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Mary Heilmann: Abstract Painting

by Wesley Miller on 30. Jul, 2010 in Art21 Blog, NEWS

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Episode #116: Mary Heilmann describes a breakthrough she had of combining gestural and hard-edge abstracton in a single painting, combining the legacies of Willem de Kooning and Josef Albers.
For every piece of Mary Heilmann’s work—abstract paintings, ceramics, and furniture—there is a backstory. Imbued with recollections, stories [...]

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Freewaves: Video Between Their Toes

by Catherine Wagley on 29. Jul, 2010 in Art21 Blog, NEWS

Freewaves turned 20 this year. The grassroots new media organization that began in 1989 with a gaping, loosely defined mission to show Los Angeles to itself celebrated its birthday on June 26 with Video on the Loose, a  one-night festival at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). In the wide-open plaza that links [...]

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Gone Fishing

by Joe Fusaro on 28. Jul, 2010 in Art21 Blog, NEWS

Teaching with Contemporary Art is taking a break this week in order to pull back, take some vacation, and get set for the return to a new school year in just a few short weeks. Please join me in some time to reflect on the past year and allow for some big ideas to begin [...]

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Back to School!

by Jeffrey Augustine Songco on 28. Jul, 2010 in Art21 Blog, NEWS

With the last days of July upon us, I shed a tear and take a deep breath as I prepare for my final year at San Francisco Art Institute. My classes don’t begin until the last week of August, but being the ambitious student that I am, I have several school-related activities that begin [...]

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Bravo’s Work of Art: Episode 6 Recap

by Wesley Miller on 28. Jul, 2010 in Art21 Blog, NEWS

In a special series of posts, Wesley Miller watches Bravo’s Work of Art: The Next Great Artist, frame by frame, and attempts to uncover what it all means through the medium of animated GIFs. This is his journey. — Ed.

GIF wall after the jump (…

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Summers at Ox-Bow

by Claudine Ise Bad at Sports on 27. Jul, 2010 in Art21 Blog, NEWS

We tend to spend a lot of time talking about art in terms of “work” nowadays, but we don’t always consider how important respite and retreat can be when it comes to sustaining an artmaking practice.  Artists, like all creative individuals, seek retreat for different reasons: to increase their focus and resolve; to problem-solve or [...]

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Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins on 27. Jul, 2010 in Art21 Blog, NEWS

This week in Roundup read about Pepón Osorio’s drowned art, Allora & Calzadilla getting shortlisted, Janine Antoni in motion, and a Hiroshi Sugimoto/James Turrell art counterpoint.

Allora & Calzadilla are on the shortlist of artists to have their ideas selected for Trafalgar Square’s fourth plinth.  The winning concept will take its place in Britain’s premier public [...]

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Why Here?

by Lincoln Hancock on 26. Jul, 2010 in Art21 Blog, NEWS

What does it mean to live and work as an artist in the South? It would be foolhardy to suggest there is a single, unified answer to this question. I think prevailing sentiments and themes emerge, however, through even a cursory glance at a scene like the one here in Raleigh and the Triangle (for [...]

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Doris Salcedo: Istanbul

by Wesley Miller on 23. Jul, 2010 in Art21 Blog, NEWS

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Episode #115: Doris Salcedo discusses her installation for the Istanbul Biennial, describing how she wanted to create a “topography of war” that would transcend the specificity of historical events.
Doris Salcedo’s understated sculptures and installations embody the silenced lives of the marginalized, from individual victims of violence [...]

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