Tag Archives: Installation
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Well Beyond Everyday
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Well Beyond Everyday
If you are interested in how everyday materials can become bizarre and (sometimes) brilliant sculpture, there are three shows ready and waiting for you in Chelsea: Nayland Blake’s What Wont Wrong at Matthew Marks; B. Wurtz’s Recent Works at Metro Pictures; and Mark Dion’s two-floor delight titled Drawings, Prints, Multiples and Sculptures at Tanya Bonakdar.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with El Anatsui
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with El Anatsui
El Anastui, one of my favorite artists from season 6, is in some ways an educator’s dream. His sculptures and installations reference history, culture and memory while simultaneously exploring the possibilities of found materials and different processes for making art. And while Anatsui is best known for his stunning, draped metal sculptures, there is more to the work with than meets the eye… and that’s quite a bit to begin with.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Messing with the Stuff
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Messing with the Stuff
In order for students to feel comfortable expressing themselves with a particular medium, they often have to spend plenty of time messing with the stuff they are interested in shaping- be it car parts, plastics, plaster or paint- before they may be ready to create high quality works. A few artists I find myself recommending to students when it comes to specifically “messing” with paint and thinking like an abstract painter include Hans Hoffman, Helen Frankenthaler, Howard Hodgkin and Jessica Stockholder.
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | New Frontier at Sundance 2013: “Pulse Index” and “Coral RKV”
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | New Frontier at Sundance 2013: “Pulse Index” and “Coral RKV”
Nettrice Gaskins revisits relational aesthetics in a third post from New Frontier at Sundance, looking at works by Rafael Lozano-Hemmer and Lynette Wallworth.
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | New Frontier at Sundance 2013: The Pixelated Pavilion
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | New Frontier at Sundance 2013: The Pixelated Pavilion
Nettrice Gaskins introduces a series of reports from New Frontier: an experimental space at the 2013 Sundance Film Fesitval.
Art21 Extended Play
Exclusive | Richard Serra: Tools & Strategies
Art21 Extended Play
Exclusive | Richard Serra: Tools & Strategies
In a new “Exclusive” video, artist Richard Serra describes the various tools and conceptual strategies he has used throughout his career when working with lead and steel.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
When Works of Literature Make The Leap
Teaching with Contemporary Art
When Works of Literature Make The Leap
Contemporary artists and performers offer pathways into literature for the hard-to-inspire. Artists such as Glenn Ligon, Jenny Holzer, and even performances like the off-Broadway production of My Name is Asher Lev offer students ways to get inspired and involved with literature from different starting points.
Transmission
Transmission | An Interview with Niels Geybels: Sequences, Monoliths, and Beneath the Earth
Transmission
Transmission | An Interview with Niels Geybels: Sequences, Monoliths, and Beneath the Earth
Columnist Amelia Ishmael speaks with Antwerp-based visual artist, graphic designer, and musician Niels Geybels, whose various practices often overlap.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teachable Moments in 2012
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teachable Moments in 2012
Before we continue talking about last week’s “Speak About What’s Unspeakable,” I thought it might be good idea to end the year on a constructive note by looking back at some of the most teachable moments- events, exhibits, chance happenings and other opportunities – that made for uncanny entry points in the classroom…
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Tanya Aguiñiga / Transnational Arts Operative
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Tanya Aguiñiga / Transnational Arts Operative
Danielle McCullough profiles Tanya Aguiñiga, an artist/activist whose works take many forms, many of which engage notions of transnational autobiography.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reflecting on Visual Conversations
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reflecting on Visual Conversations
In my previous post two weeks ago I said that I was interested in encouraging students to draw relationships between works of art and to think about how context affects what we see. Can works of art “speak” to the viewer or have “conversations” with other works? If so, how? Today was the day, after a long Thanksgiving weekend, for the group to share works in progress and get some feedback from one another.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Getting Set for Visual Conversations
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Getting Set for Visual Conversations
If you haven’t visited already, the Fisher Landau Center for Art is a wonderful oasis to add to the list of places you can see exciting work in Long Island City. This week, I am taking one of my classes to visit the current show, Visual Conversations. Through the visit I am interested in encouraging my students to draw relationships between works of art and to think about how context affects how we perceive what we see.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Two Histories of the World: Part Two
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Two Histories of the World: Part Two
Caroline Picard looks at “Two Histories of the World,” a two-part exhibition taking place at two different venues and at two different points in time.
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Doug Ashford
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Doug Ashford
Thom Donovan interviews Doug Ashford, who is widely known for his work with Group Material during the period 1983-1996.
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Restored and Renewed: Milton Glaser’s 1975 Artwork, “Color Fuses”
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Restored and Renewed: Milton Glaser’s 1975 Artwork, “Color Fuses”
Mitlon Glaser’s 1975 art installation in Indianapolis, “Color Fuses,” recently underwent a dramatic restoration and can now be seen as the artist originally intended.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with New York Close Up: David Brooks Tears The Roof Off
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with New York Close Up: David Brooks Tears The Roof Off
David Brooks Tears The Roof Off is an apt title for one of our most recent New York Close Up films this summer. Within the first 60 seconds of a …
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