Tag Archives: Sculpture
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The California Biennial: Collectives, Conversations, and Collaborations
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The California Biennial: Collectives, Conversations, and Collaborations
I first experienced the California Biennial in 2008 as a participant in Mary Kelly’s Flashing Nipple Happening. Kelly had recruited around five dozen young women to gear-up in black …
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights: Extramücadele/Extrastruggle
Turkish and Other Delights
Turkish and Other Delights: Extramücadele/Extrastruggle
Extrastruggle is an enormous project which began in 1997. It works on imaginary demands from imaginary customers. Just like a graphic designer designing a logo for a client, it designs …
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Rigo 23
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice) with Rigo 23
I first encountered Rigo 23’s work this past summer staying with friends in San Francisco’s Mission, where Rigo 23 partially got his start as an artist through his engagement with …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Top 10 Chicago Art Events in 2010
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports | Top 10 Chicago Art Events in 2010
Meg Onli and Claudine Ise’s list of the ten best–or at least most interesting–events in Chicago art in 2010. 1. Best city-wide, sustained, multi-platform discussion of a single topic in …
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hell Is Other People
Letter from London
Letter from London: Hell Is Other People
It is a truth universally acknowledged that artists make the best curators. Mark Wallinger’s exhibition, The Russian Linesman at the Hayward Gallery last March, was a proposal about what creative …
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Stage your Melodrama: An Elmgreen and a Dragset
Lives and Works in Berlin
Lives and Works in Berlin | Stage your Melodrama: An Elmgreen and a Dragset
When the art historians start treading through Berlin’s turn-of-the-millennium years to chart artists’ march to Neukölln, Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset‘s studio will be a main stop for tea and …
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Translating Ai Weiwei: Bringing Chinese Social Media Art to the English Twittersphere, Part 2
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Translating Ai Weiwei: Bringing Chinese Social Media Art to the English Twittersphere, Part 2
Ai Weiwei. Sunflower Seeds, 2010. Installation view, Turbine Hall, Tate Modern, London. Photo courtesy of Aaron Chen. An Xiao follows up on yesterday’s post and continues her discussion with Bird’s …
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | Translating Ai Weiwei: Bringing Chinese Social Media Art to the English Twittersphere, Part 1
Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web
Art 2.1 | Translating Ai Weiwei: Bringing Chinese Social Media Art to the English Twittersphere, Part 1
Artist Ai Weiwei in conversation with Tate Modern curator Katie Hill, October 2010. Photo by An Xiao. This past summer, Jennifer Ng and I launched Bird’s Nest: Ai Weiwei in …
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision: Food and Technology in an Art Lab
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision: Food and Technology in an Art Lab
Last month, Eyebeam Art + Technology Center in New York turned their main exhibition space into X-Lab, a “living” work space where the public can interact with Eyebeam’s fellows and …
Art21 Extended Play
Allan McCollum: “Over Ten Thousand Individual Works”
Art21 Extended Play
Allan McCollum: “Over Ten Thousand Individual Works”
SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #129: Filmed in his Brooklyn studio, Allan McCollum reveals the process and logic behind the project Over Ten Thousand …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | A Fresh Path at the Met: A Discussion with Kendra E. Roth
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | A Fresh Path at the Met: A Discussion with Kendra E. Roth
Indianapolis Museum of Art conservator speaks with Metropolitan Museum conservator Kendra Roth about ancient chariots, fish, and kinetic sculptures, among other things.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Seen and Felt
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Seen and Felt
When I first encountered the warm voluptuousness of Mary Cassatt’s paintings, it annoyed me. Then I realized the artist had never married, living much of her life frequenting Paris salons, …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Hard Conversations (Exploring Inequality)
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Hard Conversations (Exploring Inequality)
In the New York Times last week, Nicholas Kristof reported that the richest 1 percent of Americans now take home almost 24 percent of the income, up from 9 percent …
Art21 Extended Play
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
William Kentridge: Studio Manager Anne McIlleron
Art21 Extended Play
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
William Kentridge: Studio Manager Anne McIlleron
SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE In celebration of Art21’s new feature film William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible — which premiered nationally on October 21, 2010 …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Considering Gravity’s Loom: A Discussion with Ball-Nogues
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
Considering Gravity’s Loom: A Discussion with Ball-Nogues
IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with the Benjamin Ball and Gaston Nogues (Ball-Nogues Studio) about their recent installation, Gravity’s Loom, at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Temporary Services
5 Questions for Contemporary Practice
5 Questions with Temporary Services
Art21 is pleased to announce our latest column: 5 Questions (for Contemporary Practice), written by guest blog alum Thom Donovan (bio here). 5 Questions showcases the work of contemporary practitioners …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Four for Fall
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Four for Fall
Traditionally, fall is the time when galleries launch their new slate of exhibitions after a relatively slow-paced couple of summer months. Galleries tend to highlight some of the most prominent …
Looking at Los Angeles
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Dark Undercurrents in the Hammer Contemporary Collection
Looking at Los Angeles
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Dark Undercurrents in the Hammer Contemporary Collection
Last week, Art21 treated Angelenos to the very first preview screening of William Kentridge: Anything is Possible at the Hammer Museum‘s Billy Wilder Theater. As Art21’s executive director Susan Sollins …
Older
