Tag Archives: Interviews
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Georgia Kotretsos
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Georgia Kotretsos
Georgia Kotretsos is a visual artist, writer, and curator currently based in Athens, Greece. She earned a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Colectivo Situaciones
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Colectivo Situaciones
* This interview has been translated and co-edited by Brian Whitener. I first heard about Colectivo Situaciones about a year ago, when I received a publication in the mail titled …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Looking at LARGE SCALE; A Conversation with Jonathan Lippincott
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Looking at LARGE SCALE; A Conversation with Jonathan Lippincott
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with Jonathan Lippincott about his new book, “LARGE SCALE: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s.”
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Brandon Anschultz
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Brandon Anschultz
Full disclosure: I have spent many happy hours in Brandon Anschultz‘s studio, located near Lafayette Square in St. Louis, MO, drinking wine, laughing hysterically at his sharp wit, and admiring …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Characters, Not Caricatures: The Multifarious Art of Rachel Mason
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Characters, Not Caricatures: The Multifarious Art of Rachel Mason
Rachel Mason’s work is not easy to neatly summarize. I’ve been following her projects for several years now, and I still have difficulty explaining what exactly it is that she …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | An Interview with Vasıf Kortun (Part II)
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | An Interview with Vasıf Kortun (Part II)
Following is the second half an interview Elizabeth Wolfson conducted with Vasif Kortun. Read part one here. — Ed. Perhaps more than any other individual, Vasıf Kortun has redirected the …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | An Interview with Vasıf Kortun (Part I)
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | An Interview with Vasıf Kortun (Part I)
Perhaps more than any other individual, Vasıf Kortun has redirected the trajectory of recent Turkish art history. As Chief Curator and Director of the 3rd Istanbul Biennial in 1992, Kortun …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Ben Durham
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Ben Durham
Turkish and Other Delights columnist Elizabeth Wolfson is filling in for regular Inside the Artist’s Studio writer Georgia Kotretsos this month and next. — Ed. Ben Durham lives and works …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Multiple Possibilities: An Interview with Dan Devening
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Multiple Possibilities: An Interview with Dan Devening
Dan Devening is an artist, educator (he’s on the faculty of the Paintings and Drawings Department of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago), and the creative force behind …
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 …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Sustaining Practices
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Sustaining Practices
Lately I have been thinking a lot about sustainability and sustenance. Not the environmental kind of sustainability–the personal and emotional kind. Chicago’s art community is rich in relationships, but like …
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 …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Nato Thompson
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Nato Thompson
I am a bit late coming to the curatorial work of Nato Thompson, which first became recognizable to me at this past October’s second annual Creative Time Summit, a gathering …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Interview with John Riepenhoff of The Green Gallery
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Interview with John Riepenhoff of The Green Gallery
In his artist statement for a recent exhibition at the Institute of Visual Arts, John Riepenhoff used Colby cheese to make a comment on regionalism. His bio describes him as …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jan-Henri Booyens
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jan-Henri Booyens
Jan-Henri Booyens is a South African artist based in Pretoria, South Africa. Jan holds a BFA in painting from the Durban Institute of Technology, in KwaZulu Natal. Since 2000, he …
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | Translating Ai Weiwei: Bringing Chinese Social Media Art to the English Twittersphere, Part 1
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | Translating Ai Weiwei: Bringing Chinese Social Media Art to the English Twittersphere, Part 1
Artist Ai Weiwei in conversation with Tate Modern curator Katie Hill, October 2010. Photo by An Xiao. This past summer, Jennifer Ng and I launched Bird’s Nest: Ai Weiwei in …
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