Tag Archives: New York City

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 31, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 31, 2009

House of Light (2000), a permanent installation in Kawanishi, Japan by Season 1 artist James Turrell, will be open through September 14 as part of the 2009 Echigo-Tsumari Art Triennial. …

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Cindy Sherman interviewed by Betsy Sussler

by BOMB Magazine | Aug 28, 2009

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Cindy Sherman interviewed by Betsy Sussler

by BOMB Magazine | Aug 28, 2009

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a vintage BOMB interview relating to a Season 5 artist. Inspired by Cindy Sherman’s “Transformations,” this week we …

Chain Link Fence

by Quinn Latimer | Aug 25, 2009

Chain Link Fence

by Quinn Latimer | Aug 25, 2009

Some summertime offerings from the internets. Pastels Not Dunzo: Joshua David Stein watches the cast of “The Hills” getting pastel’d. “Chalk pastels are the soft focus of the art world …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Aesthetics of Urban Farming, Part II

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 24, 2009

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Aesthetics of Urban Farming, Part II

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 24, 2009

I closed Part 1 of this post with an e-mail from Truck Farmers Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney in which they encouraged others to reclaim unused open spaces in New …

BOMB in the Building

Letter from London

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

Art21 Extended Play

What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

by Mary Cook | Aug 21, 2009

BOMB in the Building

Letter from London

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

Art21 Extended Play

What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

by Mary Cook | Aug 21, 2009

It’s mealtime! Join Sonya for a fine helping of nutrients and adventure with this week’s Index: Round ‘em up Nicole! Here’s what Art21 artists have been up to this past …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Aesthetics of Urban Farming, Part I

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 21, 2009

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Aesthetics of Urban Farming, Part I

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 21, 2009

Gastro-Vision is a new monthly column dedicated to all things food. It probably goes without saying that depictions of food in art are as old as art itself. Since the …

MoMA Trumpets Amsterdam’s Role as Hub of Conceptual Art

by Hrag Vartanian | Aug 20, 2009

MoMA Trumpets Amsterdam’s Role as Hub of Conceptual Art

by Hrag Vartanian | Aug 20, 2009

While today Conceptual Art is utterly ubiquitous, MoMA’s current “In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976” examines a period when only a few cities in the world …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 17, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 17, 2009

Site-specific installations by Mary Heilmann (Season 5), Tony Oursler, Todd Eberle, and Sabina Streeter are currently on view at the Clocktower Gallery in Manhattan. This is the first group of …

The Pop-Up Book Academy: An Interview with Sam Gould of Red76

by Daniel Fuller | Aug 17, 2009

The Pop-Up Book Academy: An Interview with Sam Gould of Red76

by Daniel Fuller | Aug 17, 2009

Several weeks ago I found in my email inbox a listing of upcoming events produced by the Portland collective Red76. I regretted that scheduling would prevent me from catching all …

Réquiem, ætérnam dona eis, Dómine; et lux perpétua lúceat eis

by Daniel Fuller | Aug 16, 2009

Réquiem, ætérnam dona eis, Dómine; et lux perpétua lúceat eis

by Daniel Fuller | Aug 16, 2009

Immediately upon entering  Triple Candie’s Harlem gallery you are greeted by a flamboyantly painted coffin lying on a bier, a memorial to an artist who, in many ways, defined the …

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

Art21 Extended Play

What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

by Mary Cook | Aug 14, 2009

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

Art21 Extended Play

What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

by Mary Cook | Aug 14, 2009

Sports and art are holding hands. Trong Gia Nguyen takes us to first base with that and other news relating to Art21 artists. Bruce Willis was a pub rocker, Scarlett …

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

James Casebere interviewed by Roberto Juarez

by BOMB Magazine | Aug 14, 2009

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

James Casebere interviewed by Roberto Juarez

by BOMB Magazine | Aug 14, 2009

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we feature a vintage BOMB interview relating to a Season 5 artist or theme. This week we look to the …

No Nukes

by Daniel Fuller | Aug 11, 2009

No Nukes

by Daniel Fuller | Aug 11, 2009

Four years ago, when using Google Earth satellites to zoom in on the roofs of our homes was all the rage, I was living in a Hudson River hamlet about …

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

by Mary Cook | Aug 7, 2009

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

by Mary Cook | Aug 7, 2009

Famished for some art? It’s Friday and we’re back with this week’s Index. Do you know what was sizzling here this past week? Put on your thinking caps — there’s …

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

An interview with Tom Sachs by John Kessler

by BOMB Magazine | Aug 7, 2009

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

An interview with Tom Sachs by John Kessler

by BOMB Magazine | Aug 7, 2009

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we feature a vintage BOMB interview relating to a Season 5 artist or theme. This week, inspired by Jeff Koons‘s …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jason Peters

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jul 31, 2009

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jason Peters

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jul 31, 2009

Jason Peters is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Over the years, he has discovered his muse in found objects – whether they are tires, buckets, or another material …

Flash Points

Art & Compassion at “New York’s Cathedral”

by Hrag Vartanian | Jul 28, 2009

Flash Points

Art & Compassion at “New York’s Cathedral”

by Hrag Vartanian | Jul 28, 2009

Rev. Tom Miller is the Canon for Liturgy and the Arts at New York’s Cathedral of St. John the Divine, affectionately known as “New York’s Cathedral,” even though it is …

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

An Interview with Mary Heilmann by Ross Bleckner

by BOMB Magazine | Jul 24, 2009

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

An Interview with Mary Heilmann by Ross Bleckner

by BOMB Magazine | Jul 24, 2009

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a vintage BOMB interview with a Season 5 artist. This week, we head back ten years to revisit …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Reflections on the Art21 Educators Institute

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 22, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Reflections on the Art21 Educators Institute

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 22, 2009

I’m sure everyone has had moments of blissful exhaustion- those times when you pushed yourself over a certain period, gotten to the end and said, “That was outstanding…. and I’m …

Flash Points

New Flash Points Topic: Fantasy

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 20, 2009

Flash Points

New Flash Points Topic: Fantasy

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 20, 2009

In celebration of the fifth season of Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century, premiering this fall on PBS, the current round of Flash Points topics correspond to our upcoming four thematic …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Contemporary Art in Contemporary Classrooms: Art21 Educators 2009

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 15, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Contemporary Art in Contemporary Classrooms: Art21 Educators 2009

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 15, 2009

Starting today, Art21 is pleased to welcome K-12 teachers from across the country to participate in our first summer institute, Art21 Educators. Jessica Hamlin, Marc Mayer, Joy Lai (our amazing …

Another artist worth reading

by Sharon Butler | Jul 9, 2009

Another artist worth reading

by Sharon Butler | Jul 9, 2009

Owing to its timeless insights about artmaking and life, art teachers traditionally assign Ashcan School painter Robert Henri’s 1923 collection of writing,  The Art Spirit, to beginning painters. The newly-released …

Flash Points

Interview with Jackie Battenfield

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 30, 2009

Flash Points

Interview with Jackie Battenfield

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 30, 2009

As our Flash Points topic of Art and Economics comes to a close, I sat down and spoke with Jackie Battenfield, whose first book The Artist’s Guide: How to Make …

The Importance of Being Earnest

by Mary Cook | Jun 25, 2009

The Importance of Being Earnest

by Mary Cook | Jun 25, 2009

Making art is part of a ground level experience. The artmaking process can be sensory, visceral and seemingly fleeting, depending on the methods of record of an artist’s choosing, be …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 22, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 22, 2009

Matthew Barney (Season 2) and Elizabeth Peyton have collaborated on a site-specific installation for the Deste Foundation in Hydra, Greece. Blood of Two is on view through September 30 in …

Dialing Back

by Thomas Micchelli | Jun 18, 2009

Dialing Back

by Thomas Micchelli | Jun 18, 2009

Turning again to the oracular nature of art (see Monday’s post), it is compelling to consider that, in the Western canon, drawing as an autonomous art form first came into …

No Expectations

by Thomas Micchelli | Jun 12, 2009

No Expectations

by Thomas Micchelli | Jun 12, 2009

In his New York Times article on the opening of the Venice Biennale, Michael Kimmelman laments that the look of the exhibition “suggests a somewhat dull, deflated contemporary art world, professionalized …

Flash Points

Money Changes Everything

by Thomas Micchelli | Jun 10, 2009

Flash Points

Money Changes Everything

by Thomas Micchelli | Jun 10, 2009

I remember, back when I was in art school, walking into a lecture hall where someone had scrawled on the chalkboard, “The only true artists are amateurs.” That was the …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 8, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 8, 2009

Bruce Nauman (Season 1) has won the Golden Lion award for Best National Participation at the 2009 Venice Biennale. Visit the Daily Best Media Gallery to see images of his …

Haberdashery Anyone?

by Mary Cook | Jun 5, 2009

Haberdashery Anyone?

by Mary Cook | Jun 5, 2009

179 Canal Street, 2nd Floor. Peeper Place, Dani Leventhal, May 16, 2009. Photo by Margaret Lee on Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/margaret-lee) Artists staging their own shows is nothing new. The French Impressionists …

Flash Points

The best is not quite over…

by Daniel Fuller | May 21, 2009

Flash Points

The best is not quite over…

by Daniel Fuller | May 21, 2009

One of the first rules for the nouveau riche is to save a little for a rainy day. Unfortunately, in the doom and gloom that has come with daily announcements …

Don’t Miss: Eleanor Antin at the Drawing Center

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 20, 2009

Don’t Miss: Eleanor Antin at the Drawing Center

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 20, 2009

If you missed Eleanor Antin (Season 2) at Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI) last night, you can catch her at the Drawing Center this evening. Antin will be reading from her memoir entitled, Conversations …

An Interview with Paul Mpagi Sepuya

by Kemi Ilesanmi | May 20, 2009

An Interview with Paul Mpagi Sepuya

by Kemi Ilesanmi | May 20, 2009

I met the artist Paul Mpagi Sepya when he worked at Creative Capital a couple of years back. I’ve followed his thoughtful, evocative, and beautiful photo portrait work ever since. …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Reality Hits at CCS Bard

by Joe Fusaro | May 20, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Reality Hits at CCS Bard

by Joe Fusaro | May 20, 2009

In the final workshop of our three-part series at Bard College, titled “Teaching and Learning with Contemporary Art,” we were lucky enough to have Olafur Eliasson speak with us about …

Solomon: Wherefore wisdom?

by Kemi Ilesanmi | May 18, 2009

Solomon: Wherefore wisdom?

by Kemi Ilesanmi | May 18, 2009

While I love living in New York City, there are nights when I long for the simplicity of only one truly art-worthy thing to do in town. Tonight is one …

Going Fast!: Treeless Mountain

by Kemi Ilesanmi | May 14, 2009

Going Fast!: Treeless Mountain

by Kemi Ilesanmi | May 14, 2009

One of my favorite films of the year is ending its New York run at the Quad Cinema tonight! Treeless Mountain is a beautiful, quiet, and moving film by So …