Tag Archives: Sculpture

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Janine Antoni, Part One

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Janine Antoni, Part One

To say it was a pleasure to be given the opportunity to interview Janine Antoni for this column is a gross understatement. In 2003, Janine Antoni‘s Season 2 segment was …

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup

Vital Signals: Japanese and American Video Art from the 1960s and 70s is a three-part screening program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Presented in collaboration with Electronic …

Reminder: Allan McCollum and Josiah McElheny at New York Public Library Tomorrow

Reminder: Allan McCollum and Josiah McElheny at New York Public Library Tomorrow

A Conversation with Allan McCollum and Josiah McElheny Season 5 artist Allan McCollum will be speaking with Season 3 artist Josiah McElheny at the New York Public Library tomorrow, following …

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Berlin Wall Falls in L.A.

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking at Los Angeles: Berlin Wall Falls in L.A.

Tuesday night, former U.S. Ambassador Richard Barkley called East Berlin a “profoundly boring place,” drab and depressing compared to other places he’d been. His callous observation loosely framed a panel …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Kapoortalism

Letter from London

Letter from London: Kapoortalism

There’s a big lump of birdshit in the eye of Joshua Reynolds. The painter and founder of the Royal Academy, who once literally took a Titian painting to bits to …

Allan McCollum at the New York Public Library Oct 6 | Ask a Question

Allan McCollum at the New York Public Library Oct 6 | Ask a Question

UPDATE: Season 3 artist Josiah McElheny has been added to the event. A Conversation with Allan McCollum and Josiah McElheny Tuesday, October 6, 6:00 p.m New York Public Library South …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Ottawa Without a Passport

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Ottawa Without a Passport

On Monday I had the pleasure of working with 26 teachers from a variety of settings in the Ottawa Area Intermediate School District… located in western Michigan. That’s right, Michigan. …

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup

Season 4 artist Mark Bradford has been awarded the 2009 MacArthur “Genius” Award. The MacArthur Fellows Program, as it is also known, awards unrestricted fellowships to individuals who have shown …

Roxy on the Roof

Roxy on the Roof

I could imagine no better setting for Roxy Paine’s most recent sculpture, titled Maelstrom, than the rooftop of the Metropolitan Museum of Art and its backdrop of Central Park and …

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Krzysztof Wodiczko interviewed by Giuliana Bruno

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Krzysztof Wodiczko interviewed by Giuliana Bruno

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a BOMB contributor relating to a Season 5 artist. This week, inspired by Kimsooja’s videos and installations, we’re …

Dali Down Under

Dali Down Under

A few weeks ago I had the opportunity to visit Melbourne, Australia. It is a wonderful city with a thriving art scene, the centerpiece of which is the magnificent National …

Looking at Los Angeles

The Last Days of Pompeii in LA

Looking at Los Angeles

The Last Days of Pompeii in LA

The Los Angeles art world still has a lot of the laissez-faire approachability that endeared it back in the ’60s, which is why so many artists migrate to L.A. and …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Imaging Conservation at the Guggenheim: A Discussion with Carol Stringari

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Imaging Conservation at the Guggenheim: A Discussion with Carol Stringari

IMA art conservator talks with Carol Stringari, the Chief Conservator at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.

Flash Points

Yinka Shonibare at the Brooklyn Museum

Flash Points

Yinka Shonibare at the Brooklyn Museum

Yinka Shonibare MBE (Season 5) has a mid-career retrospective currently on view at the Brooklyn Museum through September 20, 2009. The exhibition was organized and toured by the Museum of …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Hot Scots, Part Deux

Letter from London

Letter from London: Hot Scots, Part Deux

Sometimes the most interesting thing about an artist is the disparity between their work and the established perception of it. Eva Hesse, the late German-American sculptor of ratty latex and …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Flo McGarrell

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Flo McGarrell

Flo McGarrell is a visual artist based in Newbury, Vermont, USA and Jacmel, Haiti. He was born in Rome, Italy to American expatriate artists. McGarrell received a B.F.A. in Fibers …

Chain Link Fence

Chain Link Fence

Some summertime offerings from the internets. Pastels Not Dunzo: Joshua David Stein watches the cast of “The Hills” getting pastel’d. “Chalk pastels are the soft focus of the art world …

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Aesthetics of Urban Farming, Part II

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Aesthetics of Urban Farming, Part II

I closed Part 1 of this post with an e-mail from Truck Farmers Curt Ellis and Ian Cheney in which they encouraged others to reclaim unused open spaces in New …

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Paul McCarthy interviewed by Benjamin Weissman

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Paul McCarthy interviewed by Benjamin Weissman

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’ll be featuring a vintage BOMB interview relating to a Season 5 artist. This week we present Paul McCarthy’s interview …

Flash Points

A Look Into the Future with Saya Woolfalk

Flash Points

A Look Into the Future with Saya Woolfalk

Saya Woolfalk, “No Place: A Ritual of the Empathics,” 2009. Courtesy of the artist. This November, New York City will once again be abuzz with PERFORMA, the sprawling biennial dedicated …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Examining the Lives of Jenny Holzer’s Works/Words: A Discussion with SAAM Conservator Hugh Shockey

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Examining the Lives of Jenny Holzer’s Works/Words: A Discussion with SAAM Conservator Hugh Shockey

Art conservator Richard McCoy discusses the IMA’s 1983 Jenny Holzer sculpture, “Untitled,” and interviews SAAM conservator Hugh Shockey about “For SAAM.”

Art21 Extended Play

Josiah McElheny | Assistant Anders Rydstedt

Art21 Extended Play

Josiah McElheny | Assistant Anders Rydstedt

Long-time assistant and collaborator Anders Rydstedt discusses the differences between creating traditional forms in glass—such as vases—with Josiah McElheny’s sculptural objects and installations. Filmed at the Michael Davis Stained Glass …

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

James Casebere interviewed by Roberto Juarez

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

James Casebere interviewed by Roberto Juarez

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we feature a vintage BOMB interview relating to a Season 5 artist or theme. This week we look to the …

No Nukes

No Nukes

Four years ago, when using Google Earth satellites to zoom in on the roofs of our homes was all the rage, I was living in a Hudson River hamlet about …

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

An interview with Tom Sachs by John Kessler

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

An interview with Tom Sachs by John Kessler

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we feature a vintage BOMB interview relating to a Season 5 artist or theme. This week, inspired by Jeff Koons‘s …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jason Peters

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio: Jason Peters

Jason Peters is an artist based in Brooklyn, New York. Over the years, he has discovered his muse in found objects – whether they are tires, buckets, or another material …

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

An interview with Constant by Linda Boersma

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

An interview with Constant by Linda Boersma

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we are featuring a vintage BOMB interview relating to a Season 5 artist. This week, inspired by Cao Fei’s utopian …

Flash Points

Yeah, but no, but yeah, but…

Flash Points

Yeah, but no, but yeah, but…

Select ONE answer for ALL of the below questions: Does art expand our ability to imagine? What’s Matt Cassel without Randy Moss, Wes Welker and Bill Belichick? What came first: …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Jeff – Dumb and Blind(ing)

Letter from London

Letter from London: Jeff – Dumb and Blind(ing)

In Herbert Ross’s magisterial 1987 film The Secret of My Success, Michael J. Fox plays Brantley Foster, a charming chancer who works his way up (spoiler alert!) from mailroom to …

Art21 Extended Play

Jessica Stockholder | “Vortex in the Play of Theater with Real Passion: In Memory of Kay Stockholder

Art21 Extended Play

Jessica Stockholder | “Vortex in the Play of Theater with Real Passion: In Memory of Kay Stockholder

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: At her home in New Haven, Jessica Stockholder discusses the inspiration for “Vortex in the Play of Theater with Real Passion: In …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Extending the Conservation Framework: A Site-Specific Conservation Discussion with Francesca Esmay

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Extending the Conservation Framework: A Site-Specific Conservation Discussion with Francesca Esmay

IMA conservator Richard McCoy discusses 100 Acres and Spiral Jetty with Dia conservator Francesca Esmay.

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup

Works by Art21 artists Pepón Osario (Season 1) and Eleanor Antin (Season 2) are currently on view in the exhibition Black&WhiteWorks at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. The show includes painting, …

Flash Points

New Flash Points Topic: Fantasy

Flash Points

New Flash Points Topic: Fantasy

In celebration of the fifth season of Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century, premiering this fall on PBS, the current round of Flash Points topics correspond to our upcoming four thematic …

Flash Points

Conveying Compassion

Flash Points

Conveying Compassion

When I learned that Doris Salcedo was being featured in Art21’s episode on Compassion, I couldn’t imagine a more appropriate artist to represent this theme. However to me, Salcedo goes …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Peyton for Godot

Letter from London

Letter from London: Peyton for Godot

I don’t understand why anyone would like Elizabeth Peyton, but I also don’t understand why anyone would like egg whites or Coldplay or The Shawshank Redemption, so maybe I’ll never …

Flash Points

Understanding Pain

Flash Points

Understanding Pain

A friend of mine told me how she first learned of rape: rape happens when someone forces all your clothes off, her brother explained. My friend was, of course, horrified. …