Tag Archives: Sculpture

Jeff Koons, "Puppy," steel, soil, plants, June 6 - September 5, 2000, at Rockefeller Center

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking At Los Angeles: Against The Deluge

by Catherine Wagley | Dec 30, 2009

Looking at Los Angeles

Looking At Los Angeles: Against The Deluge

by Catherine Wagley | Dec 30, 2009

Looking back before moving forward is such an endearing habit—like brushing your teeth before breakfast—that it’s hard to resent the sweeping, often grandiloquent judgments that accompany the end of each …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Season’s Treatings

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 23, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Season’s Treatings

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 23, 2009

Before the holidays hit us, I thought I might suggest a few destinations, dates, and stocking stuffers for those who are as late with the shopping as I am. Below …

Political Football

by Jennifer Doyle | Dec 22, 2009

Political Football

by Jennifer Doyle | Dec 22, 2009

Flash Points contributor and University of Riverside professor Jennifer Doyle is currently spending 2 weeks in India, traveling with the Indian artist Riyas Komu. Following is the third in a …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 21, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 21, 2009

This week in Art21 artist news we have two tapestry makers, a silk archway, the master of Cremaster, an artist who likes to do laundry, a magical sound installation, environmental issues, creative …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Scrooged

by Ben Street | Dec 21, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Scrooged

by Ben Street | Dec 21, 2009

Tate Britain has just unveiled its 22nd annual Christmas Tree, designed, as usual, by a contemporary British artist. The Christmas Tree tradition at the Tate started in 1988 with Bill …

Rie Wares

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 16, 2009

Rie Wares

by Kelly Rakowski | Dec 16, 2009

Lucie Rie’s solid, soft ceramics combine with the dark and light of these photographs to make welcoming images. Dame Lucie Rie was a prominent British potter who became internationally known …

Flash Points

Art and Nature at Storm King

by Rachel Gagnon | Dec 16, 2009

Flash Points

Art and Nature at Storm King

by Rachel Gagnon | Dec 16, 2009

Flash Points Editor Rachel Craft interviewed David R. Collens, Director and Curator of Storm King Art Center, about the institution’s focus on the relationship between art and nature. —Ed. Rachel …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Time to Talk

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 16, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Time to Talk

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 16, 2009

Art classrooms are mired in production. Too often the drive to complete work speeds right past the formation of a high quality idea or composition. How often have we ourselves …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 14, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 14, 2009

Making this week’s roundup are an upside down glass house, a floral puppy, fused bicycles and an empty white shoe box, a TV-inspired installation, two exhibitions focusing on American society, …

On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production

On Location: Filming Art21 Educators in Southern California

by Nick Ravich | Dec 11, 2009

On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production

On Location: Filming Art21 Educators in Southern California

by Nick Ravich | Dec 11, 2009

In our new column, On Location, Art21 Director of Production Nick Ravich breaks his silence and gives you the scoop on Art21’s production comings and goings including, among other things, …

Flash Points

Deference to the Vernacular

by Anna Kryczka | Dec 9, 2009

Flash Points

Deference to the Vernacular

by Anna Kryczka | Dec 9, 2009

In a short essay dealing with the peculiarities of the West Texas that Donald Judd called home, he writes, Here, everywhere, the destruction of new land is a brutality…Within a …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Confronting History

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 9, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Confronting History

by Joe Fusaro | Dec 9, 2009

Looking through the interviews and essays featured in Art:21- Art in the Twenty- First Century 5, the companion book to season 5, I keep discovering a ton of words to …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Who Gets To Call It Art?

by Ben Street | Dec 7, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Who Gets To Call It Art?

by Ben Street | Dec 7, 2009

It is possible to read the Court’s opinion … in a variety of ways. In saying this, I imply no criticism of the Court, which in those cases was faced …

Gastro-Vision

Antidiets of the Avant-Garde

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 2, 2009

Gastro-Vision

Antidiets of the Avant-Garde

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 2, 2009

Some 30 years after the Italian poet and founder of the Futurist movement Filippo Tommaso Marinetti wrote The Futurist Cookbook (1932) and proposed a revolution in food, the European avant-garde …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 30, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 30, 2009

In this week’s roundup, Art21 artists play with fire, sign new books, design stained glass, collage basketballs, create new films, and pop up in Miami Beach exhibitions: Carl Solway Gallery …

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Virtual Artists’ Immersive Discoveries in a Virtual 3D Frontier

by Nettrice Gaskins | Nov 30, 2009

Art 2.1: Creating on the Social Web

Virtual Artists’ Immersive Discoveries in a Virtual 3D Frontier

by Nettrice Gaskins | Nov 30, 2009

Cao Fei, RMB City. Art in the Twenty-First Century, production still, 2009. Season 5, Episode: Fantasy. © Art21, Inc. 2009. William Saroyan wrote: The role of art is to make …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 23, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 23, 2009

From the west to the east coast and over to Taiwan, Art21 artists are involved in a number of new and large-scale exhibitions: Works by Barry McGee (Season 1) and …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

International Design Conservation: A Discussion with Tim Bechthold

by Richard McCoy | Nov 18, 2009

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

International Design Conservation: A Discussion with Tim Bechthold

by Richard McCoy | Nov 18, 2009

IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with Die Neue Sammlung conservator Tim Bechthold about conserving design arts.

Flash Points

Mythic Environments: Robert Smithson and Eames Demetrios

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Nov 16, 2009

Flash Points

Mythic Environments: Robert Smithson and Eames Demetrios

by Kevin Buist, ArtPrize | Nov 16, 2009

When I first saw that this site’s new Flash Points topic was Art and the Environment, I immediately thought of two artists: Robert Smithson and Eames Demetrios. They are not …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 9, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 9, 2009

Where in the world are Art21 artists? In Germany — where the Berlin Wall fell 20 years ago today — a new suite of paintings by Season 5 artist Julie …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Outside-In

by Ben Street | Nov 9, 2009

Letter from London

Letter from London: Outside-In

by Ben Street | Nov 9, 2009

How many artists are there in the world right now? Let’s be honest. No matter how globalized we’re constantly being reminded the art world is – in symposia, biennales, lists …

Flash Points

Flash Points: Art and the Environment

by Rachel Gagnon | Nov 2, 2009

Flash Points

Flash Points: Art and the Environment

by Rachel Gagnon | Nov 2, 2009

Today we launch the next Flash Points topic, Art & the Environment. We first addressed this issue in Season Four’s episode, Ecology, which delved into the work of artists who …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 2, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 2, 2009

White Snow, a solo exhibition of work by Season 5 artist Paul McCarthy, opens at Hauser & Wirth, New York on November 5. The gallery will debut pieces from a …

Art21 Extended Play

Jeff Koons | Versailles

by Jonathan Munar | Oct 30, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Jeff Koons | Versailles

by Jonathan Munar | Oct 30, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: From his studio in New York City, Jeff Koons discusses his 2008 exhibition at the Château de Versailles in France. Koons explores …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside The Artist’s Studio: Joulia Strauss

by Georgia Kotretsos | Oct 30, 2009

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside The Artist’s Studio: Joulia Strauss

by Georgia Kotretsos | Oct 30, 2009

It would be an oversimplification to introduce Joulia Strauss to you as a Russian visual artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Joulia is a Mari, from the Mari …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teamwork

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 28, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Teamwork

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 28, 2009

In order to create his art, Season 5 artist Allan McCollum incorporates the time-tested strategy of teamwork. Huge installations and projects that no one person could possibly pull off by …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 26, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 26, 2009

The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) will host a talk with Season 3 artist Matthew Ritchie and brothers Bryce and Aaron Dessner (of indie rock band The National) on Saturday, …

Art21 Extended Play

Mary Heilmann | Inspiration

by Jonathan Munar | Oct 23, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Mary Heilmann | Inspiration

by Jonathan Munar | Oct 23, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: In her Long Island studio, Mary Heilmann discusses two inspirations for her work: tea bowls that adhere to the Japanese aesthetic philosophy …

Flash Points

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Breaking Bread

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 22, 2009

Flash Points

Gastro-Vision

Gastro-Vision: Breaking Bread

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 22, 2009

Gastro-Vision is a new monthly column dedicated to all things food in contemporary art and visual culture. This month’s post also falls under the Flash Points topic, Systems. Yours in …

Vitrine

by Nathan Townes-Anderson | Oct 21, 2009

Vitrine

by Nathan Townes-Anderson | Oct 21, 2009

“Like a museum for one object, built around an existing New York City Parks Department flag pole at Socrates Sculpture Park, LIC, NY.” —Douglas Ross, home.bway.net/douglas/

Then and Now

by Nathan Townes-Anderson | Oct 21, 2009

Then and Now

by Nathan Townes-Anderson | Oct 21, 2009

In the 1960s and 70s, American artist Ed Ruscha conceived, designed, and distributed a series of books. Their titles, such as Thirtyfour Parking Lots (1967), Some Los Angeles Apartments (1965), …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Concepts Around Interviewing Artists: a Discussion with Glenn Wharton

by Richard McCoy | Oct 20, 2009

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Concepts Around Interviewing Artists: a Discussion with Glenn Wharton

by Richard McCoy | Oct 20, 2009

IMA conservator Richard McCoy discusses the methodology and the process of interviewing artists with MoMA conservator Glenn Wharton.

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 19, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 19, 2009

New photographs by Hiroshi Sugimoto (Season 3) are on view at Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco through October 31. Sugimoto’s latest body of work titled Lightning Fields depicts electricity. To …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Janine Antoni, Part Two

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 14, 2009

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Talking with Janine Antoni, Part Two

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 14, 2009

The following is part two of my discussion with Janine Antoni from last week. Be sure to catch her new show at Luhring Augustine Gallery, titled Up Against, through October …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 12, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Oct 12, 2009

A new installation by James Turrell (Season 1) — a light-filled space in the tradition of his Ganzfeld Pieces — will open at the Wolfsburg Art Museum in Germany on …

Art21 Extended Play

Josiah McElheny | History & Originality

by Jonathan Munar | Oct 9, 2009

Art21 Extended Play

Josiah McElheny | History & Originality

by Jonathan Munar | Oct 9, 2009

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Artist Josiah McElheny discusses the relationship between artworks and the context in which they were created, highlighting the distinctions between history and …