Tag Archives: Performance

Get Interactive with Art21 at the Brooklyn Museum

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 16, 2010

Get Interactive with Art21 at the Brooklyn Museum

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 16, 2010

Want to participate in one of these: …but finding it difficult to get enough people together? Let Art21 help you out! Join us this Saturday, June 19, in front of …

Looking at Contemporary Dance

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 15, 2010

Looking at Contemporary Dance

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 15, 2010

As an art form, dance is a mixture of the visual and the auditory. While we watch dancers perform aesthetic pieces onstage, we hear music meant to enhance the experience. …

Flash Points

The Experience of Unknowing

by Ty Clever | Jun 11, 2010

Flash Points

The Experience of Unknowing

by Ty Clever | Jun 11, 2010

“We lay hold of the full import of a work of art only as we go through in our own vital processes the processes the artist went through in producing …

The Present Perfect with Art21 – June 23 in NYC and online

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 11, 2010

The Present Perfect with Art21 – June 23 in NYC and online

by Kelly Shindler | Jun 11, 2010

Art21 is thrilled to announce our latest program, The Present Perfect with Art21, featuring Art21 artists Oliver Herring and Laurie Simmons in conversation with Robert MacNeil. It takes place Wednesday, …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 8, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 8, 2010

A tribute to a great artist, a series of German faces, a big film of tiny things, some drawing restraint, and a bunch more in this week’s roundup: The Emilio …

An Artist’s Day Job

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 7, 2010

An Artist’s Day Job

by Caroline Lagnado | Jun 7, 2010

To support themselves, artists typically have day jobs. While many teach, some find other ways to make ends meet. Warhol and Hopper earned money in advertising and commercial art, while …

Flash Points

Interactive and Participatory Art

by Meg Floryan | Jun 3, 2010

Flash Points

Interactive and Participatory Art

by Meg Floryan | Jun 3, 2010

“Our advanced art approaches a fragile but marvelous life, one that maintains itself by a mere thread, melting into an elusive, changeable configuration, the surroundings, the artist, his work and …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 31, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 31, 2010

Work by Season 4 duo Allora & Calzadilla is currently on view at the Aspen Art Museum in the exhibition Restless Empathy. The exhibition examines the process of entering the …

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Life After Death: An Interview with Eva and Franco Mattes

by Kelly Shindler | May 28, 2010

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Life After Death: An Interview with Eva and Franco Mattes

by Kelly Shindler | May 28, 2010

The Italian “artist-provocateurs” Eva and Franco Mattes, aka 0100101110101101.org, are no strangers to this site. Our very first guest bloggers back in 2008, when they blogged about their Influencers festival …

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Liz Magic Laser

by Erin Sickler | May 27, 2010

Pardon this Brief Commercial Interruption: Liz Magic Laser

by Erin Sickler | May 27, 2010

Currently on view at Derek Eller Gallery in New York, Liz Magic Laser’s chase (2009) stems from interpretation of Bertolt Brecht’s Man Equals Man (1926), performed by eight different actors …

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

Alison Ruttan’s “The Four Year War at Gombe”

by Claudine Isé | May 25, 2010

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

Alison Ruttan’s “The Four Year War at Gombe”

by Claudine Isé | May 25, 2010

I’ve been reading with great interest some of the posts and friendly debates that have taken place recently on this site concerning the relationship between art and science. As I …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Whack! Contemporary Artists and Piñatas

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 21, 2010

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Whack! Contemporary Artists and Piñatas

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 21, 2010

The much-talked-about Andy Warhol piñata, created by Jennifer Rubell for last month’s Brooklyn Ball, offered a witty art spin on an old party tradition. Instead of the usual candy contents, …

Mapping our way back

by Liz Sheehan | May 18, 2010

Mapping our way back

by Liz Sheehan | May 18, 2010

Many thanks to all of you who commented on my posts last week, particularly “On teaching art to scientists,” which seems to have resonated strongly with Art21 and PBS readers. …

Flash Points

Flash Points: Art & Experience

by Rachel Gagnon | May 13, 2010

Flash Points

Flash Points: Art & Experience

by Rachel Gagnon | May 13, 2010

We each look at the world from our own individual perspectives, within contexts that are constantly shifting.  Our unique outlook as viewers, the specific viewpoint of the artist, the curatorial …
uc occupation

(UC Crisis) Post 1: The Story of a Movement – Overview

by Marc Herbst | May 7, 2010

(UC Crisis) Post 1: The Story of a Movement – Overview

by Marc Herbst | May 7, 2010

To explain the recent investigations into the web-art projects of both Ricardo Dominguez and  b.a.n.g. lab collaborators at UC San Diego and Ken Ehrlich of UC Riverside is to tell …

Realness: The House of Newsome

by Evan J. Garza | May 3, 2010

Realness: The House of Newsome

by Evan J. Garza | May 3, 2010

My partner and I throw a monthly gay dance night in Cambridge with some DJ friends of ours. For 10 months, most dancing has been reserved for the last hour …

Open Enrollment

Life After Graduation

by Matthew Newton | Apr 21, 2010

Open Enrollment

Life After Graduation

by Matthew Newton | Apr 21, 2010

by Matthew Newton and Jeffrey Augustine Songco First, Matthew interviews Hunter College alum Jules de Balincourt on the occasion of his solo exhibition at Deitch Projects, followed by Jeffrey’s look …

Art & the Avatar: Ambiguity of Identity in Virtual 3D Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 21, 2010

Art & the Avatar: Ambiguity of Identity in Virtual 3D Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 21, 2010

Self is the essential being of a person.  Art is a mirror image of a person’s identity, circle of influence, and perceived worlds or realities.  Art reflects what we feel, …
Burning Life

Call + Response: Collaborative Art in Virtual 3D Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 19, 2010

Call + Response: Collaborative Art in Virtual 3D Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 19, 2010

Collaborative art as joint production by two or more artists is a typical style among sound, video, and performance artists.  Many artists are changing the concept of art into something …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 19, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Apr 19, 2010

Avant-garde cinema, organic designs, sculpture theory, animal extinction, and more in today’s roundup: Dead or Alive, an exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design (MAD), will showcase the work …

Looking at Los Angeles

The Ring Festival and the Confined Deep

by Catherine Wagley | Apr 15, 2010

Looking at Los Angeles

The Ring Festival and the Confined Deep

by Catherine Wagley | Apr 15, 2010

All my windows look into windows of other apartments and, on warm days like those we’ve had lately, I’m set up for delicious eavesdropping. I like it best when my …
Chromutate by Torley

Responsive Art & Evolving Artificiality in Virtual Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 14, 2010

Responsive Art & Evolving Artificiality in Virtual Worlds

by Nettrice Gaskins | Apr 14, 2010

To the uninitiated, virtual 3D worlds may seem like games.  However, game culture often revolves around rules of play.  Artists creating work in virtual 3D worlds are usually trying to …

On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production

Art21 Extended Play

100th Exclusive & William Kentridge Exclusives, Carrie Mae Weems Uncut, the problem with talking, and screenings

by Nick Ravich | Apr 9, 2010

On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production

Art21 Extended Play

100th Exclusive & William Kentridge Exclusives, Carrie Mae Weems Uncut, the problem with talking, and screenings

by Nick Ravich | Apr 9, 2010

As usual, there’s a lot of production-related ground to cover I’d like to cover.  First, I really need to publicly acknowledge what’s hopefully no longer a private landmark, the release …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Ideas and Objects, Ideas vs. Objects

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 31, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Ideas and Objects, Ideas vs. Objects

by Joe Fusaro | Mar 31, 2010

Last week I described a few upcoming classes where my high school students were taking on the question of whether or not an idea can be considered a work of …
Marina Abramovic, "The Artist Is Present," performance documentation, 2010, courtesy of the New York Times

Performance Art Realness with a Twist

by Ivan Lozano | Mar 17, 2010

Performance Art Realness with a Twist

by Ivan Lozano | Mar 17, 2010

It starts like this: One snowy night last month, as New Yorkers rushed home in advance of a coming blizzard, more than a hundred artists, scholars and curators crowded into …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 15, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 15, 2010

Sparkling Nepalese paper, race and civil rights, a northern island, circular botanics, fluorescent lights, a ton of vinyl records, and a few reviews in today’s roundup: Season 1 artist John …

First Impression: Skin Fruit (Part 2)

by Kevin McGarry | Mar 15, 2010

First Impression: Skin Fruit (Part 2)

by Kevin McGarry | Mar 15, 2010

(continued from Part 1) Down the stairs, Nathalie Djurberg’s sexually violent claymations are followed by Cady Noland’s sculptural image of Lee Harvey Oswald at his death. She has him riddled …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 8, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 8, 2010

In today’s roundup you’ll read about three kids in Switzerland, political defiance, Latin American photography, a map upstate, Opera House sails, the nature of light, and airborne balls: The Family, …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Ethic Minority

by Ben Street | Mar 8, 2010

Letter from London

Letter from London: Ethic Minority

by Ben Street | Mar 8, 2010

“There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written or badly written. That is all.” — Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 1, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 1, 2010

With 19 bits and bites below, this week’s roundup is a whopper: Five Themes, the traveling survey exhibition of work by Season 5 artist William Kentridge, has landed at the …

Flash Points

Art is Murder

by Brent Burket | Feb 15, 2010

Flash Points

Art is Murder

by Brent Burket | Feb 15, 2010

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3OkEcdOtb0] When I was a kid, Alice Cooper taught me everything I needed to know about art. So, ethics in art? For the most part I’m against it, but certain …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 8, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 8, 2010

Greek tragedy, cross dressing, cooking shows, needlework, rowdy teens, storytelling, nighttime walks, and a few mystery plays in this week’s roundup: Virtuoso Illusion: Cross Dressing and the New Media Avant-Garde …

Grand Canyon Journal 3: The Painter of Video to Life

by Karthik Pandian | Feb 4, 2010

Grand Canyon Journal 3: The Painter of Video to Life

by Karthik Pandian | Feb 4, 2010

Our previous guest blogger, Karthik Pandian, continues his Grand Canyon journal in the following post. — Ed. [youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F2_oWKE13TA] Has there ever been such an elegant dramatization of the power of …

Gastro-Vision

The Fruit of Experience

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 28, 2010

Gastro-Vision

The Fruit of Experience

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 28, 2010

Fallen Fruit Collective formed six years ago through a project by artists David Burns, Matias Viegener, and Austin Young for the Journal of Aesthetics and Protest. The trio created a …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Transcendent: Vija Celmins and Kimsooja

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 27, 2010

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Transcendent: Vija Celmins and Kimsooja

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 27, 2010

Recently I was engaged in a little debate about whether contemporary art can truly be transcendent — taking us beyond the range of normal perception to some place else, some …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 25, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 25, 2010

In this week’s roundup you’ll read about Tasmanian wolves, patented patterns, cartoon anthropomorphism, ancient mythology, portico projections, and a big gift: Bestiarium, a large-scale survey exhibition of watercolor paintings by …