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Greetings from St. Louis
My name is Rachel Gagnon, and I’m writing from the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts – a “non-museum” located in the middle of a city that’s located in the middle of America. The Pulitzer has been in...
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What is this place, anyway?
Starting my job as the public relations coordinator at the Pulitzer meant getting a crash course on how to answer all of our “Frequently Asked Questions”: when we opened, who’s the architect, our...
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Installing Art
Art installation = my favorite time to blog. In fact, while writing this, I found an embarrassing number of posts about installation in our archives. I think it plays into why I like blogging in the...
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Documenting The Light Project
Wrapping up my previous post’s theme of installation—the online catalogue for the Pulitzer’s outdoor exhibition, The Light Project, allowed me to humor my love of the installation process on a whole...
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Art in St. Louis
A view of St. Louis (taken from my roof!) I wanted to give Art21 readers a sense of the arts landscape in St. Louis, but it’s a tall order to try to encapsulate a whole scene into a single blog post....
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Through our Neighbor’s Front Window
Stan: our neighbor across the street Stan has lived on Washington Boulevard in Grand Center since 1995. He used to be a contractor, specializing in rehabs throughout the city, and told me that he has...
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Three Questions
Boots Contemporary Art Space White Flag Projects For my third post about the arts scene in St. Louis, I wanted to get the perspective of two newer arts spaces in town – White Flag Projects and Boots...
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Artist Interviews: Serkan Ozkaya and Pepe Mar
While working on the interviews for my last post, I had an opportunity to meet two artists who were putting the finishing touches on their respective exhibitions. Serkan Ozkaya’s work A Sudden Gust of...
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Museums and Transparency
Eyes may be the windows to a person’s soul, but to me, it’s a website. Well, at least into the soul of an institution. Everything put online is a choice, and that says a lot about the beliefs of that...
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Emphasizing Visitor Experience
Another approach to museum transparency that I admire is that of the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver. When you open the homepage of their recently re-designed website, you’re immediately confronted...
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Conveying Compassion
Doris Salcedo, "Atrabiliarios," 1992-93. Photo: Robert Pettus. Courtesy the Pulitzer Foundation for the Arts. When I learned that Doris Salcedo was being featured in Art21’s episode on Compassion, I...
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Flash Points: Art and the Environment
Spencer Finch, "White (Niagara Falls obscured by mist, April 17th, 2006 5:30pm)" Today we launch the next Flash Points topic, Art & the Environment. We first addressed this issue in Season Four’s...
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Art and Nature at Storm King
Flash Points Editor Rachel Craft interviewed David R. Collens, Director and Curator of Storm King Art Center, about the institution’s focus on the relationship between art and nature. —Ed. Mark di...
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Call for Writers: New Flash Points Topic
Hans Haacke, "Cowboy with Cigarette," 1990. Pasted paper, charcoal, ink, and frame, 37 x 31 x 2 3/8" (94 x 80 x 6 cm). Collection Joseph Lebon. Photo: courtesy John Weber Gallery, New York Our new...
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Flash Points: The Ethics of Art
Gordon Matta-Clark, "Bingo," 1974. The Museum of Modern Art, New York; Nina and Gordon Bunshaft Bequest Fund, Nelson A. Rockefeller Bequest Fund, and the Enid A. Haupt Fund, 2004. Installation...
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The Process Behind the Portrait
Alec Soth, "Donald and Tamara," from the series, "NIAGARA," 2004. The practice of photographic portraiture is rife with ethical implications – from the subject’s awareness of the project, to the...
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Call for Writers: New Flash Points Topic
Uta Barth, "Sundial (07.8)," 2007. Courtesy of Alison Jacques Gallery. Our new Flash Points topic, Art and Experience, will be launching soon and we’re inviting you to participate! If this sounds good...
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Flash Points: Art & Experience
Lygia Clark, "Diálogo: Óculos (Dialogue: Goggles)," 1968. Modified diving goggles, metal, and mirror. Clark Family Collection, Rio de Janeiro. Photo: Eduardo Clark. © 2008 "The World of Lygia Clark"...
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“Free” and Online Experience
Lisa Oppenheim, "The Sun is Always Setting Somewhere Else," 2006. 35mm slide projection. Courtesy the artist. Free, an exhibition that opens October 20 at the New Museum, will explore the web’s impact...
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Call for Writers: Next Flash Points
William Kentridge. Drawing for the film "Johannesburg, 2nd Greatest City after Paris," 1989. Charcoal on paper; 37 4/5 x 59 2/5 in. Copyright and courtesy of William Kentridge. Our new Flash Points...
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New Flash Points: Influence
Among the elements explored in Art21’s William Kentridge: Anything is Possible, the film looks at his many influences, from his personal background to his love of the performing arts. What better way...
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Call for Flash Points Writers | The New Culture Wars: What’s at Stake?
David Wojnarowicz, "Fire," 1987. Synthetic polymer paint and pasted paper on plywood, two panels, 6 x 8 feet (182.9 x 243.8 cm). Gift of Agnes Gund and Barbara Jakobson Fund. © 2011 Estate of David...
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Call for Writers: New Flash Points Series on “Storytelling”
Glenn Ligon (b. 1960). "Runaways," 1993 (detail). Suite of ten lithographs. 16 × 12 in. (40.6 × 30.5 cm each). Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; gift of the Peter Norton Family Foundation ©...
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Dear Artist, What Was Your First Job?
Alec Soth at work. Courtesy the artist. “If it’s your job to eat a frog, it’s best to do it first thing in the morning. And if it’s your job to eat two frogs, it’s best to eat the biggest one first.”...
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Excerpt from the film Just Imagine, 1930. Director: David Butler. Fox Film Corporation. “The future ain’t what it used to be.” —Yogi Berra It’s with great anticipation that Art21 launches the “Future”...
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Planning Social Practice: An Interview with Mary Jane Jacob
Temporary Services. Publishing Clearing House, 2014. Installation view in A Proximity of Consciousness: Art and Social Action, Sullivan Galleries, Chicago. Photo: James Prinz When Mary Jane Jacob...
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The Myth of Wilderness
Albert Bierstadt. Among the Sierra Nevada, California, 1868. Oil on canvas. Smithsonian American Art Museum. “[W]ilderness is a matter of perception—part of the geography of the mind.” —Roderick Nash1...
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Unapologetic: Women Artists and Power through Vulnerability
Tala Madani. Love Doctor, 2015. Collection of Christina Papadopoulou. Photo courtesy of Josh White. “I’m so sick of people shaming women for being sensitive or vulnerable. It’s so bizarre to me.”...
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