Tag Archives: Performance

Ghost That Note: Harpstrings, Heartstrings, and Street Scenes

by Quinn Latimer | Aug 18, 2009

Ghost That Note: Harpstrings, Heartstrings, and Street Scenes

by Quinn Latimer | Aug 18, 2009

This past Sunday evening in Basel could have been like any other but it wasn’t. Not quite. My partner and I finished the strangely purple dinner I had crafted—beet pasta, …

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A Look Into the Future with Saya Woolfalk

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 18, 2009

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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 …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 3, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 3, 2009

On September 23, Hauser & Wirth will open its first gallery in the United States with a reinvention of Allan Kaprow’s 1961 environment Yard by artist William Pope.L. Described as …

Interview: Dan Cameron on Prospect.2 New Orleans

by John d'Addario | Jul 16, 2009

Interview: Dan Cameron on Prospect.2 New Orleans

by John d'Addario | Jul 16, 2009

Before I say that Prospect.1 New Orleans was the most exciting art event to take place in the U.S. in the last decade, I should probably provide the disclaimer that …

BOMB in the Building

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An interview with Carrie Mae Weems by Dawoud Bey

by BOMB Magazine | Jul 10, 2009

BOMB in the Building

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An interview with Carrie Mae Weems by Dawoud Bey

by BOMB Magazine | Jul 10, 2009

We’re back! Keep your eye on this column in the months to come as BOMB Magazine highlights Season 5 artists and themes, with excerpts of new and vintage interviews from …

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Art21 Extended Play

Meet the Season 5 Artist: William Kentridge

by Wesley Miller | Jul 7, 2009

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Art21 Extended Play

Meet the Season 5 Artist: William Kentridge

by Wesley Miller | Jul 7, 2009

The above video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode Compassion, premiering on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Compassion features three artists — …

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: Pumping Irony

by Ben Street | Jun 15, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Pumping Irony

by Ben Street | Jun 15, 2009

Interactivity is now so commonplace at Tate Modern that I sometimes wonder if visitors are disappointed when they see works of art they aren’t allowed to touch. Not that they don’t. …

Conversations with Stuart Horodner & Lila Kanner

by Victoria Lichtendorf | Jun 8, 2009

Conversations with Stuart Horodner & Lila Kanner

by Victoria Lichtendorf | Jun 8, 2009

Wrapping up my focus on Atlanta during my stint as guest blogger, I questioned Stuart Horodner, Artistic Director at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, and Lila Kanner, Executive Director of …

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 …

Haberdashery Anyone?

by Mary Cook | Jun 5, 2009

Haberdashery Anyone?

by Mary Cook | Jun 5, 2009

179 Canal Street, 2nd Floor. Peeper Place, Dani Leventhal, May 16, 2009. Photo by Margaret Lee on Flickr (https://www.flickr.com/photos/margaret-lee) Artists staging their own shows is nothing new. The French Impressionists …

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The Power of Now: Adrian Piper’s Indexical Present

by Julia Steinmetz | May 7, 2009

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The Power of Now: Adrian Piper’s Indexical Present

by Julia Steinmetz | May 7, 2009

Everyone has heard about the value of “being in the moment,” letting thoughts of the past and worries about the future drip away while focusing on the here and now. …

Feline Theatricality

by Julia Steinmetz | May 1, 2009

Feline Theatricality

by Julia Steinmetz | May 1, 2009

I stumbled on this YouTube video today, and immediately stopped to think about how much Michael Fried has given me. Sometimes a critic’s description of a phenomenon can be truly …

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For the Love of God: The Artist as Capitalist

by Julia Steinmetz | Apr 29, 2009

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For the Love of God: The Artist as Capitalist

by Julia Steinmetz | Apr 29, 2009

In 2007, artist Damien Hirst exhibited a work at the White Cube gallery in London which is reputed to be the most expensive contemporary artwork ever made. Entitled For the …

BOMB in the Building

BOMB is (back) in the building

by BOMB Magazine | Apr 24, 2009

BOMB in the Building

BOMB is (back) in the building

by BOMB Magazine | Apr 24, 2009

After a hiatus, we (the folks from BOMB Magazine) are back to resume our fun and educational guest blogging. We’ll be chiming in once a month with some cool stuff …

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My fellow Americans, let’s roll.

by Daniel Fuller | Apr 16, 2009

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My fellow Americans, let’s roll.

by Daniel Fuller | Apr 16, 2009

On March 28th, Philadelphia hosted a day-long marathon dialogue on the intersections of art and the possibility of social/political change. The day’s events included a symposium on Curating and Activism …

O hai :: Approaches + Modes

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 15, 2009

O hai :: Approaches + Modes

by Nicholas O'Brien | Apr 15, 2009

I thought before I get really started the guest blogging here, I’d speak a little bit about my intentions/directions/plans. BEFORE that, however, I’d like to thank Kelly Shindler for giving …

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Curating and Activism at Moore College of Art & Design

by Daniel Fuller | Apr 15, 2009

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Curating and Activism at Moore College of Art & Design

by Daniel Fuller | Apr 15, 2009

Daniel Fuller, Senior Program Specialist at the Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, recently helped organize the Curating and Activism symposium at Moore College of Art & Design. The following is a recap …

Emulsion To Emulsion

by Tim Ridlen | Mar 20, 2009

Emulsion To Emulsion

by Tim Ridlen | Mar 20, 2009

The term “emulsion to emulsion” has somehow stuck in my head from my undergraduate days, taking courses in photography.  It is the phrase meant to remind you of the placement …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Notes on a workshop (Part 1)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 11, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Notes on a workshop (Part 1)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 11, 2009

I’m also teaching a course at the École Régionale des Beaux-arts de Nantes called, “Workshop: I am curious… (The Artist as Ethnographer).” Each Friday morning, my students and I have …

This Week…

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 9, 2009

This Week…

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Mar 9, 2009

Happy Monday with a busy week of activity from Art21 artists. Here are some highlights: This Thursday and Friday at the Guggenheim, created in response to the museum’s current The …

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A better “we” through art? AREA Chicago’s Daniel Tucker on art and community

by Daniel Tucker | Mar 6, 2009

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A better “we” through art? AREA Chicago’s Daniel Tucker on art and community

by Daniel Tucker | Mar 6, 2009

This post is written as a dispatch from California, where I was at the College Art Association conference and speaking in classes at CalArts, SFAI, and the CCA Social Practices …

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Fight the man! Three activist artists to watch

by Paddy Johnson | Mar 4, 2009

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Fight the man! Three activist artists to watch

by Paddy Johnson | Mar 4, 2009

True story: I used to hate activist art. “Why so shrill?” I thought. “Can’t we just talk about this rather than producing a bunch of bad art?” I don’t always …

Art21 Extended Play

Oliver Herring | Legacy

by Wesley Miller | Feb 20, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Oliver Herring | Legacy

by Wesley Miller | Feb 20, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Artist Oliver Herring discusses what he perceives as generational shifts in our relationship to the camera, mortality, and legacy, accompanied by scenes …

I Have Decided to Love Contemporary Art

by Naomi Beckwith | Feb 20, 2009

I Have Decided to Love Contemporary Art

by Naomi Beckwith | Feb 20, 2009

Days have passed since St. Valentine’s Day and the flowers are giving off a sweet waft of imminent mortality, which may make them a dubious token of love. But I …

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Obama Special, Part 2

by Daniel Quiles | Feb 19, 2009

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Obama Special, Part 2

by Daniel Quiles | Feb 19, 2009

This continues my previous post about the laptop DJ/performance artist Girl Talk, in which I situate him in a lineage of intersections between art and music and suggest a link …

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Sade 2.0

by Thomas Micchelli | Feb 17, 2009

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Sade 2.0

by Thomas Micchelli | Feb 17, 2009

On February 7th I drove to the Kasser Theater at Montclair State University to see a performance of The Investigation, a 1966 documentary drama by Peter Weiss (1916-1982), the expatriate German artist and …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

It Takes Two…. or Two Hundred

by Joe Fusaro | Feb 11, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

It Takes Two…. or Two Hundred

by Joe Fusaro | Feb 11, 2009

Recently I saw the Mark Dion segment from Season 4 for the sixth or seventh time. I love the Dion segment. I was sharing the video with teachers in a …

single strand, forward motion: Andrea Zittel

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 5, 2009

single strand, forward motion: Andrea Zittel

by Nicole J. Caruth | Feb 5, 2009

single strand, forward motion, an exhibition of new works by Season 1 artist Andrea Zittel, will open at Andrea Rosen Gallery tomorrow, Friday, February 6.  This is the artist’s ninth solo exhibition at …

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Lilly Ledbetter* Art

by Naomi Beckwith | Feb 4, 2009

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Lilly Ledbetter* Art

by Naomi Beckwith | Feb 4, 2009

It is only a coincidence that the world’s largest franchised art fair and the international banking regulatory body share a moniker from their shared base, Basel, Switzerland, but no coincidence …

Mmmm…Cake

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 30, 2009

Mmmm…Cake

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jan 30, 2009

Chez Bushwick, an organization based in Brooklyn, has launched a new art and performance series called CAKE. The weekly program offers “carte blanche” to an individual artist to present new work and ideas of his or her choosing. The …

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Obama Special, Part 1

by Daniel Quiles | Jan 26, 2009

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Obama Special, Part 1

by Daniel Quiles | Jan 26, 2009

What follows is just a bit late for the inauguration, which is appropriate. It is essentially old news. Let’s start with the “Flash Points” question of the week: how can …

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Teaching with Contemporary Art

Interview with Eleanor Antin Part 2

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 15, 2009

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Teaching with Contemporary Art

Interview with Eleanor Antin Part 2

by Joe Fusaro | Jan 15, 2009

 Following is the second part of my conversation with Eleanor Antin, continued from Part 1 yesterday… JF: One thing that has been important in my own work with students and …

Touring Prospect.1, Talking to Curator Dan Cameron (Part 1)

by Hrag Vartanian | Jan 12, 2009

Touring Prospect.1, Talking to Curator Dan Cameron (Part 1)

by Hrag Vartanian | Jan 12, 2009

I arrived in New Orleans in December on an auspicious occasion—it was the first snow fall since 2004 and one of only a few that has touched down in this …

24-Hour Marathon at the Guggenheim

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jan 6, 2009

24-Hour Marathon at the Guggenheim

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jan 6, 2009

Tonight, starting at 6pm, the Guggenheim hosts a 24-hour durational event concentrating on the concept of time, including its “myriad philosophical, psychological, biological, sociological, poetic, aesthetic, and economic manifestations… geared …