Tag Archives: Performance
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.
Transmission
Transmission | An Interview with Niels Geybels: Sequences, Monoliths, and Beneath the Earth
Transmission
Transmission | An Interview with Niels Geybels: Sequences, Monoliths, and Beneath the Earth
Columnist Amelia Ishmael speaks with Antwerp-based visual artist, graphic designer, and musician Niels Geybels, whose various practices often overlap.
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…
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Tanya Aguiñiga / Transnational Arts Operative
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Tanya Aguiñiga / Transnational Arts Operative
Danielle McCullough profiles Tanya Aguiñiga, an artist/activist whose works take many forms, many of which engage notions of transnational autobiography.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | An Interview with Vishal Jugdeo: Making “Goods Carrier” for Made in L.A.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | An Interview with Vishal Jugdeo: Making “Goods Carrier” for Made in L.A.
Lily Simonson talks to an LA artist whose recent video installation evokes the domestic tension of familial and romantic relationships.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
TASK Unplugged
Teaching with Contemporary Art
TASK Unplugged
This year, to begin the fourth annual Art21 Educators Institute, we will start our nine days with Oliver Herring and TASK at Luhring Augustine Gallery in Brooklyn. In a year that has in some ways been about “restraints” inspired by Matthew Barney, we will be running TASK with three materials: pencil, paper and string.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Anything but the Kitchen Sink
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Anything but the Kitchen Sink
Catherine Wagley muses on family, history, and the relation of both in artworks by Patricia Fernandez and Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle in the Los Angeles Biennial.
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Anti-Establishment in the Establishment: Dawn Kasper at the Whitney Biennial, Part 2
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Anti-Establishment in the Establishment: Dawn Kasper at the Whitney Biennial, Part 2
The second of a two-part conversation between Marissa Perel and Whitney Biennial artist Dawn Kasper.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | And the Money Came Rolling In . . . Or Not
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | And the Money Came Rolling In . . . Or Not
When the display of a luxury car leads Catherine Wagley to mistake a performance festival for a fundraiser, the slippery relations between art and commerce become clear.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Sparks Fly from MOCA for Cai Guo-Qiang’s Sky Ladder
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Sparks Fly from MOCA for Cai Guo-Qiang’s Sky Ladder
Lily Simonson confronts mortality and the expansive scale of the universe on viewing Cai Guo-Qiang’s “Sky Ladder” at MOCA Los Angeles.
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision | Queer Cakes for a Country Cookout
Gastro-Vision
Gastro-Vision | Queer Cakes for a Country Cookout
Jacolby Satterwhite’s multi-media project “Country Ball” merges the practices of “insider” and “outsider” artists: he incorporates drawings made by his mentally ill mother, Patricia.
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Talking with Sarah Michelson about “Devotion Study #1” at the Whitney Biennial
Gimme Shelter: Performance Now
Gimme Shelter | Talking with Sarah Michelson about “Devotion Study #1” at the Whitney Biennial
Sarah Michelson discusses the ideas and concepts leading her to create Devotion Study #1, a dance developed specifically for the Whitney Biennial.
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