Psychedelic at SECCA
There is a very interesting film and video exhibition currently up at the Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Pyschedelic presents animations that are less about...
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Shahzia Sikander, "Untitled" (2005). Courtesy Sikemma Jenkins Gallery. Season 1 artist Shahzia Sikander will serve as the ninth guest curator of the Selects exhibition series at the Cooper-Hewitt...
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Alfredo Jaar, "The Sound of Silence", 2006. Installation with wood, aluminum, fluorescent lights, strobe lights and video projection. Software design by Ravi Rajan. Installation view at Musée Cantonal...
View ArticleSikander Trifecta (incl. talk tonight at Cooper-Hewitt)
In New York City? Don’t miss Season 1 artist Shahzia Sikander‘s related activities around town, including an artist’s talk tonight. Her curatorial exhibition, Shahzia Sikander Selects: Works from the...
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Shahzia Sikander, "Blood Lines," 2009. Courtesy Sikkema Jenkins. Tonight at the University of Southern California‘s Roski School of Fine Arts, Season 3 artist Krzysztof Wodiczko will engage in a...
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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...
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James Turrell, "Ganzfeld Piece (Modell)", 2008. Courtesy of Kunstmuseum-Wolfsburg © James Turrell. Photo: Zooey Braun A new installation by James Turrell (Season 1) — a light-filled space in the...
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Kara Walker, "A Warm Summer Evening in 1863", 2008. Wool tapestry with hand cut felt silhouette figure, 5' 9" x 8' 2". Edition of 5. ©Kara Walker. Courtesy of James Cohan Gallery, Banners of...
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Paul Pfeiffer, "Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (28)", 2007. Fujiflex digital. Chromogenic print 48 x 60 in. Courtesy of the artist and The Project, New York. Sports, the human body and Gap t-shirts...
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Richard Serra, "Baldwin", 2009. Paintstick on handmade paper, 78 1/2 x 78 1/2 in. Courtesy Gagosian Gallery. One artist in Rome, four artists in San Francisco, three artist talks from the U.S. to the...
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BMW Art Car. Jeff Koons, 2010. Photo courtesy of BMW Drives. Back after a two-week hiatus Art21 blogger Nettrice R. Gaskins takes the Weekly Roundup baton, so to speak. In this week’s roundup you’ll...
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John Baldessari, "VISIONAIRE X-MAS" © 2010 Visionaire Publishing, LLC. Just in time for the holiday season, this week’s roundup brings to you plenty of news, including last-minute gift ideas such as...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 ArticleLooking 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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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