Tag Archives: Photography
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | “Rethink/LA” Exhibition Envisions Future Transformation
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | “Rethink/LA” Exhibition Envisions Future Transformation
Los Angeles has a reputation for not only its excess, sprawl, and exploding population, but also for its unruly, anarchic and highly changeable landscape. Rethink/LA: Perspectives on a Future …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 New York Close Up
Teaching with New York Close Up: Lucas Blalock’s 99¢ Store Still Lifes
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 New York Close Up
Teaching with New York Close Up: Lucas Blalock’s 99¢ Store Still Lifes
Lucas Blalock’s only plan is to work… preferably in the evenings. He deals with a set of parameters that his tools provide and brings things he purchases at local discount …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Since When Is Red a Conservative Color?
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Since When Is Red a Conservative Color?
At a meeting on Tuesday, July 12, officials in California’s Riverside County decided seceding from the rest of the state might not be such a good idea after all. The …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | Cengiz Tekin
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | Cengiz Tekin
If Şener Özmen (the subject of last month’s Turkish and Other Delights post) is the godfather of Diyarbakır’s contemporary art community, then his long-time collaborateur, artist Cengiz Tekin, is its …
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Both a Science and an Art
Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture
Bedfellows | Both a Science and an Art
Every Wednesday night, my grammar teacher takes chalk to blackboard to underline subjects and circle direct objects. White dust falling to the floor, she puts brackets around prepositional phrases and …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching About Poverty and Homelessness
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching About Poverty and Homelessness
This past Saturday, New York Times columnist Charles M. Blow wrote an op-ed piece called Them That’s Not Shall Lose which highlighted, as James Baldwin put it, how expensive it …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
It’s a Wrap: Looking Backward and Thinking Forward
Teaching with Contemporary Art
It’s a Wrap: Looking Backward and Thinking Forward
Atsuko Tanaka (1932-2005), “Round on Sand”, 1968 Right around this time I usually write a post that relates to things we as art educators often think about at the end …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Carlos Motta
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Carlos Motta
While Carlos Motta’s work exists through a number of different media, I think of it primarily as putting forth a series of socially and politically committed archives. These archives are …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | Şener Özmen
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | Şener Özmen
While preparing to travel to Diyarbakır, the largest city in southeastern Turkey, I discovered that telling Turkish people who live outside of that region that you’re going to visit Diyarbakır …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Juozas Cernius
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Juozas Cernius
Juozas Cernius is a Canadian visual artist based in Toronto. He has received his MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (2004) and his BFA from Concordia …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | Aslı Çavuşoğlu
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights | Aslı Çavuşoğlu
A small black and white newspaper photograph hangs on the wall of Aslı Çavuşoğlu’s studio, located in an old warehouse in Istanbul’s Karaköy district. The photograph is crowd shot, taken …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art: The First Three Years
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teaching with Contemporary Art: The First Three Years
This week Teaching with Contemporary Art here on the blog turns 3. Frankly, I can’t believe that I’ve been writing this column for three years. At the same time, it …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Georgia Kotretsos
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Georgia Kotretsos
Georgia Kotretsos is a visual artist, writer, and curator currently based in Athens, Greece. She earned a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA …
Art21 Extended Play
Carrie Mae Weems: “The Kitchen Table Series”
Art21 Extended Play
Carrie Mae Weems: “The Kitchen Table Series”
SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #138: Filmed in her Syracuse studio, artist Carrie Mae Weems discusses the impetus for her work “The Kitchen Table …
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Ken Lum 30 Year Retrospective at Vancouver Art Gallery
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Ken Lum 30 Year Retrospective at Vancouver Art Gallery
Ever watch a three month old baby stare into a mirror for the first time? Its face is an expression of pure awe and confusion. What is the thing in …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Killed Posterity
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Killed Posterity
Roy Stryker, the man who ran the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and sent some of the best-known 20th century photographers out on their first assignments, “didn’t …
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