Tag Archives: failure

Strategies & Resources

Investigation: Where Art Meets Science

by Tricia Fitzpatrick | May 16, 2017

Strategies & Resources

Investigation: Where Art Meets Science

by Tricia Fitzpatrick | May 16, 2017

In an investigation with her 9th grade applied science class, Tricia Fitzpatrick’s students learn what makes Mars red, and create rust artworks through experimentation.

Strategies & Resources

Bad Art

by Jack Watson | Nov 28, 2016

Strategies & Resources

Bad Art

by Jack Watson | Nov 28, 2016

Art21 Educator Jack Watson shares a creativity exercise that asks students to make “bad art” as a way to allow for experimentation and playful collaboration.

Booked

An Interview with Sarah Lewis

by Art21 | Jan 27, 2014

Booked

An Interview with Sarah Lewis

by Art21 | Jan 27, 2014

New York–based curator, art historian, and Yale MFA Critic Sarah Lewis talks about her anticipated first book, The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for Mastery.

Flashback

Yinka Shonibare MBE: Welcome Guests

by Art21 | Jan 21, 2014

Flashback

Yinka Shonibare MBE: Welcome Guests

by Art21 | Jan 21, 2014

Yinka Shonibare MBE talks about his collaborative process, his vision for an artist’s residency and community, and the meaning of failure.

Dr. YouTube, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying (About Failure) and Love My Viral Video

by Shruti Belliappa | Jan 21, 2014

Dr. YouTube, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying (About Failure) and Love My Viral Video

by Shruti Belliappa | Jan 21, 2014

What might viral videos tell us about the current sense of failure in the art world?

Wangechi Mutu on failure

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 13, 2014

Wangechi Mutu on failure

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 13, 2014

“In a sense, failure is a tail that’s chasing me. I’m running away from it, but it’s attached to me. It helps me project myself forward.”

Nuanced Failure and Urban Space

by Michelle Millar Fisher | Dec 2, 2013

Nuanced Failure and Urban Space

by Michelle Millar Fisher | Dec 2, 2013

Urban architecture is no stranger to criticism and failure. Consider the work of Le Corbusier “whose legacy of urban plans…has been mythologized and often maligned.”

I’m a failure. Now what?

by Brendan Carroll | Dec 1, 2013

I’m a failure. Now what?

by Brendan Carroll | Dec 1, 2013

How does the life of a boxer compare to the life of an artist?

Copy That!

Free-Fail

by Joy Garnett | Dec 1, 2013

Copy That!

Free-Fail

by Joy Garnett | Dec 1, 2013

In reassessing the value of failure, consider Princeton computer scientist Ed Felten’s expression “the freedom to tinker.”

From the Editor

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 1, 2013

From the Editor

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 1, 2013

What does failure mean? Art21’s Digital Content Editor introduces the sophomore issue of the Art21 Magazine.

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

The Energetic Persistence of Water: An Interview with Mary Jane Jacob

by Caroline Picard | Feb 28, 2012

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

The Energetic Persistence of Water: An Interview with Mary Jane Jacob

by Caroline Picard | Feb 28, 2012

How might Buddhist frameworks help artists better understand the creative process, and art’s function in society?