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Kids on the Beach?
Rineke Dijkstra, "Kolobrzeg, Poland, July 26, 1992". Source: Guggenheim.org. Courtesy the artist and Marian Goodman Gallery, New York and Paris. © Rineke Dijkstra There are times when you just have to...
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Looking at Los Angeles | Anna Piaggi and the Summer One-Off
Anna Piaggi, photographed by Jeremy Kost. “She creates her own special environment, and it’s not meant to be imitated,” wrote Bill Cunningham for the New York Times in 1994. He was writing about Anna...
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Teaching with New York Close Up: David Brooks Tears The Roof Off
David Brooks, "Desert Rooftops", 2011. Source: Art Production Fund David Brooks Tears The Roof Off is an apt title for one of our most recent New York Close Up films this summer. Within the first 60...
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And furthermore…
David Brooks' "Desert Rooftops" in progress. Image: huffingtonpost.com One of my students read last week’s post and was interested in playing devil’s advocate by asking a few more questions about the...
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Yayoi Kusama at the Whitney: Accumulation, Infinity and the Multiverse
Yayoi Kusama. “Yellow Trees” at 14th Street, 2012. Photo courtesy Nettrice Gaskins. During my recent visit to New York City I saw the Yayoi Kusama retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art....
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The Museum as Memory Palace
Illustration by Swanny Mouton. How museums naturally take advantage of a peculiar quirk in our brains. A Place to Hang Your Facts In the mid 1880s, Mark Twain devised a children’s game he felt would...
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Getting Set for Visual Conversations
Installation view, Visual Conversations at the Fisher Landau Center for Art. If you haven’t visited already, the Fisher Landau Center for Art is a wonderful oasis to add to the list of places you can...
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Reflecting on Visual Conversations
Ed Ruscha, “The Act of Letting a Person Into Your Home”, 1983. Image: whitney.org Students came to class yesterday with works in progress that were inspired by our recent visit to see Visual...
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Gastro-Vision | The Best in Food-Art 2012
Two years ago, writers Megan Fizell of Feasting on Art and Andrew Russeth of the New York Observer helped me compile the first year-end roundup of food-art. That is, food inspired by art and art...
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Teachable Moments in 2012
Alan Alda as Hawkeye Pierce. Image:marysbeagooddogblog.blogspot.com Before we continue talking about last week’s “Speak About What’s Unspeakable,” I thought it might be good idea to end the year on a...
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Praxis Makes Perfect | No Rest for the Teaching Artist
The end of the calendar year marks the beginning of winter break in academia. For me, it has been tough juggling an academic residency with my creative endeavors, so I let out a big sigh of relief...
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Praxis Makes Perfect | The World Is Not Flat
Packed into a small gallery in Brooklyn, sound-amplified water drips beside me from an ice block suspended above a pair of stainless steel mixing bowls. I am waiting for the start of Aki Sasamoto’s...
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Exclusive | El Anatsui: “Broken Bridge II”
El Anatsui. “Broken Bridge II,” 2012. Installed above the High Line in New York City. Production still from the series Exclusive. © Art21, Inc. 2013. Cinematography by Ian Forster. “I come from a place...
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Teaching with El Anatsui
El Anatsui, “Sacred Moon,” 2007. Image: 303magazine.com This weekend I will be back with friends and colleagues at the University of Michigan Museum of Art to facilitate a teacher workshop about...
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Well Beyond Everyday
Nayland Blake, “Oh,” 2013. Courtesy Matthew Marks Gallery. If you are even remotely interested in how everyday materials can become bizarre and (sometimes) brilliant sculpture, there are three shows...
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Zarina’s Paper Like Skin
Zarina Hashmi. “Dividing Line”, 2001. Image via hyperallergic.com Zarina: Paper Like Skin, on view through April 21 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York, is a must-see for those who haven’t experienced...
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Of Consequence: Santiago Sierra’s “Veterans” at Team Gallery
Santiago Sierra, “Veteran of the War of Colombia Facing the Corner, Centro Colombo Americano, Bogota, Colombia, November 2011,” 2013. Unique digital lambda print 79 x 39.5 in. Courtesy Team Gallery...
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Staff Pick | Doug Aitken’s “Station to Station”
Rendering of Station to Station train by Doug Aitken. Work in progress. © 2013 Doug Aitken Last we heard from Doug Aitken, he was blowing holes and dripping water into the floor of the former 303...
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Transcendent Tapestries: El Anatsui at the Brooklyn Museum
El Anatsui. “Earth’s Skin,” 2007. Aluminum and copper wire, 177 x 394 in. Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. Courtesy of the Akron Art Museum. Photo: Joe Levack. Gravity and...
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