Tag Archives: Laylah Ali

Weekly Roundup

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 18, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Trong Gia Nguyen | May 18, 2009

The Art of Caring: A Look at Life through Photography opened this past weekend at the New Orleans Museum of Art.  The show is comprised of over 200 photographs covering …

Open for Babble, ArtBabble is Live!

by Marc Mayer | Apr 7, 2009

Open for Babble, ArtBabble is Live!

by Marc Mayer | Apr 7, 2009

Art-Bab-ble [ahrt-bab-uhl] noun; verb (used without object) -bled, -bling 1. free flowing conversation, about art, for anyone. 2. a place where everyone is invited to join an open, ongoing discussion …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Power(ful) Painting

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 18, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Power(ful) Painting

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 18, 2009

In a recent unit with an introductory Studio Art class, my students created paintings that redefined power visually in a variety of ways. After looking at the work of Season …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Working Without Warhol

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 4, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Working Without Warhol

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 4, 2009

Last month, five different Art21 artists were featured in the first five pages of Scholastic Art magazine, an issue that celebrated contemporary women artists including Laylah Ali (featured on the …

Art21 Extended Play

Laylah Ali | Newspaper Clippings

by Wesley Miller | Feb 5, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Laylah Ali | Newspaper Clippings

by Wesley Miller | Feb 5, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: In her Williamstown, MA studio, artist Laylah Ali discusses her system of organizing newspaper clippings, which includes photographs of swimmer Michael Phelps, …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

In-Progress

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 7, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

In-Progress

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 7, 2009

Teaching in the arts requires, at one ugly point or another, to have veiled conversations called critiques. They are hideous things that most students from middle school through graduate school …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

The Right Questions

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 10, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

The Right Questions

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 10, 2008

I was reminded today that good teaching involves taking more time to create high quality questions for our students to explore than it does planning the necessary steps to carry …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Shaping Paintings

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 3, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Shaping Paintings

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 3, 2008

In the next few days, two high school classes I’m working with will be creating paintings inspired by the multiple meanings and interpretations of POWER. Three Art21 artists – Nancy …

Laylah Ali talks to the Massachusetts Review about art & books

by Hrag Vartanian | Dec 1, 2008

Laylah Ali talks to the Massachusetts Review about art & books

by Hrag Vartanian | Dec 1, 2008

Recently, I was catching up on my reading and discovered a wonderful interview with Art21 artist Laylah Ali (Season 3) by Allan Isaac in the Spring/Summer 2008 edition of the …

Notes on sex, violence and John Brown: A conversation with Laylah Ali

by Monika Navarro | Nov 14, 2008

Notes on sex, violence and John Brown: A conversation with Laylah Ali

by Monika Navarro | Nov 14, 2008

“The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.” -Lester Bangs Last night we braved the rain and bad signage in Lincoln, Massachusetts to hear a conversation with …

Laylah Ali at DeCordova

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 2, 2008

Laylah Ali at DeCordova

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Sep 2, 2008

Laylah Ali: Notes/Drawings/Untitled Afflictions is currently on view at the DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park. Ali’s new group of drawings and “notes” on display are scrawled vignettes derived from a …

Laylah Ali talk at the new DIA this Sunday

by Ana Otero | Feb 22, 2008

Laylah Ali talk at the new DIA this Sunday

by Ana Otero | Feb 22, 2008

As part of Black History Month at the new DIA (Detroit Institute of Arts), on Sunday, February 24 at 2pm, Season 3 artist Laylah Ali will be speaking about her …

Laylah Ali: Drawings from the Typology Series in Iowa

by Ana Otero | Nov 13, 2007

Laylah Ali: Drawings from the Typology Series in Iowa

by Ana Otero | Nov 13, 2007

The University of Iowa Museum of Art is currently showing 23 drawings by of one the country’s most celebrated and enigmatic contemporary artists, Laylah Ali, in the exhibition Laylah Ali: …