Tag Archives: Painting

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Berlin Wall Falls in L.A.

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 1, 2009

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Berlin Wall Falls in L.A.

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 1, 2009

Tuesday night, former U.S. Ambassador Richard Barkley called East Berlin a “profoundly boring place,” drab and depressing compared to other places he’d been. His callous observation loosely framed a panel …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Ottawa Without a Passport

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 30, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Ottawa Without a Passport

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 30, 2009

On Monday I had the pleasure of working with 26 teachers from a variety of settings in the Ottawa Area Intermediate School District… located in western Michigan. That’s right, Michigan. …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 28, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 28, 2009

Season 4 artist Mark Bradford has been awarded the 2009 MacArthur “Genius” Award. The MacArthur Fellows Program, as it is also known, awards unrestricted fellowships to individuals who have shown …

Dali Down Under

by Max Weintraub | Sep 18, 2009

Dali Down Under

by Max Weintraub | Sep 18, 2009

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit Melbourne, Australia. It is a wonderful city with a thriving art scene, the centerpiece of which is the magnificent National …

Pictures at the Met

by Max Weintraub | Sep 16, 2009

Pictures at the Met

by Max Weintraub | Sep 16, 2009

As summer officially winds down, I can’t help but note that 2009 marks one very significant anniversary that seems to have been somewhat underappreciated, if not totally overlooked here in …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Imaging Conservation at the Guggenheim: A Discussion with Carol Stringari

by Richard McCoy | Sep 15, 2009

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Imaging Conservation at the Guggenheim: A Discussion with Carol Stringari

by Richard McCoy | Sep 15, 2009

IMA art conservator talks with Carol Stringari, the Chief Conservator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 14, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 14, 2009

New works by Season 3 artist Josiah McElheny are on view at Andrea Rosen Gallery through Oct. 17. The centerpiece of the exhibition is an eight-foot tall sculpture based on …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Beck to the Future!

by Ben Street | Sep 14, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Beck to the Future!

by Ben Street | Sep 14, 2009

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkcvrV4UhTM] The “cultural cringe” – the crippling inferiority complex that members of a particular country feel about their homeland, as evidenced in the bluffed provenance of just about every college …

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 …

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Paul McCarthy interviewed by Benjamin Weissman

by BOMB Magazine | Aug 21, 2009

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Paul McCarthy interviewed by Benjamin Weissman

by BOMB Magazine | Aug 21, 2009

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’ll be featuring a vintage BOMB interview relating to a Season 5 artist. This week we present Paul McCarthy’s interview …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Dove and O’Keeffe… Get ‘Em While It’s Hot

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 19, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Dove and O’Keeffe… Get ‘Em While It’s Hot

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 19, 2009

There are many reasons that educators want to visit the Circles of Influence exhibit featuring Arthur Dove and Georgia O’Keeffe at The Clark Art Institute through September 7th, but one …

Flash Points

A Look Into the Future with Saya Woolfalk

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 18, 2009

Flash Points

A Look Into the Future with Saya Woolfalk

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 18, 2009

Saya Woolfalk, “No Place: A Ritual of the Empathics,” 2009. Courtesy of the artist. This November, New York City will once again be abuzz with PERFORMA, the sprawling biennial dedicated …

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 …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Dog Days and Banking

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 12, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Dog Days and Banking

by Joe Fusaro | Aug 12, 2009

Last summer, while working at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, I had the good fortune of being blown away by the Marlene Dumas exhibition, Measuring Your Own …

Art21 Extended Play

Arturo Herrera | Assistant Jeff Bechtel

by Wesley Miller | Aug 7, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Arturo Herrera | Assistant Jeff Bechtel

by Wesley Miller | Aug 7, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS Arturo Herrera’s assistant Jeff Bechtel describes the process for translating one of the artist’s complex drawings into a refined monochromatic paper collage. Filmed …

Art21 Extended Play

Laylah Ali | Television

by Jonathan Munar | Jul 31, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Laylah Ali | Television

by Jonathan Munar | Jul 31, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: In her Williamstown, Massachusetts studio, artist Laylah Ali describes how the television cartoons she watched as a child inform the way she …

Away Game

by Adrian Duran | Jul 31, 2009

Away Game

by Adrian Duran | Jul 31, 2009

I’m in St. Louis, visiting family and art museums that I can only get to once in a while. There were some hits, some misses, but this seems like an …

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

An interview with Constant by Linda Boersma

by BOMB Magazine | Jul 31, 2009

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

An interview with Constant by Linda Boersma

by BOMB Magazine | Jul 31, 2009

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we are featuring a vintage BOMB interview relating to a Season 5 artist. This week, inspired by Cao Fei’s utopian …

Flash Points

Yeah, but no, but yeah, but…

by Adrian Duran | Jul 28, 2009

Flash Points

Yeah, but no, but yeah, but…

by Adrian Duran | Jul 28, 2009

Select ONE answer for ALL of the below questions: Does art expand our ability to imagine? What’s Matt Cassel without Randy Moss, Wes Welker and Bill Belichick? What came first: …

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 …

Step One: We Can Have Lots of Fun

by Adrian Duran | Jul 20, 2009

Step One: We Can Have Lots of Fun

by Adrian Duran | Jul 20, 2009

Greetings from Memphis and Happy Moon Landing Day. Here we go. I’ve never done this before. Well, not really. I’ve tried it twice. The first time, nobody cared. The second …

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 …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Peyton for Godot

by Ben Street | Jul 20, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Peyton for Godot

by Ben Street | Jul 20, 2009

I don’t understand why anyone would like Elizabeth Peyton, but I also don’t understand why anyone would like egg whites or Coldplay or The Shawshank Redemption, so maybe I’ll never …

Banksy New Orleans: Then and Now

by John d'Addario | Jul 13, 2009

Banksy New Orleans: Then and Now

by John d'Addario | Jul 13, 2009

It’s been nearly a year since the U.K.-based street artist and provocateur known as Banksy completed over a dozen public art pieces in various locations around New Orleans, including the …

Art21 Extended Play

Ida Applebroog | Inspiration

by Jonathan Munar | Jul 10, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Ida Applebroog | Inspiration

by Jonathan Munar | Jul 10, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Ida Applebroog discusses her life as an “image scavenger” in her New York studio, while working on her “Photogenetics” series—a blend of …

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 …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Wrestling with the Past: A TwCA 2008-2009 Roundup

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 1, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Wrestling with the Past: A TwCA 2008-2009 Roundup

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 1, 2009

It’s been quite a year. Quite an academic year, that is. Between the country voicing a collective NO to four more years of the same Bushed policies and Bernie Madoff …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Dead as a Dada

by Ben Street | Jun 30, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Dead as a Dada

by Ben Street | Jun 30, 2009

The problem with writing about contemporary painting is that it ends up being an excuse for a riffle through the thesaurus for the most headily baroque terms to describe the …

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 …

Back in the Day: Mel Bochner and Marcelo Bonevardi

by Sharon Butler | Jun 23, 2009

Back in the Day: Mel Bochner and Marcelo Bonevardi

by Sharon Butler | Jun 23, 2009

Mel Bochner’s new book, Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings and Interviews, 1965–2007, is a compilation of his writing, both about art and as art. The book opens with thirty-five …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Everybody Be Cool, This Is An Art Gallery!

by Ben Street | Jun 22, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Everybody Be Cool, This Is An Art Gallery!

by Ben Street | Jun 22, 2009

If  Abstract America, the new show of contemporary American painting and sculpture at the Saatchi Gallery, were a film, it’d be one of those earnest indie dramas made for hipster …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Summer Reading Part 2

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 17, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Summer Reading Part 2

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 17, 2009

Continuing with my column from May 27, I’d like to suggest a few more books related to contemporary art education that you may be inspired to buy, borrow or steal …

Labyrinths

by Thomas Micchelli | Jun 15, 2009

Labyrinths

by Thomas Micchelli | Jun 15, 2009

The other night I was at a dinner where someone suggested that, all things being equal, what ultimately makes the difference in a body of work is the character of …

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 …

Interview: Fahamu Pecou

by Victoria Lichtendorf | Jun 8, 2009

Interview: Fahamu Pecou

by Victoria Lichtendorf | Jun 8, 2009

Next up, as part of my spotlight on Atlanta-based artists, is Fahamu Pecou, of “Fahamu Pecou is the Shit” fame. Known for his large-scale painted riffs on art magazines, Pecou …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Parisian Break

by Ben Street | Jun 8, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Parisian Break

by Ben Street | Jun 8, 2009

(Disclaimer: this Letter from London is actually from Paris.) Paris’s gallery zone, clustered for the most part around the Marais district east of the center, is so amazingly lovely and …