Tag Archives: Exhibitions
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | He’s Not Here Right Now
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | He’s Not Here Right Now
Hi Everyone! My name is Olivia and I’m Jeffrey’s imaginary studio assistant. Unfortunately, Jeffrey isn’t here right now because he’s running around the city preparing for his thesis exhibition, but …
Letter from London
Letter from London | Seeds of Discord
Letter from London
Letter from London | Seeds of Discord
When an artist dies, their work changes forever. Whatever it was they were doing at the time of their demise becomes loaded with retroactive meaning and spurious clairvoyance. With the …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Flat Affect
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Flat Affect
As I was walking through William Leavitt: Theater Objects, the LA-based artist’s first museum retrospective, a MOCA security guard stopped me. “Are you a writer?” It took me a moment …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | rocks/mud/linoleum: sculpture between sites
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | rocks/mud/linoleum: sculpture between sites
Richard Long’s artistic medium, since the 1960s, has been walking. On his walks all over the world, he uses found materials to create formations – circles, lines, ovals — leaving …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice: Episode 3
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Fielding Practice: Episode 3
We’re back with the latest edition of “Fielding Practice,” a podcast produced by Bad at Sports for Art21 readers and listeners. Before giving you the rundown on this month’s chatfest, …
Letter from London
Letter from London | Grave Architecture
Letter from London
Letter from London | Grave Architecture
There’s a long history of painters becoming architects and carrying their pictorial imaginations with them. Bramante’s Tempietto in Rome and Michelangelo’s Laurentian Library in Florence are examples of the painter’s …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Los Angeles: Nice Meeting You Again and Again
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Los Angeles: Nice Meeting You Again and Again
This week began with Dean Rochelle Steiner of the USC Roski School of Fine Arts signing off on my thesis and me paying the publishing and binding fee. My thesis …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | BFA and MFA Shows: The New Collector’s Market?
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | BFA and MFA Shows: The New Collector’s Market?
Last Friday, I got off the subway and felt the crisp, eight o’clock Chicago evening air and saw something I was not expecting: a line around The School of the …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Protest Songs and Lullabies: Susan Philipsz in Chicago
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Protest Songs and Lullabies: Susan Philipsz in Chicago
What does it mean to sing a protest song as if it were a lullaby? It’s a question I often ask myself. My five-year-old daughter has trouble falling asleep at …
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 …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Absalon at Kunst-Werke
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Absalon at Kunst-Werke
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 …
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Ken Lum 30 Year Retrospective at Vancouver Art Gallery
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Ken Lum 30 Year Retrospective at Vancouver Art Gallery
Ever watch a three month old baby stare into a mirror for the first time? Its face is an expression of pure awe and confusion. What is the thing in …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights: Nazım Hikmet Richard Dikbaş
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights: Nazım Hikmet Richard Dikbaş
In talking to dozens of artists, curators, and critics over the past few months, over and over I have heard the same term used by those located within the community …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Spring Thaw
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Spring Thaw
I fly back to Berlin tomorrow, finally ending a prolonged Kerouac walk-through of mid-sized southern cities; a spring break for the “mild girl.” During my Texas stay, a sun constitutional …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Ephemerality and Eternity in “All of this and nothing”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Ephemerality and Eternity in “All of this and nothing”
“It’s really about the magical and the mysterious in the everyday,” says Hammer senior curator Anne Ellegood, in the online video introducing the museum’s newest exhibition, All of this and nothing. …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives: Getting to Know Thornton Dial
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives: Getting to Know Thornton Dial
IMA conservator Richard McCoy talks about his experience working on Hard Truths: The Art of Thornton Dial.
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | An Interview with Vasıf Kortun (Part II)
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | An Interview with Vasıf Kortun (Part II)
Following is the second half an interview Elizabeth Wolfson conducted with Vasif Kortun. Read part one here. — Ed. Perhaps more than any other individual, Vasıf Kortun has redirected the …
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