Tag Archives: Interviews
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Esopus Editor, Tod Lippy, Part One
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Esopus Editor, Tod Lippy, Part One
Back in 2004, I was lucky enough to be introduced to Esopus magazine at a silent auction being held during a Mass MoCA fundraiser. Don’t ask me how, but my …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Collaborations in Conserving Time-Based Art: a Conversation and a Colloquium
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Collaborations in Conserving Time-Based Art: a Conversation and a Colloquium
IMA conservator Richard McCoy talks with Jeff Martin, who organized the upcoming colloquium “Collaborations in Conserving Time-Based Art” (March 17th and 18th at the Hirshhorn).
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Wonder-Igniters: An Interview with Abbe Futterman
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Wonder-Igniters: An Interview with Abbe Futterman
A few weeks ago I had the pleasure of visiting The Earth School in New York’s East Village and at one point noticed a science classroom through a small window …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Examining Roles and Investigating Responses; a Conversation with Rebecca Uchill
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Examining Roles and Investigating Responses; a Conversation with Rebecca Uchill
IMA conservator Richard McCoy talks with former IMA curator and current MIT PhD student Rebecca Uchill about the creation of the IMA’s Variable Art Team and the evolving roles of those that care for contemporary art.
Flash Points
Art and Ecology at the University of New Mexico
Flash Points
Art and Ecology at the University of New Mexico
There is plenty of environmentally-minded art these days, but very few academic classes on the subject, let alone degree programs. That changed this fall when the University of New Mexico …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
The Ethics of Dust: A Conversation with Jorge Otero-Pailos
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
The Ethics of Dust: A Conversation with Jorge Otero-Pailos
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy discusses the installation “The Ethics of Dust” with Columbia University professor & architect Jorge Otero-Pailos.
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Virtual Artists’ Immersive Discoveries in a Virtual 3D Frontier
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Virtual Artists’ Immersive Discoveries in a Virtual 3D Frontier
Cao Fei, RMB City. Art in the Twenty-First Century, production still, 2009. Season 5, Episode: Fantasy. © Art21, Inc. 2009. William Saroyan wrote: The role of art is to make …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Lisa Bradley
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Lisa Bradley
Detroiter by birth and New York-raised, Lisa Bradley is an artist based in Brooklyn, NY. She earned a Bachelor’s degree in Sculpture & Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University in 2001, …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
International Design Conservation: A Discussion with Tim Bechthold
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
International Design Conservation: A Discussion with Tim Bechthold
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with Die Neue Sammlung conservator Tim Bechthold about conserving design arts.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: The Public School
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: The Public School
Gold Leafing. Sadism & Masochism. Practical Electro-Mechanisms. The Coming Insurrection. What do these topics have in common? Perhaps with some head-scratching we could ferret out a few threads, but here’s …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside The Artist’s Studio: Joulia Strauss
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside The Artist’s Studio: Joulia Strauss
It would be an oversimplification to introduce Joulia Strauss to you as a Russian visual artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Joulia is a Mari, from the Mari …
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
“Rachel Is” | An Interview with Rachel Perry Welty
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
“Rachel Is” | An Interview with Rachel Perry Welty
Appropriately enough, I first met conceptual artist Rachel Perry Welty via social media, when word spread about her Facebook-based performance, “Rachel is.” On March 11, 2009, from 7:35 a.m. to …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Concepts Around Interviewing Artists: a Discussion with Glenn Wharton
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Concepts Around Interviewing Artists: a Discussion with Glenn Wharton
IMA conservator Richard McCoy discusses the methodology and the process of interviewing artists with MoMA conservator Glenn Wharton.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Janine Antoni, Part Two
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Talking with Janine Antoni, Part Two
The following is part two of my discussion with Janine Antoni from last week. Be sure to catch her new show at Luhring Augustine Gallery, titled Up Against, through October …
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Kickstarting Creative Projects: An Innovative Micro-Giving Site, Part 2 of 2
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Kickstarting Creative Projects: An Innovative Micro-Giving Site, Part 2 of 2
Following up on yesterday’s post, An continues her conversation with Yancey Strickler and sums up her experience of fundraising via Kickstarter.—Ed. An Xiao: Tell me a little more about the …
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Kickstarting Creative Projects: An Innovative Micro-Giving Site, Part 1 of 2
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Kickstarting Creative Projects: An Innovative Micro-Giving Site, Part 1 of 2
July 7, 2009. It’s the middle of summer, and I’ve just heard from the folks at the DUMBO Arts Center that my installation proposal, Phone-Tastic View, has been approved for …