This Week in Art 11.27-12.3: Theaster Gates Creates a Material Memorial for...
© AP Photo/Tony Dejak. Materials from the gazebo where 12-year-old Tamir Rice was shot in 2014 by Cleveland police are now on view at Theaster Gates’ Stony Island Arts Bank in Chicago. The gazebo’s...
View ArticleThis Week in Art 11.6-11.12: Artists Fights Sexism and Harassment with...
Jenny Holzer. Truisms, 1982. Installation view, Times Square, New York. Photo: Public Art Fund. Laurie Anderson, Cindy Sherman, Abigail DeVille, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie, Tania Bruguera, and...
View ArticleThis Week in Art 10.30-11.5: Performa 17 Starts Wednesday
Julie Mehretu and Jason Moran, in rehearsal for their November 16 Performa commission. Photo: Damien Young. Courtesy of Performa. On Wednesday the biennial performance art festival Performa is starting...
View ArticleThis Week in Art 10.23-10.29: New Graphic Novel Chronicles the Life of...
© J. Paul Getty Trust Text © Isabel Quintero Illustrations © Zeke Peña Photographs © Graciela Iturbide. Courtesy of Getty Publications Tomorrow the Getty is releasing a graphic novel on the life of...
View ArticleArt21 News Roundup: Jamian Juliano Villani Paints Under Pressure
Our recently released film on Jamian Juliano-Villani seems to have struck a chord. Students identify with Jamian’s anxiety about deadlines, and artists have shared their mutual feelings of self doubt....
View ArticleThis Week in Art 10.9-10.15: Jeff Koons Collaborates with Snapchat
Jeff Koons’s Balloon Dog in an augmented reality collaboration with Snapchat. Last week Snapchat released an augmented reality collaboration with artist Jeff Koons, virtually “placing” his iconic...
View ArticleThis Week in Art 10.2-10.8: Artists Create Posters Opposing Trump’s...
Barbara Kruger. Art Against the Immigration ban poster, 2017. Courtesy of the Guggenheim. Last month the Guggenheim published a blog post about a recent delivery the museum had received: a set of...
View ArticleArt21 News Roundup: Julie Mehretu Recontextualizes the History of American...
Last week we released a special Extended Play film on Julie Mehretu’s monumental commission for the new SFMOMA. Art21 was granted exclusive access to film the artist and her team at work over the...
View ArticleThis Week in Art 9.4-9.10: Women Artists Bring Protest Messages to Times Square
Installation view: House of Trees. Word on the Street, 2017. Courtesy of Maria Baranova for Times Square Arts. A new public art commission is bringing political banners by female artists and writers to...
View ArticleThis Week in Art 8.28-9.3: Trevor Paglen and Ai Weiwei Projects Hit Kickstarter
A rendering of one piece in Ai Weiwei’s multipart Public Art Fund project Good Fences Make Good Neighbors at Washington Square Park. Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio / Frahm & Frahm. Just in time for...
View ArticleThis Week in Art 8.7-8.13: Cindy Sherman’s Instagram Goes Public
A post shared by cindy sherman (@_cindysherman_) on Jun 14, 2017 at 7:15pm PDT This week Cindy Sherman was in news—from W Magazine to The New York Times—for unlocking her Instagram account, making 593...
View ArticleThis Week in Art 7.24-7.30: The Brooklyn Museum’s “Legacy of Lynching”
Shirah Dedman, Phoebe Dedman, and Luz Myles visiting Shreveport, Louisiana, where in 1912 their relative Thomas Miles, Sr., was lynched (2017). Photo: Rog Walker and Bee Walker for the Equal Justice...
View ArticleThis Week in Art 6.19-6.25: Tania Bruguera Opens “Talking to Power”
Tania Bruguera. The Francis Effect (2014). Courtesy of Studio Bruguera. Photography by Gaetano Olmo Stuppia. An unprecedented survey of Tania Bruguera’s 30-year career, Talking to Power / Hablándole al...
View ArticleThis Week in Art 5.15-5.21: Jeff Koons’ Inflatable Ballerina Comes to...
Jeff Koons. Seated Ballerina, 2017. Installation view at Rockefeller Center. Photo courtesy of Street Art News. New York City opened a new public art installation last week, co-presented by the Art...
View ArticleThis Week in Art 3.27-4.2: 100+ Ai Weiwei Installations Coming to NYC
Rendering of one piece in the multi-site Public Art Fund project Ai Weiwei: Good Fences Make Good Neighbors. Courtesy of Ai Weiwei Studio. This morning, the New York Times announced Good Fences Make...
View ArticleThis Week in Art 3.20-3.26: Artists Rally Behind the NEA
Image courtesy of Killer Infographics. This week, more than 230,000 people signed a PEN America petition opposing President Trump’s plan to defund the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) and the...
View ArticleThis Week in Art 2.27-3.5: Rashid Johnson’s Directorial Debut
Rashid Johnson. Last week it was announced that New York Close Up artist Rashid Johnson will be directing his first feature length film—an adaptation of Richard Wright’s 1940 novel Native Son. “I came...
View ArticleThis Week in Art 2.20-2.26: William Kentridge Launches Arts Incubator
The Centre for the Less Good Idea website. Screenshot, February 20, 2017. William Kentridge has started an arts nonprofit dedicated to experimental projects. Called The Centre for the Less Good Idea,...
View ArticleThis Week in Art 1.9-1.15: Artists Call for Inauguration Day Strike
Barbara Kruger. Untitled (I shop, therefore I am), 1987. Photographic silkscreen on vinyl; 111 x 113 inches. Courtesy of Mary Boone Gallery, New York. This week was all politics for Art21 roster...
View ArticleThis Week in Art: 10.10-10.16
Natalia Almada. Everything Else (film still), 2016. Lots of ART21 artists in the news this week! Leonardo Drew talks about his art-making practice in Interview Magazine; Julie Mehretu discusses her new...
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