Tag Archives: Public Art
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Alena Williams on Nancy Holt
Inspired Reading
Inspired Reading | Alena Williams on Nancy Holt
Nancy Holt, perhaps best known for her Sun Tunnels installed the Utah desert, is currently the subject of a traveling exhibition, Nancy Holt: Sightlines, curated by Alena Williams. The exhibition originated at …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking About Interdisciplinary Teaching with Mark Dion’s Neukom Vivarium
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Thinking About Interdisciplinary Teaching with Mark Dion’s Neukom Vivarium
This past spring at the National Art Education Association’s annual conference in Seattle, Art21 brought Mark Dion not only as a keynote speaker, but also to explore his work and …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Jenny Marketou
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Jenny Marketou
Jenny Marketou was born and raised in Athens, Greece and educated in the United States. She lives and works in New York. Marketou earned a BFA from the Corcoran School …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Maureen Connor
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Maureen Connor
In the past decade the visual arts have seen a retreat from traditional locations of meaning making and power. This retreat can be partially attributed to the increasing disparity between …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Joy and Revolution: Talking with Adam Weiler of Ambrose
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Joy and Revolution: Talking with Adam Weiler of Ambrose
If you’re not familiar with Ambrose, well…. you should be. A few months ago on a trip to work with teachers at the Holland Area Arts Council in Michigan I …
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 …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Skokie Northshore Sculpture Park
Living in a fabulous art city like Chicago, it’s easy to become urban-centric when it comes to contemporary art. But there’s a place just on the border of Chicago that …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Sanford Biggers
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice with Sanford Biggers
Images from popular culture abound in Sanford Biggers’s work, and particularly from hip-hop, East Asian Buddhism, and the Antebellum and Afro-Futurist African-American. Two images that have become particularly emblematic for …
Calling from Canada
Calling from Canada | Surrey Art Gallery’s “Dwellings”
Calling from Canada
Calling from Canada | Surrey Art Gallery’s “Dwellings”
As part of the exhibition Dwellings at the Surrey Art Gallery, Sitely Premises is a group show of works by artists who have examined the exterior of Lower Mainland residential …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Gregory Sholette
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio | Gregory Sholette
Gregory Sholette is a New York-based artist, writer, and founding member of Political Art Documentation/Distribution (PAD/D: 1980-1988), and REPOhistory (1989-2000). A graduate of The Cooper Union (BFA 1979), The University …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Not An Alternative
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Not An Alternative
I encountered the art group Not An Alternative for the first time about a month ago in Corona, Queens, where Tania Bruguera (featured last month in 5 Questions) had assembled …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | “Chaos 1” Returns to Life
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | “Chaos 1” Returns to Life
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks about the return of Jean Tinguely’s 1974 masterpiece “Chaos 1” in Columbus, Indiana.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Visons for Chicago: Public Art with Organizer Daniel Tucker
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Visons for Chicago: Public Art with Organizer Daniel Tucker
I’ve known Daniel Tucker for about five years now and I’ve always thought of him as a true Chicago artist, somewhere in between artist, organizer, writer, and administrator and always …