Meet the Season 5 Artist: John Baldessari
The above video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode Systems, premiering on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Systems features four artists — John Baldessari,...
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Vesna Jovanovic, "New Mitosis," 2008. Ink spills, graphite, pencil. Courtesy the Artist. In an exhibition currently on view at the International Museum of Surgical Science in Chicago, artist Vesna...
View ArticleNew Flash Points topic: Systems
John Baldessari, "Two Person Fight (One Orange): With Spectator," 2004. Three dimensional digital archival print with acrylic paint on sintra, dibon and gatorfoam panels, 84 x 79 inches. © John...
View ArticleBarbara Kruger interviewed by Richard Prince
Barbara Kruger, 1981, photo montage. Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a vintage BOMB interview relating to a Season 5 artist. This week, we stepped back into our...
View ArticleFabricating the DNA Fingerprint
Paul Vanouse's “Latent Figure Protocol" was produced with the DNA of bacterial plasmid pET-11a. Enzymes used to process the DNA are listed in each column. Image produced December 06, 2006. Courtesy of...
View ArticlePictures at the Met
Richard Prince, "Untitled (four single men with interchangeable backgrounds looking to the right)," 1977. Mixed media on paper. Courtesy The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York As summer officially...
View ArticleMeet the Season 5 Artist: Kimsooja
The above video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode Systems, premiering on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Systems features four artists — John Baldessari,...
View ArticleKrzysztof Wodiczko interviewed by Giuliana Bruno
Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a BOMB contributor relating to a Season 5 artist. This week, inspired by Kimsooja’s videos and installations, we’re revisiting the...
View ArticleMeet the Season 5 Artist: Allan McCollum
The above video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode Systems, premiering on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Systems features four artists — John Baldessari,...
View ArticleHarrell Fletcher interviewed by Allan McCollum
Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a BOMB contributor relating to a Season 5 artist. This week, we’re switching it up again and featuring an interview by an Art21...
View ArticleMeet the Season 5 Artist: Julie Mehretu
The above video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode Systems, premiering on Wednesday, October 28, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings). Systems features four artists — John Baldessari,...
View ArticleJulie Mehretu interviewed by Lawrence Chua
Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a BOMB contributor relating to an Art:21 Season 5 artist. This is our final week before the official premiere of Season 5. We’ve...
View ArticleGastro-Vision: Breaking Bread
John Baldessari, "Yours in Food" book jacket image. Princeton Architectural Press, 2004. Gastro-Vision is a new monthly column dedicated to all things food in contemporary art and visual culture. This...
View ArticleScenes from a Globalized Art World
Patrick Andrade for The New York Times I’d like to start my guest blogging with Art21 by bringing up a series of questions surrounding globalization and artistic representation. My primary research...
View ArticleMaking It Happen
Blogalogue Mania Sweeps the Nation! I have “email balls.” I sit behind my computer screen, protected by a Gmail-cloak of anonymity and I email whomever, whenever, whatever. I landed my first job out of...
View ArticleEcoArtTech Reflections…
My conversation with Eco Art Tech left me feeling a wee bit in the throes of an existential nihilistic crisis. Were systems and networks so radically out of our control? Was I always going to be...
View ArticleBlogalogue, Part 2: About ETeam
ETeam is comprised of Hajoe and Franziska. They were introduced to me by Cary Peppermint, who met them at an exhibition they all participated in, called Ebay. ETeam’s work includes mainly long-term...
View ArticleBlogalogueing with ETeam
Preface: The following conversation took place in Second Life, at ETeam’s Second Life dumpster. I am Salty Clarity; ETeam is Lothar Apfelbaum and Tempo Strom. Tempo Strom is Online Lothar Apfelbaum is...
View ArticleETeam Reflections…
In case you didn’t notice, ETeam did a pretty good job of turning the tables on me. It would seem that systems and networks are tricky and unpredictable that way… ETeam’s take on systems and networks...
View ArticleBlogalogueing with Kristin Lucas
Leave it to a web artist to push the boundaries in interview formats! Keep reading to experience mine and Kristin Lucas’s systems vs. networks conversation, Twitter style… Nikksters: How do you define...
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