Tag Archives: Film & Video

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Aesthetics of Urban Farming, Part I

Gastro-Vision: Aesthetics of Urban Farming, Part I

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 21, 2009

Gastro-Vision is a new monthly column dedicated to all things food. It probably goes without saying that depictions of food in art are as old as art itself. Since the …

BOMB in the Building

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Paul McCarthy interviewed by Benjamin Weissman

by BOMB Magazine | Aug 21, 2009

Paul McCarthy interviewed by Benjamin Weissman

by BOMB Magazine | Aug 21, 2009

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week weâ€™ll be featuring a vintage BOMB interview relating to a Season 5 artist. This week we present Paul McCarthyâ€™s interview …

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A Look Into the Future with Saya Woolfalk

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 18, 2009

A Look Into the Future with Saya Woolfalk

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 18, 2009

Saya Woolfalk, “No Place: A Ritual of the Empathics,” 2009. Courtesy of the artist. This November, New York City will once again be abuzz with PERFORMA, the sprawling biennial dedicated …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 17, 2009

Site-specific installations by Mary Heilmann (Season 5), Tony Oursler, Todd Eberle, and Sabina Streeter are currently on view at the Clocktower Gallery in Manhattan. This is the first group of …

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

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What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

by Mary Cook | Aug 14, 2009

What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

by Mary Cook | Aug 14, 2009

Sports and art are holding hands. Trong Gia Nguyen takes us to first base with that and other news relating to Art21 artists. Bruce Willis was a pub rocker, Scarlett …

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The Cosplay Ethic

by An Xiao | Aug 13, 2009

I’ll let you in on a secret: I’m a bit of a cosplay fanatic. Yes, these days I sport DKNY glasses and sleek monochromatic clothing, but my urban fashionability is …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Doublecrossed

by Ben Street | Aug 10, 2009

Letter from London: Doublecrossed

by Ben Street | Aug 10, 2009

News of artists famous in one field crossing over into another is very often met with public derision. Bruce Willis, one of the most talented pub-rockers of the late 1980s …

Things That Made Me Go Hmmm…

by Adrian Duran | Jul 21, 2009

Hello again and Happy Scopes Monkey Trial Day, though it wasn’t a good day for the monkey. That went fairly well, or so I’d like to think. People responded (your …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Peyton for Godot

by Ben Street | Jul 20, 2009

Letter from London: Peyton for Godot

by Ben Street | Jul 20, 2009

I don’t understand why anyone would like Elizabeth Peyton, but I also don’t understand why anyone would like egg whites or Coldplay or The Shawshank Redemption, so maybe I’ll never …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Dearth in Venice

by Ben Street | Jul 13, 2009

Letter from London: Dearth in Venice

by Ben Street | Jul 13, 2009

There’s a school of thought that claims that any large-scale survey of art conducted in any year in history will have its share of peaks and troughs, but holding the …

BOMB in the Building

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An interview with Carrie Mae Weems by Dawoud Bey

by BOMB Magazine | Jul 10, 2009

An interview with Carrie Mae Weems by Dawoud Bey

by BOMB Magazine | Jul 10, 2009

We’re back! Keep your eye on this column in the months to come as BOMB Magazine highlights Season 5 artists and themes, with excerpts of new and vintage interviews from …

Letter from London

Letter from London: YBA Baracas

by Ben Street | Jul 7, 2009

Letter from London: YBA Baracas

by Ben Street | Jul 7, 2009

There is a new display of contemporary British art at Tate Britain entitled Classified, whose title picks up on a number of predilections and inferences of the works it shows, …

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Art21 Extended Play

Meet the Season 5 Artist: William Kentridge

by Wesley Miller | Jul 7, 2009

Meet the Season 5 Artist: William Kentridge

by Wesley Miller | Jul 7, 2009

The above video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode Compassion, premiering on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Compassion features three artists — …

In Celebration of Online Archives

by Sharon Butler | Jul 1, 2009

In Celebration of Online Archives

by Sharon Butler | Jul 1, 2009

In 2006, the Smithsonian Archives of American Art began digitizing all of the Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner papers, photographs, and ephemera in their archives. Now that the 15,096-image collection …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Wrestling with the Past: A TwCA 2008-2009 Roundup

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 1, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Wrestling with the Past: A TwCA 2008-2009 Roundup

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 1, 2009

It’s been quite a year. Quite an academic year, that is. Between the country voicing a collective NO to four more years of the same Bushed policies and Bernie Madoff …

Art Reality

by Sharon Butler | Jun 25, 2009

Art Reality

by Sharon Butler | Jun 25, 2009

No matter how hard I try, avoiding reality TV is a challenge. The shows are like invasive kudzu: Nanny 911, Extreme Makeover, The Housewives of New Jersey, Jon & Kate, …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Students about Christian Marclay’s “Video Quartet”

by Julie Thomson | Jun 24, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Students about Christian Marclay’s “Video Quartet”

by Julie Thomson | Jun 24, 2009

With the opening of Christian Marclay’s Video Quartet at the Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University (on view through July 26, 2009), I have been thinking about how to …

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No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

No Preservatives: The Clocks’ Tic Tic Tic …

by Richard McCoy | Jun 16, 2009

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No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

No Preservatives: The Clocks’ Tic Tic Tic …

by Richard McCoy | Jun 16, 2009

Spearheaded by Richard McCoy, a conservator at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, this site’s newest column, “No Preservatives,” seeks to define the conservator’s role in the conservation of art in …

Nathalie Djurberg and Paul Chan: Making Weird Worlds at Birnbaum’s Biennale

by Lily Simonson | Jun 16, 2009

Nathalie Djurberg and Paul Chan: Making Weird Worlds at Birnbaum’s Biennale

by Lily Simonson | Jun 16, 2009

Daniel Birnbaum’s poetic theme of the 53rd Venice Biennale, Making Worlds, is, in some sense, an anti-theme, emphasizing the plurality of art today. Birnbaum’s explanation that “we now live in …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Pumping Irony

by Ben Street | Jun 15, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Pumping Irony

by Ben Street | Jun 15, 2009

Interactivity is now so commonplace at Tate Modern that I sometimes wonder if visitors are disappointed when they see works of art they aren’t allowed to touch. Not that they don’t. …

Haberdashery Anyone?

by Mary Cook | Jun 5, 2009

Haberdashery Anyone?

by Mary Cook | Jun 5, 2009

179 Canal Street, 2nd Floor. Peeper Place, Dani Leventhal, May 16, 2009. Photo by Margaret Lee on Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/margaret-lee) Artists staging their own shows is nothing new. The French Impressionists …

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Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Seoidín O’Sullivan

by Georgia Kotretsos | May 29, 2009

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Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Seoidín O’Sullivan

by Georgia Kotretsos | May 29, 2009

Seoidín O’Sullivan is an artist based in Dublin, Ireland. Her art practice investigates sociopolitical and ecological narratives, which she represents in critically engaged and poetic ways. Working within a group—an …

Holla from Hotlanta

by Victoria Lichtendorf | May 27, 2009

Holla from Hotlanta

by Victoria Lichtendorf | May 27, 2009

Beyond Tutlanta… I’m writing from Atlanta. A newcomer, I have just learned gardenias are a sign of summer. Apparently, so are Monet’s Water Lilies, which will be temporarily transplanted from …

Letter from London

Letter from London: The Bubble with Troubles

by Ben Street | May 25, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: The Bubble with Troubles

by Ben Street | May 25, 2009

Working in contemporary art is like being part of a huge extended family of annoying extroverts. “Yes…I’m related to them,” you end up having to explain, as they pull …

Solomon: Wherefore wisdom?

by Kemi Ilesanmi | May 18, 2009

Solomon: Wherefore wisdom?

by Kemi Ilesanmi | May 18, 2009

While I love living in New York City, there are nights when I long for the simplicity of only one truly art-worthy thing to do in town. Tonight is one …

Going Fast!: Treeless Mountain

by Kemi Ilesanmi | May 14, 2009

Going Fast!: Treeless Mountain

by Kemi Ilesanmi | May 14, 2009

One of my favorite films of the year is ending its New York run at the Quad Cinema tonight! Treeless Mountain is a beautiful, quiet, and moving film by So …

Once more, with feeling

by Julia Steinmetz | May 10, 2009

Once more, with feeling

by Julia Steinmetz | May 10, 2009

Imagine the evening news meets Flight of the Conchords in a project mapping an effusion of feeling onto the flattened affect of reporters and politicians. YouTube video art sensation “Auto-Tune …

Art21 Extended Play

Ellen Gallagher | Projections

by Jonathan Munar | Apr 30, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Ellen Gallagher | Projections

by Jonathan Munar | Apr 30, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Artist Ellen Gallagher recounts her childhood obsession with projecting films, paired with documentation of her work Murmur (2003–04) installed at Gagosian Gallery …

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For the Love of God: The Artist as Capitalist

by Julia Steinmetz | Apr 29, 2009

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For the Love of God: The Artist as Capitalist

by Julia Steinmetz | Apr 29, 2009

In 2007, artist Damien Hirst exhibited a work at the White Cube gallery in London which is reputed to be the most expensive contemporary artwork ever made. Entitled For the …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 27, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 27, 2009

Vernissage TV takes a close look at Let the Priests Tremble…(1998/2008), a large hand-printed wall installation by Season 4 artist Nancy Spero. The piece was included in Spero’s retrospective at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Sevilla, …

BOMB in the Building

BOMB is (back) in the building

by BOMB Magazine | Apr 24, 2009

BOMB in the Building

BOMB is (back) in the building

by BOMB Magazine | Apr 24, 2009

After a hiatus, we (the folks from BOMB Magazine) are back to resume our fun and educational guest blogging. We’ll be chiming in once a month with some cool stuff …

Indie Games +/or Games as Art

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 22, 2009

Indie Games +/or Games as Art

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 22, 2009

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ikNBn4wX8AU] Invisible Threads, Double Happiness Jeans by Stephanie Rothenberg and Jeff Crouse In continuing the thread (no pun intended with Double Happiness) of Play and it’s relationship to newMedia art, …

Sketches from/of Cleveland

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 21, 2009

Sketches from/of Cleveland

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 21, 2009

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hd3Vez4tm8k] [youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6U36pZu17dk] [youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AUTywDyK0T4] I was in Cleveland this past weekend for Notacon and Blockparty two hand-in-hand conferences concerning Hacker, DIY Electronics, and early web cultures (in a cursory nutshell). I …