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Art21 Extended Play

Bruce Nauman Slows Down Time

by Ian Forster | Dec 27, 2013

Art21 Extended Play

Bruce Nauman Slows Down Time

by Ian Forster | Dec 27, 2013

In today’s Exclusive, filmed in August 2000, Bruce Nauman discusses his 1994 video Poke in the Eye/Nose/Ear.
Liz Magic Laser, "Flight", production still, 2011. Courtesy of the artist.

Art21 New York Close Up

Liz Magic Laser’s Guerrilla Theater

by Jonathan Munar | Dec 20, 2013

Art21 New York Close Up

Liz Magic Laser’s Guerrilla Theater

by Jonathan Munar | Dec 20, 2013

New in New York Close Up, artist Liz Magic Laser directs a group of actors performing theatrical scenes in public locations throughout New York City.

Failing Productively: A Crash Course

by Jessica Hamlin | Dec 17, 2013

Failing Productively: A Crash Course

by Jessica Hamlin | Dec 17, 2013

How can we help students have a healthy understanding of failure?

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Dec 16, 2013

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Dec 16, 2013

Cai Guo-Qiang gathers 99 wild animals, Bruce Nauman explores optical illusions, and more in this week’s roundup.

Queer Berlin

A Brief Introduction to the ff

by Ali Fitzgerald | Dec 16, 2013

Queer Berlin

A Brief Introduction to the ff

by Ali Fitzgerald | Dec 16, 2013

A visual profile of a feminist network operating mostly out of Berlin.

Art21 Extended Play

Marina Abramović Learns to Sing

by Ian Forster | Dec 13, 2013

Art21 Extended Play

Marina Abramović Learns to Sing

by Ian Forster | Dec 13, 2013

“I really love listening to people sing and I was always jealous of that kind of talent…to open your heart and sing your soul out.” —Marina Abramović In today’s Exclusive, …

Shifting Perceptions of Houston’s Third Ward

by Sally Frater | Dec 9, 2013

Shifting Perceptions of Houston’s Third Ward

by Sally Frater | Dec 9, 2013

Writer-in-Residence Sally Frater explores Unity Foto Bank, an online project and site-specific installation in Houston, Texas.

Emergency Response

by Alicia Eler | Dec 9, 2013

Emergency Response

by Alicia Eler | Dec 9, 2013

Alicia Eler speaks with artists Phong Bui and Pinar Yoldas about their individual responses to environmental disasters.

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Dec 9, 2013

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Dec 9, 2013

LaToya Ruby Frazier charters a helicopter, a building is named after John Baldessari, and more in this week’s roundup.

Art21 New York Close Up

Behind the Scenes with Mika Tajima

by Jonathan Munar | Dec 6, 2013

Art21 New York Close Up

Behind the Scenes with Mika Tajima

by Jonathan Munar | Dec 6, 2013

At her Bushwick Brooklyn studio, artist Mika Tajima discusses the processes and ideas behind her two installational-performative works Today is Not a Dress Rehearsal (2009) and The Pedestrians (2011).

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Dec 3, 2013

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Dec 3, 2013

Barbara Kruger has a solo, Laylah Ali talks afrofuturism, several Art21 artists set their sights on Art Basel Miami Beach.

Nuanced Failure and Urban Space

by Michelle Millar Fisher | Dec 2, 2013

Nuanced Failure and Urban Space

by Michelle Millar Fisher | Dec 2, 2013

Urban architecture is no stranger to criticism and failure. Consider the work of Le Corbusier “whose legacy of urban plans…has been mythologized and often maligned.”

I’m a failure. Now what?

by Brendan Carroll | Dec 1, 2013

I’m a failure. Now what?

by Brendan Carroll | Dec 1, 2013

How does the life of a boxer compare to the life of an artist?

Copy That!

Free-Fail

by Joy Garnett | Dec 1, 2013

Copy That!

Free-Fail

by Joy Garnett | Dec 1, 2013

In reassessing the value of failure, consider Princeton computer scientist Ed Felten’s expression “the freedom to tinker.”

From the Editor

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 1, 2013

From the Editor

by Nicole J. Caruth | Dec 1, 2013

What does failure mean? Art21’s Digital Content Editor introduces the sophomore issue of the Art21 Magazine.