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Sugimoto at Four Venues

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 5, 2008

Sugimoto at Four Venues

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 5, 2008

The traveling retrospective exhibition of works by Hiroshi Sugimoto (Season 3) is on view at the Museum of Art Lucerne in Switzerland through January 25, 2009. The artist has designed the exhibition, previously at the Neue …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Humor and Beauty

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 22, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Humor and Beauty

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 22, 2008

How can humor be used to say something serious? Can unattractive or disturbing things be represented in a beautiful way? These were just two of the questions posed at last …

DUMBO Art Tour: Art Under the Bridge & the 2008 Triangle Workshop

by Hrag Vartanian | Sep 30, 2008

DUMBO Art Tour: Art Under the Bridge & the 2008 Triangle Workshop

by Hrag Vartanian | Sep 30, 2008

It was a rainy Saturday and it was the kind of day that amplified the bizarrely romantic quality of Brooklyn’s DUMBO neighborhood. During the popular Art Under the Bridge festival …

Letter from London

Letter From London: Protest Too Much

by Ben Street | Sep 29, 2008

Letter from London

Letter From London: Protest Too Much

by Ben Street | Sep 29, 2008

Whichever candidate succeeds this November, there will be a discernible effect in art. The last eight years have seen a resurgence of politically motivated art comparable to that produced during and …

Freeway Balconies Extended!

by Mary Cook | Sep 8, 2008

Freeway Balconies Extended!

by Mary Cook | Sep 8, 2008

Plan to be in Berlin anytime soon? If so, you are in luck – the exhibition Freeway Balconies, at the Deutsche Guggenheim has been extended and will not close until …

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Shooting in Broad Daylight

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 3, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Shooting in Broad Daylight

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 3, 2008

Many teachers I met over the summer had some connection to teaching photography or working with a variety of students who are photographers (for example, in an AP Studio Art …

A Cult, Some Vegans, A Ballet, Oh My!

by Mary Cook | Sep 2, 2008

A Cult, Some Vegans, A Ballet, Oh My!

by Mary Cook | Sep 2, 2008

What do you get when you mix religious overtones, memories of a few former vegan college roommates, comic book-inspired heroes and elegant ballerinas prancing around the stage in funny costumes? …

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Alfredo Jaar | Gramsci & Pasolini

by Wesley Miller | Aug 28, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Alfredo Jaar | Gramsci & Pasolini

by Wesley Miller | Aug 28, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Alfredo Jaar in his installation Infinite Cell (2004) in Santiago, Chile, and various works. Through installations, photographs, and community-based projects, Alfredo Jaar explores the public’s desensitization to images and …

Meat After Meat Joy

by Sarah Sliwa | Aug 16, 2008

Meat After Meat Joy

by Sarah Sliwa | Aug 16, 2008

Zhang Huan, My New York, 2002, still from video performance. Courtesy of Pierre Menard Gallery. One of the last shows I saw in the United States before leaving for Belgium …

Off the Page: Flat Daddies and Other Live Photographs

by Emily Liebert | Aug 10, 2008

Off the Page: Flat Daddies and Other Live Photographs

by Emily Liebert | Aug 10, 2008

On September 30, 2006, I read an article in The New York Times that I don’t think I’ll forget. “When Soldiers Go to War, Flat Daddies Hold Their Place at …

Give Up and Laugh About It

by Emily Liebert | Aug 4, 2008

Give Up and Laugh About It

by Emily Liebert | Aug 4, 2008

The other day I had accidentally hit the strikethrough function in Microsoft Word and so as I was typing my carefully chosen words, they were simultaneously being crossed out. “Okay, …

Collier Schorr at Villa Romana

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 21, 2008

Collier Schorr at Villa Romana

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 21, 2008

Villa Romana in Florence is currently exhibiting Collier Schorr’s Blumen, the second installment of the artist’s Forest & Fields project. For the last fifteen years Schorr (Season 2) has been …

Berliner Salon: Fashion Week and the Paparazzi

by Emilie Trice | Jul 18, 2008

Berliner Salon: Fashion Week and the Paparazzi

by Emilie Trice | Jul 18, 2008

Yesterday inaugurated Berlin Fashion Week, which will continue through the weekend, bringing a number of “celebrities” to town, as well as designers, models and the ubiquitous hangers-on. It’s a pretty …

SIDE X SIDE

by Amy Mackie | Jul 17, 2008

SIDE X SIDE

by Amy Mackie | Jul 17, 2008

Art and activism have been intimately engaged throughout contemporary art history, reiterating the notion that the personal is political. In 2007, Art:21’s Season 4 addressed activist strategies (in particular, the …

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Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle | Casta Paintings

by Wesley Miller | Jul 17, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle | Casta Paintings

by Wesley Miller | Jul 17, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle at home in Chicago, with photographs of the installation The Garden of Delights (1998) at the XXIV Sao Paulo Bienal. Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle’s technologically sophisticated works use natural …

Eleanor Antin at San Diego Museum of Art

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 16, 2008

Eleanor Antin at San Diego Museum of Art

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 16, 2008

Eleanor Antin: Historical Takes opens this weekend at the San Diego Museum of Art. The exhibition is the first to focus on Antin’s recent series of large-scale tableaux photographs based …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

The Billy Joels of Art Education

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 16, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

The Billy Joels of Art Education

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 16, 2008

This past Sunday, the New York Times ran an article about Billy Joel. The article focused on the fact that, despite not making a new recording in 15 years, Billy …

Hiroshi Sugimoto (Sort of) at Madame Tussaud’s

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 11, 2008

Hiroshi Sugimoto (Sort of) at Madame Tussaud’s

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jul 11, 2008

In the June issue of Colloquy, art historian Elizabeth Howie writes about discovering two ‘anonymous’ Hiroshi Sugimoto (Season 3) photographs hanging at Madame Tussaud’s Wax Museum in London. Though no …

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Eleanor Antin | Inventing Histories

by Wesley Miller | Jul 10, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Eleanor Antin | Inventing Histories

by Wesley Miller | Jul 10, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Eleanor Antin reveals the process behind her photographic series Helen’s Odyssey (2007), installed at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York, in particular the work The Tourists (2007) that …

Conversations: An-My Lê with Michael Almereyda part 2

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 9, 2008

Conversations: An-My Lê with Michael Almereyda part 2

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 9, 2008

Following is the second half of the conversation between An-My Lê and filmmaker Michael Almereyda that took place on May 5, 2008 at the Mid-Manhattan Library. This event was co-presented …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Let’s See It Again!

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 9, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Let’s See It Again!

by Joe Fusaro | Jul 9, 2008

I had a great experience recently sitting with my son, Paul, and doing a little preparation for this column. Since he’s an inquisitive, very verbal, curly-haired three year old, I …

Conversations: An-My Lê with Michael Almereyda part 1

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 8, 2008

Conversations: An-My Lê with Michael Almereyda part 1

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 8, 2008

The following is a conversation between An-My Lê and Michael Almereyda that took place at the Mid-Manhattan branch of the New York Public Library on May 5th, 2008. This event …

Berliner Salon: Sugimoto at the Neue and Street art in F-hain

by Emilie Trice | Jul 4, 2008

Berliner Salon: Sugimoto at the Neue and Street art in F-hain

by Emilie Trice | Jul 4, 2008

As previously posted, Hiroshi Sugimoto’s retrospective opened today at the Neue National Galerie. Having seen the show in the context of Mies van der Rohe’s brilliantly minimal architectural monument, I …

Hiroshi Sugimoto Retrospective in Berlin

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 4, 2008

Hiroshi Sugimoto Retrospective in Berlin

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jul 4, 2008

Opening today, Neue Nationalgalerie presents the work of Hiroshi Sugimoto (Season 3) in what constitutes the Art21 artist’s most comprehensive retrospective exhibition in German-speaking countries. Berlin is the third stop for this traveling exhibition, which also goes to.Düsseldorf, Salzburg (Austria), …

New guest blogger: Laurel Ptak of I Heart Photograph

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 2, 2008

New guest blogger: Laurel Ptak of I Heart Photograph

by Kelly Shindler | Jul 2, 2008

Many thanks to Arezoo Moseni for her thoughtful posts linking contemporary artists with broader considerations of time, space, and place. You can follow her musings on her own site here. …

Spaceship Earth

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 27, 2008

Spaceship Earth

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 27, 2008

Buckminster Fuller was one of the most inventive and prolific visionaries of 20th century who was keenly intuitive. Much of the work in the new Whitney exhibition, Buckminster Fuller: Starting …

Facebook: Images of People in Photographs

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 27, 2008

Facebook: Images of People in Photographs

by Nicole J. Caruth | Jun 27, 2008

Facebook: Images of People in Photographs from the Permanent Collection consists of just fifty photographs from nearly 3,000 prints in the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center collection. On view today …

Laurie Simmons at Carolina Nitsch

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 25, 2008

Laurie Simmons at Carolina Nitsch

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 25, 2008

Last call to see the Laurie Simmons (Season 4) exhibition closing tomorrow at Carolina Nitsch Project Room. In and Around the House features the artist’s early black and white photographs …

Jörg Heiser at Austrian Cultural Forum

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 16, 2008

Jörg Heiser at Austrian Cultural Forum

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 16, 2008

On Wednesday June 25th at 7:00 p.m., the Goethe-Institut New York and the Austrian Cultural Forum will co-host a conversation between Jörg Heiser and Brian Sholis, editor at Artforum.com. The …

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Eleanor Antin | “Helen’s Odyssey”

by Wesley Miller | Jun 12, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Eleanor Antin | “Helen’s Odyssey”

by Wesley Miller | Jun 12, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Eleanor Antin’s exhibition Helen’s Odyssey (2007) installed at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts in New York. Antin discusses the historical figure Helen of Troy, and how she became the inspiration …

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An-My Lê | Becoming an Artist

by Wesley Miller | Jun 5, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

An-My Lê | Becoming an Artist

by Wesley Miller | Jun 5, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: An-My Lê discusses how she came to be an artist after studying biology, while printing a photograph from the series Trap Rock (2006) in her New York studio. An-My …

Barthes revisited: photographic experiments

by Karen Johanne Bruhn | Jun 5, 2008

Barthes revisited: photographic experiments

by Karen Johanne Bruhn | Jun 5, 2008

Our exposure to the photographic image on a professional as well as a private level has steadily increased since the first photograph saw the light of day in 1839. The …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Helping Hands

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 4, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Helping Hands

by Joe Fusaro | Jun 4, 2008

I hate to start this column every week by thanking people like it’s a Borscht Belt nightclub, but Teaching With Contemporary Art is off to a great start in its …

Rebirth of Danish art and design

by Karen Johanne Bruhn | Jun 3, 2008

Rebirth of Danish art and design

by Karen Johanne Bruhn | Jun 3, 2008

If you want to keep track of modern Danish art and design, Forårsudstillingen at Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Copenhagen is a pivotal point of departure. Yesterday was the final day of …

Sally Mann on Denmark’s radar

by Kelly Shindler | May 30, 2008

Sally Mann on Denmark’s radar

by Kelly Shindler | May 30, 2008

Following is a special report on Season 1 artist Sally Mann, just in from our fabulous former intern Karen Johanne Bruhn, now back home in Copenhagen… During the past few …

Jessie Mann Discusses the Role of the Subject in Art

by Christopher DeWan | May 21, 2008

Jessie Mann Discusses the Role of the Subject in Art

by Christopher DeWan | May 21, 2008

This week, photography blog Subjectify is featuring a serialized interview with Jessie Mann, daughter of photographer Sally Mann (Season One) and the subject of much of her mother’s work. (That’s …