Tag Archives: Painting

The Obamas arrive at the New Museum

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 4, 2008

The Obamas arrive at the New Museum

by Merrily Kerr | Dec 4, 2008

Two big attractions of the season—Carsten Höller’s hotel room and Pipilotti Rist’s video (see my Dec. 2 and 3 posts)—occupy a serious amount of space in their respective museums. A …

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 …

Flash Points

Introducing Flash Points: Controversy & Contemporary Art

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 1, 2008

Flash Points

Introducing Flash Points: Controversy & Contemporary Art

by Kelly Shindler | Dec 1, 2008

FLASH POINTS is a monthly conversational series that focuses on issues relevant to the state of the art world at large, contemporary art education, and issues artists face today. You …

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 …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Process and Power

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 26, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Process and Power

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 26, 2008

Contemporary art will often ask the viewer to consider process and the steps taken to create a work of art. Without consideration of process, some art is even difficult to …

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 …

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Gabriel Orozco | “Samurai Tree”

by Wesley Miller | Nov 6, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Gabriel Orozco | “Samurai Tree”

by Wesley Miller | Nov 6, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Orozco discusses recent paintings from his ongoing Samurai Tree series, including the works Fugaz, Tuttifruti and Red Roots (all 2008), and the computer animation Dandelion Animation (2008), shown …

Letter from London

Letter from London: The Contemporary Portrait

by Ben Street | Oct 27, 2008

Letter from London

Letter from London: The Contemporary Portrait

by Ben Street | Oct 27, 2008

It might seem a bit old-fashioned to bemoan the demise of the portrait tradition in contemporary art, but looking at a new show of Renaissance portraits, and having read a short …

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Lari Pittman | Aesthetics

by Wesley Miller | Oct 23, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Lari Pittman | Aesthetics

by Wesley Miller | Oct 23, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Lari Pittman draws connections between aesthetics and feelings of safety, at his home and cactus garden in Los Angeles. An exhibition of Pittman’s latest paintings opens Friday, October 24th …

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Jenny Holzer | Collaboration

by Wesley Miller | Oct 16, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Jenny Holzer | Collaboration

by Wesley Miller | Oct 16, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Jenny Holzer and poet Henri Cole with various Redaction Paintings in her studio in Hoosick Falls, New York, and BIG HANDS YELLOW WHITE (2006) installed at Cheim & Read, …

New Lydia Fong Video

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 10, 2008

New Lydia Fong Video

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 10, 2008

The fine folks at San Francisco’s KQED just released a brand-new film and interview with Art21 artist Lydia Fong, on the occasion of her current show at Ratio 3 Gallery. …

Letter from London

Letter From London: Bacon Movies

by Ben Street | Oct 7, 2008

Letter from London

Letter From London: Bacon Movies

by Ben Street | Oct 7, 2008

  The current (brilliant) retrospective of Francis Bacon at Tate Britain ends with a montage of filmed interviews the artist gave, largely with David Sylvester as part of his extended sequence of …

DUMBO Art Tour: Art Under the Bridge & the 2008 Triangle Workshop

by Hrag Vartanian | Sep 30, 2008

DUMBO Art Tour: Art Under the Bridge & the 2008 Triangle Workshop

by Hrag Vartanian | Sep 30, 2008

It was a rainy Saturday and it was the kind of day that amplified the bizarrely romantic quality of Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood. During the popular Art Under the Bridge festival …

Letter from London

Letter From London: Protest Too Much

by Ben Street | Sep 29, 2008

Letter from London

Letter From London: Protest Too Much

by Ben Street | Sep 29, 2008

Whichever candidate succeeds this November, there will be a discernible effect in art. The last eight years have seen a resurgence of politically motivated art comparable to that produced during and …

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Kerry James Marshall | On Museums

by Wesley Miller | Sep 25, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Kerry James Marshall | On Museums

by Wesley Miller | Sep 25, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Kerry James Marshall discusses his relationship to museums during the installation of the exhibition Black Romantic at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York, which features five paintings from the artist’s …

“Party at Phong’s House” Starts with a Plan for a Party & a Love of Abstract Art

by Hrag Vartanian | Sep 24, 2008

“Party at Phong’s House” Starts with a Plan for a Party & a Love of Abstract Art

by Hrag Vartanian | Sep 24, 2008

Artist Chris Martin admits that the initial idea behind the exhibition title, Party at Phong’s House, was to throw a party at Phong Bui‘s home in Greenpoint, Brooklyn. The longtime …

Kerry James Marshall in Southern California

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 23, 2008

Kerry James Marshall in Southern California

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 23, 2008

An exhibition of new paintings and drawings by Kerry James Marshall (Season 1) is on view at Koplin Del Rio Gallery in Culver City, California through October 24, 2008. PORTRAITS, PIN-UPS And Wistful …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Art During Wartime

by Ben Street | Sep 23, 2008

Letter from London

Letter from London: Art During Wartime

by Ben Street | Sep 23, 2008

All the talk around the potential sale of two of the most important paintings in British collections (Titian’s Diana and Actaeon and Diana and Callisto) has generated more interest than usual in …

Art Exhibit as Swap Meet: “Have a Painting? Leave a Painting. Need a Painting? Take a Painting”

by Hrag Vartanian | Sep 23, 2008

Art Exhibit as Swap Meet: “Have a Painting? Leave a Painting. Need a Painting? Take a Painting”

by Hrag Vartanian | Sep 23, 2008

Space is at a premium in New York and for that reason the idea of an art swap meet appealed to me. A longtime fan of alternatives to the art …

Art of the 1960s at the Blanton Museum of Art

by Erin Riley-Lopez | Sep 19, 2008

Art of the 1960s at the Blanton Museum of Art

by Erin Riley-Lopez | Sep 19, 2008

Two new exhibitions opening September 28, 2008 and running through January 18, 2009 at the Blanton Museum of Art in Austin, Texas explore an overlooked chapter in regional art history. …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Hirst Among Equals

by Ben Street | Sep 15, 2008

Letter from London

Letter from London: Hirst Among Equals

by Ben Street | Sep 15, 2008

Art gets into the national news in the UK in four ways. One: a publically funded institution decides to purchase something of apparent worthlessness (a ‘pile of bricks,’ a can of poo) …

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Nancy Spero | Leon Golub’s “Gigantomachy II”

by Wesley Miller | Sep 11, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Nancy Spero | Leon Golub’s “Gigantomachy II”

by Wesley Miller | Sep 11, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Leon Golub’s Gigantomachy II (1966) and Nancy Spero’s Maypole: Take No Prisoners (2007) in her New York studio. A pioneer of feminist art, Nancy Spero’s work since the 1960s …

A Cult, Some Vegans, A Ballet, Oh My!

by Mary Cook | Sep 2, 2008

A Cult, Some Vegans, A Ballet, Oh My!

by Mary Cook | Sep 2, 2008

What do you get when you mix religious overtones, memories of a few former vegan college roommates, comic book-inspired heroes and elegant ballerinas prancing around the stage in funny costumes? …

Remembering to Remember

by Mary Cook | Aug 27, 2008

Remembering to Remember

by Mary Cook | Aug 27, 2008

On view until September 21st at the Metropolitan Museum of Art is a collection of J.M.W. Turner’s picturesque paintings of the harrowing sea as well as some ships and their …

Update: Beautiful Losers in New York

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 15, 2008

Update: Beautiful Losers in New York

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 15, 2008

Beautiful Losers, the 2008 Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard film about contemporary art and urban creative culture, is currently showing at the IFC Center in Manhattan. Featuring a group of …

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Ursula von Rydingsvard | Giotto

by Wesley Miller | Aug 14, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Ursula von Rydingsvard | Giotto

by Wesley Miller | Aug 14, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Ursula von Rydingsvard in her Brooklyn, New York studio. Ursula von Rydingsvard builds towering cedar structures, creating an intricate network of individual beams and sensuous, puzzle-like surfaces. While abstract …

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Mark Bradford | Paper

by Wesley Miller | Jul 31, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Mark Bradford | Paper

by Wesley Miller | Jul 31, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Mark Bradford painting Ridin’ Dirty (2006) in his Los Angeles studio. Mark Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall-sized collages and installations that respond to the impromptu …

SIDE X SIDE

by Amy Mackie | Jul 17, 2008

SIDE X SIDE

by Amy Mackie | Jul 17, 2008

Art and activism have been intimately engaged throughout contemporary art history, reiterating the notion that the personal is political. In 2007, Art:21’s Season 4 addressed activist strategies (in particular, the …

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Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle | Casta Paintings

by Wesley Miller | Jul 17, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle | Casta Paintings

by Wesley Miller | Jul 17, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle at home in Chicago, with photographs of the installation The Garden of Delights (1998) at the XXIV Sao Paulo Bienal. Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s technologically sophisticated works use natural …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Let’s See It Again!

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 9, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Let’s See It Again!

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 9, 2008

I had a great experience recently sitting with my son, Paul, and doing a little preparation for this column. Since he’s an inquisitive, very verbal, curly-haired three year old, I …

Nancy Spero Retrospective at MACBA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 4, 2008

Nancy Spero Retrospective at MACBA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 4, 2008

Appropriately enough, Nancy Spero’s Dissidances opens on Independence Day at the Museu d’Art Contemporani de Barcelona (MACBA).  Long an active voice in contemporary political and feminist art, the exhibition includes …

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Kerry James Marshall | Being an Artist

by Wesley Miller | Jul 3, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Kerry James Marshall | Being an Artist

by Wesley Miller | Jul 3, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Kerry James Marshall discusses three recent paintings, all Untitled (2008), during the installation of his exhibition Black Romantic at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. The exhibition is on view …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Seeing More…

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 2, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Seeing More…

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 2, 2008

Teaching students is one thing but having the opportunity, like we do in the summer, to teach and share perspectives with colleagues, friends, family, even strangers, can be an equally …

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Kerry James Marshall | “Black Romantic”

by Wesley Miller | Jun 26, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Kerry James Marshall | “Black Romantic”

by Wesley Miller | Jun 26, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Kerry James Marshall discusses two recent paintings, both Untitled (2008), during the installation of his exhibition Black Romantic at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. The exhibition is on view …

1968 | 2008

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 24, 2008

1968 | 2008

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 24, 2008

This is not the first time that Summer Olympics Games are embroiled in environmental and political controversies. In 1968, Mexico City, with its high altitude containing 30% less oxygen than …

Mark Dion in Philly and New York

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 20, 2008

Mark Dion in Philly and New York

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 20, 2008

The curtains go up tonight at Bartram’s Garden on Mark Dion’s Travels of William Bartram – Reconsidered. The exhibition compiles artifacts, drawings, and assorted natural and unnatural objects collected and …