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Lost in Transmission
Bill Murray, opening segment from Lost In Translation, 2003. Directed by Sofia Coppola. Screenplay by Sofia Coppola. Produced by Ross Katz and Sofia Coppola. Studio: American Zoetrope; Tohokushinsha...
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Manual Transmissions
Susan Silton. In everything there is the trace, 2013. Installation view at the USC Fisher Museum of Art. Photo: Alexandra Brown. A funny thing happened in Los Angeles recently. Two different artists,...
View ArticleThe Tenth Day of Mourning
Alinka Echeverría, “The Day of Mourning,” 2013. (II) [see the SlideDeck] Editor’s note: The Art21 Magazine is pleased to introduce British/Mexican artist Alinka Echeverría as our Translation Issue...
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Guillermo Gómez-Peña: Linguistic Resistance
Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Rachel Rogers, Pocha Nostra Royalty, as part of The Museum of Fetishized Identities, Tate Modern, London, 2003; public performance. Courtesy Live Art Development Agency If we...
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Translating a City Back to Itself
Sydelle Willow Smith, Seykou, 2013; photograph. In conjunction with “Making Neighborhoods.” Courtesy the artist. In November 2013, I joined three artists in Barcelona, Spain, to work on a collaborative...
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Reflections on Chinese Contemporary Art: Ai Weiwei, Cao Fei, and Cai Guo-Qiang
From left: Artists Ai Weiwei, Cao Fei, and Cai Guo-Qiang. For the occasion of Armory Focus: China at The Armory Show 2014 in New York City, Art21 produced four original films featuring Philip Tinari,...
View ArticleBecoming South Sudan
Alinka Echeverría, “Becoming South Sudan.” [see the SlideDeck] Until January 9, 2011, the Republic of South Sudan existed only in the imagination of the Sudan Peoples’ Liberation Movement. On that day...
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Xu Zhen & Armory Focus: China
Xu Zhen by MadeIn Company, Under Heaven 3611MQ0137, detail, 2013. Oil on canvas, aluminum; 51 1/5 × 63 × 3 9/10 in (130 × 160 × 10 cm). Courtesy the artists and Ullens Center for Contemporary Art...
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Janine Antoni and Stephen Petronio Blur Lines
Janine Antoni and Stephen Petronio, Honey Baby (video still), 2013. Courtesy the artists. Production still from the series Exclusive. © Art21, Inc. 2014. “One thing that is very evident in [Stephen...
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Gabriel Orozco Teaches Spanish
Gabriel Orozco, “Untitled,” detail, 1994.Production still from the series Exclusive. Cinematographer: Rafael Salazar. © Art21, Inc. 2014. “I don’t feel that Spanish has proper status in the...
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Autophagy: translating science through artistic expression
University of Michigan (clockwise, from top) dancers Riley O’Donnell, Kula Batangan, Lauren Morris, Penelope Koulos, and Ashley Manci (center). Click. Click. Click. Click. Red spike heels punctuate the...
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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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Letter from the (Guest) Editor: Translating Translation
Artist Josephine Halvorson in Thomaston, Connecticut, 2012. Production still from the New York Close Up film, Josephine Halvorson Is on the Clock. © Art21, Inc. 2013. “A work of art doesn’t have to be...
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