Tag Archives: Installation
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Test-Driving the New Season 5 Educator’s Guide
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Test-Driving the New Season 5 Educator’s Guide
Yesterday I was talking with a two students who attended a recent preview screening that featured Paul McCarthy in the Transformation episode. The students asked me about why McCarthy’s work …
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
“Rachel Is” | An Interview with Rachel Perry Welty
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
“Rachel Is” | An Interview with Rachel Perry Welty
Appropriately enough, I first met conceptual artist Rachel Perry Welty via social media, when word spread about her Facebook-based performance, “Rachel is.” On March 11, 2009, from 7:35 a.m. to …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Concepts Around Interviewing Artists: a Discussion with Glenn Wharton
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Concepts Around Interviewing Artists: a Discussion with Glenn Wharton
IMA conservator Richard McCoy discusses the methodology and the process of interviewing artists with MoMA conservator Glenn Wharton.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Janine Antoni, Part Two
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Janine Antoni, Part Two
The following is part two of my discussion with Janine Antoni from last week. Be sure to catch her new show at Luhring Augustine Gallery, titled Up Against, through October …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Janine Antoni, Part One
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Janine Antoni, Part One
To say it was a pleasure to be given the opportunity to interview Janine Antoni for this column is a gross understatement. In 2003, Janine Antoni‘s Season 2 segment was …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Ottawa Without a Passport
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Ottawa Without a Passport
On Monday I had the pleasure of working with 26 teachers from a variety of settings in the Ottawa Area Intermediate School District… located in western Michigan. That’s right, Michigan. …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Imaging Conservation at the Guggenheim: A Discussion with Carol Stringari
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Imaging Conservation at the Guggenheim: A Discussion with Carol Stringari
IMA art conservator talks with Carol Stringari, the Chief Conservator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hot Scots, Part Deux
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hot Scots, Part Deux
Sometimes the most interesting thing about an artist is the disparity between their work and the established perception of it. Eva Hesse, the late German-American sculptor of ratty latex and …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
….and the Not-So-Powerful (Part One)
Teaching with Contemporary Art
….and the Not-So-Powerful (Part One)
Ever since the blog post Jessica Hamlin wrote a few weeks back regarding my “Teaching About Power” unit I’ve been feeling a little guilty. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve gotten …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hot Scots, Part Un
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hot Scots, Part Un
In a big, sprawling, multi-tentacular artsfest like the Edinburgh Festival, certain forms of art – like, say, one-woman mime interpretations of the career of Robin Williams, or freestyle macrame workshops …
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