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Curators Gone Viral: “Chain Letter” at Shoshana Wayne
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Curators Gone Viral: “Chain Letter” at Shoshana Wayne
Did you receive any unusual email forwards this month? Unrelated to funny cats? Initially sent out by Christian Cummings and Doug Harvey, a chain letter has been circulating among artists …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | South African Photography and the Lingering Political Anxieties of Identity
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | South African Photography and the Lingering Political Anxieties of Identity
Last month, I had the privilege and pleasure of attending a symposium that served roughly as a capstone to one of my graduate courses. The symposium was coordinated in conjunction …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Making Work: A Continued Discussion with Jeff Jamieson
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Making Work: A Continued Discussion with Jeff Jamieson
Artist Jeff Jamieson talks with IMA Conservator Richard McCoy about working with Robert Irwin and other artists.
Letter from London
Letter from London | World on a String
Letter from London
Letter from London | World on a String
Language draws an imaginary line around objects. That demarcation follows through in all the lines in our lives: the Morse code of a Risk board’s borders, anticipatory lines dragged across …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Since When Is Red a Conservative Color?
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Since When Is Red a Conservative Color?
At a meeting on Tuesday, July 12, officials in California’s Riverside County decided seceding from the rest of the state might not be such a good idea after all. The …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Based in Berlin: Best of
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Based in Berlin: Best of
I’ve been thinking about Based In Berlin for weeks. And while it’s been difficult to keep my pretentious guffaws in check, I have recognized that the show tackles the formidable …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice Podcast #6: MCA Shifts Gears; Ikea Hacking as Art; and Ai Wei Wei
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice Podcast #6: MCA Shifts Gears; Ikea Hacking as Art; and Ai Wei Wei
This month’s episode of Fielding Practice, a special podcast produced by Bad at Sports exclusively for the Art21 blog, is action-packed and filled with discussion of the latest art happenings …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Possibilities of Paper Pulp
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Possibilities of Paper Pulp
For this month’s edition of Ink, guest writer Nicole Simpson fills in for regular columnist Sarah Kirk Hanley. — Ed. During these hot days of summer, visions of ice cream, …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching About Poverty and Homelessness
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching About Poverty and Homelessness
This past Saturday, New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow wrote an op-ed piece called Them That’s Not Shall Lose which highlighted, as James Baldwin put it, how expensive it …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Talking with File Type curators Chaz Evans and Lorelei Stewart
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Talking with File Type curators Chaz Evans and Lorelei Stewart
When I initially saw the promotional poster for File Type, currently on view at University of Illinois at Chicago’s Gallery 400, I was immediately intrigued by the curatorial premise posed …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Revealing “Unfinished Paintings”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Revealing “Unfinished Paintings”
The nature of painting – its objecthood, its permanence — demands a level of resolution and wholeness to which other more ephemeral art practices need not always answer. Hence the …
Calling from Canada
Calling from Canada | Surrey Art Gallery’s “Dwellings”
Calling from Canada
Calling from Canada | Surrey Art Gallery’s “Dwellings”
As part of the exhibition Dwellings at the Surrey Art Gallery, Sitely Premises is a group show of works by artists who have examined the exterior of Lower Mainland residential …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Barbara Kruger, Shafted and Shining
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Barbara Kruger, Shafted and Shining
In 2008, when Eli Broad opened his big, brazen inaugural BCAM show on the Los Angeles County Museum’s Campus, Barbara Kruger (Season 1) was shafted, stuck accenting an elevator while …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Nicole Eisenman and Wynne Greenwood
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Nicole Eisenman and Wynne Greenwood
Digging through Nicole Eisenman’s current show at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, one begins to understand why it’s so perfect that the artist presents us with 77 different titles for …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Glenn Ligon, Ai Weiwei and The Art Cops
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Glenn Ligon, Ai Weiwei and The Art Cops
Three things this week… Maika Pollack recently wrote a wonderful review in The New York Observer about the current Glenn Ligon show at the Whitney Museum. As I visited the …
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