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Happy Relational Thanksgetting

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 27, 2008

Happy Relational Thanksgetting

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 27, 2008

Today seems like a good day to practice a little relational aesthetics, which I suspect arguably has its roots in this holiday (or any holiday gathering, for that matter). Just …

Art21 Extended Play

Laurie Simmons | Choreographer Helen Pickett

by Wesley Miller | Nov 27, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Laurie Simmons | Choreographer Helen Pickett

by Wesley Miller | Nov 27, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Choreographer Helen Pickett during the making of Laurie Simmons’s The Music of Regret (2006) at the Alvin Ailey Dance Studio, New York. Laurie Simmons stages photographs and films with …

Public Space and Prop8

by Marc Herbst | Nov 26, 2008

Public Space and Prop8

by Marc Herbst | Nov 26, 2008

Feel Tank Chicago. Image related to their Parade of the Politically Depressed. (It happens on the street on MayDay) No on 8 rally. Weird Space in LA. Photo by Nancy …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Process and Power

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 26, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Process and Power

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 26, 2008

Contemporary art will often ask the viewer to consider process and the steps taken to create a work of art. Without consideration of process, some art is even difficult to …

Psychedelic at SECCA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 24, 2008

Psychedelic at SECCA

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 24, 2008

There is a very interesting film and video exhibition currently up at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Pyschedelic presents animations that are less about products …

art twenty-one and a half

by Wesley Miller | Nov 24, 2008

art twenty-one and a half

by Wesley Miller | Nov 24, 2008

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QOBMAN2JN3o] ‘Tis the season for spoofs it seems. This impressive video — aptly named Art:21.5 — comes from artist Scoop Brancisco in Hawaii. Appearing as a paper bag-head, alien, robot, …

Crowds and Power

by Marc Herbst | Nov 23, 2008

Crowds and Power

by Marc Herbst | Nov 23, 2008

Image via innis22mara on Flickr I’m away from LA this weekend, missing what, by several heated emails, is a curious event at the MOCA. Struck by a financial crisis, a …

Exclusive Videos Now on iTunes

by Wesley Miller | Nov 21, 2008

Exclusive Videos Now on iTunes

by Wesley Miller | Nov 21, 2008

In its first week on iTunes, Art21’s series of Exclusive videos debuted as the Top Video Podcast for both the overall Arts and Visual Arts categories! Sorry Martha Stewart and …

Drawing Review at Ronald Feldman

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 21, 2008

Drawing Review at Ronald Feldman

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 21, 2008

Drawing Review: 37 Years of Works on Paper opens tomorrow at Ronald Feldman Fine Arts. The more than forty artists in the exhibition were or have been represented by the …

SFMOMA’s Explore Modern Art

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 20, 2008

SFMOMA’s Explore Modern Art

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 20, 2008

SFMOMA recently launched their redesigned website with the initiative Explore Modern Art, an online learning environment and interactive space that integrates the museum’s collections information, calendar of public programs and …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Fundred Points of View

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 20, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Fundred Points of View

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 20, 2008

By now, many of you are quite familiar with Mel Chin’s nationwide Fundred project to help highlight the issue of lead contaminated soil in New Orleans. Students and professional artists …

A brief back-note…

by Marc Herbst | Nov 20, 2008

A brief back-note…

by Marc Herbst | Nov 20, 2008

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nnx2Wv4T1o] I saw this online yesterday as it occurred in my city. A project done by an LA-based Iraqi Veteran Against the War set out 4171 toy US Soldiers at …

Art21 Extended Play

Gabriel Orozco | On Photography

by Wesley Miller | Nov 20, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Gabriel Orozco | On Photography

by Wesley Miller | Nov 20, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Gabriel Orozco discusses recent photographs taken in Mexico and Ecuador in 2007, and the role photography plays in his broader artistic practice. Gabriel Orozco’s sculptures and photographs disrupt conventional …

FEAR at James Cohan Gallery

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 19, 2008

FEAR at James Cohan Gallery

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 19, 2008

A new body of work by Trenton Doyle Hancock (Season 2) will be on view at James Cohan Gallery New York, November 20 through January 10, 2009. FEAR, Hancock’s fourth exhibition at the …

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by Marc Herbst | Nov 19, 2008

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by Marc Herbst | Nov 19, 2008

At a recent Journal meeting with my co-editors, Christina Ulke and Robby Herbst, we were considering how the current climate would affect our work. While some of our ideals would …

Don’t Miss: Catherine Sullivan at The New School

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 18, 2008

Don’t Miss: Catherine Sullivan at The New School

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 18, 2008

  Catherine Sullivan (Season 4) will speak at The New School on Wednesday, November 19 at 6:30pm. The event is part of the Public Art Fund Talks, an ongoing series of discussions …

Sullivan and Walker Awarded USA Fellowship

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 17, 2008

Sullivan and Walker Awarded USA Fellowship

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 17, 2008

United States Artists (USA) is a grant-making organization dedicated to supporting America’s living artists working in a diverse array of disciplines. Catherine Sullivan (Season 4) and Kara Walker (Season 2) have …

New guest blogger: Marc Herbst, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 17, 2008

New guest blogger: Marc Herbst, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 17, 2008

Many thanks to Monika Navarro in Boston for her timely turn on the guest blog. Up next is Marc Herbst, an artist and member of the Journal of Aesthetics and …

Love Note to Franz West

by Wesley Miller | Nov 17, 2008

Love Note to Franz West

by Wesley Miller | Nov 17, 2008

As the curator of online video here at Art21, I spend a lot of time looking at work produced by colleagues around the world. And while there’s a lot of …

Letter from London

Letter from London: War(hol)! What is he good for?

by Ben Street | Nov 17, 2008

Letter from London

Letter from London: War(hol)! What is he good for?

by Ben Street | Nov 17, 2008

While the prospect of yet another Andy Warhol exhibition will be met by most gallery-goers with an indifferent shrug, Other Voices, Other Rooms, the new show at the Hayward Gallery, attempts to …

Notes on sex, violence and John Brown: A conversation with Laylah Ali

by Monika Navarro | Nov 14, 2008

Notes on sex, violence and John Brown: A conversation with Laylah Ali

by Monika Navarro | Nov 14, 2008

“The first mistake of art is to assume that it’s serious.” -Lester Bangs Last night we braved the rain and bad signage in Lincoln, Massachusetts to hear a conversation with …

High Estimates Got You Down?

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 14, 2008

High Estimates Got You Down?

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 14, 2008

Take a break from the solemnity and doom ‘n gloom of the art world by checking out the work of one Eric Doeringer.  The Brooklyn-based artist has a solo show …

A President for Artists and Arts Education

by Monika Navarro | Nov 13, 2008

A President for Artists and Arts Education

by Monika Navarro | Nov 13, 2008

What will an administration look like that supports and nurtures the arts and arts education? In the blitz of emails I received leading up to the election last week, one …

Art21 Extended Play

Ursula Von Rydingsvard | “Weeping Plates”

by Wesley Miller | Nov 13, 2008

Art21 Extended Play

Ursula Von Rydingsvard | “Weeping Plates”

by Wesley Miller | Nov 13, 2008

EXCLUSIVE: Ursula von Rydingsvard’s sculpture Weeping Plates (2005) at her studio in Brooklyn, New York. Ursula von Rydingsvard builds towering cedar structures, creating an intricate network of individual beams and …

All the News We Hope to Print

by Marc Mayer | Nov 13, 2008

All the News We Hope to Print

by Marc Mayer | Nov 13, 2008

Living in the afterglow or wake (depending on your political leanings) of the 2008 presidential election, we are left to wonder where this talk of hope and change might lead …

Josiah McElheny Talk and Performance Tonight at Princeton

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 12, 2008

Josiah McElheny Talk and Performance Tonight at Princeton

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 12, 2008

If you are in the Princeton area tonight, Josiah McElheny gives a performance and talk about his work at the Betts Auditorium. The Season 3 artist’s installations, which frequently incorporate …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On Our Way

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 12, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

On Our Way

by Joe Fusaro | Nov 12, 2008

It’s been a blissfully exhausting week. The day after the election, students were so excited (not to mention teachers) that most of each class session was spent reflecting on the …

Darwin & Art in Edinburgh

by Hrag Vartanian | Nov 11, 2008

Darwin & Art in Edinburgh

by Hrag Vartanian | Nov 11, 2008

Ellen Gallagher, Watery Ecstatic (2005). Courtesy The Species of Origin The intersection of art and science isn’t commonly discussed in the art world. But one British art school, the Edinburgh …

An-My Lê on Michael Heizer tonight at Dia

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 10, 2008

An-My Lê on Michael Heizer tonight at Dia

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 10, 2008

As part of Dia’s Artists on Artists lecture series, Season 4 artist An-My Lê will lecture on Michael Heizer tonight at 6:30. Trap Rock, Lê’s 2006-2007 series of color photographs, …

“New York Times” video on Maya Lin’s “Wave Field”

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 10, 2008

“New York Times” video on Maya Lin’s “Wave Field”

by Kelly Shindler | Nov 10, 2008

The New York Times just published a video on Maya Lin‘s Wave Field at Storm King Art Center in upstate New York. Click here to watch it. Wave Field can …

Letter from London

Letter from London: God Save McQueen!

by Ben Street | Nov 10, 2008

Letter from London

Letter from London: God Save McQueen!

by Ben Street | Nov 10, 2008

British artist Steve McQueen’s current feature film, Hunger, has received pretty much universally positive reviews. Tracing the last six weeks of the life of Bobby Sands, the IRA hunger striker imprisoned in …

Kara Walker at Irish Museum of Modern Art

by Seth Curcio | Nov 10, 2008

Kara Walker at Irish Museum of Modern Art

by Seth Curcio | Nov 10, 2008

The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) in Dublin, Ireland is currently exhibiting In Praise of Shadows, on view from November 5 – January 4, 2009. The exhibition, which is …

Martin Puryear in the Bay Area

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 8, 2008

Martin Puryear in the Bay Area

by Nicole J. Caruth | Nov 8, 2008

The traveling exhibition of sculptures by Season 2 artist Martin Puryear (organized by the Museum of Modern Art, New York) has made its way to San Francisco. On view at the San Francisco Museum of …

There Goes the Neighborhood

by Wesley Miller | Nov 7, 2008

There Goes the Neighborhood

by Wesley Miller | Nov 7, 2008

Artistic interventions in neighborhoods and community-inspired artworks are popping up all around us, from Pierre Huyghe‘s playfully ritualistic Streamside Day (2003) to Mel Chin‘s New Orleans recovery effort SAFEHOUSE (2008). …

Shahzia Sikander Awarded Creative Arts Fellowship

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 7, 2008

Shahzia Sikander Awarded Creative Arts Fellowship

by Trong Gia Nguyen | Nov 7, 2008

The Rockefeller Foundation earlier this week held a ceremony at the Langham Hotel in London to honor the 2008 recipients for its inaugural Bellagio Center Creative Arts Fellowship. The three …

Roanoke’s Taubman Museum of Art Opens This Weekend

by Hrag Vartanian | Nov 7, 2008

Roanoke’s Taubman Museum of Art Opens This Weekend

by Hrag Vartanian | Nov 7, 2008

I had the good fortune of being in Roanoke, Virginia and seeing the impressive new Taubman Museum of Art (formerly the Art Museum of Western Virginia). A welcome addition to …