Tag Archives: Film & Video

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

by Daniel Quiles | Oct 11, 2010

What I Did On My Summer Vacation

by Daniel Quiles | Oct 11, 2010

I am happy to once again be blogging for Art21. This is the first of three posts loosely based around contemporary art from/in Latin America. Living in a city other …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Teaching with William Kentridge

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 6, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Teaching with William Kentridge

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 6, 2010

There are many reasons to teach with the art of William Kentridge, and as we get closer to the premiere of Art21’s new film, William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, airing …

The Medium is Not the Message: Adad Hannah

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 21, 2010

The Medium is Not the Message: Adad Hannah

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 21, 2010

Raft of the Medusa (100 Mile House) #2 from Adad Hannah on Vimeo. Adad Hannah’s videos are moving pieces of work. And they move, just barely. What started as a …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Back in the Kitchen

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 17, 2010

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Back in the Kitchen

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 17, 2010

The Museum of Modern Art could not have picked a better moment to mount Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen, an exhibition about the changing aesthetics and politics of …

Open Enrollment

OMG Mid-Grad Crisis or RTV/MFA

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Sep 15, 2010

Open Enrollment

OMG Mid-Grad Crisis or RTV/MFA

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Sep 15, 2010

Sometimes when I’m sitting in class, I switch to a third-person perspective and feel like I’m watching a reality television show about myself. One of my professors, Clark Buckner, assigned …

Augmenting Reality: Paul Warne

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 14, 2010

Augmenting Reality: Paul Warne

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 14, 2010

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C50_R3cDlY] Paul Warne doesn’t consider himself so much an artist as a designer. While trained in animation and film at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Warne found himself immersed in …

Future Metaphors

Future Metaphors: Fractured Time

by Ivan Lozano | Sep 10, 2010

Future Metaphors

Future Metaphors: Fractured Time

by Ivan Lozano | Sep 10, 2010

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XtBSMKSsyEY] Ryan Trecartin, I-BE AREA (Double Jamie, Ramada Omar, and Sally Man Pause), video excerpt, 2007 Lately, I’ve been thinking about the kinship between Ryan Trecartin’s narratives and those of …

On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production

On Location: Dr. Doc | An Interview with Thom Powers

by Nick Ravich | Sep 10, 2010

On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production

On Location: Dr. Doc | An Interview with Thom Powers

by Nick Ravich | Sep 10, 2010

I’m back from my summer break and ready to change things up a bit with this column.  So instead of the usual long laundry list of documentary various and sundry, …

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Head Shop/Lost Horizon at Exile

by Ali Fitzgerald | Sep 2, 2010

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Head Shop/Lost Horizon at Exile

by Ali Fitzgerald | Sep 2, 2010

During a recent visit to Exile Gallery, I spoke with guest curator Billy Miller about his concurrent shows Head Shop/Lost Horizon, which were a part of Exile’s annual Summer Camp …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Welcome Back

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 1, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Welcome Back

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 1, 2010

In case you’ve recently returned from summer vacation or have simply been away from the Art21 blog in July and August due to the fact that, like me, you promised …

Fall Previews: Trailer, Teasers, and Slideshows

by Jonathan Munar | Aug 31, 2010

Fall Previews: Trailer, Teasers, and Slideshows

by Jonathan Munar | Aug 31, 2010

William Kentridge in his studio, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2008. William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, production still, 2010. © Art21, Inc. 2010. Fall preview season is upon us, so it’s time …

3 Museums, 2 Days (part II of II)

by Thom Donovan | Aug 31, 2010

3 Museums, 2 Days (part II of II)

by Thom Donovan | Aug 31, 2010

II. After my visit to the New Museum, I headed uptown to the Studio Museum in Harlem. What stood out to me at the Studio Museum were a series of sculptural, photographic, …

3 Museums, 2 Days (part I of II)

by Thom Donovan | Aug 30, 2010

3 Museums, 2 Days (part I of II)

by Thom Donovan | Aug 30, 2010

I. This past weekend I visited three museums in New York City — New Museum on the Bowery, the Studio Museum in Harlem, and P.S.1 MoMA in Queens — if …

Announcing Our Latest Film: “William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible”

by Jonathan Munar | Aug 17, 2010

Announcing Our Latest Film: “William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible”

by Jonathan Munar | Aug 17, 2010

Art21 is proud to announce the forthcoming broadcast of our latest film, William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, the first film produced by Art21 for national television broadcast outside of the …
Barbara Kruger

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 16, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 16, 2010

This week in the roundup … Barbara Kruger gets a celebration started, Cao Fei has her eyes on a prize, Cai Guo-Qiang goes in with a bang, Raymond Pettibon is into …

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Summer Social

by Catherine Wagley | Aug 12, 2010

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Summer Social

by Catherine Wagley | Aug 12, 2010

Kip[p] Stagg, nineteen years old and a Columbia undergraduate, was walking in New York one night in 1965 when he heard a man’s voice shouting names at him from somewhere …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Film and Objects

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 11, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teaching with Film and Objects

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 11, 2010

Teaching with film or taking a trip with students to a museum can sometimes be an experience somewhere between total bliss and a dental visit. It can be eye-opening or …

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 9, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 9, 2010

In this week’s roundup, Alfredo Jaar and Andrea Zittell go natural, Bruce Nauman tries to get off the ground, Cai Guo-Qiang answers questions about the impact of social visibility in …

Letter from London

Letter from London: In the Loop

by Ben Street | Aug 9, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: In the Loop

by Ben Street | Aug 9, 2010

My favorite things in Pallant House, the excellent gallery of modern British art in Chichester on the south coast of England, are a couple of small models made before its …
Installation shot of "Effervescent Condition" at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. (Left) Yefeng’s "Battelfield," (right) Sampson’s Dodgedraw on the right, Dodgedraw participant

Flash Points

Effervescent Condition

by Allison Glenn | Aug 7, 2010

Flash Points

Effervescent Condition

by Allison Glenn | Aug 7, 2010

Effervescent Condition, curated by Fang-Tze Hsu (MA 2010) was the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) contribution to The Power of Copying, a large-scale, international group exhibition held …

Future Metaphors

Bruce Nauman’s Cyborg Eyes

by Ivan Lozano | Aug 3, 2010

Future Metaphors

Bruce Nauman’s Cyborg Eyes

by Ivan Lozano | Aug 3, 2010

Not all events are recorded equally. Despite YouTube’s diarrheic explosion of what constitutes a potential video, clips where almost nothing happens are still difficult for a lot of people to …
Relativity-escher

The Paradoxical Art of “Inception”

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 3, 2010

The Paradoxical Art of “Inception”

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 3, 2010

What is so compelling about riddles, mysteries, and puzzles?  Most people are fascinated by images and objects that are paradoxical or impossible in real life but look oddly convincing and …
Jenny Holtzer

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 2, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 2, 2010

Soon after last week’s roundup went live, I discovered a Jenny Holzer event happening in my backyard.  In this week’s roundup, CNN shows William Kentridge drawing apartheid, Scotland shows William …

Why Here? Part 2

by Lincoln Hancock | Aug 1, 2010

Why Here? Part 2

by Lincoln Hancock | Aug 1, 2010

Low on the southeast side of downtown Raleigh stands a nondescript grey building with a facade marked by four orange letters: LUMP. This cinderblock outpost houses the Lump gallery and …

Flash Points

Freewaves: Video Between Their Toes

by Catherine Wagley | Jul 29, 2010

Flash Points

Freewaves: Video Between Their Toes

by Catherine Wagley | Jul 29, 2010

Freewaves turned 20 this year. The grassroots new media organization that began in 1989 with a gaping, loosely defined mission to show Los Angeles to itself celebrated its birthday on …

Calling from Canada

Calling From Canada: Runa Islam at Contemporary Art Museum of Montreal

by Raji Sohal | Jul 12, 2010

Calling from Canada

Calling From Canada: Runa Islam at Contemporary Art Museum of Montreal

by Raji Sohal | Jul 12, 2010

The Great White North, as Canada is affectionately known, could be called something altogether different in the heated summer months. Try “Huge Hot Land” or “Expansive Land Mass Connected by …

Flash Points

Seeing and Time: Video Art as Experience

by Stephanie Vegh | Jul 6, 2010

Flash Points

Seeing and Time: Video Art as Experience

by Stephanie Vegh | Jul 6, 2010

It is neither a secret nor a surprise to know that, regardless of broad worldly appeal, the average Louvre visitor views the Mona Lisa for a scarce fifteen seconds before …

Future Metaphors

Future Metaphors: An Introduction

by Ivan Lozano | Jul 6, 2010

Future Metaphors

Future Metaphors: An Introduction

by Ivan Lozano | Jul 6, 2010

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3CKD9JRhME] Shana Moulton, “Whispering Pines 9,” video, 2009 In an essay titled “Cyborg Anthropology,” Gary Lee Downey, Joseph Dumit and Sarah Williams offer a sort of manifesto: Cyborg Anthropology invests …

Sadly, Alice really doesn’t live here anymore

by Ajay Hothi | Jul 1, 2010

Sadly, Alice really doesn’t live here anymore

by Ajay Hothi | Jul 1, 2010

I’m new here.  I should explain.  At university, I wanted to be a video artist.  Maybe I should have been born into another time (and matriculated to another university) because …

On View Now

Art21 Extended Play

On View Now | Mind the Gap: Thoughts on Representing the Holocaust through Comics

by Max Weintraub | Jul 1, 2010

On View Now

Art21 Extended Play

On View Now | Mind the Gap: Thoughts on Representing the Holocaust through Comics

by Max Weintraub | Jul 1, 2010

The act of codification that is enshrined in the International Declaration of Human Rights has ensured that the unspeakable has been cut down to size at the very moment that …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 29, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 29, 2010

In this week’s roundup you’ll read about a retrospective in the Golden State, a pack of wolves in Singapore, a dreamy gift in Berlin, de-monumentalisation in Italy, Oprah culture the …

The Persistence of Memory

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 18, 2010

The Persistence of Memory

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 18, 2010

With our poor economy and tough times in general, it would be natural for artists to look ahead to happier days. Like the rest of us, they are frustrated, and …

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: BB6

by Ethan Hayes-Chute | Jun 17, 2010

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: BB6

by Ethan Hayes-Chute | Jun 17, 2010

Aligning smoothly with the start of Art Basel for the first time, the 6th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (BB6) opened this past week, two months later than its previous …

Get Interactive with Art21 at the Brooklyn Museum

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 16, 2010

Get Interactive with Art21 at the Brooklyn Museum

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 16, 2010

Want to participate in one of these: …but finding it difficult to get enough people together? Let Art21 help you out! Join us this Saturday, June 19, in front of …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Thinking Like an Artist, part 2 (and hold the Saltz)

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 9, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Thinking Like an Artist, part 2 (and hold the Saltz)

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 9, 2010

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 …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 8, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 8, 2010

A tribute to a great artist, a series of German faces, a big film of tiny things, some drawing restraint, and a bunch more in this week’s roundup: The Emilio …