Tag Archives: New York City

Flash Points

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Economies of Scale or Too Big to Fail?

by Erin Sickler | Jun 1, 2010

Flash Points

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Economies of Scale or Too Big to Fail?

by Erin Sickler | Jun 1, 2010

In 1934, Supreme Court Justice Louis Brandeis coined the phrase “the curse of bigness” to describe the disastrous effect that concentrated economic power can have on small business, communities, and …

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Life After Death: An Interview with Eva and Franco Mattes

by Kelly Shindler | May 28, 2010

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Life After Death: An Interview with Eva and Franco Mattes

by Kelly Shindler | May 28, 2010

The Italian “artist-provocateurs” Eva and Franco Mattes, aka 0100101110101101.org, are no strangers to this site. Our very first guest bloggers back in 2008, when they blogged about their Influencers festival …

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Liz Magic Laser

by Erin Sickler | May 27, 2010

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Liz Magic Laser

by Erin Sickler | May 27, 2010

Currently on view at Derek Eller Gallery in New York, Liz Magic Laser’s chase (2009) stems from interpretation of Bertolt Brecht’s Man Equals Man (1926), performed by eight different actors …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 24, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 24, 2010

In today’s roundup: football art for South Africa, an overgrown baby in Los Angeles, an origami ship from London, body tissue in Bristol, humans behaving like pigs in Milan, flashing lights …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 17, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 17, 2010

An ancient proposition, a group of Modern women, life-restoring elixir, and more in this week’s roundup: Vancouver Art Gallery has organized Canada’s first solo exhibition of works by Season 1 …

On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production

London Calling, Going Tapeless & Meta Madness

by Nick Ravich | May 14, 2010

On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production

London Calling, Going Tapeless & Meta Madness

by Nick Ravich | May 14, 2010

Art21’s Season 6, at least as far as video production is concerned, is getting a little more real everyday.  We’re deep in the throes of pre-producing our first honest-to-god shoot …

The Fecund Culture Wars, or, How to Tie a Bowtie

by Marc Mayer | May 10, 2010

The Fecund Culture Wars, or, How to Tie a Bowtie

by Marc Mayer | May 10, 2010

Perhaps we took the Culture Wars theme of spring and nature a bit too far, but we hoped that it provided fertile ground for some healthy competition, and it did. …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 10, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 10, 2010

Holey maps, pre-natal forms, stuffed animals, and more in today’s roundup: The first exhibition in the United States ever devoted exclusively to the drawings of Season 3 artist Roni Horn …

The Immeasurable Distance of Market Value

by Evan J. Garza | May 6, 2010

The Immeasurable Distance of Market Value

by Evan J. Garza | May 6, 2010

Carol Vogel of The New York Times wrote last month that, “Optimism has returned to the multibillion-dollar art market.” She was keen on a 1932 Picasso painting, Nu au Plateau …

Realness: The House of Newsome

by Evan J. Garza | May 3, 2010

Realness: The House of Newsome

by Evan J. Garza | May 3, 2010

My partner and I throw a monthly gay dance night in Cambridge with some DJ friends of ours. For 10 months, most dancing has been reserved for the last hour …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 3, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 3, 2010

In today’s roundup you’ll read about 800 prints in Los Angeles, 100 acres of art in Indianapolis, 12 Polaroids near the Hudson, a 10-year survey in Ohio, two portrait busts …

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Exhibiting the Intangible

by Claudine Isé | Apr 27, 2010

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.

Exhibiting the Intangible

by Claudine Isé | Apr 27, 2010

Recently, Bad at Sports was invited to exhibit at apexart, an alternative gallery space in New York known for presenting innovative thematic exhibitions and public programs. In order to take …

Soldier On. Culture Wars Returns this Wednesday!

by Marc Mayer | Apr 26, 2010

Soldier On. Culture Wars Returns this Wednesday!

by Marc Mayer | Apr 26, 2010

After March’s event —with over 120 participants spread across 26 teams— Jonathan Munar, Art21’s Web Manager and I are returning to host the next Culture Wars: A Night of Trivia …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 26, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 26, 2010

In today’s roundup, you’ll read about rabbits and cracked eggs, love in the Ole South, community art making in the Twin Cities, an amusement park in Paris, a family of …

Open Enrollment

Life After Graduation

by Matthew Newton | Apr 21, 2010

Open Enrollment

Life After Graduation

by Matthew Newton | Apr 21, 2010

by Matthew Newton and Jeffrey Augustine Songco First, Matthew interviews Hunter College alum Jules de Balincourt on the occasion of his solo exhibition at Deitch Projects, followed by Jeffrey’s look …

The Search

by Baseera Khan | Apr 20, 2010

The Search

by Baseera Khan | Apr 20, 2010

Following is a final post from our previous guest blogger, Baseera Khan. — Ed. [youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j0GbatnR9dI] On Saturday March 20, I practically walked my way up from Chelsea to 125th Street. …

Letter from London

Art21 Extended Play

Letter from London: Everything Must Go

by Ben Street | Apr 19, 2010

Letter from London

Art21 Extended Play

Letter from London: Everything Must Go

by Ben Street | Apr 19, 2010

John Logan’s play Red, currently playing at the Golden Theater, New York, centers around a perennial ethical conundrum many successful artists face: whether or not to “sell out” to corporate …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 19, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 19, 2010

Avant-garde cinema, organic designs, sculpture theory, animal extinction, and more in today’s roundup: Dead or Alive, an exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), will showcase the work …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: On Cake

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 16, 2010

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: On Cake

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 16, 2010

My love of cake straddles the line between innocent obsession and utter perversion. I tend to think of cakes like my favorite celebrity bodies. Be it big and firm like …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 12, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 12, 2010

This week’s roundup is dedicated to the ladies: On Sunday, April 18, a public commemoration will be held for Season 4 artist Nancy Spero (1926-2009) in Cooper Union’s Great Hall. …

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment: Educating Artists in the 21st Century, An Introduction

by Matthew Newton | Apr 7, 2010

Open Enrollment

Open Enrollment: Educating Artists in the 21st Century, An Introduction

by Matthew Newton | Apr 7, 2010

Art21’s Open Enrollment column is a forum for nine people currently enrolled in some form of art graduate study to take on a variety of topics and to challenge some …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 5, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 5, 2010

One artist in Rome, four artists in San Francisco, three artist talks from the U.S. to the U.K., and more in this week’s roundup: On April 9, Gagosian Gallery Rome …
Mural by Sofia Maldonado. Photo by Alex Mateo.

Flash Points

“That’s Not Us”

by Anna Daley | Apr 5, 2010

Flash Points

“That’s Not Us”

by Anna Daley | Apr 5, 2010

Do artists from underrepresented demographic groups have a responsibility to represent their ethnicity in a positive light?  This is not a new question, in fact, it seems to re-enter the …

Flash Points

Chatting with #class Co-Curator Jennifer Dalton about Ethics

by Hrag Vartanian | Apr 1, 2010

Flash Points

Chatting with #class Co-Curator Jennifer Dalton about Ethics

by Hrag Vartanian | Apr 1, 2010

Last week, the #class exhibition at the Winkleman Gallery closed after a month of functioning as New York’s laboratory for art world gripes, think tank for new ideas, and classroom …

This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco…this is Culture Wars

by Marc Mayer | Mar 30, 2010

This ain’t no party, this ain’t no disco…this is Culture Wars

by Marc Mayer | Mar 30, 2010

Art21 hosted the second installment of Culture Wars: A Night of Trivia with Art21 this past Wednesday, March 24. We were shocked to see over 120 participants gathered at the …

A history of what I do, and why I do it

by Baseera Khan | Mar 29, 2010

A history of what I do, and why I do it

by Baseera Khan | Mar 29, 2010

There is a budding tree branch that hangs right in front of my bedroom window. The buds are uniform and pop along the tree branch every two inches. And I …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 29, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 29, 2010

A new video installation by Season 1 artist Barbara Kruger is now on view at the Chelsea location of Mary Boone Gallery. The Globe Shrinks (2010) is a multi-channel piece …

Flash Points

The Nonexistence of “Unethical Art”

by Edward Winkleman | Mar 26, 2010

Flash Points

The Nonexistence of “Unethical Art”

by Edward Winkleman | Mar 26, 2010

I’ll agree with Ben Street who said in his recent post that there is “no consensus about the difference between ethics and morals, so let’s be broad about it.” This …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Jumping Right Into the Shark Tank

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 24, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Jumping Right Into the Shark Tank

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 24, 2010

Back in the fall, a good friend and colleague passed along Denis Dutton’s New York Times Op-Ed piece titled Has Conceptual Art Jumped the Shark Tank? Deborah knew that the …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 22, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 22, 2010

Melancholy photographs, bronze truisms, museum interventions, a giant battleship, and more in today’s roundup: Tonight at 6pm, Season 5 artist Doris Salcedo will speak at the Americas Society in New …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: In the Land of Plenty

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 19, 2010

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: In the Land of Plenty

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 19, 2010

Mr. Creosote, the morbidly obese character of the 1983 comedy Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life, is a picture of gluttony never to be forgotten. Upon taking his seat in …

Flash Points

The Conflation of Ethics and Morality

by William Powhida | Mar 18, 2010

Flash Points

The Conflation of Ethics and Morality

by William Powhida | Mar 18, 2010

I’ve drawn myself into a debate over ethics and morality with my work, How the New Museum Committed Suicide with Banality (view the high-res version here). I threw a brick …
Marina Abramovic, "The Artist Is Present," performance documentation, 2010, courtesy of the New York Times

Performance Art Realness with a Twist

by Ivan Lozano | Mar 17, 2010

Performance Art Realness with a Twist

by Ivan Lozano | Mar 17, 2010

It starts like this: One snowy night last month, as New Yorkers rushed home in advance of a coming blizzard, more than a hundred artists, scholars and curators crowded into …

First Impression: Skin Fruit (Part 2)

by Kevin McGarry | Mar 15, 2010

First Impression: Skin Fruit (Part 2)

by Kevin McGarry | Mar 15, 2010

(continued from Part 1) Down the stairs, Nathalie Djurberg’s sexually violent claymations are followed by Cady Noland’s sculptural image of Lee Harvey Oswald at his death. She has him riddled …

Report: Olav Velthuis at Juicing the Equilibrium (at Independent)

by Kevin McGarry | Mar 12, 2010

Report: Olav Velthuis at Juicing the Equilibrium (at Independent)

by Kevin McGarry | Mar 12, 2010

Amidst the storm of attractions and distractions pummeling New York last week while the art fairs were in town, one event stood out for making an earnest attempt to rehabilitate …

On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production

Frederick Wiseman, Orphan Films, FIFA Montreal, & Other Documentary Screenings

by Nick Ravich | Mar 12, 2010

On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production

Frederick Wiseman, Orphan Films, FIFA Montreal, & Other Documentary Screenings

by Nick Ravich | Mar 12, 2010

Though it’s been a particularly busy past few weeks here at Art21 production HQ – creating new exclusive videos, shooting the preparation and rehearsals for William Kentridge’s Nose production at …