Tag Archives: murals

Slaughter

by Courtenay Finn | Apr 3, 2019

Slaughter

by Courtenay Finn | Apr 3, 2019

For an art form so daring, defiant, and overwhelmingly public as graffiti, it is too often dismissed, ignored, and (in some cases) made invisible, disappearing into the barrage of visual information around it. Encompassing everything from large-than-life paintings to train tags or the scratching of one’s moniker into an air-conditioner grill, graffiti both animates and disrupts our landscape. This way of working was at the heart of Margaret Kilgallen’s practice.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Agency in the Classroom: Who Makes the Decisions?

by Alisa Rodny | Nov 28, 2018

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Agency in the Classroom: Who Makes the Decisions?

by Alisa Rodny | Nov 28, 2018

Art21 Educator Alisa Rodny explains how she encourages students to take agency in their art-making and shares the story of two students who used artistic voice to express their stories of immigration to the United States.

Art21 New York Close Up

Marela Zacarías’s Great Expectations

by Nick Ravich | Mar 2, 2016

Art21 New York Close Up

Marela Zacarías’s Great Expectations

by Nick Ravich | Mar 2, 2016

Artist Marela Zacarías completes a large-scale project while anticipating the arrival of her first child in a new film from the ART21 “New York Close Up” series.
Artist Marela Zacarías works on her large painted sculpture, "Red Meander" (2014), in her Bedford–Stuyvesant studio, Brooklyn, 2014. Production still from the ART21 "New York Close Up" film "Marela Zacarías Goes Big & Goes Home." © ART21, Inc. 2014.

Art21 New York Close Up

Marela Zacarías Goes Big & Goes Home

by Jonathan Munar | Jul 18, 2014

Art21 New York Close Up

Marela Zacarías Goes Big & Goes Home

by Jonathan Munar | Jul 18, 2014

In a new film from the ART21 New York Close Up series, artist Marela Zacarías creates a work commissioned by the Art in Embassies program for the U.S. Consulate in Monterrey, Mexico.

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | Tanya Aguiñiga / Transnational Arts Operative

by Danielle McCullough | Dec 13, 2012

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles | Tanya Aguiñiga / Transnational Arts Operative

by Danielle McCullough | Dec 13, 2012

Danielle McCullough profiles Tanya Aguiñiga, an artist/activist whose works take many forms, many of which engage notions of transnational autobiography.