Tag Archives: Installation
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Ken Lum 30 Year Retrospective at Vancouver Art Gallery
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Ken Lum 30 Year Retrospective at Vancouver Art Gallery
Ever watch a three month old baby stare into a mirror for the first time? Its face is an expression of pure awe and confusion. What is the thing in …
Art21 Extended Play
Allan McCollum: “Lost Objects” & “Natural Copies”
Art21 Extended Play
Allan McCollum: “Lost Objects” & “Natural Copies”
SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #137: Filmed in his Brooklyn studio, artist Allan McCollum discusses two projects utilizing dinosaur fossils—”Lost Objects” (begun 1991) and …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | A Print World Compendium: IPCNY Celebrates Ten Years
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | A Print World Compendium: IPCNY Celebrates Ten Years
In 1995, a group of print-world professionals and collectors based in New York joined forces to establish a non-profit organization that would be “dedicated to the appreciation and understanding of …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Spring Thaw
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Spring Thaw
I fly back to Berlin tomorrow, finally ending a prolonged Kerouac walk-through of mid-sized southern cities; a spring break for the “mild girl.” During my Texas stay, a sun constitutional …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Ephemerality and Eternity in “All of this and nothing”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Ephemerality and Eternity in “All of this and nothing”
“It’s really about the magical and the mysterious in the everyday,” says Hammer senior curator Anne Ellegood, in the online video introducing the museum’s newest exhibition, All of this and nothing. …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | biriken
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | biriken
biriken is the five year old interdisciplinary, collaborative project of Melis Tezkan and Okan Urun. Working at the intersection of performance art, installation art, and traditional theater practice, Tezkan and …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Graffiti in the Classroom
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Graffiti in the Classroom
Students often have lots of interest and questions about graffiti, graffiti art and street art. My response usually includes the fact that I love graffiti art and street art, especially …
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Scott Yoell’s “Tsunami”
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Scott Yoell’s “Tsunami”
When I interview an artist for radio format, I go in hoping for interesting and honest statements about his/her work and ideas, because I know that in the editing suite, …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The California Biennial: Collectives, Conversations, and Collaborations
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The California Biennial: Collectives, Conversations, and Collaborations
I first experienced the California Biennial in 2008 as a participant in Mary Kelly’s Flashing Nipple Happening. Kelly had recruited around five dozen young women to gear-up in black …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Rigo 23
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Rigo 23
I first encountered Rigo 23’s work this past summer staying with friends in San Francisco’s Mission, where Rigo 23 partially got his start as an artist through his engagement with …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Artemis Potamianou
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Artemis Potamianou
Artemis Potamianou is a visual artist based in Athens, Greece. She attained a BFA Degree from the Athens School of Fine Arts in 1997 and an MFA from the Staffordshire …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hell Is Other People
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hell Is Other People
It is a truth universally acknowledged that artists make the best curators. Mark Wallinger’s exhibition, The Russian Linesman at the Hayward Gallery last March, was a proposal about what creative …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Stage your Melodrama: An Elmgreen and a Dragset
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Stage your Melodrama: An Elmgreen and a Dragset
When the art historians start treading through Berlin’s turn-of-the-millennium years to chart artists’ march to Neukölln, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset‘s studio will be a main stop for tea and …
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
The Shifting Aura of Contemporary Art
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
The Shifting Aura of Contemporary Art
As a research artist and digital media Ph.D student, I am constantly challenged to reflect critically upon the nature of the various forms which are emerging in contemporary artistic practices. …
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