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Mining the Local: Ya Dig? (While on Residency in Ireland)

by Stephen Lacy | Aug 27, 2012

Mining the Local: Ya Dig? (While on Residency in Ireland)

by Stephen Lacy | Aug 27, 2012

Artist Stephen Lacy, who recently returned from a residency at The Good Hatchery in Ireland, will reflect on that experience during his two-week blogger-in-residence stint.

Raiding, Mining, and Resurrecting: Maurizio Cattelan at The Menil Collection

by Leanne Gilbertson | Feb 19, 2010

Raiding, Mining, and Resurrecting: Maurizio Cattelan at The Menil Collection

by Leanne Gilbertson | Feb 19, 2010

The current Maurizio Cattelan exhibition at The Menil Collection, Houston (February 12– August 15, 2010) marks the U.S. debut of recent large-scale works, site-specific installations, and four new works. Cattelan’s …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Examining Roles and Investigating Responses; a Conversation with Rebecca Uchill

by Richard McCoy | Jan 19, 2010

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Examining Roles and Investigating Responses; a Conversation with Rebecca Uchill

by Richard McCoy | Jan 19, 2010

IMA conservator Richard McCoy talks with former IMA curator and current MIT PhD student Rebecca Uchill about the creation of the IMA’s Variable Art Team and the evolving roles of those that care for contemporary art.

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Examining the Lives of Jenny Holzer’s Works/Words: A Discussion with SAAM Conservator Hugh Shockey

by Richard McCoy | Aug 18, 2009

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

Examining the Lives of Jenny Holzer’s Works/Words: A Discussion with SAAM Conservator Hugh Shockey

by Richard McCoy | Aug 18, 2009

Art conservator Richard McCoy discusses the IMA’s 1983 Jenny Holzer sculpture, “Untitled,” and interviews SAAM conservator Hugh Shockey about “For SAAM.”

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Mining Ideas Part 3: From Sketchbook to Installation

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 1, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Mining Ideas Part 3: From Sketchbook to Installation

by Joe Fusaro | Oct 1, 2008

After our last two columns focusing on using sketchbooks in the classroom, teachers have been submitting absolutely BEAUTIFUL work inspired by sketching, planning and ideas for teaching about contemporary art. …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Mining Ideas Part 2: Using Sketchbooks to Help Teach About Contemporary Art

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 24, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Mining Ideas Part 2: Using Sketchbooks to Help Teach About Contemporary Art

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 24, 2008

Last week’s Teaching With Contemporary Art column, Mining Ideas, had some very interesting thoughts and perspectives submitted by Jennifer, Eric, and Sue. I want to continue the dialogue this week …

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Mining Ideas

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 17, 2008

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Mining Ideas

by Joe Fusaro | Sep 17, 2008

Getting students into good habits early in the year, such as regularly working with sketchbooks and journals- in the classroom and at home, is a way to help students “mine” …

Horror, Contemporary Art, and Film: In Conversation with Dan Herschlein and Chad Laird

by Art21 | Dec 4, 2019

Horror, Contemporary Art, and Film: In Conversation with Dan Herschlein and Chad Laird

by Art21 | Dec 4, 2019

New York Close Up artist Dan Herschlein, and professor, Chad Laird, discuss the intersection of contemporary art, film and horror.

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Action Verbs

by Marie Elcin | Oct 29, 2019

Teaching with Contemporary Art

Action Verbs

by Marie Elcin | Oct 29, 2019

Art21 Educator, Marie Elcin, discusses her use of “action verbs” inside of the classroom, inspired by Richard Serra’s Verb List (1967-68).

Slaughter

by Courtenay Finn | Apr 3, 2019

Slaughter

by Courtenay Finn | Apr 3, 2019

For an art form so daring, defiant, and overwhelmingly public as graffiti, it is too often dismissed, ignored, and (in some cases) made invisible, disappearing into the barrage of visual information around it. Encompassing everything from large-than-life paintings to train tags or the scratching of one’s moniker into an air-conditioner grill, graffiti both animates and disrupts our landscape. This way of working was at the heart of Margaret Kilgallen’s practice.

Another Country

by Heather Hart and Jina Valentine | Sep 14, 2018

Another Country

by Heather Hart and Jina Valentine | Sep 14, 2018

Thirteen summers since the original convening of the Black Lunch Table (BLT), the project’s founders Heather Hart and Jina Valentine reconvene many of the original participants to discuss the project’s history and evolution and consider its future trajectory.

Letter from the Editor

Figures of Speech

by Tina Kukielski | Aug 20, 2018

Letter from the Editor

Figures of Speech

by Tina Kukielski | Aug 20, 2018

Art21 executive director and chief curator Tina Kukielski introduces the new issue, “Figures of Speech,” examining the capacity of art for self-expression, community building, and political activism in 2018.

This Week in Art

Caroline Woolard & Pedro Reyes Work with Refugee Communities, New Jack Whitten Exhibition in Baltimore & More

by Rachel Heidenry | Apr 23, 2018

This Week in Art

Caroline Woolard & Pedro Reyes Work with Refugee Communities, New Jack Whitten Exhibition in Baltimore & More

by Rachel Heidenry | Apr 23, 2018

A look at this week’s art news, including Caroline Woolard and Pedro Reyes’ recent contributions to the Cincinnati nonprofit Wave Pool, whose Welcome Editions project invites artists to design a limited edition art object and work with local refugee and immigrant women to fabricate the pieces.

Reading Critically: Alexandra Bell’s “Counternarratives”

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Dec 22, 2017

Reading Critically: Alexandra Bell’s “Counternarratives”

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Dec 22, 2017

Alexandra Bell’s “Counternarratives” series shows inscribed corrections of “New York Times” print articles, exposing editorial bias conveyed by ill-chosen images, poorly worded headlines, and textual masking of white crime.

This Week in Art 12.18-12.24: Ann Hamilton Asks Us To “Fly Together”

by Lindsey Davis | Dec 18, 2017

This Week in Art 12.18-12.24: Ann Hamilton Asks Us To “Fly Together”

by Lindsey Davis | Dec 18, 2017

A look at this week’s art news, including Ann Hamilton’s latest work for Creative Time, and events and exhibitions from Mississippi to the UK.

Composing Compassion: On Jumana Manna’s “A Magical Substance Flows Into Me”

by Morgan Green | Nov 29, 2017

Composing Compassion: On Jumana Manna’s “A Magical Substance Flows Into Me”

by Morgan Green | Nov 29, 2017

Jumana Manna’s 2015 film “A magical substance flows into me” weaves together the musical traditions of communities living in and around Jerusalem, undermining the state-sanctioned forgetting of complex cultural contexts.

On View Now

Tomáš Rafa: New Nationalisms at MoMA PS1

by Rachel Heidenry | Aug 10, 2017

On View Now

Tomáš Rafa: New Nationalisms at MoMA PS1

by Rachel Heidenry | Aug 10, 2017

Slovakian artist Tomáš Rafa’s latest film documents scenes of protests throughout the Balkans and Central Europe, capturing complexities regardless of politics.

This Week in Art 8.7-8.13: Cindy Sherman’s Instagram Goes Public

by Lindsey Davis | Aug 7, 2017

This Week in Art 8.7-8.13: Cindy Sherman’s Instagram Goes Public

by Lindsey Davis | Aug 7, 2017

A look at this week’s art news, including Cindy Sherman’s recent splash on Instagram, and events and exhibitions from Oklahoma to Buenos Aires.

Writer-in-Residence

“The Visible Hand”

by Rachel Valinsky | Jan 20, 2017

Writer-in-Residence

“The Visible Hand”

by Rachel Valinsky | Jan 20, 2017

Writer-in-Residence Rachel Valinsky uncovers the diversification of artistic production explored in the exhibition “The Visible Hand,” on view through February 15, 2017 at CUE Art Foundation.

Polyculturalist Visions, New Frameworks of Representation: Multiculturalism and the American Culture Wars

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jan 17, 2017

Polyculturalist Visions, New Frameworks of Representation: Multiculturalism and the American Culture Wars

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jan 17, 2017

Nettrice Gaskins examines the ongoing crisis of representation in cultural institutions, ultimately arriving at what she sees as a “polyculturalist” future for art, in which it moves away from dialectical identity politics to a sphere of fluid identities.

The Implication of the Barragán Archive: An Interview with Daniel Garza-Usabiaga, Part II

by Pamela Ballesteros | Oct 21, 2016

The Implication of the Barragán Archive: An Interview with Daniel Garza-Usabiaga, Part II

by Pamela Ballesteros | Oct 21, 2016

Scholar and curator Daniel Garza-Usabiaga continues his discussion of archival practice in Mexico City, examining the implications of Jill Magid’s “The Proposal” that have remained beyond the scope of public discussion.

Mount Rushmore: An Early Placemaking Abomination

by Jayna Swartzman-Brosky and D. G. Brosky | Oct 17, 2016

Mount Rushmore: An Early Placemaking Abomination

by Jayna Swartzman-Brosky and D. G. Brosky | Oct 17, 2016

Writers J. L. S. Brosky and D. G. Brosky offer a critique of creative placemaking and one of the U.S.’s earliest examples, Mount Rushmore.

This Week in Art: 9.26-10.2

by Lindsey Davis | Sep 26, 2016

This Week in Art: 9.26-10.2

by Lindsey Davis | Sep 26, 2016

A look at this week’s art news, including Jenny Holzer’s new commissions, and events and exhibitions everywhere from London to Baltimore.

Looking For Ruins

by Catherine Wagley | Apr 25, 2016

Looking For Ruins

by Catherine Wagley | Apr 25, 2016

In a postcolonial world, the site of the 1907 Colonial Exhibition has become a source of inspiration for artists working against colonial ideologies and structures that still exist today.

E. Jane’s Imagined Future

by Alexis Avedisian | Apr 18, 2016

E. Jane’s Imagined Future

by Alexis Avedisian | Apr 18, 2016

Alexis Avedisian investigates artist E. Jane’s battle against the discrimination that’s been systemically built into how the internet functions.

Retired Columns

by Lindsey Davis | Apr 6, 2016

Retired Columns

by Lindsey Davis | Apr 6, 2016

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 …

Writer-in-Residence

Bearing Witness

by Jessica Lynne | Apr 6, 2016

Writer-in-Residence

Bearing Witness

by Jessica Lynne | Apr 6, 2016

In this essay, ART21/CUE Writer-in-Residence Jessica Lynne describes the nuances in Kambui Olujimi’s exhibition, “Solastalgia.”

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Willa Köerner

by Willa Köerner | Mar 1, 2016

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor, Willa Köerner

by Willa Köerner | Mar 1, 2016

Guest editor Willa Köerner delves deep into the theme of our new issue, “Renewal,” highlighting upcoming articles and interviews centered around rebirth and revival.

The Walker Curates the News: 01.25.16

by Walker Art Center | Jan 25, 2016

The Walker Curates the News: 01.25.16

by Walker Art Center | Jan 25, 2016

Examining nudity “in the real world,” performance artist Deborah de Robertis recreated the nude in Edouard Manet’s Olympia in front of the work itself. In a telling parallel with the painting whose nude …

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor: Chen Tamir

by Chen Tamir | Jan 4, 2016

Letter from the Editor

Letter from the Editor: Chen Tamir

by Chen Tamir | Jan 4, 2016

“Aptitude for war is aptitude for movement,” said Napoleon, as quoted by Paul Virilio in his book, Speed and Politics.1 Virilio explains that “violence can be reduced to nothing but movement.”2 …

The Walker Curates the News: 11.30.15

by Walker Art Center | Nov 30, 2015

The Walker Curates the News: 11.30.15

by Walker Art Center | Nov 30, 2015

“It was an attempt to humiliate and ostracize me.” California-born, Brooklyn-based artist Kameelah Rasheed was questioned by the FBI and ultimately removed from a Lufthansa flight to Turkey the day …

Art21 Extended Play

Trevor Paglen Photographs the NSA

by Ian Forster | Mar 27, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Trevor Paglen Photographs the NSA

by Ian Forster | Mar 27, 2015

“You as a member of the public should be able to exert the same kind of power over this institution that we can symbolically do by looking at a photograph …

The Walker Curates the News: 10.13.14

by Walker Art Center | Oct 13, 2014

The Walker Curates the News: 10.13.14

by Walker Art Center | Oct 13, 2014

“It’s important to give the ones who seem to be invisible the possibility to be visible, to be heard,” says artist Krzysztof Wodiczko while talking about his new Homeless Projection. …

You Can Do It With Your Eyes Closed

by Carmen Papalia | Oct 7, 2014

You Can Do It With Your Eyes Closed

by Carmen Papalia | Oct 7, 2014

Artist Carmen Papalia, who is legally blind, explores issues of public access through experiential projects with diverse audiences, from museum-goers to a high school marching band.

Writer-in-Residence

The Future of Mapping: An Interview with Clement Valla

by Ben Valentine | Aug 11, 2014

Writer-in-Residence

The Future of Mapping: An Interview with Clement Valla

by Ben Valentine | Aug 11, 2014

Ben Valentine talks to new media artist and RISD professor Clement Valla about contemporary mapping technologies.