Tag Archives: Publications

Another artist worth reading

by Sharon Butler | Jul 9, 2009

Another artist worth reading

by Sharon Butler | Jul 9, 2009

Owing to its timeless insights about artmaking and life, art teachers traditionally assign Ashcan School painter Robert Henri’s 1923 collection of writing,  The Art Spirit, to beginning painters. The newly-released …

In Celebration of Online Archives

by Sharon Butler | Jul 1, 2009

In Celebration of Online Archives

by Sharon Butler | Jul 1, 2009

In 2006, the Smithsonian Archives of American Art began digitizing all of the Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner papers, photographs, and ephemera in their archives. Now that the 15,096-image collection …

Flash Points

Interview with Jackie Battenfield

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 30, 2009

Flash Points

Interview with Jackie Battenfield

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Jun 30, 2009

As our Flash Points topic of Art and Economics comes to a close, I sat down and spoke with Jackie Battenfield, whose first book The Artist’s Guide: How to Make …

Back in the Day: Mel Bochner and Marcelo Bonevardi

by Sharon Butler | Jun 23, 2009

Back in the Day: Mel Bochner and Marcelo Bonevardi

by Sharon Butler | Jun 23, 2009

Mel Bochner’s new book, Solar System & Rest Rooms: Writings and Interviews, 1965–2007, is a compilation of his writing, both about art and as art. The book opens with thirty-five …

Solomon: Wherefore wisdom?

by Kemi Ilesanmi | May 18, 2009

Solomon: Wherefore wisdom?

by Kemi Ilesanmi | May 18, 2009

While I love living in New York City, there are nights when I long for the simplicity of only one truly art-worthy thing to do in town. Tonight is one …

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 …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On representations of the artist at work (Part 2)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 6, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On representations of the artist at work (Part 2)

by Audrey Chan | Mar 6, 2009

Following up our discussion about documentation of the creative process in the cases of Mark Bradford and Jackson Pollock, my students and I talked about what we might include in …

Flash Points

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

by Daniel Tucker | Mar 6, 2009

Flash Points

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 …

BOMB in the Building

BOMB in the building

by BOMB Magazine | Feb 6, 2009

BOMB in the Building

BOMB in the building

by BOMB Magazine | Feb 6, 2009

Not as incendiary as you thought, just the friendly folks from BOMB magazine here for the first round of our Friday column. In case you didn’t know, BOMB—like Art21—is a …

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the Internet…

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 29, 2009

Meanwhile, elsewhere on the Internet…

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 29, 2009

Early supercomputer part (CDC 160A) courtesy of Cedmen Wes covered our iTunes coup already but here are a few other links worth perusing. A double shot of art at NYFA …

kaput.

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 14, 2009

kaput.

by Georgia Kotretsos | Jan 14, 2009

Kaput. founders/co-editors: Christopher Marinos and Thanos Stathopoulos kaput. is a quarterly online magazine on contemporary art, which was founded last year in Athens, Greece. The name of the magazine was …

What’s That Thing?

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 12, 2008

What’s That Thing?

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 12, 2008

Art21 artists Allora & Calzadilla (Season 4) have designed the current issue of The Thing, a quarterly journal that takes the form of an everyday object that somehow incorporates text. Each year, four artists, …

Visionaire 55 Surprise

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Dec 12, 2008

Visionaire 55 Surprise

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Dec 12, 2008

  Collaborating with the House of Krug, Visionaire has just released its new issue packed with goodies.  Keeping in line with the magazine’s tradition of producing unusual, thematic, and multi-formatted …

All the News We Hope to Print

by Marc Mayer | Nov 13, 2008

All the News We Hope to Print

by Marc Mayer | Nov 13, 2008

Living in the afterglow or wake (depending on your political leanings) of the 2008 presidential election, we are left to wonder where this talk of hope and change might lead …

For the Matthew Barney Fan Who Has Everything

by Hrag Vartanian | Oct 28, 2008

For the Matthew Barney Fan Who Has Everything

by Hrag Vartanian | Oct 28, 2008

  Fansites may be more common for music fans or even authors but artists don’t seem to inspire the same level of adoration (or is it obsession?) that other creative …

McElheny and Mies in Cabinet

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 20, 2008

McElheny and Mies in Cabinet

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Aug 20, 2008

In the current “Underground” issue of Cabinet magazine, Josiah McElheny (Season 3) contributes an essay titled Nowhere, Everywhere, Somewhere.  The paper investigates a series of photographs and mock-ups depicting an …

The Best Of The Web

by Laurel Ptak | Jul 3, 2008

The Best Of The Web

by Laurel Ptak | Jul 3, 2008

Recently I’ve noticed a huge change in my art-going habits. I’m much more likely to spend time looking at/thinking about art online than I am to step foot inside traditional …

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 …

Sound & Language

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 26, 2008

Sound & Language

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 26, 2008

The human voice is the most specific expression of an individual. With its infinite potential for sound effects and imitation along with its prime role in communication, it is clearly …

Museum

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 20, 2008

Museum

by Arezoo Moseni | Jun 20, 2008

The Negro Leagues Baseball Museum was established eighteen years ago in Kansas City, Missouri on 18th and Vine Streets, just around the corner from the Paseo YMCA building where the …

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 …

Catherine Sullivan in BOMB Magazine

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 9, 2008

Catherine Sullivan in BOMB Magazine

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 9, 2008

In a BOMB Magazine web exclusive, Season 4 artist Catherine Sullivan (pictured top right) and choreographer Meg Stuart discuss mining the history of the avant-garde tradition and emotional overflow in …

Nancy Spero at de Appel

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 18, 2008

Nancy Spero at de Appel

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 18, 2008

From April 19 through June 22, to mark the release of Codex Spero. Nancy Spero Selected Writings and Interviews 1950-2008 compiled by curator Roel Arkesteijn, de Appel in Amsterdam is …

Anderson and Walker Among 85 Weirdest

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 8, 2008

Anderson and Walker Among 85 Weirdest

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Apr 8, 2008

The March/April 85th anniversary issue of Weird Tales magazine is featuring ‚ÄúThe 85 Weirdest Storytellers of the Past 85 Years.‚Äù Each day since March 26th the Weird Tales website is …

Walker and Bourgeois in Flaunt Magazine

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 21, 2008

Walker and Bourgeois in Flaunt Magazine

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 21, 2008

The Spring 2008 fashion issue of the arts and entertainment glossy, Flaunt Magazine, features Art21 artists Kara Walker (Season 2) and Louise Bourgeois (Season 1). While Walker’s work is currently …

Gordon Matta-Clark at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

by Kat Parker | Mar 12, 2008

Gordon Matta-Clark at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago

by Kat Parker | Mar 12, 2008

“You Are the Measure,” the first retrospective in twenty years of work by Gordon Matta-Clark (1943 – 1978) curated by Whitney Museum of American Art’s Elizabeth Sussman has come to …

Tonight: “The Influence of the New West” panel on Robert Adams at New School

by Kelly Shindler | Mar 12, 2008

Tonight: “The Influence of the New West” panel on Robert Adams at New School

by Kelly Shindler | Mar 12, 2008

TONIGHT! The Influence of the New West Confounding Expectations: Photography in Context Originally published in 1974, Robert Adams‘s The New West signaled a significant shift in photographic representation of the …

Lilli Carr√®’s The Lagoon

by Kat Parker | Mar 12, 2008

Lilli Carr√®’s The Lagoon

by Kat Parker | Mar 12, 2008

Chicago-based filmmaker, illustrator, and comics artist Lilli Carr√® just completed her new book The Lagoon which will be available in October through Fantagraphics. You can view excerpts here. Her comic …

Political Cartoonist Mark Fiore on Spark

by Kristin Farr | Mar 5, 2008

Political Cartoonist Mark Fiore on Spark

by Kristin Farr | Mar 5, 2008

Mark Fiore was a featured artist on the Season 6 premiere of Spark. Fiore takes cartooning a step further by creating timely animations for The Washington Post, The Los Angeles …

Allora & Calzadilla: Nongovernmental Politics

by Seth Curcio | Feb 27, 2008

Allora & Calzadilla: Nongovernmental Politics

by Seth Curcio | Feb 27, 2008

The book Nongovernmental Politics, published in April 2007, contains a collection of scholarly essays that are centered on the challenges and importance of nongovernmental activism in contemporary society. The cover …

Trenton Doyle Hancock article in Beautiful/Decay

by Seth Curcio | Feb 26, 2008

Trenton Doyle Hancock article in Beautiful/Decay

by Seth Curcio | Feb 26, 2008

An article featuring the work of artist Trenton Doyle Hancock was released this week in Issue V of Beautiful/Decay magazine. Hancock was featured in Season 2 of Art:21 in the …

And we’re back: Raymond Pettibon in NY Times Op-Ed pages

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 2, 2008

And we’re back: Raymond Pettibon in NY Times Op-Ed pages

by Kelly Shindler | Jan 2, 2008

Season 2 artist Raymond Pettibon follows up his June 21 and September 23 contributions to the New York Times Opinion pages with his December 21 drawing, The Seasons: Winter. See …

Pancha Tantra: Walton’s World

by Ana Otero | Dec 18, 2007

Pancha Tantra: Walton’s World

by Ana Otero | Dec 18, 2007

Taschen, the German publisher specializing in art, design, and architecture, has released a new monographic masterpiece on Walton Ford, an artist featured in Season 2 who creates naturalistic and consistently …

New work by Kara Walker at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

by Ana Otero | Nov 1, 2007

New work by Kara Walker at Sikkema Jenkins & Co.

by Ana Otero | Nov 1, 2007

Kara Walker, who recently opened her major exhibition at the Whitney Museum, also has new work on view at Sikkema Jenkins & Co in New York. The exhibition features work …

Kara Walker’s art graces New Yorker cover

by Kelly Shindler | Aug 23, 2007

Kara Walker’s art graces New Yorker cover

by Kelly Shindler | Aug 23, 2007

In a departure from its usual roster of artists, and in honor of the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina, The New Yorker magazine features Post Katrina‚ÄîAdrift, a piece by Season …