Tag Archives: Painting
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle | Mashed Up and Shredded into Space: An Interview with Candida Alvarez
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield: Art in the Middle | Mashed Up and Shredded into Space: An Interview with Candida Alvarez
Caroline Picard poses four questions to artist Candida Alvarez whose paintings are currently on view at Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago.
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Toward a Possible Body: An Interview with Emily Roysdon
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Toward a Possible Body: An Interview with Emily Roysdon
Marissa Perel speaks with Emily Roysdon about her recent performance at the Tate Modern, and her participation in MoMA’s first annual performance symposium.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
When Works of Literature Make The Leap
Teaching with Contemporary Art
When Works of Literature Make The Leap
Contemporary artists and performers offer pathways into literature for the hard-to-inspire. Artists such as Glenn Ligon, Jenny Holzer, and even performances like the off-Broadway production of My Name is Asher Lev offer students ways to get inspired and involved with literature from different starting points.
Transmission
Transmission | An Interview with Niels Geybels: Sequences, Monoliths, and Beneath the Earth
Transmission
Transmission | An Interview with Niels Geybels: Sequences, Monoliths, and Beneath the Earth
Columnist Amelia Ishmael speaks with Antwerp-based visual artist, graphic designer, and musician Niels Geybels, whose various practices often overlap.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teachable Moments in 2012
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teachable Moments in 2012
Before we continue talking about last week’s “Speak About What’s Unspeakable,” I thought it might be good idea to end the year on a constructive note by looking back at some of the most teachable moments- events, exhibits, chance happenings and other opportunities – that made for uncanny entry points in the classroom…
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Tanya Aguiñiga / Transnational Arts Operative
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Tanya Aguiñiga / Transnational Arts Operative
Danielle McCullough profiles Tanya Aguiñiga, an artist/activist whose works take many forms, many of which engage notions of transnational autobiography.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Guest Bloggers This Week: Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Guest Bloggers This Week: Teaching with Contemporary Art
This week I am pleased to say that the Teaching with Contemporary Art column some guest bloggers…
Julia CopperSmith and Maureen Hergott are both alumni of the Art21 Educators program and teach elementary art education at Scott and Westdale Elementary Schools in Melrose Park and Northlake near Chicago. Their work has been inspiring to all of us here at Art21 for the past two years, especially since they are finding ways to work with contemporary art and engage some very young students in the process.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Combining (Complicating?) Ideas
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Combining (Complicating?) Ideas
Years ago I had a professor who was a bit cruel when it came to giving feedback. But one piece of feedback he gave me has influenced my teaching, especially in units like this one. He once said, exasperated over my inability to get to the next step on a piece, “Joe, you call these ideas?? Put them together and make one good one!”
In the spirit of this advice which has resonated with me for years I have asked my own students to begin combining ideas in order to more fully explore and depict the theme and subject they have chosen.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reflecting on Visual Conversations
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reflecting on Visual Conversations
In my previous post two weeks ago I said that I was interested in encouraging students to draw relationships between works of art and to think about how context affects what we see. Can works of art “speak” to the viewer or have “conversations” with other works? If so, how? Today was the day, after a long Thanksgiving weekend, for the group to share works in progress and get some feedback from one another.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Getting Set for Visual Conversations
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Getting Set for Visual Conversations
If you haven’t visited already, the Fisher Landau Center for Art is a wonderful oasis to add to the list of places you can see exciting work in Long Island City. This week, I am taking one of my classes to visit the current show, Visual Conversations. Through the visit I am interested in encouraging my students to draw relationships between works of art and to think about how context affects how we perceive what we see.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Two Histories of the World: Part Two
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Two Histories of the World: Part Two
Caroline Picard looks at “Two Histories of the World,” a two-part exhibition taking place at two different venues and at two different points in time.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Exploding a Theme
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Exploding a Theme
This week began with one of my advanced classes looking into the paintings of season 6 artist, Rackstraw Downes. As students start up a thematic series of their own work I wanted to see if we could “explode a theme” and “frame” Downes’ paintings in three different ways- as a topic, a theme, and as a question.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Ideas With Legs
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Ideas With Legs
Because I so love questions and quotes, and use them in my own teaching to get students thinking about process, predetermined notions about contemporary art and even prejudices, this week I wanted to offer three dynamite thoughts to get students thinking out of the gate…
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Doug Ashford
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Doug Ashford
Thom Donovan interviews Doug Ashford, who is widely known for his work with Group Material during the period 1983-1996.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Anna Piaggi and the Summer One-Off
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Anna Piaggi and the Summer One-Off
The writer and fashion icon Anna Piaggi, who died this week at 81, serves as a reminder that in art, as life, one-off gestures are often the most memorable ones.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Anything but the Kitchen Sink
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Anything but the Kitchen Sink
Catherine Wagley muses on family, history, and the relation of both in artworks by Patricia Fernandez and Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle in the Los Angeles Biennial.
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Jasper Johns’s Revolution in Print
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Jasper Johns’s Revolution in Print
Sarah Kirk Hanley reviews “Jasper Johns/In Press: The Crosshatch Works and the Logic of Print,” on view at Harvard Art Museums through August 18.
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