Tag Archives: Installation
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Under the Radar: Best of 2011, Part 2
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Under the Radar: Best of 2011, Part 2
Following up on last week’s post, here are a few more shows that flew under the radar in 2011, including Dana Schutz at the Neuberger and Katharina Grosse at Mass MoCA.
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Set Me Free! Performa 2011 Part II: Beyond the Biennial
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Set Me Free! Performa 2011 Part II: Beyond the Biennial
If moribund is defined as an adjective for that which is approaching death or obsolescence, then perhaps it is the best word to describe my experience of Performa’s last week. This …
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Alena Williams on Nancy Holt
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Alena Williams on Nancy Holt
Nancy Holt, perhaps best known for her Sun Tunnels installed the Utah desert, is currently the subject of a traveling exhibition, Nancy Holt: Sightlines, curated by Alena Williams. The exhibition originated at …
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.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking About Interdisciplinary Teaching with Mark Dion’s Neukom Vivarium
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking About Interdisciplinary Teaching with Mark Dion’s Neukom Vivarium
This past spring at the National Art Education Association’s annual conference in Seattle, Art21 brought Mark Dion not only as a keynote speaker, but also to explore his work and …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Jenny Marketou
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Jenny Marketou
Jenny Marketou was born and raised in Athens, Greece and educated in the United States. She lives and works in New York. Marketou earned a BFA from the Corcoran School …
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, …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The Language of Materials: Janne Larsen and Sibyl Wickersheimer’s “Big Haul”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The Language of Materials: Janne Larsen and Sibyl Wickersheimer’s “Big Haul”
Editor’s Note: This week, Los Angeles-based writer Carol Cheh fills in for Lily Simonson, who is travelling. Cheh is a writer and curator based in Los Angeles. She is …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Taking the Long Way Home: Working With a Theme in a Series
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Taking the Long Way Home: Working With a Theme in a Series
One of the students in my advanced classes is taking on the theme of “looking vs. seeing” for her first semester portfolio. She wants to explore the things people tend …
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Full Frontal
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Full Frontal
I am on my way to New York, but not before finding Exercises for Rebel Artists: Radical Performance Pedagogy by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Roberto Sifuentes delivered to my door on my last …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Terike Haapoja
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Terike Haapoja
Terike Haapoja is a Finnish visual artist based in Helsinki. She has a Master’s degree from the Theater Academy of Finland (Department of Performance Art and Theory) and from the …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Full Circle: Ann Hamilton’s Recent Editions
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Full Circle: Ann Hamilton’s Recent Editions
Ann Hamilton’s work is founded on the idea of the line – both in its material form as thread, fiber, and hair; and its conceptual form in written and drawn …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice With Gregory Sholette
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice With Gregory Sholette
Artist, scholar, organizer, and professor, Gregory Sholette embodies multiple ways that artists can interrogate history, politics, and public discourse. Through his initial work with the group REPOhistory (1989-2000) (as in, “repossessing …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | “Rethink/LA” Exhibition Envisions Future Transformation
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | “Rethink/LA” Exhibition Envisions Future Transformation
Los Angeles has a reputation for not only its excess, sprawl, and exploding population, but also for its unruly, anarchic and highly changeable landscape. Rethink/LA: Perspectives on a Future …
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada | Healthy Mind/Healthy Body? Berlinde De Bruyckere at Montreal’s DHC
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada | Healthy Mind/Healthy Body? Berlinde De Bruyckere at Montreal’s DHC
Before the analysis comes rushing in like an insuppressible wave, I am struck with the straight-up “thingness” of Flemish artist, Berlinde De Bruyckere’s corporeal sculptures at gallery DHC in Montreal. …
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