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May 7, 2010
 
Pierre Huyghe, Celebration Park (2006) at the Tate Modern, London.


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 "Popular culture...is the culture I live in, and that's the culture people speak," says Mike Kelley in one of two new Exclusive videos.

Popular culture is very present in the latest goings-on at Art21. Mike Kelley describes how he flays and reconfigures it and Beryl Korot expresses an interest in the impact of mass media in the latest pair of Exclusive videos. Culture Wars hosts picked apart popular culture and presented tidbits as trivial challenges to a competition-hungry audience of art lovers. In a forthcoming Art21 Blog topic--which we invite you to participate in--writers will explore influences of all types of culture on art-viewing experiences.

Read on for the latest Exclusive videos, Art21 Blog posts, and more!

In this issue: 

Exclusive Videos: Beryl Korot and Mike Kelley

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Highlights from the Art21 Blog

Culture Wars, Bowties, and Boston

Tabaimo at 601Artspace, Curated by Susan Sollins

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Banner: Laurie Simmons filming The Music of Regret. Art in the Twenty-First Century, production still, 2007. Season 4, Episode: Romance. � Art21, Inc. 2007. Left: Pierre Huyghe, Celebration Park (2006) at the Tate Modern, London. Art in the Twenty-First Century production still, 2007. Season 4, Episode: Romance. � Art21, Inc. 2007.
 Exclusive Videos: Beryl Korot and Mike Kelley
Art21 Exclusive

Art21's latest Exclusive videos feature two artists whose projects reveal, critique, and subvert the ways in which popular culture is disseminated, whether through mass media or symbolic rituals.

Beryl Korot: Radical Software 1970-74 Beryl Korot: Radical Software 1970-74
Episode #103: Beryl Korot describes the impetus behind the innovative 1970s publication Radical Software, elucidating the history of video in art and the impact of mass media on society. Published on the occasion of the 40th anniversary of the magazine's first issue. 
 
Mike Kelley: Day Is Done  Mike Kelley: Day Is Done
Episode #104: Mike Kelley reveals how photographs from yearbooks and newspapers in Detroit served as the inspiration behind the performative project Day Is Done shown installed at Gagosian Gallery.

Keep up with the Exclusive series on the Art21 Blog, or subscribe to the series via RSS or iTunes (note: link opens in iTunes). A blend of newly-shot original filming and previously unreleased archival footage, videos from the weekly Exclusive series focus on singular aspects of an artist's process, significant individual works and exhibitions, provocative ideas, and biographical anecdotes.

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Art21's 100 x 100 Exclusive campaign: 100 donations in 100 days to celebrate 100 Exclusive videos!

21 donors (a key number for Art21!) have pledged their support for the Exclusive series. With 72 days to go, we invite you to help us achieve our campaign goal by adding your name as one of the 79 donors yet to be listed on our 100 x 100 Exclusive campaign site. For as little as $1--yes, only $1!--you can help underwrite the next series of Exclusive videos. Join today!

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 Highlights from the Art21 Blog
Uta Barth, "Sundial (07.8)," 2007.  Call for Writers: New Flash Points Topic
Our new Flash Points topic, Art and Experience, will be launching soon and we're inviting you to participate!
 
Carey Young, "Speech Acts," 2009. Photo: David Ulmer.  Current Flash Points
Must art be ethical?

Some Alternatives to Institutional Critique by Laura Fried
What's In a Code of Ethics? by Holly Witchey
 
Jason Bailer Losh, "Grotto of the Redemption" (detail), 2010.  From our columns
Art 2.1: Beyond Boundaries: Art Exhibition & Virtual 3D Worlds
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports: Exhibiting the Intangible
Inside the Artist's Studio: Jason Bailer Losh
Letter from London: Paint, Misbehaving
Looking at Los Angeles: Jung's Red Book Begins a New Chapter at UCLA's Hammer Museum
Open Enrollment: The Exhibition in Art & Business
Teaching with Contemporary Art: Rewind, The Artist's Studio; The Power of Saying Yes
 
Guest blogger: Evan J. Garza, Curator & Writer, Boston  Guest Bloggers
Now: Evan J. Garza, Writer & Curator, Boston
Previously: Nettrice Gaskins, Artist & Educator, Boston; Baseera Khan, Artist, NYC; Ivan Lozano, Video Artist, Chicago
 
Want to write for the Art21 Blog? Email interest and writing samples to blog [at] art21 [dot] org.

IMAGES (from top): Uta Barth, Sundial (07.8), 2007; Courtesy of Alison Jacques Gallery. Carey Young, Speech Acts, 2009; Installation view at Contemporary Art Museum St Louis; Photo: David Ulmer.  Jason Bailer Losh, Grotto of the Redemption (detail), 2010; Courtesy of the artist.

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 Culture Wars, Bowties, and Boston
Culture Wars and Bowties
On April 28, over 80 participants gathered at the 92YTribeca in New York City for the third Culture Wars: A Night of Trivia with Art21 which was inspired by spring and the vernal equinox. Fifteen teams battled through three rounds of trivia, including representatives from The Metropolitan Museum of Art, Art in General, the Whitney Museum, the Studio Museum, the Queens Museum of Art, Brooklyn Museum, The Brooklyn Historical Society, RXArt, America: Now and Here, CUNY Grad Center, prize sponsors 20x200, and some of New York City's most passionate art lovers.

The third installment of Culture Wars provided fertile ground for some healthy competition. Six teams finished with tied scores and competed in a final elimination round. In the end, Brooklyn Historical Society left the competition in the dust, taking home prizes provided by 20x200; the MoMAtes, a team comprised of former MoMA interns, finished in second place, receiving prizes provided by the Phaidon Store in SoHo; and a team from CUNY Graduate Center Team emerged victorious in sudden elimination nabbing prizes from Art21 and the 92YTribeca.

Thanks to all who joined us that night! Big thanks to our prize sponsors at 20x200 and the Phaidon Store in SoHo, and, of course, to our lovely collaborators at the 92YTribeca.

Catch up with the night's Twitter activity by following the hashtag #culturewars.

Boston, be prepared!
Art21 is coming to The Institute of Contemporary Art! Mark your calendars and brush up on your trivia for a special Beantown edition of Culture Wars: A Night of Trivia with Art21, taking place next Thursday, May 13, starting at 6:30 p.m. If you are in Boston, come to say hello and stay to be victorious.

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 Tabaimo at 601Artspace, Curated by Susan Sollins
Tabaimo at 601Artspace, Curated by Susan Sollins
Now on view at 601Artspace in New York City is an exhibition of works by Japanese artist Tabaimo curated by Art21 Executive Director Susan Sollins.

The exhibition includes a large-scale video installation, dolefullhouse (2007), along with a selection of drawings from her Tawamushi (2008) series.

Utilizing sophisticated computer animation technology, thousands of drawings, and a palette that refers to the tradition of Japanese woodblock prints, Tabaimo's video installations, including dolefullhouse, are presented within and upon a constructed space that creates a sense of physical or psychological intimacy. About this work, Tabaimo says, "I want to create layers of worlds."

The exhibition is on view through July 9. Gallery hours are Tuesdays and Fridays, 2-6 p.m., or by appointment. Call 212-243-2735, email [email protected], or visit the 601Artspace Web site for more information.

IMAGE: Tabaimo, dolefullhouse, 2007. Still from the video installation. Courtesy of the artist and James Cohan Gallery, New York.

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