Tag Archives: Sweden

Access 100 Artists: Get Involved!

by Rosanna Flouty | Jan 25, 2013

Access 100 Artists: Get Involved!

by Rosanna Flouty | Jan 25, 2013

Art21’s Director of Education, Rosanna Flouty, sends out a call to action. Get involved with our latest initiative, Access 100 Artists, and host a screening!

Transmission

Transmission | An Interview with Niels Geybels: Sequences, Monoliths, and Beneath the Earth

by Amelia Ishmael | Jan 3, 2013

Transmission

Transmission | An Interview with Niels Geybels: Sequences, Monoliths, and Beneath the Earth

by Amelia Ishmael | Jan 3, 2013

Columnist Amelia Ishmael speaks with Antwerp-based visual artist, graphic designer, and musician Niels Geybels, whose various practices often overlap.
Perfomance by Yuki Higashino at Skånes Konstförening Malmö, Sweden

The Unholy Trinity of Postmodern Architects, Black Metal, and Holy Minimalism

by Mathias Jansson | Jan 27, 2012

The Unholy Trinity of Postmodern Architects, Black Metal, and Holy Minimalism

by Mathias Jansson | Jan 27, 2012

What do postmodern architecture, Black Metal culture and ‘holy minimalist’ musical compositions have in common? Read on to find out.
Stefano Spera, Grand theft auto, 2009, oil on canvas, 100 x 120 cm

Videogame Appropriation in Contemporary Art: Grand Theft Auto (GTA)

by Mathias Jansson | Jan 25, 2012

Videogame Appropriation in Contemporary Art: Grand Theft Auto (GTA)

by Mathias Jansson | Jan 25, 2012

Artists like Joan Pamboukes draw on the Grand Theft Auto videogames to explore real-world issues of violence, gender, and social and economic ills.
Kristoffer Zetterstrand , Pointer. 41x41cm. oil on canvas (2008)

Kristoffer Zetterstrand: King of Old School

by Mathias Jansson | Jan 19, 2012

Kristoffer Zetterstrand: King of Old School

by Mathias Jansson | Jan 19, 2012

Kristoffer Zetterstrand’s works draw equally from old-school computer graphics and Romantic landscape paintings.
Don´t Get Raped by Mikael Vesavuori. Courtesy the artist.

It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Blows Their Brains Out

by Mathias Jansson | Jan 18, 2012

It’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Blows Their Brains Out

by Mathias Jansson | Jan 18, 2012

Based on violent videogame interfaces, Swedish artist Mikael Vesavuori’s provocative artworks are the opposite of “fun and games.”

New Guest Blogger: Mathias Jansson, Sweden

by Claudine Isé | Jan 16, 2012

New Guest Blogger: Mathias Jansson, Sweden

by Claudine Isé | Jan 16, 2012

Our latest blogger-in-residence is a Swedish arts writer and critic who specializes in game art.

Money/Market

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 20, 2011

Money/Market

by Tricia Van Eck | Oct 20, 2011

Let’s face it. Occupy Wall Street, and just about everything else, is about money – who has it and who doesn’t – and how the market can help or hurt …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 8, 2010

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | Mar 8, 2010

In today’s roundup you’ll read about three kids in Switzerland, political defiance, Latin American photography, a map upstate, Opera House sails, the nature of light, and airborne balls: The Family, …

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 25, 2009

Weekly Roundup

by Nicole J. Caruth | May 25, 2009

The Cincinnati Art Museum has announced an exhibition of prints by Season 2 artist Martin Puryear. The show is scheduled to open December 2009.   Barbara Kruger (Season 1) is …

Don’t Miss: Mark Dion’s European exhibitions

by Ana Otero | Aug 23, 2007

Don’t Miss: Mark Dion’s European exhibitions

by Ana Otero | Aug 23, 2007

Two exhibitions of work by Season 4 artist Mark Dion, The Natural History of the Museum and Systema Metropolis, are running concurrently in Sweden, Switzerland, and London, respectively, this summer …