Tag Archives: Installation
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Making Work: A Continued Discussion with Jeff Jamieson
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Making Work: A Continued Discussion with Jeff Jamieson
Artist Jeff Jamieson talks with IMA Conservator Richard McCoy about working with Robert Irwin and other artists.
Letter from London
Letter from London | World on a String
Letter from London
Letter from London | World on a String
Language draws an imaginary line around objects. That demarcation follows through in all the lines in our lives: the Morse code of a Risk board’s borders, anticipatory lines dragged across …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Serkan Özkaya
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Serkan Özkaya
Serkan Özkaya is a contemporary conceptual artist based in Istanbul, Turkey, and New York City. His work deals with topics of appropriation and reproduction and it typically operates outside of …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Preservation, Perfection, and Patina: Eleonora Nagy Discusses Conserving Judd’s Art
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Preservation, Perfection, and Patina: Eleonora Nagy Discusses Conserving Judd’s Art
Art conservator Eleonora Nagy talks about her historic relationship with the conservation of Donald Judd’s artworks with IMA conservator Richard McCoy.
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Carlos Motta
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Carlos Motta
While Carlos Motta’s work exists through a number of different media, I think of it primarily as putting forth a series of socially and politically committed archives. These archives are …
Calling from Canada
Calling from Canada | Surrey Art Gallery’s “Dwellings”
Calling from Canada
Calling from Canada | Surrey Art Gallery’s “Dwellings”
As part of the exhibition Dwellings at the Surrey Art Gallery, Sitely Premises is a group show of works by artists who have examined the exterior of Lower Mainland residential …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Barbara Kruger, Shafted and Shining
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Barbara Kruger, Shafted and Shining
In 2008, when Eli Broad opened his big, brazen inaugural BCAM show on the Los Angeles County Museum’s Campus, Barbara Kruger (Season 1) was shafted, stuck accenting an elevator while …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco Part 2
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco Part 2
New relationships are often built over food. We sit down to share a bowl of soup together and rise knowing each other better than before. But food’s not just a …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Screening Wood: Jessica Stockholder at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Screening Wood: Jessica Stockholder at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Following on the April post for this column, which explored recent works in print-based installation, this month’s Ink takes an in-depth look at Art21 artist Jessica Stockholder’s current project for …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Threading Infrastructure: An Interview with Anne Wilson
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Threading Infrastructure: An Interview with Anne Wilson
When I asked Anne Wilson if I could interview her for Art21, she sent me a preview copy of her book, Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave—a catalogue published collaboratively by White Walls and …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Nicole Eisenman and Wynne Greenwood
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Nicole Eisenman and Wynne Greenwood
Digging through Nicole Eisenman’s current show at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, one begins to understand why it’s so perfect that the artist presents us with 77 different titles for …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Glenn Ligon, Ai Weiwei and The Art Cops
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Glenn Ligon, Ai Weiwei and The Art Cops
Three things this week… Maika Pollack recently wrote a wonderful review in The New York Observer about the current Glenn Ligon show at the Whitney Museum. As I visited the …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Not An Alternative
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Not An Alternative
I encountered the art group Not An Alternative for the first time about a month ago in Corona, Queens, where Tania Bruguera (featured last month in 5 Questions) had assembled …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | “Chaos 1” Returns to Life
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | “Chaos 1” Returns to Life
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks about the return of Jean Tinguely’s 1974 masterpiece “Chaos 1” in Columbus, Indiana.
Art21 Extended Play
Paul McCarthy: “Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement”
Art21 Extended Play
Paul McCarthy: “Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement”
SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #142: Artist Paul McCarthy discusses his interest in art as political theater and his sculptures as akin to amusement …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art: The First Three Years
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art: The First Three Years
This week Teaching with Contemporary Art here on the blog turns 3. Frankly, I can’t believe that I’ve been writing this column for three years. At the same time, it …
Letter from London
Letter from London | Seeds of Discord
Letter from London
Letter from London | Seeds of Discord
When an artist dies, their work changes forever. Whatever it was they were doing at the time of their demise becomes loaded with retroactive meaning and spurious clairvoyance. With the …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Flat Affect
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Flat Affect
As I was walking through William Leavitt: Theater Objects, the LA-based artist’s first museum retrospective, a MOCA security guard stopped me. “Are you a writer?” It took me a moment …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Exploring the Freedom to Re-Present Value: A Discussion with Theaster Gates
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Exploring the Freedom to Re-Present Value: A Discussion with Theaster Gates
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with artist Theaster Gates about Thornton Dial in relations to Gate’s art practice in
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | rocks/mud/linoleum: sculpture between sites
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | rocks/mud/linoleum: sculpture between sites
Richard Long’s artistic medium, since the 1960s, has been walking. On his walks all over the world, he uses found materials to create formations – circles, lines, ovals — leaving …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Lexicon of Tomorrow: Print-Based Installation
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | The Lexicon of Tomorrow: Print-Based Installation
With the onset of spring, renewal is in the air. In the world of contemporary prints, a fresh format that seems to be popping up everywhere is print-based installation. In …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Wrapping Up Art21 at NAEA 2011
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Wrapping Up Art21 at NAEA 2011
It was suggested that perhaps the TWCA column could provide a a wrap-up of the National Art Education Association’s annual conference in pictures this year, and while I would like …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Protest Songs and Lullabies: Susan Philipsz in Chicago
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Protest Songs and Lullabies: Susan Philipsz in Chicago
What does it mean to sing a protest song as if it were a lullaby? It’s a question I often ask myself. My five-year-old daughter has trouble falling asleep at …
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