Tag Archives: Performance

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

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Interview with Derek Chan

by Martine Syms | Oct 26, 2010

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

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Interview with Derek Chan

by Martine Syms | Oct 26, 2010

Derek Chan and I have been friends for a little over four years. We both moved from Los Angeles to Chicago in the Fall of 2005. We had several mutual …

Let’s Go There: Marissa Perel and Artforum.com Editor David Velasco Talk Dance

by Marissa Perel | Oct 18, 2010

Let’s Go There: Marissa Perel and Artforum.com Editor David Velasco Talk Dance

by Marissa Perel | Oct 18, 2010

Marissa Perel: The first artistic influences I had were in New York and were choreographers. I was really inspired by the dance world, but didn’t understand why it was marginalized …

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Tune In: “William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible” Premieres on PBS This Week

by Jonathan Munar | Oct 18, 2010

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Tune In: “William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible” Premieres on PBS This Week

by Jonathan Munar | Oct 18, 2010

Warm up your televisions and set your DVRs: Art21’s latest film, William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, premieres on PBS this week. The national broadcast premiere is scheduled for October 21 …

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Fixed Up

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 14, 2010

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Fixed Up

by Catherine Wagley | Oct 14, 2010

A hair was stuck in the main camera when Liza Minnelli first filmed Liza with a “Z” (1972), a supposedly live special for NBC. Minnelli and crew refilmed, using paid …

Recap: Creative Time Summit, Saturday October 9th, 2010

by Thom Donovan | Oct 14, 2010

Recap: Creative Time Summit, Saturday October 9th, 2010

by Thom Donovan | Oct 14, 2010

This past Saturday, I attended the Creative Time Summit at The Cooper Union in NYC, and I’m glad I did. Whatever one may say about Creative Time’s role in the …

Saltz of the Earth: An Interview

by Marissa Perel | Oct 13, 2010

Saltz of the Earth: An Interview

by Marissa Perel | Oct 13, 2010

One of the hot topics among young artists these days is the show Work of Art on Bravo. Take a dozen artists mostly trained in art schools, give them really …

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Reading the MFA Program

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Oct 13, 2010

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Reading the MFA Program

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Oct 13, 2010

Back in June, I wrote about a new Internet meme that I started because I was so excited about the idea of circulation. Well, my professor Robin Balliger has done …

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

The Limitations of Twitter-Based Art: An Interview with Performance Artist Nate Hill

by An Xiao | Oct 12, 2010

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

The Limitations of Twitter-Based Art: An Interview with Performance Artist Nate Hill

by An Xiao | Oct 12, 2010

Earlier this summer, performance artist Nate Hill made an announcement: Following on the heels of Death Bear (RIP), Mr. Dropout is an unexpected continuation on detachment. While Death Bear aided …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Teaching with William Kentridge

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 6, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible

Teaching with William Kentridge

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 6, 2010

There are many reasons to teach with the art of William Kentridge, and as we get closer to the premiere of Art21’s new film, William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, airing …

Techno-Trash: Mika Taanila and Pixelache

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 6, 2010

Techno-Trash: Mika Taanila and Pixelache

by Kelly Shindler | Oct 6, 2010

One of the best exhibitions I saw in Helsinki this summer was at Galleria Heino, a small space on the hip street Uudenmaankatu. On the recommendation of an artist friend, …

Embodiment and Process: Vida Simon

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 23, 2010

Embodiment and Process: Vida Simon

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 23, 2010

Vida Simon enters her work. The Montreal-based artist creates gentle, introspective drawing installation/performances where we witness her artistic process live and in progress. She literally embodies her own art, working …

Game (as) Art: The Kokoromi Collective

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 20, 2010

Game (as) Art: The Kokoromi Collective

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 20, 2010

Trying to explain GAMMA is kind of like trying to describe Burning Man. The members of Kokoromi Collective best described their annual showcase for game creation and art as a …

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OMG Mid-Grad Crisis or RTV/MFA

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Sep 15, 2010

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OMG Mid-Grad Crisis or RTV/MFA

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Sep 15, 2010

Sometimes when I’m sitting in class, I switch to a third-person perspective and feel like I’m watching a reality television show about myself. One of my professors, Clark Buckner, assigned …

Augmenting Reality: Paul Warne

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 14, 2010

Augmenting Reality: Paul Warne

by Stefan Zebrowski-Rubin | Sep 14, 2010

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5C50_R3cDlY] Paul Warne doesn’t consider himself so much an artist as a designer. While trained in animation and film at the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania, Warne found himself immersed in …

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Head Shop/Lost Horizon at Exile

by Ali Fitzgerald | Sep 2, 2010

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Head Shop/Lost Horizon at Exile

by Ali Fitzgerald | Sep 2, 2010

During a recent visit to Exile Gallery, I spoke with guest curator Billy Miller about his concurrent shows Head Shop/Lost Horizon, which were a part of Exile’s annual Summer Camp …

Fall Previews: Trailer, Teasers, and Slideshows

by Jonathan Munar | Aug 31, 2010

Fall Previews: Trailer, Teasers, and Slideshows

by Jonathan Munar | Aug 31, 2010

William Kentridge in his studio, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2008. William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, production still, 2010. © Art21, Inc. 2010. Fall preview season is upon us, so it’s time …

3 Museums, 2 Days (part II of II)

by Thom Donovan | Aug 31, 2010

3 Museums, 2 Days (part II of II)

by Thom Donovan | Aug 31, 2010

II. After my visit to the New Museum, I headed uptown to the Studio Museum in Harlem. What stood out to me at the Studio Museum were a series of sculptural, photographic, …

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Crafting a Moment

by Corina Reynolds | Aug 26, 2010

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Crafting a Moment

by Corina Reynolds | Aug 26, 2010

Red waterfalls hang frozen from tarnished candelabra arms above hardened wax puddles joined permanently to a floral cloth. Dew collects on the open mouths of emptied wine bottles as cool …

The Nature of Art: The Bigger Picture

by Meg Floryan | Aug 20, 2010

The Nature of Art: The Bigger Picture

by Meg Floryan | Aug 20, 2010

We’re accustomed to porticoed Greek temple-style museums, white-walled galleries, conspicuous label texts, a high level of organization, and clearly-defined thematic spaces. For those of us who are city-dwellers, we expect …
Furries reclining in Marnie Weber's "Furry Womb" at "A Night of Growth and Discovery." Image via For Your Art.

Looking at Los Angeles

Burn, Baby, Burn: Furries Join Baby Ikki on a Voyage of Growth and Discovery

by Lily Simonson | Aug 19, 2010

Looking at Los Angeles

Burn, Baby, Burn: Furries Join Baby Ikki on a Voyage of Growth and Discovery

by Lily Simonson | Aug 19, 2010

Last month, I opened my email to find a “Call For Furrie Interns.” The call came from LA artist Marnie Weber and was forwarded to me by a mutual friend …

Announcing Our Latest Film: “William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible”

by Jonathan Munar | Aug 17, 2010

Announcing Our Latest Film: “William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible”

by Jonathan Munar | Aug 17, 2010

Art21 is proud to announce the forthcoming broadcast of our latest film, William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, the first film produced by Art21 for national television broadcast outside of the …
Barbara Kruger

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 16, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 16, 2010

This week in the roundup … Barbara Kruger gets a celebration started, Cao Fei has her eyes on a prize, Cai Guo-Qiang goes in with a bang, Raymond Pettibon is into …
Installation shot of "Effervescent Condition" at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. (Left) Yefeng’s "Battelfield," (right) Sampson’s Dodgedraw on the right, Dodgedraw participant

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Effervescent Condition

by Allison Glenn | Aug 7, 2010

Flash Points

Effervescent Condition

by Allison Glenn | Aug 7, 2010

Effervescent Condition, curated by Fang-Tze Hsu (MA 2010) was the School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s (SAIC) contribution to The Power of Copying, a large-scale, international group exhibition held …
Jenny Holtzer

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 2, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Aug 2, 2010

Soon after last week’s roundup went live, I discovered a Jenny Holzer event happening in my backyard.  In this week’s roundup, CNN shows William Kentridge drawing apartheid, Scotland shows William …

Why Here? Part 2

by Lincoln Hancock | Aug 1, 2010

Why Here? Part 2

by Lincoln Hancock | Aug 1, 2010

Low on the southeast side of downtown Raleigh stands a nondescript grey building with a facade marked by four orange letters: LUMP. This cinderblock outpost houses the Lump gallery and …

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Back to School!

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Jul 28, 2010

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Back to School!

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Jul 28, 2010

With the last days of July upon us, I shed a tear and take a deep breath as I prepare for my final year at San Francisco Art Institute. My …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Dear Oliver

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 14, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Dear Oliver

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 14, 2010

You know what I like about Oliver Herring? Pretty much everything. Oliver was generous enough to join us for the 2nd year in a row to jump-start the Art21 Educators …

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Machine Project: A.I.R. at the Hammer

by Mark Allen | Jul 12, 2010

Flash Points

Machine Project: A.I.R. at the Hammer

by Mark Allen | Jul 12, 2010

On a recent weekend at the Hammer Museum, you may have stumbled across other visitors napping on the gallery floor and wondered if they had succumbed to museum fatigue. In …

Future Metaphors

Future Metaphors: An Introduction

by Ivan Lozano | Jul 6, 2010

Future Metaphors

Future Metaphors: An Introduction

by Ivan Lozano | Jul 6, 2010

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3CKD9JRhME] Shana Moulton, “Whispering Pines 9,” video, 2009 In an essay titled “Cyborg Anthropology,” Gary Lee Downey, Joseph Dumit and Sarah Williams offer a sort of manifesto: Cyborg Anthropology invests …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Paul Zografakis

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jul 2, 2010

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Paul Zografakis

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jul 2, 2010

Paul Zografakis is a Greek-American artist who was born and raised in St. Louis, MO and based in Athens, Greece since 2007. Paul arrived in Athens on a Fulbright Scholarship …

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Gender (and other) Trouble

by Ali Fitzgerald | Jul 1, 2010

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Gender (and other) Trouble

by Ali Fitzgerald | Jul 1, 2010

Judith Butler, that radical Valkyrie of all things identity politics, caused quite a stir in Berlin recently. On June 19th, she declined the “Civil Courage Prize” awarded by the organizers …

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New Internet Meme: Cheers!

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Jun 30, 2010

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New Internet Meme: Cheers!

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco | Jun 30, 2010

With my summer break between the first and second year of my graduate studies at San Francisco Art Institute in full force, I’ve taken a few weeks to visit some …

The Present Perfect Participation: Last Call and Weekend Roundup

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 21, 2010

The Present Perfect Participation: Last Call and Weekend Roundup

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 21, 2010

Filming at the Brooklyn Museum, NY, June 19, 2010. Photo by Katherine Payne. Today is your final chance to participate in advance of Wednesday’s live event, The Present Perfect with …

Klein’s Big Leap

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 20, 2010

Klein’s Big Leap

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 20, 2010

The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden in Washington, D.C. is currently showing the first Yves Klein retrospective to hit the United States in nearly 30 years. Called Yves Klein: With …

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: BB6

by Ethan Hayes-Chute | Jun 17, 2010

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: BB6

by Ethan Hayes-Chute | Jun 17, 2010

Aligning smoothly with the start of Art Basel for the first time, the 6th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (BB6) opened this past week, two months later than its previous …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Looking Back Through 100 Acres

by Richard McCoy | Jun 17, 2010

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Looking Back Through 100 Acres

by Richard McCoy | Jun 17, 2010

IMA art conservator Richard McCoy looks back at the documentation around the projects in 100 Acres: The Virginia B. Fairbanks Art and Nature Park before it opens this weekend.