Tag Archives: Sculpture
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 …
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Screening Wood: Jessica Stockholder at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Screening Wood: Jessica Stockholder at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum
Following on the April post for this column, which explored recent works in print-based installation, this month’s Ink takes an in-depth look at Art21 artist Jessica Stockholder’s current project for …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Threading Infrastructure: An Interview with Anne Wilson
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Threading Infrastructure: An Interview with Anne Wilson
When I asked Anne Wilson if I could interview her for Art21, she sent me a preview copy of her book, Anne Wilson: Wind/Rewind/Weave—a catalogue published collaboratively by White Walls and …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Glenn Ligon, Ai Weiwei and The Art Cops
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Glenn Ligon, Ai Weiwei and The Art Cops
Three things this week… Maika Pollack recently wrote a wonderful review in The New York Observer about the current Glenn Ligon show at the Whitney Museum. As I visited the …
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.
Art21 Extended Play
Paul McCarthy: “Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement”
Art21 Extended Play
Paul McCarthy: “Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement”
SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #142: Artist Paul McCarthy discusses his interest in art as political theater and his sculptures as akin to amusement …
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 …
Letter from London
Letter from London | Seeds of Discord
Letter from London
Letter from London | Seeds of Discord
When an artist dies, their work changes forever. Whatever it was they were doing at the time of their demise becomes loaded with retroactive meaning and spurious clairvoyance. With the …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | In Poor Taste,* Lunch with Jani Leinonen
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | In Poor Taste,* Lunch with Jani Leinonen
I was waiting in line to buy a movie ticket when I heard the news: Jani Leinonen had been incarcerated. Conversations with my Finnish friends in the previous weeks had …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Exploring the Freedom to Re-Present Value: A Discussion with Theaster Gates
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Exploring the Freedom to Re-Present Value: A Discussion with Theaster Gates
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with artist Theaster Gates about Thornton Dial in relations to Gate’s art practice in
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | rocks/mud/linoleum: sculpture between sites
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | rocks/mud/linoleum: sculpture between sites
Richard Long’s artistic medium, since the 1960s, has been walking. On his walks all over the world, he uses found materials to create formations – circles, lines, ovals — leaving …
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 …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Absalon at Kunst-Werke
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Absalon at Kunst-Werke
It was back in 2005 when I first encountered the work of Absalon at Berlin’s Hamburger Bahnhof in a exhibition called Fast Nichts – Minimal Artworks from the Friedrich Christian …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Looking at LARGE SCALE; A Conversation with Jonathan Lippincott
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Looking at LARGE SCALE; A Conversation with Jonathan Lippincott
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with Jonathan Lippincott about his new book, “LARGE SCALE: Fabricating Sculpture in the 1960s and 1970s.”
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 …
Art21 Extended Play
Allan McCollum: “Lost Objects” & “Natural Copies”
Art21 Extended Play
Allan McCollum: “Lost Objects” & “Natural Copies”
SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #137: Filmed in his Brooklyn studio, artist Allan McCollum discusses two projects utilizing dinosaur fossils—”Lost Objects” (begun 1991) and …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Spring Thaw
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin: Spring Thaw
I fly back to Berlin tomorrow, finally ending a prolonged Kerouac walk-through of mid-sized southern cities; a spring break for the “mild girl.” During my Texas stay, a sun constitutional …
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Brandon Anschultz
Inside the Artist's Studio
Inside the Artist’s Studio: Brandon Anschultz
Full disclosure: I have spent many happy hours in Brandon Anschultz‘s studio, located near Lafayette Square in St. Louis, MO, drinking wine, laughing hysterically at his sharp wit, and admiring …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Ephemerality and Eternity in “All of this and nothing”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Ephemerality and Eternity in “All of this and nothing”
“It’s really about the magical and the mysterious in the everyday,” says Hammer senior curator Anne Ellegood, in the online video introducing the museum’s newest exhibition, All of this and nothing. …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Characters, Not Caricatures: The Multifarious Art of Rachel Mason
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Characters, Not Caricatures: The Multifarious Art of Rachel Mason
Rachel Mason’s work is not easy to neatly summarize. I’ve been following her projects for several years now, and I still have difficulty explaining what exactly it is that she …
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Scott Yoell’s “Tsunami”
Calling from Canada
Calling From Canada: Scott Yoell’s “Tsunami”
When I interview an artist for radio format, I go in hoping for interesting and honest statements about his/her work and ideas, because I know that in the editing suite, …
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