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Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art Turns Four
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art Turns Four
No sooner are we celebrating our upcoming fourth year with Art21 Educators as I am reminded that the Teaching with Contemporary Art column also turns four this week. Looks like I’ll be playing the fourth horse in the fourth race this weekend. Last year I celebrated by looking back over the first three years but today I’d like to just look back over the past twelve months because it’s been quite a ride. Here are some highlights since last spring.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The Painter of Light is Radically Not Me
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The Painter of Light is Radically Not Me
Catherine Wagley reflects on the passing of Thomas Kinkade, the infamously popular “Painter of Light” who pushed the idea of coziness to mind-numbing extremes.
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Brilliance Under Pressure: Dana Schutz’s Monotypes at Gallery Met
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Brilliance Under Pressure: Dana Schutz’s Monotypes at Gallery Met
Sarah Kirk Hanley looks at Dana Schutz’s most recent body of work: a series of large watercolor monotypes created at Two Palms, New York.
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Looking Back to Nigeria: Ben Osaghae’s Critical Observations [Part III]
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Looking Back to Nigeria: Ben Osaghae’s Critical Observations [Part III]
In this five-part series, Richard McCoy looks back on his recent trip to Nigeria through the lens of artists working in the area.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Transformation and Distortion
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Transformation and Distortion
Two of my classes begin a new unit where students are asked to work with the themes of distortion and transformation. Especially for teens, the idea of transformation- of the self, objects, symbols, even the meaning of words- is an attractive proposal. Add the multiple implications associated with distortion and it becomes the kind of field day you really want in a classroom.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Under the Radar: Best of 2011, Part 2
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Under the Radar: Best of 2011, Part 2
Following up on last week’s post, here are a few more shows that flew under the radar in 2011, including Dana Schutz at the Neuberger and Katharina Grosse at Mass MoCA.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Against Nature: An Interview with Hernan Bas
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Centerfield | Against Nature: An Interview with Hernan Bas
The painter known for his lush, fanciful landscapes discusses the roles that literature, Romanticism and the theatrical play in his work.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Under the Radar: Best of 2011
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Under the Radar: Best of 2011
Some excellent shows from 2011 flew a little under the radar, even a few housed in major museums, and they had plenty to offer when it comes to inspiring students and teachers. Part 1 of 2.
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Tales for Our Time: Amy Cutler’s Prints
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Tales for Our Time: Amy Cutler’s Prints
Fantastical narrative is a guiding principle for many artists who have come to prominence in the past decade; Amy Cutler and Dana Schutz are foremost among these. Both possess …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Suburban Seriality
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Suburban Seriality
We were not the same, though when we came together, we acted as one. Growing up together, seven girls in the suburbs of Northern California, we told each other’s stories and …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 New York Close Up
Teaching with New York Close Up: Keltie Ferris Spray Paints in Solitude
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 New York Close Up
Teaching with New York Close Up: Keltie Ferris Spray Paints in Solitude
While watching Keltie Ferris Spray Paints in Solitude, I kept wondering to myself… What can students and teachers learn from engaging with this five minutes of film? I wanted a …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Taking the Long Way Home: Working With a Theme in a Series
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Taking the Long Way Home: Working With a Theme in a Series
One of the students in my advanced classes is taking on the theme of “looking vs. seeing” for her first semester portfolio. She wants to explore the things people tend …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Both a Science and an Art, Part 2
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Both a Science and an Art, Part 2
Alison Kendall creates drawings and paintings in which viewers’ expectations are breached by dreamlike intruders. The San Francisco–based artist went to school for scientific illustration, learning to draw animals …
Letter from London
Letter from London | Rarely Pure, and Never Simple
Letter from London
Letter from London | Rarely Pure, and Never Simple
Maybe Thomas Struth’s 1995 photograph of the interior of the church of San Zaccaria in Venice is too obvious a way to epitomise the relationship between contemporary art and …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Both a Science and an Art
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Both a Science and an Art
Every Wednesday night, my grammar teacher takes chalk to blackboard to underline subjects and circle direct objects. White dust falling to the floor, she puts brackets around prepositional phrases and …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Revealing “Unfinished Paintings”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Revealing “Unfinished Paintings”
The nature of painting – its objecthood, its permanence — demands a level of resolution and wholeness to which other more ephemeral art practices need not always answer. Hence the …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Nicole Eisenman and Wynne Greenwood
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Nicole Eisenman and Wynne Greenwood
Digging through Nicole Eisenman’s current show at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, one begins to understand why it’s so perfect that the artist presents us with 77 different titles for …
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