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Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Leeza Ahmady (Part 2)
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Leeza Ahmady (Part 2)
Part 2 of Georgia Kotretsos’ interview with independent curator Leeza Ahmady, the director of Asian Contemporary Art Week in New York.
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Roman Ondák at the Deutsche Guggenheim
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Roman Ondák at the Deutsche Guggenheim
Ali Fitzgerald reviews Roman Ondák’s exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim, which features an artwork incorporating the severed wing of an airplane.
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | The Mystery of Anna Pavlova
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | The Mystery of Anna Pavlova
Ali Fitzgerald reviews Theo Solnik’s 2011 film “Anna Pavlova Lives in Berlin,” a nuanced portrait of the poetic and aggressive “Russian party queen” of the same iconic name.
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Tales for Our Time: Amy Cutler’s Prints
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Tales for Our Time: Amy Cutler’s Prints
Fantastical narrative is a guiding principle for many artists who have come to prominence in the past decade; Amy Cutler and Dana Schutz are foremost among these. Both possess …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | The State of Affairs in the Conservation of Contemporary Art
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | The State of Affairs in the Conservation of Contemporary Art
IMA Conservator Richard McCoy looks back at two international conferences that dealt with the conservation of contemporary art.
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Taryn Simon
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Taryn Simon
Taryn Simon‘s solo-exhibition, A Living Man Declared Dead and Other Chapters (2008-2011) at the Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin is an imposing and exhaustive investigation of eighteen diverse bloodlines and their related stories. On the surface, …
Problematic: Answering Questions with Questions
Problematic | The Artist As Entrepreneur
Problematic: Answering Questions with Questions
Problematic | The Artist As Entrepreneur
Most artists assume the role of an artist, perhaps by going to school, perhaps by having a studio, or not. Bruce Nauman made it simple by deciding that anything he …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Based in Berlin: Best of
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Based in Berlin: Best of
I’ve been thinking about Based In Berlin for weeks. And while it’s been difficult to keep my pretentious guffaws in check, I have recognized that the show tackles the formidable …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | Aslı Çavuşoğlu
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | Aslı Çavuşoğlu
A small black and white newspaper photograph hangs on the wall of Aslı Çavuşoğlu’s studio, located in an old warehouse in Istanbul’s Karaköy district. The photograph is crowd shot, taken …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | rocks/mud/linoleum: sculpture between sites
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | rocks/mud/linoleum: sculpture between sites
Richard Long’s artistic medium, since the 1960s, has been walking. On his walks all over the world, he uses found materials to create formations – circles, lines, ovals — leaving …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Absalon at Kunst-Werke
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Absalon at Kunst-Werke
It was back in 2005 when I first encountered the work of Absalon at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof in a exhibition called Fast Nichts – Minimal Artworks from the Friedrich Christian …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Spring Thaw
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Spring Thaw
I fly back to Berlin tomorrow, finally ending a prolonged Kerouac walk-through of mid-sized southern cities; a spring break for the “mild girl.” During my Texas stay, a sun constitutional …
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 …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Feathers, Magic Mushrooms and Bicycle Tours
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Feathers, Magic Mushrooms and Bicycle Tours
Bundle up, Berlin: winter is almost here, and it might be a long one, again. If you haven’t fallen prey to the sniffling, the sneezing, the nose-blowing and coughing, germ-spreading …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Berlin’s Fair Weather
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Berlin’s Fair Weather
To use a very versatile phrase, “It’s that time of year again.” In this case, we mean: it’s art fair-season in Berlin. With the 15th anniversary of the somewhat-confusingly-named Art …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Head Shop/Lost Horizon at Exile
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Head Shop/Lost Horizon at Exile
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 …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: The Sommerpause Art Guide
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: The Sommerpause Art Guide
Nothing spells houseguest season like late-August in Berlin. With school about to resume and the major art metropolises shut down for summer, the town becomes besieged by the event hungry. …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: The End of Temporary
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: The End of Temporary
On August 31, 2010, the Temporäre Kunsthalle Berlin (TKB) will close its doors as according to the original concept. With 8 major exhibitions, 3 facades, and other projects involving over 800 …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Gender (and other) Trouble
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Gender (and other) Trouble
Judith Butler, that radical Valkyrie of all things identity politics, caused quite a stir in Berlin recently. On June 19th, she declined the “Civil Courage Prize” awarded by the organizers …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Interview with Aaron Moulton (Feinkost, Berlin)
Letter from London
Letter from London: Interview with Aaron Moulton (Feinkost, Berlin)
This Letter from London is, for one time only, from Berlin. — B.S. Aaron Moulton is a curator of contemporary art and, with his wife Mette Ravnkilde Nielsen, founder of …
Lives and Works in Berlin
New column! Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin
New column! Lives and Works in Berlin
Art21 is thrilled to announce the launch of our latest column. Heading the curriculum vitae of Berlin’s artists, curators, and other breeds of art junkies, Lives and Works in Berlin. …
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