Under the Radar: Best of 2011, Part 2
Katharina Grosse, installation view of One Floor Up More Highly at Mass MoCA. Image: ContemporaryArtDaily.com Following up on last week’s post, I’d like to conclude with a few more shows that flew...
View ArticleOn View Now | Experience Required: Carsten Höller at the New Museum
Carsten Holler. "Mirror Carousel," 2005. Installation view. Courtesy Juliana Balestin. A carousel, a 102-foot slide, a swimming pool called the Giant Psycho Tank and a kiosk giving out goggles that...
View ArticleConfessions of a Game Art Addict
Screenshot from "Museum Meltdown" (1996) by Palle Torsson and Tobias Bernstrup. Like a punch in the solar plexus of fine art: that’s what it felt like six years ago when I stumbled upon the piece...
View ArticleOpen Enrollment | Nature and Nurture
This is the first January in a decade that I am not returning to a full time work schedule, and I am rediscovering the academic limbo that is winter break. Most schools will not reopen their doors to...
View ArticleIt’s All Fun and Games Until Someone Blows Their Brains Out
Mikael Vesavuori. Still from "Don't Get Raped." Courtesy the artist. What happens when we live our lives through a videogame interface? In May 2007, the Iraqi-American artist Wafaa Bilal created a...
View ArticleKristoffer Zetterstrand: King of Old School
Kristoffer Zetterstrand. "Pointer," 2008. Oil on canvas. 41 x 41 cm. Courtesy the artist. Kristoffer Zetterstrand is my favorite game artist, but it would be unfair to label him a game artist. There...
View ArticleVideogame Appropriation in Contemporary Art: Grand Theft Auto (GTA)
Stefano Spera. “Grand Theft Auto,” 2009. Oil on canvas. 100 x 120 cm. The freedom to explore all of a game’s territory is one of the keys to the success of the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) series from...
View ArticleOpen Enrollment | Broadcasting Nostalgic
Four weeks into my master’s thesis, I’m discovering it is more a test of maintaining focus than of any other skill. That’s a lot to ask for from an art lover in New York. I grit my teeth when I see...
View ArticleTalking with Janine Antoni and Getting Set for NAEA: Part Two
Janine Antoni. Image: arts.columbia.edu Below is part two of my recent interview with Janine Antoni in advance of her keynote address and workshop at the National Art Education Association’s annual...
View ArticleOn View Now | The Ungovernables: The New Museum’s Triennial Exhibition
Adrián Villar Rojas. "A Person Loved Me," 2012. Clay, wood, metal, cement, Styrofoam, burlap, sand, paint. Courtesy the artist and kurimanzutto, Mexico City. Photo: Benoit Pailley. The New Museum’s...
View ArticleOpen Enrollment | Frames and Filigree
My classmate Matthew Rader recently sent me a shameless plug to his and Pamela Reed’s appearance on the PBS Off Book episode on Animated GIFs. The popular image file format, which can loop images into...
View ArticleWords and Art
Cai Guo-Qiang, "Drawing for Transient Rainbow," 2003 Collection Museum of Modern Art, New York I had no idea what to write about this week, so I asked my son, Paul…. He’s six. “Write about words and...
View ArticleGastro-Vision | Queer Cakes for a Country Cookout
Jacolby Satterwhite. “Country Ball 1989-2012, Appendix (detail),” 2012. Digital video & 3-D animation. Courtesy the artist. In Country Ball 1989–2012, Appendix, a new performative video and 3-D...
View ArticleOpen Enrollment | The New Aesthetic
My thesis is due in two weeks, so let’s keep this short. April has been a kicking month for the New Aesthetic – a term so nascent I feel like it’s redefined after each new blog post on it. And there...
View ArticleLooking at Los Angeles | And the Money Came Rolling In . . . Or Not
Screen shot of Debo Eilers and crew performing "My Little Sunshine" during the Art21 Telethon. When I tuned into the Art21 Telethon this past Sunday, the 8-hour performance-filled fundraising...
View ArticleOpen Enrollment | BAMPS
Well it’s finally happening. The day has come. As of around noon EST today, someone will announce over a loudspeaker at a crowded Yankee stadium that I am officially a member of the BAMPS – Bachelor...
View Articleavaf + art21 comboworks: A Collaboration with assume vivid astro focus,...
a very anxious feeling. are vipers always fanged? absurd vanilla anus flavor. Eli Sudbrack of artist collective, assume vivid astro focus (featured in the Season 6 episode, Boundaries, as well as in...
View ArticleOpen Enrollment | A Final Report
Summer has finally come, as defined by my farmer’s tan. Graduate school has officially ended, as defined by my sudden rise in free time which allows me to get a farmer’s tan. And with that, I have to...
View ArticleExclusive | Ai Weiwei: New Communication
Production still from the Exclusive video, "Ai Weiwei: New Communication." Our latest Exclusive video is now live! Click here to watch “Ai Weiwei: New Communication” on Art21.org! In one of his first...
View ArticleGastro-Vision | Summer Round Up
Rainer Prohaska. "Floor Cuisine, ACF New York," 2012. Ink on paper. 16.6 x 23.4 in. Courtesy the artist. The heat and humidity of New York City summers make walking into a cool gallery all the...
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