About the Art21 Blog
As part of Art21’s array of programming and resources designed to illuminate the creative process, the Art21 Blog distills the expansive and evolving field of contemporary art into enlightening and digestible form. In doing so, it provides an online platform for people to consider and interpret contemporary art.
Collaborating with a wide range of arts professionals, including artists, educators, curators, administrators, academics, and writers, the Art21 Blog offers access to artists featured in the PBS documentary series, Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century, as well as contemporary art and artists at large. Furthermore, through a series of original editorial features, including the in-depth discussion series Flash Points, regular columns, exclusive videos and interviews, and musings on contemporary art education, this site reflects Art21’s approach to stimulating critical reflection and conversation about contemporary art.
Drawing connections between Art21-featured artists and the larger art world context in which they thrive, the Art21 Blog chronicles this landscape post by post, from indexing daily events and activities to posing broader, meditative questions about art’s place in our world.
Quick Facts
The Art21 Blog launched in July 2007, in conjunction with the premiere of Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 4. Since then, it has undergone two redesigns to accommodate its growth. A core group of nine writers and a rotating cast of over fifty guest bloggers have published well over 1000 posts to date. The site’s monthly readership averages over 30,000 visits.
If you would like to write for this site, please send an email expressing your interest and two relevant writing samples to blog [at] art21 [dot] org.
COLUMNS & FEATURES
This series of online videos showcases artists featured in Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century. A blend of newly-shot, original filming, and previously unreleased archival footage, videos focus on singular aspects of an artist’s process, significant individual works and exhibitions, provocative ideas, and biographical anecdotes. Nearly 100 videos released on the blog to date. Produced by Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Weekly on Fridays.
Art in the twenty-first century reflects society’s rapidly evolving habits and methods of media use and consumption—an environment where information and collaboration are immediately available and accessible at the flip of a computer switch. Art 2.1 explores the uses of social and Web-based technologies by artists, museums, and other relevant arts organizations and individuals. Contributors representing various aspects of the arts community highlight unique applications of contemporary technologies that push the boundaries of creative expression and help shape a changing movement of artistic appreciation. Art 2.1 is edited by Jonathan Munar. Monthly, on the fourth Thursday.
Flash Points is an ongoing series that addresses questions relevant to thinking about contemporary art, from specific issues facing today’s artists to the state of the art world at large. Featured topics include: “How does art respond to and redefine the natural world?” “What’s so shocking about contemporary art?” “How can art effect political change?” and “What is the value of art?” In addition to compelling interviews with today’s leading contemporary artists, Flash Points has welcomed a range of guest writers, such as Eleanor Antin, UC Riverside professor Jennifer Doyle, NYU professor Tavia Nyong’o, art blogger C-Monster, Brooklyn Rail editor Thomas Micchelli, AREA Chicago’s Daniel Tucker, Art Fag City’s Paddy Johnson, and Minneapolis journalist/former Walker blog editor Paul Schmelzer, all of whom have weighed in with their thoughts. Readers are encouraged to participate by contributing feedback, posing follow-up questions, sharing anecdotes, or suggesting new topics. Flash Points is edited by Rachel Craft. Weekly.
Gastro-Vision is a monthly column dedicated to all things food in contemporary art and visual culture. In the history of art, food has been subject and/or material for countless artists and artisans and continues to permeate all forms of cultural production. Gastro-Vision considers its usage in a wide variety of media and contexts, including performance, film, sculpture, curatorial practice, and more. Written by Nicole Caruth. Monthly, on the fourth Wednesday.
A two-week “residency” on this site, the Art21 Guest Blog introduces additional voices and viewpoints on a rotating basis. Guest bloggers expand the site’s scope by directing its eye beyond the Art:21 series. Contributors include curators at the Studio Museum in Harlem and Bronx Museum of Art; PhD candidates at NYU and CUNY Grad Center; educators in Baltimore, Queens, San Francisco, and Chicago; and artists in New York City, Italy, and Boston, among many others. See the full list of contributors here. Daily.
Have artists’ studios they involved over the years along with artists themselves or do we still latch onto romantic notions of what a studio is and can be? Inside the Artist’s Studio sets out to meet with one artist a month to discuss his or her studio practice, whether that is in the streets, at a computer, in one’s living space, or elsewhere. Inside the Artist’s Studio introduces you to a number of artists’ work, and in the process, we discover where some of today’s most exciting art is made. Interviews by Georgia Kotretsos. Monthly, on the fourth Friday.
Written by museum educator, classroom teacher, and art critic, Ben Street. Reviews of the latest museum exhibitions, gallery shows, public art projects, and prizes are interspersed with meditations on the relationship between art and money, memory and music. As a teacher of art history and lecturer at the National Gallery in London, Ben has a particular interest in contemporary art’s relationship with art of the past. Biweekly, on the second and fourth Mondays.
The Los Angeles art world still has much of the laissez-faire approachability that endeared it back in the 1960s, which is why so many artists migrate to L.A. and never leave. Lily Simonson and Catherine Wagley, who both came to the West Coast as art students, have made the city home. Looking at Los Angeles is their bi-weekly dispatch about art in the city they love. Biweekly, on the second and fourth Thursdays.
Spearheaded by Richard McCoy, a conservator at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, No Preservatives seeks to define the conservator’s role in the conservation of art in the twenty-first century. McCoy discusses current issues, approaches, and decisions surrounding contemporary conservation projects at the IMA and a host of other institutions. Monthly, on the third Tuesday.
In On Location, Art21 Director of Production Nick Ravich gives you the scoop on Art21’s production comings and goings including, among other things, straight-from-the-set reports on recent shoots and discussions on those areas where television production and contemporary art collide. Soon, Nick will expand the column to include some non-Art21 related musings, reviews, interviews, and other ephemera on the world of production and art in general. Monthly, on the second Friday.
Teaching with Contemporary Art is about the things that happen when we share Art21 with our students. It’s about what happens to their approaches making art, the way they talk about art, and the ways engagement with contemporary art can help shape and redefine the art they create. It’s also about how we, as art educators, work with contemporary art in different ways to inspire not just our students, but also ourselves. By Joe Fusaro. Every Wednesday.
An index of all the exhibitions, lectures, openings, notable press mentions, and audiovisuals featuring artists profiled in the Art:21 series. Compiled by Nicole Caruth. Every Monday.
Art is food and the brain is life. Feed yourself! What’s Cookin’ at the Art21 Blog is your weekly index of posts published on this site. Noted by Mary Cook. Every Friday.
Time to Talk
Illustration by Adam Towers, Nyack High School
Art classrooms are mired in production. Too often the drive to complete work speeds right past the formation of a high quality idea or composition. How often have we ourselves seen or experienced a potential work of art get dumped because of poor planning, hasty decisions, or a fixation on completing vs. creating a work of art?
More and more time in my own classroom, especially in the past few years, has been spent cultivating ideas with students. Discussions and brainstorming in different ways can sometimes take a few days, and while my kids might accuse me of brain brutality from time to time because they are “thinking too much” instead of “just doing it”, the quality of ideas and slower pace to the planning has led to better work. Instead of work that looks like a project, more often students are creating work that looks like, well, work.
The thinking that goes into planning, sketching, talking through and articulating ideas is time well spent, even if it’s a little painful for students. Things like partner discussions, in-progress critiques and brainstorming multiple solutions to a given problem can yield so much more than a rush to “get an idea” and “put it on the paper”. When students are asked to create five different sketches for an assignment, then discuss those sketches with classmates and make a decision about which one to pursue, it’s always especially satisfying to hear many students choose one of the last sketches they created, or one sketch that changed because of the discussion itself.
Contemporary artists can teach our students a lot about the power of conversation, multiple perspectives, and exploring different possibilities in order to create great works of art. One look at artists like Allora and Calzadilla, Ann Hamilton, Oliver Herring or Doris Salcedo, for starters, can illustrate this in full color.
Art21 “Exclusive” Video, Year 2
What a year it’s been! We’re taking a look back at the 42 Exclusive videos that premiered here on the Art21 Blog, and subsequently on YouTube and iTunes. We hope you’ve enjoyed this new feature for 2009 and, as always, look forward to your comments.
What’s our New Year’s resolution? We’ll be premiering more behind-the-scenes moments with contemporary artists such as Beryl Korot, Shahzia Sikander, Allan McCollum, Julie Mehretu, Cao Fei, Florian Maier-Aichen, and many, many more. Check out what happened in year one.
What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index
"Sea lions in the Palamino Islands." Source: Guardian.co.uk
Water, water, everywhere! Ever-changing and ever-constant, see a glimpse into Roni Horn’s vast exploration of this traveling landscape in this weeks Art:21 Video Exclusive.
- Her art was suffused with [a] very human hope, which she saw as being grounded in the intractability of human struggle. Her work was never crudely utopian—as she told me, “utopia, like heaven, is kind of boring…” EVER SPERO
- What do you want to know about Art21? Ask us.
- To Biennial or Not to Biennial? Notes by Kelly Huang
- $5 for Season Five! You help to make what we do possible. You can donate here.
- Another Kick in the Pants – Teaching with Contemporary Art, Joe Fusaro, and TED.com
- FLASH POINTs : Rachel Craft, NEW Flash Points Editor introduces the topic, Art and the Environment
- Center of the Artworld? Artist Glenn Ligon shares his thoughts.
- Art21 artists track the world. Round ‘em up Nicole!
- DAZZING – -See it! In addition, William Kentridge will perform I am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine
- PROMPT: A Conceptual Social Club, under the influence by the Futurist Variety Theatre. Participants include Mark Dion among many others.
- DARKLY FUNNY: The Day is Done Judson Church Dance by Mike Kelley
Tuesday November 17 – Thursday, November 19 at 8pm and 10pm - UNPREDICATABLE: physicality, dance and ACTION. It’s part of 3-Day Weekend, a performance piece directed by Oliver Herring. Friday, November 20, 6:30-8:30pm, Saturday, November 21, 3-5pm, and Sunday November 22, 3-6pm
Still hungry? Stay tuned.
Source: Vallatra-Adventures.com
The Art21 Guide to PERFORMA 09
If you’re lucky enough to be in New York City during Performa 09 this month, there are a number of events featuring Art21 artists that are not to be missed! Here’s a quick cheat sheet:
William Kentridge: I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine
Monday, November 9 – Tuesday, November 10, 8:00pm
A comic and visually dazzling performance by Season 5 artist William Kentridge, in I Am Not Me, the Horse is Not Mine, Kentridge gives an unusual presentation related to his current opera-in-progress: a work inspired by Russian composer Dmitri Shostakovich’s satirical opera The Nose, based on the Nikolai Gogol short story of the same name.
>> WATCH: William Kentridge preview from Art:21 Season 5
The PROMPT (a night club)
Wednesday, November 11 – Sunday, November 15, 8:00pm
A conceptual social club under the influence of Futurist Variety Theater, cues and propositions are offered each night in the form of conversation pieces, rules, performances and soundtracks, transforming this destination into a pressure cooker for ideas and intimacies. Participants include Art21 artist Mark Dion, among many, many others. Space is limited. RSVP: theprompt@kunstverein.us
>> WATCH: Mark Dion in Art:21 Season 4
Mike Kelley: Day is Done Judson Church Dance
Tuesday November 17 – Thursday, November 19 at 8pm and 10pm
In the first of two related Performa projects, Season 3 artist Mike Kelley will present three short dance/performance pieces in the Judson Memorial Church inspired by the darkly funny vignettes in his 2005 film and video installation Day Is Done. Premiering will be Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #33 (Ladder Piece), a work involving 13 people assembled on and around a large ladder playing music on horns.
>> WATCH: Mike Kelley directing Day is Done (Art:21 Season 3)
Oliver Herring: 3 Day Weekend
Friday, November 20, 6:30-8:30pm, Saturday, November 21, 3-5pm, and Sunday November 22, 3-6pm
3 Day Weekend is both a performance and material for a live video shoot. The Weekend will unfold as a series of interactions built over the course of three days with a group of people who were chosen through an open application process. The actions will be physical, dance related, mostly unrehearsed and therefore unpredictable. Art21 artist Oliver Herring will both “direct” the actions and film the footage.
>> WATCH: Participant Davis Thompson-Moss talking about working with Oliver Herring (Art:21 Exclusive)
A Fantastic World Superimposed on Reality: A Select History of Experimental Music
Friday, November 20 and Saturday, November 21, 6pm – midnight
Mike Kelley project #2: a mini noise music festival. In 1973, Kelley formed his own band, Destroy All Monsters. A Fantastic World continues Kelley’s continued interest in musical subcultures and focuses specifically on avant-garde music and sound art. Staged over two days, the festival will present both historic works from artists such as John Cage, Fred Frith, Fluxus, Bruce Nauman, and Max Neuhaus as well as performances by contemporary proponents of experimental music including Airway, Joan La Barbara, Tony Conrad, Jad Fair & Lumberob, Arto Lindsay, Genesis Breyer P.Orridge, z’ev, and John Zorn.
>> WATCH: Mike Kelley playing and recording music (Art:21 Season 3)
Weekly Roundup
Matthew Ritchie, "Line Shot" Installation (detail), 2009. Courtesy Andrea Rosen Gallery.
- The Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) will host a talk with Season 3 artist Matthew Ritchie and brothers Bryce and Aaron Dessner (of indie rock band The National) on Saturday, October 31 at 6pm. The event is held in conjunction with their collaborative performance The Long Count, which opens at BAM on Wednesday, Oct 28. Ritchie’s work is currently on view at Andrea Rosen Gallery in the solo exhibition Line Shot.
- Songs of Ascension by Ann Hamilton (Season 1) and Meredith Monk (also currently at BAM) was featured in a New York Times music review last week. Read the article here.
- For Performa 09, Mike Kelley (Season 1) will present three short dance/performance pieces inspired by his film and video installation Day Is Done (2005). These performances bring to life some of the characters featured in the film, all of whom are based on found photographs of extracurricular activities from American high school yearbooks. Premiering will be Extracurricular Activity Projective Reconstruction #33 (Ladder Piece), a work involving 13 people assembled on and around a large ladder playing music on horns. Kelley’s show runs Nov 17 – Nov 19 at Judson Memorial Church. Purchase tickets here.
- Between Being Born and Dying, a site-specific installation by Barbara Kruger (Season 2), is on view at Lever House through November 21. Bloomberg.com describes the installation: “Kruger’s aphorisms are written in massive black-and-white letters all over the Lever House’s atrium, both inside and outside. They are printed on vinyl panels covering the floor, windows, walls and columns. The results are striking but disorienting. The 17-foot-tall letters are so big you can’t take it all in at once–or at all.”
- Season 2 artist Paul Pfeiffer has created a special project for the 3rd Moscow Biennale of Contemporary Art. The project opens with Vertical Corridor, in which Pfeiffer encourages the viewer to peer through a tiny peephole in the wall of the gallery. The peephole is the only access to an immense space, and questions “the validity of the spectacle … reminding the viewer that every such spectacle must bow to the limits of one’s perspective.” This is the artist’s first solo exhibition in Russia.
- Kara Walker (Season 2) will introduce a screening of the 1926 film Die Abenteuer des Prinzen Achmed (The Adventures of Prince Achmed) at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York on November 11. Directed by the German animator and film director Lotte Reiniger, it is the earliest feature-length animation still believed to exist, and considered one of the greatest animated films of all time. The program — part of MoMA’s To Save and Project festival — begins at 8pm.
- Season 2 artist Trenton Doyle Hancock will speak at James Cohan Gallery Shanghai on Tuesday, October 27 at 5pm. Two print portfolios Fix (2007) and The Ossifies Theosophied (2005) will be on display in conjunction with the event. Hancock is featured in the exhibition Young Americans at James Cohan Gallery Shanghai through November 15.
- Mirror, Mirror: Contemporary Portraits and the Fugitive Self, a new exhibition at the Brigham Young Museum of Art in Utah, features works by 32 artists, including Oliver Herring (Season 3), Rebecca Campbell, Hasan Elahi, Harrell Fletcher, Douglas Gordon, Nikki Lee, and Takashi Murakami. The exhibition explores the influence of rituals, facades, social media, and the family on the formation of individual identity. On view through May 2010.
- Art critic Tyler Green talks to MoMA curator Connie Butler (organizer of the feminist exhibition, Wack!) about Season 4 artist Nancy Spero, who passed away last week. Read the interview on Green’s blog Modern Art Notes.
- Work by Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (Season 4) is included in the School of the Art Institute of Chicago exhibition Learning Modern: Bauhaus Legacy in Downtown Chicago. Building on the legacy of László Moholy-Nagy and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Learning Modern features projects by artists and architects who continue a legacy of interdisciplinary innovation for better living, while exploring the central role of experiential education in the modern vision. Continues through January 9, 2010.
- Willy Loman: The Rise and Fall, the fifth exhibition of work by Yinka Shonibare MBE (Season 5) at Stephen Friedman Gallery in London, is on view through November 20. The earliest known documentation of a fatal car crash provides a pictorial metaphor for Shonibare’s new body of photographic and sculptural work. Photographed in 1898, the image records death as a spectacle for the first time; a crowd surrounds the carcass of a motor vehicle. Shonibare has created a similar scene in the gallery, a sculptural dramatization of the death of Arthur Miller’s infamous protagonist, salesman Willy Loman. The installation suggests a parallel between Miller’s 20th century examination of greed and the human condition, and the present day.
- Now on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Focus on Artists celebrates the museum’s 75th anniversary, and its close ties with modern and contemporary masters as demonstrated by works from their collection. SFMOMA holds a number of sculptures by Season 5 artist Doris Salcedo; pieces from her Unland (1995–98) and Untitled “Cabinet” series (1989-present) will be on view. Continues through May 23, 2010.
- On the occasion of Grey Area, a new work by Season 5 artist Julie Mehretu commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim, the current issue of ArtMag (the online art magazine of Deutsche Bank) focuses on artists who investigate urbanism and cultural identity. Joan Young, curator at the Guggenheim Museum, has contributed an essay about Mehretu’s recent work. Read it here.
What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index
Chill out and stay awhile. Here’s what been going on at the Art21 Blog this week:
- What are Sally Mann, Oliver Herring, Barry McGee, Bruce Nauman, James Turrell, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Mark Dion, Jeff Koons, Ann Hamilton and Shahzia Sikander up to? Trong rounds-them up!
- Maelstrom at the Met | Roxy on the Roof!
- Gastro Vision: Art of the Pub
- “All the really good ideas I ever had came to me while I was milking a cow.” – Grant Wood. What!?! Joe Fusaro talks about word games in this week’s edition to the column Teaching with Contemporary Art.
- Meet the Season 5 Artist: Allan McCollum
- Low on funds to for to help support your art project? Check out this post: Kickstarting Creative Projects: An Innovative Micro Giving Site, Part 1 of 2; For Part II of this new column visit this link.
- Harrell Fletcher Interviewed by Allan McCollum
- Art21 Video Exclusive – Arturo Herrera | Failure
Weekly Roundup
Sally Mann, "Hephaestus" (2008), Gelatin silver print. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery.
- Proud Flesh is up through October 31 at Gagosian Gallery. Sally Mann’s (Season 1) new body of work focuses on a photographic study of her husband, taken over a period of six years. Proud Flesh “suggests a profoundly trusting relationship between woman and man, artist and model that has produced a full range of impressions – erotic, brutally frank, disarmingly tender, and more.”
- Sally Mann is also in the group exhibition Hide & Seek: Picturing Childhood at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, which opens this Saturday. The show focuses on photographs of children “as collective memories of childhood itself—a phase of life to which we can never return.” This long history represented in Hide & Seek also includes images by Lewis Carroll, Gertrude Käsebier, Lewis Hine, Helen Levitt, Ralph Eugene Meatyard, Emmet Gowin, Wendy Ewald, Sage Sohier, Julie Blackmon and Gloria Baker Feinstein. Through Feb. 21, 2010.
- The 10th Biennale of Lyon opened last week and includes projects by over 50 artists, including Art21’s Oliver Herring (Season 3) and Barry McGee (Season 1). Themed The Spectacle of the Everyday, this year’s situationist version is curated by Hou Hanru. Through January 3, 2010.
- James Turrell’s solo show Large Holograms is up now through October 17 at Pace Wildenstein Gallery. Fifteen unique large-scale works by the Season 1 artist explore the phenomenon of light itself, letting it become the object while capturing it’s normally fleeting qualities.
- The Guardian UK website has a great section called the Guide to Drawing in its Art and Design pages. Here’s a nice little slideshow of graphite portrait drawings by Shahzia Sikander (Season 1), and a few notes on how Jeff Koons (Season 5) articulates his ideas through draughtsmanship.
- The big 20th anniversary exhibition of the beloved Armory Center for the Arts opened this past weekend with Inside/Out. The venerable teaching institution in Pasadena has been around since 1947, but has been programming dynamic exhibitions only in the last twenty years since moving to its current location in an old National Guard building. The anniversary show’s lineup includes artists such as Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman (Season 1), Daniel Buren, Betye Saar, and Barry McGee. Through December 31.
- This Saturday, September 26 at 3pm, Stanford-based ecologist Gretchen Daily and artist Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle (Season 4) will share their ideas about value, ownership, biodiversity, the art world, and political economies of participation in the Conversation series at the Berkley Museum of Art. The talk is part of the Human/Nature: Artists Respond to a Changing Planet exhibition currently up at the museum. Artists in Human/Nature visited remote, fragile places in the world and present their responses. Other participants include Mark Dion (Season 4), Diana Thater, Xu Bing, Dario Robleto, and Ann Hamilton (Season 1). The show ends this Saturday, September 26.
Weekly Roundup
Josiah McElheny, "Bruno Taut on Mies van der Rohe (1922), i," 2009. Drawing on silver gelatin photograph using color retouching pencil, 23 1/2 x 17 1/2 in., Edition variant 1 of 4 with 1 artist's proof. Courtesy of Andrea Rosen Gallery.
- New works by Season 3 artist Josiah McElheny are on view at Andrea Rosen Gallery through Oct. 17. The centerpiece of the exhibition is an eight-foot tall sculpture based on Mies van der Rohe’s earliest model of a glassclad skyscraper. McElheny’s sculpture is an enlarged version of this original maquette that recasts Mies’s design in the spirit of rival architect Bruno Taut. Also included in the exhibition are a series of photo-based drawings inspired by a photograph Mies took of his skyscraper model in 1922. In each, the black-and-white photograph is highlighted, or defaced with photo-retouching pencil, thereby inserting Taut’s colorful ideas into Mies’s picture of purity and transparency.
- Works by Season 3 artist Richard Tuttle are on view in the exhibition Pollution is Ecology also at Andrea Rosen Gallery through October 17. Visit Contemporary Art Daily to browse through images of Tuttle’s concurrent exhibition, L’nger than Life, at Modern Art, London.
- Season 3 artist Fred Wilson is recipient of the 2009 Cheek Medal from the Muscarelle Museum of Art at the College of William and Mary. The Cheek Medal was created to recognize individuals who have impacted the fields of visual, performing and museum arts. A dinner and ceremony will be held at the Lake Matoaka Amphitheater on Sept. 18.
- Opening October 7 at the Museum of Arts & Design, Slash: Paper Under the Knife will explore the creative possibilities of paper through works by Kara Walker (Season 2), Oliver Herring (Season 3), Olafur Eliasson, Pietro Ruffo, Ishmael Randall, Sangeeta Sandrasegar, and others.
- Kara Walker (Season 2) will be the next artist in the Proposition seminar series at the New Museum. Inspired by the scientific method of hypothesis, research, and synthesis, these two-day events explore a topic of current investigation in the invited speaker’s own artistic or intellectual practice. On Sept 25 and 26 Walker will explore the object of painting and the concept of liberty.
- Mel Chin (Season 1) will lecture at Arizona State University (ASU) on Thursday, Sept. 24 at 7:30pm. The event is organized in conjunction with the Defining Sustainability season of exhibitions and projects at the ASU Art Museum.
- Dance with Camera is now on view at the University of Pennsylvania’s Institute of Contemporary Art. Both an exhibition and screening program, Dance with Camera explores the crossover between artists, and dancers who make choreography for the camera. The exhibition features works in film, video, and photography by artists Bruce Nauman (Season 1), Eleanor Antin (Season 2), Mike Kelley, Oliver Herring (both Season 3), Charles Atlas, Ann Carlson and Mary Ellen Strom, Bruce Conner, Tacita Dean, Luis Jacob, Joachim Koester, Elad Lassry, Kelly Nipper, robbinschilds + A.L. Steiner, Uri Tzaig, Flora Wiegmann, and Christopher Williams. On view through March 21, 2010.
Play Art Loud: DIY Videos on ArtBabble
Ever wanted to make a movie? This week we’re looking at DIY-style videos on ArtBabble, pulling together a potpourri of all things homemade, rough, and celebratory of the do-it-yourself attitude (adding a few of our own videos to the mix).
Paul McCarthy let’s his freak flag fly with this excerpt from the video installation Caribbean Pirates (2005). (via Art21)
The reigning king of DIY-style videos, Michel Gondry, explains it all in this conversation with Anthony Breznican (via Hammer)
Mark Bradford lent us some of his home movies! (again) Mark Bradford lent us some of his home movies! (via Art21)
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