Tag Archives: New York City
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Well Beyond Everyday
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Well Beyond Everyday
If you are interested in how everyday materials can become bizarre and (sometimes) brilliant sculpture, there are three shows ready and waiting for you in Chelsea: Nayland Blake’s What Wont Wrong at Matthew Marks; B. Wurtz’s Recent Works at Metro Pictures; and Mark Dion’s two-floor delight titled Drawings, Prints, Multiples and Sculptures at Tanya Bonakdar.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 New York Close Up
Teaching with New York Close Up | Liz Magic Laser and David Brooks
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 New York Close Up
Teaching with New York Close Up | Liz Magic Laser and David Brooks
Two recent New York Close Up films featuring artists Liz Magic Laser and David Brooks exemplify how the film series “can make strong interdisciplinary connections.”
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 Educators: Success Stories
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 Educators: Success Stories
Over the past four years there have been many success stories from a what-still-feels-like-new Art21 Educators program. And while the experiences within and beyond Art21 Educators vary wildly from teacher to teacher, some of the educators we have worked with- in a range of disciplines and not just art- have provided us with specific comments and reflective narratives that often make smiles touch the back of our heads.
Alchemy of Inspiration
Alchemy of Inspiration I Sex, Skater Kids, and Gap Plaid: NYC in 1993
Alchemy of Inspiration
Alchemy of Inspiration I Sex, Skater Kids, and Gap Plaid: NYC in 1993
Jessica Lott reviews the “richly compelling, cohesive, and yet evasive” exhibition “NYC 1993,” now on view at the New Museum.
New Kids on the Block
New Kids on the Block | Angela Dufresne: Self-Confessed Storyteller, Punk, Image Maker, and Feminist
New Kids on the Block
New Kids on the Block | Angela Dufresne: Self-Confessed Storyteller, Punk, Image Maker, and Feminist
Jacquelyn Gleisner speaks with artist Angela Dufresne whose “landscapes are murky” and portraits are “brooding.”
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | A Community of Printmakers at Manhattan Graphics Center
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | A Community of Printmakers at Manhattan Graphics Center
Guest writing for Ink, Nicole Simpson walks us through the Manhattan Graphics Center, an artist-run space established in 1986.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Join Us for Year Five of Art21 Educators
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Join Us for Year Five of Art21 Educators
Are you a teacher interested in learning more about utilizing contemporary art in your classroom? Does spending a week in New York City this summer collaborating with other educators and …
New Kids on the Block
New Kids on the Block | Nyssa Frank of The Living Gallery
New Kids on the Block
New Kids on the Block | Nyssa Frank of The Living Gallery
Columnist Jacquelyn Gleisner Google chats with Nyssa Frank, owner of The Living Gallery, an alternative art space and community outreach venue in Brooklyn.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
When Works of Literature Make The Leap
Teaching with Contemporary Art
When Works of Literature Make The Leap
Contemporary artists and performers offer pathways into literature for the hard-to-inspire. Artists such as Glenn Ligon, Jenny Holzer, and even performances like the off-Broadway production of My Name is Asher Lev offer students ways to get inspired and involved with literature from different starting points.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teachable Moments in 2012
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Teachable Moments in 2012
Before we continue talking about last week’s “Speak About What’s Unspeakable,” I thought it might be good idea to end the year on a constructive note by looking back at some of the most teachable moments- events, exhibits, chance happenings and other opportunities – that made for uncanny entry points in the classroom…
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | On Perception: Katsutoshi Yuasa’s Woodcuts
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | On Perception: Katsutoshi Yuasa’s Woodcuts
Sarah Kirk Hanley looks at the woodcuts of Katsutoshi Yuasa, whose first solo exhibition in the US is at the ISE Cultural Foundation in New York, through January 4th.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reflecting on Visual Conversations
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Reflecting on Visual Conversations
In my previous post two weeks ago I said that I was interested in encouraging students to draw relationships between works of art and to think about how context affects what we see. Can works of art “speak” to the viewer or have “conversations” with other works? If so, how? Today was the day, after a long Thanksgiving weekend, for the group to share works in progress and get some feedback from one another.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Moving Time: A Fossil-Fueled Journey from Appalachia to Los Angeles through Motion Pictures
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Moving Time: A Fossil-Fueled Journey from Appalachia to Los Angeles through Motion Pictures
New “Looking at Los Angeles” contributor Danielle McCullough surveys the independent film scene in Los Angeles.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Getting Set for Visual Conversations
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Getting Set for Visual Conversations
If you haven’t visited already, the Fisher Landau Center for Art is a wonderful oasis to add to the list of places you can see exciting work in Long Island City. This week, I am taking one of my classes to visit the current show, Visual Conversations. Through the visit I am interested in encouraging my students to draw relationships between works of art and to think about how context affects how we perceive what we see.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Exploding a Theme
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Exploding a Theme
This week began with one of my advanced classes looking into the paintings of season 6 artist, Rackstraw Downes. As students start up a thematic series of their own work I wanted to see if we could “explode a theme” and “frame” Downes’ paintings in three different ways- as a topic, a theme, and as a question.
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