Tag Archives: Installation

Art21 Extended Play

Jessica Stockholder | Form

by Jonathan Munar | Mar 5, 2010

Art21 Extended Play

Jessica Stockholder | Form

by Jonathan Munar | Mar 5, 2010

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: From her home in New Haven, Connecticut, Jessica Stockholder discusses the strength of form and the difficulty in articulating the meaning behind …
Los Angeles Theatre Marquee 35mm Production Still, Between Science and Magic, 2010. Courtesy the artist.

Looking at Los Angeles

This Magic Moment: Diana Thater, Jeffrey Wells at the Santa Monica Museum of Art

by Lily Simonson | Mar 4, 2010

Looking at Los Angeles

This Magic Moment: Diana Thater, Jeffrey Wells at the Santa Monica Museum of Art

by Lily Simonson | Mar 4, 2010

The Oscars, aka prom night for Hollywood, are just around the corner! Who does The Academy love more: the noble savage, the noble soldier, or the noble soldier–turned-savage? Are you …

Flash Points

You Are What You Read

by David Yanez | Mar 4, 2010

Flash Points

You Are What You Read

by David Yanez | Mar 4, 2010

What are the ethical implications of using live animals in art? In 1974, Joseph Beuys caged himself with a live coyote for a performance piece called I Like America and …

First Impression: Skin Fruit (Part 1)

by Kevin McGarry | Mar 2, 2010

First Impression: Skin Fruit (Part 1)

by Kevin McGarry | Mar 2, 2010

This morning I previewed the hotly anticipated exhibition at the New Museum of Greek collector Dakis Joannou’s art holdings, impishly titled Skin Fruit and curated by Jeff Koons. I’ve been …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 1, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 1, 2010

With 19 bits and bites below, this week’s roundup is a whopper: Five Themes, the traveling survey exhibition of work by Season 5 artist William Kentridge, has landed at the …
Aaron Zinman, the artist, designer and technologist behind Personas

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Connections at MIT Museum

by An Xiao | Feb 25, 2010

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Connections at MIT Museum

by An Xiao | Feb 25, 2010

I have never met Aaron Zinman. Not in person, anyway. I’ve spoken with him a few times on the phone, and we’ve chatted via email and Twitter, but I’ve never …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 22, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 22, 2010

Biennials, cremated canvases, German faces, cashmere sportswear, sculptural tour de force, fashionable shoes, and an iPhone app comprise this week’s roundup: 2010: Whitney Biennial will open at the Whitney Museum …

Raiding, Mining, and Resurrecting: Maurizio Cattelan at The Menil Collection

by Leanne Gilbertson | Feb 19, 2010

Raiding, Mining, and Resurrecting: Maurizio Cattelan at The Menil Collection

by Leanne Gilbertson | Feb 19, 2010

The current Maurizio Cattelan exhibition at The Menil Collection, Houston (February 12– August 15, 2010) marks the U.S. debut of recent large-scale works, site-specific installations, and four new works. Cattelan’s …

Grand Canyon Journal 4: Critique Is Destruction as Joy

by Karthik Pandian | Feb 19, 2010

Grand Canyon Journal 4: Critique Is Destruction as Joy

by Karthik Pandian | Feb 19, 2010

[youtube:www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-vPbeJCsJM] CityCenter is the biggest thing to happen to art in Las Vegas since Steve Wynn put his finger through a Picasso. The mixed-use, residential, gambling, fine dining, clubbing, high-end …
Jeff Koons, "Girl with Dolphin and Monkey (The Whitney Museum of American Art 75th Anniversary Photography Portfolio), 2006. Courtesy Whitney Museum

Flash Points

The Puppy Wars

by Catherine Wagley | Feb 17, 2010

Flash Points

The Puppy Wars

by Catherine Wagley | Feb 17, 2010

The eerily small, closely watched world of New York art criticism experienced some infighting earlier this month, following the publication of February’s The Brooklyn Rail. “I think that there are …
Jeff Martin

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Collaborations in Conserving Time-Based Art: a Conversation and a Colloquium

by Richard McCoy | Feb 16, 2010

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Collaborations in Conserving Time-Based Art: a Conversation and a Colloquium

by Richard McCoy | Feb 16, 2010

IMA conservator Richard McCoy talks with Jeff Martin, who organized the upcoming colloquium “Collaborations in Conserving Time-Based Art” (March 17th and 18th at the Hirshhorn).

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 15, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 15, 2010

This President’s Day roundup begins with a hotly debated exhibition and ends with a divine duo: The New Museum has announced the details of their exhibition Skin Fruit: Selections from …

Flash Points

Art is Murder

by Brent Burket | Feb 15, 2010

Flash Points

Art is Murder

by Brent Burket | Feb 15, 2010

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3OkEcdOtb0] When I was a kid, Alice Cooper taught me everything I needed to know about art. So, ethics in art? For the most part I’m against it, but certain …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 8, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 8, 2010

Greek tragedy, cross dressing, cooking shows, needlework, rowdy teens, storytelling, nighttime walks, and a few mystery plays in this week’s roundup: Virtuoso Illusion: Cross Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde …

Dan Phillips: Not Merely Vernacular, Pt. 2

by Leanne Gilbertson | Feb 8, 2010

Dan Phillips: Not Merely Vernacular, Pt. 2

by Leanne Gilbertson | Feb 8, 2010

In my estimation, Phoenix Commotion’s ongoing project (founded around 1998 by Dan Phillips) does much more than simply supply a university town with a rich dose of local color. While …

Flash Points

Flash Points: The Ethics of Art

by Rachel Gagnon | Feb 5, 2010

Flash Points

Flash Points: The Ethics of Art

by Rachel Gagnon | Feb 5, 2010

Today we launch the next Flash Points topic, The Ethics of Art. Ethics are defined as “a system of moral principles” which constantly factor into the choices we make. However, …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 1, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 1, 2010

In this week’s roundup you’ll read about two anniversary exhibitions, 6,000 shapes upstate, masterworks in the Midwest, some road trip souvenirs, a whole lotta prints, and a sale you won’t …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Chris Ofili, A Mixtape

by Ben Street | Feb 1, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Chris Ofili, A Mixtape

by Ben Street | Feb 1, 2010

Making mixtapes is one of life’s great non-transferable skills; its lack of import in a pragmatic sense is inversely proportional to the amount of time and effort it requires (rewinding, …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Remembering artist and friend Flo McGarrell

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 29, 2010

Inside the Artist's Studio

Remembering artist and friend Flo McGarrell

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 29, 2010

Flores McGarrell I lost my voice. Incredibly frustrating because I have a lot I need to say right now. I just make ridiculous squeaking sounds. […] I think I should …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 25, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 25, 2010

In this week’s roundup you’ll read about Tasmanian wolves, patented patterns, cartoon anthropomorphism, ancient mythology, portico projections, and a big gift: Bestiarium, a large-scale survey exhibition of watercolor paintings by …
Andrea Zittel's Island at 100 Acres

Flash Points

The Island in 100 Acres: An Interview with Andrea Zittel

by Richard McCoy | Jan 21, 2010

Flash Points

The Island in 100 Acres: An Interview with Andrea Zittel

by Richard McCoy | Jan 21, 2010

Andrea Zittel talks with IMA Conservator Richard McCoy about her island project in 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park.

Letter from London

Letter from London: Memento Mori

by Ben Street | Jan 11, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Memento Mori

by Ben Street | Jan 11, 2010

The numbers kept coming up in the daily reports. Five here, fourteen there, one day after another. And then the growing figure mounting over a thousand. Peripherally it was ever-present, …

Hair & Nails, Talk & Touch: 4 Encounters with Women Artists in Mumbai

by Jennifer Doyle | Jan 5, 2010

Hair & Nails, Talk & Touch: 4 Encounters with Women Artists in Mumbai

by Jennifer Doyle | Jan 5, 2010

Over the past few weeks, Jennifer Doyle has been reporting from her travels in India. Following is her final dispatch. — Ed. Masooma Syed makes small things, sometimes from materials …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 4, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 4, 2010

This week Art21 artists illustrate NASA’s history, depict child’s play, map the Black Atlantic, render galaxies in glass, leave their mark on the last decade, and reflect on our future: …

Flash Points

Inhale. Exhale. Whew.

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 29, 2009

Flash Points

Inhale. Exhale. Whew.

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 29, 2009

In the New York Times video Copenhagen 101, reporter Tom Zeller asks people in Times Square what they know about the recent United Nations Climate Change Conference (UNCCC) in Copenhagen. …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Season’s Treatings

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 23, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Season’s Treatings

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 23, 2009

Before the holidays hit us, I thought I might suggest a few destinations, dates, and stocking stuffers for those who are as late with the shopping as I am. Below …

Political Football

by Jennifer Doyle | Dec 22, 2009

Political Football

by Jennifer Doyle | Dec 22, 2009

Flash Points contributor and University of Riverside professor Jennifer Doyle is currently spending 2 weeks in India, traveling with the Indian artist Riyas Komu. Following is the third in a …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 21, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 21, 2009

This week in Art21 artist news we have two tapestry makers, a silk archway, the master of Cremaster, an artist who likes to do laundry, a magical sound installation, environmental issues, creative …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Scrooged

by Ben Street | Dec 21, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Scrooged

by Ben Street | Dec 21, 2009

Tate Britain has just unveiled its 22nd annual Christmas Tree, designed, as usual, by a contemporary British artist. The Christmas Tree tradition at the Tate started in 1988 with Bill …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

The Ethics of Dust: A Conversation with Jorge Otero-Pailos

by Richard McCoy | Dec 15, 2009

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

The Ethics of Dust: A Conversation with Jorge Otero-Pailos

by Richard McCoy | Dec 15, 2009

IMA art conservator Richard McCoy discusses the installation “The Ethics of Dust” with Columbia University professor & architect Jorge Otero-Pailos.

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 14, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 14, 2009

Making this week’s roundup are an upside down glass house, a floral puppy, fused bicycles and an empty white shoe box, a TV-inspired installation, two exhibitions focusing on American society, …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Confronting History

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 9, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Confronting History

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 9, 2009

Looking through the interviews and essays featured in Art:21- Art in the Twenty- First Century 5, the companion book to season 5, I keep discovering a ton of words to …

Flash Points

Electrical Forest: Made in Troy

by Noah Fischer | Dec 4, 2009

Flash Points

Electrical Forest: Made in Troy

by Noah Fischer | Dec 4, 2009

We invited artist Noah Fischer to write about his current project, Electrical Forest: Made in Troy, a site-specific installation in Troy, New York.  — Ed. During my initial research missions …

Gastro-Vision

Antidiets of the Avant-Garde

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 2, 2009

Gastro-Vision

Antidiets of the Avant-Garde

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 2, 2009

Some 30 years after the Italian poet and founder of the Futurist movement Filippo Tommaso Marinetti wrote The Futurist Cookbook (1932) and proposed a revolution in food, the European avant-garde …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 30, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 30, 2009

In this week’s roundup, Art21 artists play with fire, sign new books, design stained glass, collage basketballs, create new films, and pop up in Miami Beach exhibitions: Carl Solway Gallery …

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Virtual Artists’ Immersive Discoveries in a Virtual 3D Frontier

by Nettrice Gaskins | Nov 30, 2009

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Virtual Artists’ Immersive Discoveries in a Virtual 3D Frontier

by Nettrice Gaskins | Nov 30, 2009

Cao Fei, RMB City. Art in the Twenty-First Century, production still, 2009. Season 5, Episode: Fantasy. © Art21, Inc. 2009. William Saroyan wrote: The role of art is to make …