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New guest blogger: Alex Freedman

New guest blogger: Alex Freedman

Thanks to Allison Glenn for her series of compelling posts on Detroit confirming that art is alive and well in the Motor City. Up next is Alex Freedman. You may …

Retired Columns

Retired Columns

In addition to short-term editorial projects, the Art21 Magazine has also offered writers a platform to investigate longstanding concepts through columns. These subjects were explored over the course of a number …

Art21 Blog (2008-2013)

Art21 Blog (2008-2013)

The Art21 Magazine launched in July 2007 as the Art21 Blog. It began as a way to share news on our PBS series and the artists we feature, but quickly expanded to incorporate one of the first guest …

The Art21 Blog’s Most-Viewed Posts of 2011

The Art21 Blog’s Most-Viewed Posts of 2011

Art21 Manager of Digital Media and Strategy, Jonathan Munar, rounds up the top 10 most-viewed Art21 Blog posts of 2011.

New guest blogger: Rebecca Leopold

New guest blogger: Rebecca Leopold

Thanks to our regular writer Alex Freedman for her fantastic posts for the guest blog. Look out for more from her in our Lives and Works in Berlin column. Up …

iheartnewhistoriographies: Conversing with Laurel Ptak

iheartnewhistoriographies: Conversing with Laurel Ptak

I met Laurel Ptak three years ago back when she was coordinating Aperture’s educational programming and I was their intern terrible. Running into her a few weeks ago in one …

How to Explain Sherrie Levine to Your Grandmother

How to Explain Sherrie Levine to Your Grandmother

Museums have spent millions on art education trying to reach out to the young and elderly. But if you have a grandmother like mine, the kind who, despite a PhD …

Disembarking: Christina Knight on “Glenn Ligon: America”

Disembarking: Christina Knight on “Glenn Ligon: America”

I first saw Glenn Ligon’s Negro Sunshine at Harvard’s Fogg Museum in 2007. And for the rest of the exhibition I was trailed by a staff member to keep me …

Support the Art21 Blog: Announcing Blog Party!

Support the Art21 Blog: Announcing Blog Party!

The Art21 Blog is turning four! From our very first post in July 2007, we have grown to a site that houses 2,100 posts and essays by nearly 200 writers, …

Sampling the Document or Documenting the Sample: An Interview with Banu Cennetoglu

Sampling the Document or Documenting the Sample: An Interview with Banu Cennetoglu

Banu Cennetoglu’s website has read “meşgul/busy” since the summer. And even after four months of emails, having never meet in person, Banu Cennetgolu is still a source of fascinating mystery …

Interesting Times

Interesting Times

May you live in interesting times… This ambiguously Chinese curse implies that interesting (i.e. historically significant) times are usually not peaceful ones. They are times of change and therefore, times …

Egypt Rising

Egypt Rising

On January 31, BA177 hummed with mixed messages. Tourists who’d been vacationing in Cairo’s International Airport sighed with relief. Evacuated expats who left their homes doubled up on tiny vodkas. …

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 …

Lives and Works in Berlin

Interview with AIDS-3D

Lives and Works in Berlin

Interview with AIDS-3D

Affiliated with a vivacious current of young artists melding techie chops and ’90s graphic aesthetics, the Berlin-based duo, AIDS-3D (Daniel Keller and Nik Kosmos) popped up on the radar last …

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: The Sommerpause Art Guide

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: The Sommerpause Art Guide

Nothing spells houseguest season like late-August in Berlin. With school about to resume and the major art metropolises shut down for summer, the town becomes besieged by the event hungry. …

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: BB6

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: BB6

Aligning smoothly with the start of Art Basel for the first time, the 6th Berlin Biennial for Contemporary Art (BB6) opened this past week, two months later than its previous …

Lives and Works in Berlin

New column! Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin

New column! Lives and Works in Berlin

Art21 is thrilled to announce the launch of our latest column. Heading the curriculum vitae of Berlin’s artists, curators, and other breeds of art junkies, Lives and Works in Berlin. …