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Home and (or) Away
William Kentridge creating video animation for “Breathe” (2008) in his studio, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2008. “William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible,” production still, 2010. © Art21, Inc. 2010....
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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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Bringing Them Back Home
Vija Celmins. “Night Sky #10,” 1994-1995. Oil on linen mounted on wood. 31 x 37 1/2 inches. Courtesy McKee Gallery, New York. This week, it’s my pleasure to host a group of alumni coming back to the...
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Aperture Makes a Great Magazine Even Better
Aperture’s new Spring 2013 cover. Photo (detail) by Christopher Williams. Image: Aperture.org Periodicals such as Esopus, BOMB and Aperture are some of my very favorite magazines to read and teach...
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Drawing with the Lights Out
Elizabeth Murray, “Worm’s Eye,” 2002. Courtesy The Pace Gallery, New York. Sometimes the best thing we can do is turn out the lights. Over the past few weeks my high school freshmen have been looking...
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Five Years of Teaching with Contemporary Art
Oliver Herring, “PATRICK,” 2004, Courtesy Meulensteen, New York Hindsight is all about understanding something after it has happened. When I go back to my very first post for this column on May 7, 2008...
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The Changing Shape of Teamwork
Allan McCollum, “The Visible Markers,” 1997-2000, Produced in collaboration with I.C. Editions, New York © Allan McCollum, Courtesy the Susan Inglett Gallery, New York Back in October, 2009 I wrote a...
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Year Five of Art21 Educators: Lynn Grimes and Carol Barker
Earlier this month, we were excited to announce a new year of our Art21 Educators program. This week, we are again pleased to spotlight the first of this year’s selected educators. Hailing from the...
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Size Matters
Paul McCarthy, “White Snow, Bookends,” black walnut, 2013. Installation at Hauser and Wirth. Teaching about scale and its importance in a work of art is a tricky thing for art educators. Let’s face it:...
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You Say You Want Evolution: Looking Backward and Forward with Portfolios
Darique sharing his portfolio with classmates. While I have used portfolios with students since my first year teaching, the way I use portfolios has changed. Teachers (and not just art teachers) know...
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An Expanding Network
Julie Mehretu, “Stadia III”, 2004. Image: wikipaintings.org I like a teacher who gives you something to take home to think about besides homework. – Lily Tomlin For four years now, and going on our...
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Making the Circle Bigger
Image via Fastcompany.com After my last post I got to thinking about the kinds of networks teachers create in order to stimulate thinking and their own practice. When I talked with a few colleagues...
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Works Well With Others
Students in Jack Watson’s Studio Art class at Chapel Hill High School contemplate the post-it wall, where they have brainstormed information about areas of conflict for a unit on Borders and...
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What It Takes
Detail of Martin Puryear working at Paulson Bott Press in Berkeley, CA. Production still from the series Exclusive. © Art21, Inc. 2013. Cinematography by Bob Elfstrom. When I learned of the theme for...
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Redefining Portraiture
Screenshot of the Katonah Museum of Art “Eye to I” exhibition website, eyetoi.org. In February, I took my high school students to see Eye to I at the Katonah Museum of Art. The sixty artists featured...
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Getting Beyond Good and Bad
Students in Jack Watson’s Visual Art III class place contemporary prints in sequence to create a thematic, nonverbal conversation between artworks. After wordlessly relating the formal principles and...
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Reflecting on the National Art Education Association’s Annual Conference
Photo: Joe Fusaro This year’s annual National Art Education Association (NAEA) conference, held March 29–31 at the San Diego Convention Center, offered a lot of what everyone expects from this mother...
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What does it mean to be a responsible global citizen?
Barbara Kruger. Untitled (I shop, therefore I am), 1987. Photographic silkscreen on vinyl; 111 x 113 inches. Courtesy Mary Boone Gallery, New York. “Inquiring Minds” is a new ART21 Magazine series,...
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Revamping Art Education for the Twenty-First Century
Elizabeth Murray. Open Drawer, 1998. Oil on canvas; 112 x 108 inches. Photo: Ellen Page Wilson. Courtesy Pace Gallery, New York. Sixth grade students work on abstract narratives based on the work of...
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