Tag Archives: Photography
Art21 New York Close Up
Mariah Robertson’s Chemical Reactions
Art21 New York Close Up
Mariah Robertson’s Chemical Reactions
In a new ART21 New York Close Up film, artist Mariah Roberston experiments with photographic chemistry in her Brooklyn darkroom, leading to a striking series of colorful cameraless abstractions.
Center Field: Art in the Middle
Center Field | The Stage of Scientific Reproduction: An Interview with Jeremy Bolen
Center Field: Art in the Middle
Center Field | The Stage of Scientific Reproduction: An Interview with Jeremy Bolen
Columnist Caroline Picard speaks with Jeremy Bolen about his photographic investigations of phenomena invisible to the human eye.
Christopher Meerdo Experiences the Icelandic Landscape Through the Body of a Decomposing Sperm Whale
Christopher Meerdo Experiences the Icelandic Landscape Through the Body of a Decomposing Sperm Whale
How did a three-month residency in Iceland and a dead whale change the work of Chicago–based artist Christopher Meerdo? Art21’s blogger-in-residence has the story.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Heather Rasmussen: Cataclysmic Collections
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Heather Rasmussen: Cataclysmic Collections
Columnist Danielle McCullough writes about the work of Los Angeles-based artist Heather Rasmussen and her ongoing interest in catastrophe.
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | On Perception: Katsutoshi Yuasa’s Woodcuts
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | On Perception: Katsutoshi Yuasa’s Woodcuts
Sarah Kirk Hanley looks at the woodcuts of Katsutoshi Yuasa, whose first solo exhibition in the US is at the ISE Cultural Foundation in New York, through January 4th.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reflecting on Visual Conversations
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reflecting on Visual Conversations
In my previous post two weeks ago I said that I was interested in encouraging students to draw relationships between works of art and to think about how context affects what we see. Can works of art “speak” to the viewer or have “conversations” with other works? If so, how? Today was the day, after a long Thanksgiving weekend, for the group to share works in progress and get some feedback from one another.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Getting Set for Visual Conversations
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Getting Set for Visual Conversations
If you haven’t visited already, the Fisher Landau Center for Art is a wonderful oasis to add to the list of places you can see exciting work in Long Island City. This week, I am taking one of my classes to visit the current show, Visual Conversations. Through the visit I am interested in encouraging my students to draw relationships between works of art and to think about how context affects how we perceive what we see.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Now See This: Teaching with Hans-Peter Feldmann and John Baldessari
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Now See This: Teaching with Hans-Peter Feldmann and John Baldessari
I have always been interested in the way certain artists, more so than others, have the ability to take us by the hand (or the eye) and walk us through works of art very deliberately. Because the “subject” is often about the whole work and not a single focal point, these artists persuade us to compare and contrast, and see the small differences as well as the commonalities.
Art21 Extended Play
Exclusive | Catherine Opie: Cleveland Clinic
Art21 Extended Play
Exclusive | Catherine Opie: Cleveland Clinic
Catherine Opie describes her intentions behind the permanent installation “Somewhere in the Middle” (2011) at Hillcrest Hospital, a branch of Cleveland Clinic, in Mayfield Heights, Ohio.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Ideas With Legs
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Ideas With Legs
Because I so love questions and quotes, and use them in my own teaching to get students thinking about process, predetermined notions about contemporary art and even prejudices, this week I wanted to offer three dynamite thoughts to get students thinking out of the gate…
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Kids on the Beach?
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Kids on the Beach?
There are times when you just have to sit for a while in order to experience a show… and sometimes you get lucky and there are also benches in the picture. I got lucky on steamy summer day and both elements came together for a recent visit to Rineke Dijkstra’s retrospective at the Guggenheim, on view through October 8th.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Long Walk
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Long Walk
I see Richard Long’s “A Line Made By Walking” as a metaphor for teaching. He makes visible his process, which is quietly relentless. He creates order through a meditative act. He provides focus. He makes us see something quite simple in a completely new way.
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