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A Look Into the Future with Saya Woolfalk

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 …

No Nukes

by Daniel Fuller | Aug 11, 2009

Four years ago, when using Google Earth satellites to zoom in on the roofs of our homes was all the rage, I was living in a Hudson River hamlet about …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 3, 2009

On September 23, Hauser & Wirth will open its first gallery in the United States with a reinvention of Allan Kaprow’s 1961 environment Yard by artist William Pope.L. Described as …

Away Game

by Adrian Duran | Jul 31, 2009

I’m in St. Louis, visiting family and art museums that I can only get to once in a while. There were some hits, some misses, but this seems like an …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jason Peters

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jul 31, 2009

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jason Peters

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jul 31, 2009

Jason Peters is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Over the years, he has discovered his muse in found objects – whether they are tires, buckets, or another material …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Jeff – Dumb and Blind(ing)

by Ben Street | Jul 27, 2009

Letter from London: Jeff – Dumb and Blind(ing)

by Ben Street | Jul 27, 2009

In Herbert Ross’s magisterial 1987 film The Secret of My Success, Michael J. Fox plays Brantley Foster, a charming chancer who works his way up (spoiler alert!) from mailroom to …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Extending the Conservation Framework: A Site-Specific Conservation Discussion with Francesca Esmay

by Richard McCoy | Jul 21, 2009

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Extending the Conservation Framework: A Site-Specific Conservation Discussion with Francesca Esmay

by Richard McCoy | Jul 21, 2009

IMA conservator Richard McCoy discusses 100 Acres and Spiral Jetty with Dia conservator Francesca Esmay.

Flash Points

New Flash Points Topic: Fantasy

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 20, 2009

New Flash Points Topic: Fantasy

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 20, 2009

In celebration of the fifth season of Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century, premiering this fall on PBS, the current round of Flash Points topics correspond to our upcoming four thematic …

Flash Points

Understanding Pain

by Catherine Wagley | Jul 17, 2009

A friend of mine told me how she first learned of rape: rape happens when someone forces all your clothes off, her brother explained. My friend was, of course, horrified. …

The Studio at Colton: A Look Back and Ahead

by John d'Addario | Jul 14, 2009

The Studio at Colton: A Look Back and Ahead

by John d'Addario | Jul 14, 2009

If you had to point to one institution that best illustrated the progress of the arts community in post-Katrina New Orleans—not to mention the progress of the city in general—you …

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 …

Wodiczko Perforates Polish Pavilion with “Guests”

by Lily Simonson | Jul 10, 2009

Wodiczko Perforates Polish Pavilion with “Guests”

by Lily Simonson | Jul 10, 2009

Entitled Goście / Guests, Krzysztof Wodiczko’s exhibition greets visitors to the Venice Biennale’s Polish Pavilion with the words of political theorist Hannah Arendt: “Refugees driven from country to country represent …

Letter from London

Letter from London: YBA Baracas

by Ben Street | Jul 7, 2009

Letter from London

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, …

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 …

Art21 Extended Play

Josiah McElheny | Beauty & Seduction

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 26, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Josiah McElheny | Beauty & Seduction

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 26, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Artist Josiah McElheny discusses the intentionally problematic nature of beauty and seduction in his “Total Reflective Abstraction” (2004) installation, on view at …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Summer Reading Part 2

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 17, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Summer Reading Part 2

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 17, 2009

Continuing with my column from May 27, I’d like to suggest a few more books related to contemporary art education that you may be inspired to buy, borrow or steal …

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No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

No Preservatives: The Clocks’ Tic Tic Tic …

by Richard McCoy | Jun 16, 2009

Flash Points

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. …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

What’s “The End” Good For?

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 10, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

What’s “The End” Good For?

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 10, 2009

June can be a real catharsis of both the most beautiful and ugly kinds, but it doesn’t have to be a week-to-week whirlwind waiting for the next test. The last …

Pride: Golden Lion Awarded to Bruce Nauman’s “Topological Gardens”

by Lily Simonson | Jun 10, 2009

Pride: Golden Lion Awarded to Bruce Nauman’s “Topological Gardens”

by Lily Simonson | Jun 10, 2009

I have never thought of myself as susceptible to patriotism, but for the second time this year, I’ve felt proud to be an American. The first incident of pride stemmed …

Notes from a Novice in Venice

by Lily Simonson | Jun 9, 2009

Notes from a Novice in Venice

by Lily Simonson | Jun 9, 2009

Exclusive to the blog this week are the chronicles of artist Lily Simonson’s visit to the 53rd annual Venice Biennale, which opened to the public this past Sunday. Stay tuned …

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 …

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

Flash Points

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 …

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Reflection in the Porcelain Pond

by Bert Stabler | May 22, 2009

Flash Points

Reflection in the Porcelain Pond

by Bert Stabler | May 22, 2009

In the fine art world, the story of the thing is the stuff comprising the thing. Paint, bronze, steel, video, screenprinting, mud, written language—the work is about the medium. And …

Flash Points

The best is not quite over…

by Daniel Fuller | May 21, 2009

Flash Points

The best is not quite over…

by Daniel Fuller | May 21, 2009

One of the first rules for the nouveau riche is to save a little for a rainy day. Unfortunately, in the doom and gloom that has come with daily announcements …

An Interview with Simone Leigh

by Kemi Ilesanmi | May 21, 2009

An Interview with Simone Leigh

by Kemi Ilesanmi | May 21, 2009

Simone Leigh is a new world artist/ceramicist of the highest order. Her gnarly yet incredibly beautiful objects and installations provoke, inspire, and remain with you. She works her particular brand …

An Interview with Paul Mpagi Sepuya

by Kemi Ilesanmi | May 20, 2009

An Interview with Paul Mpagi Sepuya

by Kemi Ilesanmi | May 20, 2009

I met the artist Paul Mpagi Sepya when he worked at Creative Capital a couple of years back. I’ve followed his thoughtful, evocative, and beautiful photo portrait work ever since. …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Reality Hits at CCS Bard

by Joe Fusaro | May 20, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Reality Hits at CCS Bard

by Joe Fusaro | May 20, 2009

In the final workshop of our three-part series at Bard College, titled “Teaching and Learning with Contemporary Art,” we were lucky enough to have Olafur Eliasson speak with us about …

Art21 Extended Play

Richard Tuttle | Reality & Illusion

by Jonathan Munar | May 15, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Richard Tuttle | Reality & Illusion

by Jonathan Munar | May 15, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Artist Richard Tuttle installs the work Ten Kinds of Memory and Memory Itself (1973) at the Whitney Museum of American Art, New …