Tag Archives: Film & Video
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Characters, Not Caricatures: The Multifarious Art of Rachel Mason
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Characters, Not Caricatures: The Multifarious Art of Rachel Mason
Rachel Mason’s work is not easy to neatly summarize. I’ve been following her projects for several years now, and I still have difficulty explaining what exactly it is that she …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The California Biennial: Collectives, Conversations, and Collaborations
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The California Biennial: Collectives, Conversations, and Collaborations
I first experienced the California Biennial in 2008 as a participant in Mary Kelly’s Flashing Nipple Happening. Kelly had recruited around five dozen young women to gear-up in black …
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision: Martha Rosler’s Kitchen Mise-en-Scène
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision: Martha Rosler’s Kitchen Mise-en-Scène
In 2003, the Whitechapel Gallery in London invited Martha Rosler to recreate her classic video Semiotics of the Kitchen (1975) as a live performance. She accepted the invitation by holding …
Letter from London
Letter from London | Porn, Porn Everywhere: Analog at Riflemaker Gallery.
Letter from London
Letter from London | Porn, Porn Everywhere: Analog at Riflemaker Gallery.
In this second and last guest blog post, Kerim Aytac fills in for our hero Ben Street this month. — Ed. Looking at Richard Nicholson’s elegiac contribution to the Analog …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Artemis Potamianou
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Artemis Potamianou
Artemis Potamianou is a visual artist based in Athens, Greece. She attained a BFA Degree from the Athens School of Fine Arts in 1997 and an MFA from the Staffordshire …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with David Wojnarowicz (and Not Teaching with the Smithsonian)
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with David Wojnarowicz (and Not Teaching with the Smithsonian)
In light of the recent debacle at the Smithsonian involving the removal of David Wojnarowicz’s A Fire in My Belly, I thought it might make sense to suggest some ways …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hell Is Other People
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hell Is Other People
It is a truth universally acknowledged that artists make the best curators. Mark Wallinger’s exhibition, The Russian Linesman at the Hayward Gallery last March, was a proposal about what creative …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Stage your Melodrama: An Elmgreen and a Dragset
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Stage your Melodrama: An Elmgreen and a Dragset
When the art historians start treading through Berlin’s turn-of-the-millennium years to chart artists’ march to Neukölln, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset‘s studio will be a main stop for tea and …
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision: Food and Technology in an Art Lab
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision: Food and Technology in an Art Lab
Last month, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York turned their main exhibition space into X-Lab, a “living” work space where the public can interact with Eyebeam’s fellows and …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Is Locale Needed? Netart in the Midwest
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Is Locale Needed? Netart in the Midwest
Since moving away from Chicago this past summer, I’ve seen how Chicago and the Midwest have influenced my work, as well as my work ethic. The spirit of experimentation and …
Art21 Extended Play
Paul McCarthy: “Black & White Tapes”
Art21 Extended Play
Paul McCarthy: “Black & White Tapes”
SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #128: Interviewed in his Los Angeles studio, Paul McCarthy discusses the genesis of his Black and White Tapes (1970–75), …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Hard Conversations (Exploring Inequality)
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Hard Conversations (Exploring Inequality)
In the New York Times last week, Nicholas Kristof reported that the richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of the income, up from 9 percent …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment: Disciplinary Complex
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment: Disciplinary Complex
Over the past few decades, “interdisciplinary” has emerged as a popular designation in academic culture, particularly in the arts and humanities. Both as an undergraduate in studio art and as …
Flash Points
From the Flat Surface to the Curved Mirror
Flash Points
From the Flat Surface to the Curved Mirror
[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rL3lVDrqNXY] Using variable media – taking the form of tapestry and sculpture to performance, cinema, and stereoscopic imagery— William Kentridge calculates a not so obvious curve to create socially informed …
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Time of Your Life
Letter from London
Letter from London: The Time of Your Life
Christian Marclay’s The Clock (now on show at White Cube, Mason’s Yard) is a twenty-four hour long film which, unlike other very long art films like Douglas Gordon’s Twenty-Four Hour …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Moving Pictures
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Moving Pictures
Chalkboards are disappearing everywhere and interactive whiteboards are taking their place (or, in some cases, chalkboards are disappearing as interactive whiteboards are simply being pasted, nailed and everything short of …
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Tune In: “William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible” Premieres on PBS This Week
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Tune In: “William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible” Premieres on PBS This Week
Warm up your televisions and set your DVRs: Art21’s latest film, William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, premieres on PBS this week. The national broadcast premiere is scheduled for October 21 …
On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production
On Location: Marwencol / An Interview with “Marwencol” filmmaker Jeff Malmberg
On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production
On Location: Marwencol / An Interview with “Marwencol” filmmaker Jeff Malmberg
Sadly, this is Nick’s last post for the foreseeable future. At least we know he’s not able to contribute for good reasons. Season 6 production has started to seriously heat …
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