Ebbe Stub Wittrup Work from his After Space Odyssey. “All the works in the series are locations from the science fiction film 2001: A Space Odyssey from 1968 by the director Stanley Kubrick. One scene in the film was meant to show the planet Jupiter, and the island of Harris in the Outer Hebrides most [...]

One of the events during Armory Week was the celebration of High Line Art’s Spring Season and Opening of the new public art project “Space Available” by Kim Beck. In this video, we take a walk on the High Line and speak with the curator and director of the High Line’s art program, Lauren Ross. [...]

About Sprouts Society Residency: The residency program invites artists, inventors and farmers  fromaround the world to participate creatively within Catskill region’sworking landscape.  ASsociety residency program supports the inception,creation an…

The Phillips Collection

The collaborative team probes gender and identity transformation in a three-channel video projection, The Coronation. Evoking a medieval altarpiece, the work occupies a gallery on the second floor of the Phillips house and establishes a visual dialogue with Georges Rouault’s Tragic Landscape (1930) from the permanent collection.

The Museo Universitario Arte Contemporáneo MUAC (Contemporary Art University Museum) located in the Cultural Center of the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM). It’s the largest public institution in Mexico to accommodate a collection of national and international contemporary art. Resplandor y soledad / Splendor and Solitude (2010) curated by Ben Tufnell, is the first [...]

On the whole, we found the Armory Show contemporary pier (Pier 94) to be a disappointing mix. It felt like a cloud of low energy had descended and sucked the life out of the fair. Much of the sculpture and painting we saw seemed uninteresting–at least it didn’t interest us. Mostly photographs and video held [...]

Since you can’t swing a cat without hitting a picture of Charlie Sheen at this point, I thought I’d choose a classic for today’s column. I mean, Art21 shouldn’t be left out of the fun, even though Charlie has nothing to do with today’s post. Today’s post is about teaching with, or perhaps about ambiguity. [...]

Amie Siegel Work from Black Moon. “The centerpiece of this three-part work is “Black Moon,” a partial remaking of Louis Malle’s 1975 film of the same title. A present-day science-fiction without dialogue, Siegel’s “Black Moon” traverses multiple film tropes – action, guns, lonely campfires, the end of the world – and, like its band of [...]

Landscape with Houses
Landscape with Houses
Landscape with Houses

Flying over snow-covered mountains in western Pennsylvania long ago, I was struck by the ambiguous appearance of this wintry landscape, as viewed from 30,000 feet. Was I looking at mountains—or and dunes in the desert, waves in the ocean, ripples in a pond? Chad Gerth’s urban photographs and Lydia Jenkins Musco’s constructions of urban materials [...]

SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #136: “I just wanted to approach the idea of war in a more complicated and more challenging way” says artist An-My Lê, whose photographic series and film “29 Palms” (2003-04) explore the training exercises and desert landscape near Joshua Tree National Park as a [...]

“Library” is one of those rare words that held different connotations for me as I made the mystical transition from childhood into maturity. As a child, the small branch of the public library just a few blocks away from my home offered the promise of Reading Rainbow-style journeys into other worlds, bright picture books splattered [...]

Philadelphia-born artist Daniel Traub has been living and working in China for the last nine years.   But he’s back now and the son of artist/activist Lily Yeh and architect/preservationist David Traub has a show of new urban landscape photographs currently at the Print Center.  We talked with him recently about his work and his [...]

Philadelphia-born artist Daniel Traub has been living and working in China for the last nine years.   But he’s back now and the son of artist/activist Lily Yeh and architect/preservationist David Traub has a show of new urban landscape photographs currently at the Print Center.  We talked with him recently about his work and his [...]

We realize some of you don’t read the blog on Mondays. If that’s the case here’s what you’ve been missing–really great podcast interviews of 10 to 15 minutes with some of Philadelphia’s exciting art people. They have talked to us about public art and they’ve talked to us about race in art. They’ve discussed print [...]

The I-Park Foundation (East Haddam, CT/USA) is pleased to announce its first artists-in-residence session devoted exclusively to inter-disciplinary and collaboration projects. Artists/practitioners working in the following fields are encouraged to appl…

One of the many excellent shows I saw First Friday was at Grizzly Grizzly, the little gallery that could. A surprising pairing of artists, Carrie Dickason and Mike Hein, impressed with the two artists’ engagement with materials and ideas. Dickason, MFA Cranbrook in fiber, lives in Maine, and her work evinces a love of the [...]

David Semeniuk Work from Landscape Permutations “Landscape Permutations is a series of imaginative recombinations of specific sites within my hometown – Red Deer, Alberta. In it, I investigate the relationship between a place and the specific sites that make up its (sub)urban landscape. I began this series by asking, what does it mean when different [...]

DANFORTH LECTURE HALLLærke Lauta lives and works in Copenhagen and creates multichannel,immersive video installations that drawfrom a northern European tradition that ascribes romantic, spiritual andenigmatic qualities to the natural landscape. Lauta …

DANFORTH LECTURE HALLLærke Lauta lives and works in Copenhagen and creates multichannel,immersive video installations that drawfrom a northern European tradition that ascribes romantic, spiritual andenigmatic qualities to the natural landscape. Lauta …