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New guest blogger: Ali Fitzgerald

New guest blogger: Ali Fitzgerald

Thanks to Thea Liberty Nichols for her terrific interviews with Chicago-based artists and practitioners. Up next is Ali Fitzgerald. A regular writer for our Lives and Works in Berlin column, …

Ali Fitzgerald’s Top 9 European Gender-Journeys of 2010

Ali Fitzgerald’s Top 9 European Gender-Journeys of 2010

After attempting a general top 10 list of shows, I felt a mild distaste for my own artistic leanings, which, while not limited to investigations of gender and queerness, are …

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Rough Country by Ali Fitzgerald

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin: Rough Country by Ali Fitzgerald

Storm the Museum: Colonial Neighbors and Imperialist Spaces        

Storm the Museum: Colonial Neighbors and Imperialist Spaces        

Ali Fitzgerald investigates artist projects that uncover the inherent biases of institutions—especially when reckoning with a history of colonization.

June Blogger-in-Residence | Natalie Musteata

June Blogger-in-Residence | Natalie Musteata

Introducing Art21’s Blogger-in-Residence for the month of June.

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Shannon Fitzgerald

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Shannon Fitzgerald

Georgia Kotretsos talks to the new executive director of the Rochester Art Center in Rochester, Minnesota.

Keith Mayerson and the American Dream

Keith Mayerson and the American Dream

Ali Fitzgerald explores “My American Dream,” Keith Mayerson’s decade-long, ongoing painting series investigating this most enduring of myths.

Queer Berlin

Dark Art(s), Coven Berlin, and the Queer Erotic Occult

Queer Berlin

Dark Art(s), Coven Berlin, and the Queer Erotic Occult

Ali Fitzgerald investigates the emergence of mysticism and the occult in Berlin’s art scene, exploring the cyber-feminist collective Coven Berlin whose goal is to ‘conqueer’ the universe, and a new Berlin bookstore specializing in forbidden books.

Queer Berlin

A Look Back at the Career of Vaginal Davis

Queer Berlin

A Look Back at the Career of Vaginal Davis

Ali Fitzgerald sits down with legendary “terrorist drag” performer Vaginal Davis to talk about her nearly 30-year career and next chapter.

Queer Berlin

Queer Berlin | A Tale of 2 Cities, Queer Berlin vs. Queer New York

Queer Berlin

Queer Berlin | A Tale of 2 Cities, Queer Berlin vs. Queer New York

For her second blog post in the new column “Queer Berlin,” Ali Fitzgerald compares some “pitfalls and successes of queer performance.”

Queer Berlin

Queer Berlin and James Franco’s “Gay Town”

Queer Berlin

Queer Berlin and James Franco’s “Gay Town”

Longtime contributor Ali Fitzgerald launches her new column “Queer Berlin” with a review of James Franco’s “maddeningly egocentric and self-congratulatory” exhibition.

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | The Evolution of Mike: Michael Smith in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | The Evolution of Mike: Michael Smith in Berlin

Ali Fitzgerald takes us through Michael Smith’s exhibition “Fountain” at Dan Gunn Gallery in Kreuzberg.

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | Art Hangover, Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | Art Hangover, Berlin

Ali Fitzgerald looks back on Berlin Art Week and a busy past month of art events in the city.

Lives and Works in Berlin | Portrait of Joanne Greenbaum in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | Portrait of Joanne Greenbaum in Berlin

Ali Fitzgerald on the “privately performative” practice of Joanne Greenbaum, whose works will be on view at Nicolas Krupp gallery in Basel.

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | Berlin Gallery Roundup

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | Berlin Gallery Roundup

Ali Fitzgerald reviews a slew of ambitious (and bawdy) summer shows in Berlin, upending the notion of the seasonal afterthought.

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | Roman Ondák at the Deutsche Guggenheim

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | Roman Ondák at the Deutsche Guggenheim

Ali Fitzgerald reviews Roman Ondák’s exhibition at the Deutsche Guggenheim, which features an artwork incorporating the severed wing of an airplane.

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | Brenna Murphy and the Future

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | Brenna Murphy and the Future

Ali Fitzgerald looks at the digital prints, videos and installations of Brenna Murphy, whose works are both painterly and otherworldly.

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | The Mystery of Anna Pavlova

Lives and Works in Berlin

Lives and Works in Berlin | The Mystery of Anna Pavlova

Ali Fitzgerald reviews Theo Solnik’s 2011 film “Anna Pavlova Lives in Berlin,” a nuanced portrait of the poetic and aggressive “Russian party queen” of the same iconic name.

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 …

Contributors

Contributors

Carol Cheh Go to Articles Cheh is the founder of Another Righteous Transfer!, a blog that explores LA’s performance art scene, and a regular contributor to LA Weekly and Artillery, …

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: Mike HJ Chang

New guest blogger: Mike HJ Chang

Thanks to guest blogger (and Lives and Works in Berlin regular) Ali Fitzgerald for her always entertaining and insightful posts. Follow her exploits back on the column throughout the year. …

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, …

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. …

Art21 New York Close Up

Jaimie Warren Is A Total Character

Art21 New York Close Up

Jaimie Warren Is A Total Character

In a new “New York Close Up” film, artist Jaimie Warren as recreates a wild array of pop culture characters for her photographic and video work.

Word is a Virus

Armchair Travels

Word is a Virus

Armchair Travels

Columnist Carol Cheh reminisces on two exhibitions in L.A. that complicate “our reception of myth” and inspire “more nuanced engagement.”

Gimme Shelter: Performance Now

Gimme Shelter | Infiltrating the MoMA Atrium, Part 1: An Interview with Ralph Lemon on the Curation of “Some sweet day”

Gimme Shelter: Performance Now

Gimme Shelter | Infiltrating the MoMA Atrium, Part 1: An Interview with Ralph Lemon on the Curation of “Some sweet day”

Marissa Perel talks to Ralph Lemon about the series “Some sweet day,” which was shown in the MoMA’s atrium from October 15 to November 4th, 2012.

Letter from London

Letter from London | Eye of the Tiger

Letter from London

Letter from London | Eye of the Tiger

Tiger Woods is a profoundly uninteresting man, elevated to role model status in America by his unwavering commitment to brand promotion and the eradication of personal charisma, so when the …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Georgia Kotretsos

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside the Artist’s Studio | Georgia Kotretsos

Georgia Kotretsos is a visual artist, writer, and curator currently based in Athens, Greece.  She earned a MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a BFA …

Art21 Extended Play

Julie Mehretu: Painting Conservator Luca Bonetti

Art21 Extended Play

Julie Mehretu: Painting Conservator Luca Bonetti

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS Episode #101: Luca Bonetti leads the installation of artist Julie Mehretu’s massive painting Mural (2009) at Goldman Sachs, coordinating a team of installers …

Weekly Roundup

Weekly Roundup

One artist in Rome, four artists in San Francisco, three artist talks from the U.S. to the U.K., and more in this week’s roundup: On April 9, Gagosian Gallery Rome …