Tag Archives: France

Looking For Ruins

by Catherine Wagley | Apr 25, 2016

In a postcolonial world, the site of the 1907 Colonial Exhibition has become a source of inspiration for artists working against colonial ideologies and structures that still exist today.

Travelogue Entry No. 2: Nouvelles de Paris

by Natalie Musteata | Jun 13, 2013

Travelogue Entry No. 2: Nouvelles de Paris

by Natalie Musteata | Jun 13, 2013

Reporting from Paris, Blogger-in-Residence Natalie Musteata visits the solo exhibitions of Lorna Simpson, Ahlam Shibli, Simon Hantaï, and Mike Kelley.

Word is a Virus

Word is a Virus | LA Existancial

by Carol Cheh | Mar 21, 2013

Word is a Virus | LA Existancial

by Carol Cheh | Mar 21, 2013

Carol Cheh reviews the Guy de Cointet exhibition at LACE and touches on the creative links between Los Angeles and France.

Access 100 Artists: Get Involved!

by Rosanna Flouty | Jan 25, 2013

Access 100 Artists: Get Involved!

by Rosanna Flouty | Jan 25, 2013

Art21’s Director of Education, Rosanna Flouty, sends out a call to action. Get involved with our latest initiative, Access 100 Artists, and host a screening!

On View Now

On View Now | Damien Hirst’s Spot Paintings and the “Joy of Color”

by Max Weintraub | Feb 2, 2012

On View Now | Damien Hirst’s Spot Paintings and the “Joy of Color”

by Max Weintraub | Feb 2, 2012

Max Weintraub argues that Gagosian Gallery’s exhibition provides convincing evidence that Damien Hirst is indeed an extraordinary colorist.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Abdellah Karroum

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 27, 2012

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Abdellah Karroum

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 27, 2012

Georgia Kotretsos talks to Abdellah Karroum, an independent curator who founded L’appartement 22, the first experimental art space in Rabat, Morocco.

The Cave of the Mind

by Lindsay Lawson | Mar 10, 2011

Inhale. As you exhale your body relaxes. Exhale moving into a deep quiet place inside you… You can see off in the distance what appears to be a cave. As …

Marissa Perel’s Top 10 of 2010

by Marissa Perel | Dec 30, 2010

Marissa Perel’s Top 10 of 2010

by Marissa Perel | Dec 30, 2010

1. Felix Gonzalez-Torres in Deadline, exhibition at the Musee d’ Art Moderne, Paris. October 16, 2009 – January 10, 2010. Curator Odile Burluraux said of the exhibition, “Deadline has chosen …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Hell Is Other People

by Ben Street | Dec 20, 2010

Letter from London: Hell Is Other People

by Ben Street | Dec 20, 2010

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 …

Pepón Osorio, Drowned in a Glass of Water

This week in Roundup read about Pepón Osorio’s drowned art, Allora & Calzadilla getting shortlisted, Janine Antoni in motion, and a Hiroshi Sugimoto/James Turrell art counterpoint. Allora & Calzadilla are …

Gastro-Vision

Bourgeois the Artist, Bourgeois the Cook

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 18, 2010

Gastro-Vision

Bourgeois the Artist, Bourgeois the Cook

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 18, 2010

The passing of Louise Bourgeois (Season 1) naturally prompted a host of critics to reflect on her life and artwork. They have written of her famed sculptures and textiles, recurring …

Open Enrollment

A video conversation on our MFA

by Vency Yun | Jun 9, 2010

Open Enrollment

A video conversation on our MFA

by Vency Yun | Jun 9, 2010

In front of two computers, somewhere between Detroit and Marseille, towards the Cranbrook Academy of Art, Concordia University, and Université de Provence, Corina Reynolds and Vency Yun decided to sit …

Open Enrollment

On Exchange from Canada to France: Reflecting on Change and Difference

by Vency Yun | May 12, 2010

Open Enrollment

On Exchange from Canada to France: Reflecting on Change and Difference

by Vency Yun | May 12, 2010

At one point, I thought that I had an understanding of what my personal practice consisted of, but it wasn’t until the end of my MFA residency that I really …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 26, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 26, 2010

In today’s roundup, you’ll read about rabbits and cracked eggs, love in the Ole South, community art making in the Twin Cities, an amusement park in Paris, a family of …

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment: Educating Artists in the 21st Century, An Introduction

by Matthew Newton | Apr 7, 2010

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment: Educating Artists in the 21st Century, An Introduction

by Matthew Newton | Apr 7, 2010

Art21’s Open Enrollment column is a forum for nine people currently enrolled in some form of art graduate study to take on a variety of topics and to challenge some …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 15, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 15, 2010

Sparkling Nepalese paper, race and civil rights, a northern island, circular botanics, fluorescent lights, a ton of vinyl records, and a few reviews in today’s roundup: Season 1 artist John …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Vandalabra!

by Ben Street | Aug 17, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Vandalabra!

by Ben Street | Aug 17, 2009

Last Sunday, a Russian woman walked through the galleries of the Louvre Museum in Paris carrying a small empty ceramic tea cup, which, upon arriving in one of the museum’s …

Behind the Scenes: A Bird’s Eye View of Art21’s Production Process

by Eve Moros Ortega, Executive Producer | Jul 10, 2009

Behind the Scenes: A Bird’s Eye View of Art21’s Production Process

by Eve Moros Ortega, Executive Producer | Jul 10, 2009

Producing the Art:21 series feels a lot like creating a work of art. One of the big revelations in working on the series is the tremendous amount of detail, planning, …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 8, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 8, 2009

Bruce Nauman (Season 1) has won the Golden Lion award for Best National Participation at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Visit the Daily Best Media Gallery to see images of his …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Parisian Break

by Ben Street | Jun 8, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Parisian Break

by Ben Street | Jun 8, 2009

(Disclaimer: this Letter from London is actually from Paris.) Paris’s gallery zone, clustered for the most part around the Marais district east of the center, is so amazingly lovely and …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Comics Trip

by Ben Street | Jun 1, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Comics Trip

by Ben Street | Jun 1, 2009

(Disclaimer: this Letter from London is actually from Paris. Apologies.) Speaking French makes your mouth assume a range of attractive poses, which is why I always say the word boulangerie …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 25, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 25, 2009

The Cincinnati Art Museum has announced an exhibition of prints by Season 2 artist Martin Puryear. The show is scheduled to open December 2009. Barbara Kruger (Season 1) is …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Notes on a workshop (Part 2)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 14, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Notes on a workshop (Part 2)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 14, 2009

(continued from Part 1…) My students and I had knocked on the door of the Éloignement office of the Préfecture in Nantes. The woman who answered asked us what we …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Notes on a workshop (Part 1)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 11, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Notes on a workshop (Part 1)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 11, 2009

I’m also teaching a course at the École Régionale des Beaux-arts de Nantes called, “Workshop: I am curious… (The Artist as Ethnographer).” Each Friday morning, my students and I have …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On representations of the artist at work (Part 2)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 6, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On representations of the artist at work (Part 2)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 6, 2009

Following up our discussion about documentation of the creative process in the cases of Mark Bradford and Jackson Pollock, my students and I talked about what we might include in …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On representations of the artist at work

by Audrey Chan | Mar 5, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On representations of the artist at work

by Audrey Chan | Mar 5, 2009

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aX9SVg6L5vA] In the Art:21 Season 4 episode Paradox, artist Mark Bradford cites the legacy of Abstract Expressionism as an influence on his process-oriented paintings and collages. On a formal level, …

Flash Points

Authenticity 2.0

by Audrey Chan | Mar 3, 2009

Flash Points

Authenticity 2.0

by Audrey Chan | Mar 3, 2009

At the École des Beaux-Arts de Nantes (Nantes School of Art), I am teaching a course called “Contemporary Art in the United States, 2000-Today.” The premise of the course is …

Do-Ho Suh at Louis Vuitton in Paris

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 5, 2008

Do-Ho Suh at Louis Vuitton in Paris

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 5, 2008

On view at Espace Louis Vuitton through December 31, 2008, Metamorphoses: Korean Trajectories features Korean-born artists who work with ideas of transformation, particularly in the human figure, society and architecture. Since the 1988 Seoul Olympic …

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