Clik here to view.
Weekly Roundup
Andrea Zittel, "A-Z Cellular Compartment Communities #5," 2002. © Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago. In this week’s roundup, Janine Antoni is a top art chef, Shahzia Sikander is honored, Carrie Mae...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Roundup
Janine Antoni, "Caryatid (Terra Cotta Amphora)," 2003. Photograph and broken vessel installation. Courtesy the artist and Luhring Augustine, New York. In this roundup (with a few exceptions), it’s a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Roundup
Richard Serra, "Dreiser," 2010. Paintstick on handmade paper. © Richard Serra. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. Photo: Robert McKeever. In this week’s roundup, Richard Serra’s elemental drawings, Laurie...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Roundup
Kalup and Franco, "Turn It Up" EP, 2011. Courtesy Dutty Artz. In this week’s roundup, NYCU’s Kalup Linzy teams up with James Franco, Barry McGee is featured, Trenton Doyle Hancock does all he can in...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Looking Back on an Inspiring Art21 Educators Institute
James Rees creates a tape drawing during the opening TASK event From July 6th through the 13th Art21 hosted our third annual Art21 Educators summer institute, which kicks off a year-long professional...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Outside Alias
Alias Restaurant at the corner of Clinton and Rivington On July 13th, after a full week of the Art21 Educators summer institute, I took the opportunity to interview teachers about their experiences...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Roundup
Collier Schorr, "Anonymous Cowboy," 2008. Courtesy the artist and 303 Gallery. In this week’s roundup, Collier Schorr’s and Matthew Barney’s mixed signals, Carrie Mae Weems and Rashid Johnson bridge...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Roundup
Sarah Sze. "Finding a Home Fixed Points," 2012. Mudam Luxembourg, Courtesy of the artist and Victoria Miro Gallery, London. Photo: Andres Lejona. In this week’s roundup, Sarah Sze finds a home for...
View ArticleClik here to view.
A Year of Contemporary Art in (and out of) Contemporary Classrooms
This is part two of a three part series that will share the experiences of three Art21 Education staff members (Jessica Hamlin, Joe Fusaro, and Flossie Chua) after spending a year with a group of 16...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ink | Paper Feast in New York
Richard Diebenkorn. “Seated Woman,” 1968. Lithograph. Image: 19 3/4 x 25 inches (50.2 x 63.5 cm); sheet: 19 3/4 x 25 inches (50.2 x 63.5 cm). Published by Kansas City Art Institute, edition of 20....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Roundup
Gabriel Orozco. "Astroturf Constellation," 2012. Image courtesy the artist. In this week’s roundup, Gabriel Orozco exhibits detritus, Cai Guo-Qiang, Jeff Koons, Shahzia Sikander, Kiki Smith and Carrie...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Roundup
Allora & Calzadilla. "Stop, repair, prepare: Variations on 'Ode to joy', No 1," 2008, © Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla. Photo Kaldor Public Art Project. In this week’s roundup Allora...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Roundup
Ai Weiwei. “Cube Light," 2008. Courtesy of the artist and Galerie Urs Meile, Beijing-Lucerne. In this week’s roundup Cindy Sherman arrives in Paris, Hiroshi Sugimoto tilts photos 90 degrees, Shahzia...
View ArticleClik here to view.
U.S. Department of State Honors Five Art21 Featured Artists with the...
This week, the U.S. Department of State celebrates the 50th anniversary of Art in Embassies (AIE), a program that facilitates the Department of State’s public diplomacy through the power of the visual...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Roundup
Jeff Koons. “Coloring Book 1997–2005,” 2012. Photo by Kenzo. Courtesy the artist. In this week’s roundup Jeff Koons presents colorful sculpture, New York Close Up is at the SoHo Apple Store, William...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Roundup
Mika Rottenberg. “Felicia from Tropical Breeze,” 2004. Courtesy the artist and Magasin 3, Stockholm. In this week’s roundup, the Empire State travels to Rome with works by LaToya Ruby Frazier and Jeff...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Roundup
Lynda Benglis. “Scarab,” 1990. Stainless steel mesh, aluminum. 52 x 75 x 16 in. In this week’s roundup, Lynda Benglis manipulates metal, Julie Mehretu and Matthew Ritchie explore diagrams, Shahzia...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Roundup
Florian Maier-Aichen. “Untitled,” 2013. Courtesy the artist and the Gagosian Gallery. In this week’s roundup Florian Maier-Aichen employs the splatter, Barbara Kruger and Shahzia Sikander discuss their...
View ArticleClik here to view.
“Exclusive” Curated (Part 2 of 3)
Yesterday, we published the first Exclusive playlist in a three-part series that continues through Thursday. In today’s playlist, a conservationist, an educator, a musician, and a few other friends of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Roundup
Ursula von Rydingsvard. Blackened Word, 2008. Cedar and graphite; 81 x 248 x 78 inches. Ursula von Rydingsvard joins the Yorkshire Festival, Matthew Ritchie expands the space of painting and drawing,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Creative Intervention and the Dhaka Art Summit
Naeem Mohaiemen, Shokol Choritro Kalponik, 2014. 8000 copies of newspaper distributed at the Dhaka Art Summit. Photo: Arifur R. Munir The second Dhaka Art Summit opened a day after part of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Roundup
Marela Zacarias. Winged (2013). Wood, window screen, joint compound, acrylic paint; 20 x 5 x 6 inches. Courtesy Brattleboro Museum & Art Center. Marela Zacarias’s abstract sculptures travel to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Weekly Roundup
Matthew Ritchie. Ten Possible Links, 2014. Installation view at Andrea Rosen Gallery. Left: Command and control, 2014. Oil and ink on canvas; 84 x 112 x 2 1/2 inches framed. Floor: Night Drawing, 2014....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Ten Artists on Radicalism and Resistance
Production still from the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 6 episode, Change, 2012. Segment: Ai Weiwei. © Art21, Inc. 2012. ART21 films are doorways into social and political issues of our time....
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Week in Art: 3.28-4.3
William Kentridge’s Triumphs and Laments, photographed by Chris Warde-Jones for The Telegraph. This week we take a look at news exclusively about ART21 artists—the projects they’re working on, where...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Week in Art: 7.4-7.10
Katharina Grosse. Rockaway! at Fort Tilden, 2016. Photo by New York Off Road on Instagram. Last week our short film series New York Close Up won the Cine Golden Eagle for Digital Series. Congrats to...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Week in Art: 10.3-10.9
Pedro Reyes, Doomocracy. 2016. Brooklyn Army Terminal. Aptly timed for the election and Halloween, Season 8 Mexico City artist Pedro Reyes launches his “house of political horrors,” Doomocracy, this...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Week in Art 4.3-4.9: Theaster Gates & Laylah Ali Win Awards
John Baldessari. Space Available, 1966-67. Ink on canvas; 12 1/4 x 12 1/4 inches. Private collection. John Baldessari: Paintings 1966-68 is on view at Craig F. Starr Gallery April 7 through May 20,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Week in Art 7.24-7.30: The Brooklyn Museum’s “Legacy of Lynching”
Shirah Dedman, Phoebe Dedman, and Luz Myles visiting Shreveport, Louisiana, where in 1912 their relative Thomas Miles, Sr., was lynched (2017). Photo: Rog Walker and Bee Walker for the Equal Justice...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Week in Art 7.31-8.6: “Big Science” Named One of the 150 Greatest Albums...
Laurie Anderson’s Big Science album cover, 1982. Last week NPR Music named Laurie Anderson’s debut album one of the 150 greatest albums made by women. Titled Big Science and released in 1982, the album...
View ArticleThis Week in Art 8.7-8.13: Cindy Sherman’s Instagram Goes Public
A post shared by cindy sherman (@_cindysherman_) on Jun 14, 2017 at 7:15pm PDT This week Cindy Sherman was in news—from W Magazine to The New York Times—for unlocking her Instagram account, making 593...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Week in Art 9.25-10.1: Theaster Gates Wins Nasher Sculpture Prize
Theaster Gates. Courtesy of the Nasher Sculpture Center. On Tuesday the Nasher Sculpture Center announced Theaster Gates as the winner of this year’s $100,000 Nasher Prize for Sculpture. This is the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Week in Art 10.16-10.22: Trevor Paglen Named 2017 MacArthur Fellow
Trevor Pagan, 2017 MacArthur Fellow. Credit: John D. & Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Last Wednesday the MacArthur Foundation announced artist Trevor Paglen as a 2017 fellow. Paglen joins the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Week in Art 10.23-10.29: New Graphic Novel Chronicles the Life of...
© J. Paul Getty Trust Text © Isabel Quintero Illustrations © Zeke Peña Photographs © Graciela Iturbide. Courtesy of Getty Publications Tomorrow the Getty is releasing a graphic novel on the life of...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Week in Art 10.30-11.5: Performa 17 Starts Wednesday
Julie Mehretu and Jason Moran, in rehearsal for their November 16 Performa commission. Photo: Damien Young. Courtesy of Performa. On Wednesday the biennial performance art festival Performa is starting...
View ArticleClik here to view.
This Week in Art 11.13-11.19: Prospect.4 Opens Friday in New Orleans
Jennifer Odem’s Tables, Rising on view at New Orleans’ Crescent Park as part of Prospect.4. Courtesy of Prospect.4. On Saturday the citywide triennial Prospect New Orleans is opening its fourth...
View Article