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New column! Introducing “Bedfellows”
Art21 is pleased to announce our latest column, Bedfellows: Art and Visual Culture, penned by guest blog alum Victoria Gannon. Art and visual culture have not always been friends. When programs in the...
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Bedfellows: The Plaid Fad
Photo soure: Guillaumelemay.tumblr.com In November 1991, Nirvana played on all of our car stereos. We smoked clove cigarettes and drove through the Oakland hills with Nevermind blaring over the...
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Bedfellows | Coded Cloth
Alberti cipher disk, used for encrypting text. Photo source: http://www.ncard.co.cc We speak in code when words aren’t safe to say. Faced with threats, our language goes subterranean, carving new...
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Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco
The news of burritos available online sends office workers into a frenzy in this ad from Grubhub.com. Photo by author. One hundred feet below the Starbucks and suits of San Francisco’s financial...
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Bedfellows | Hungry in San Francisco Part 2
S and B Oriental Curry Powder is the most popular curry powder in Japan and also artist Sita Bhaumik's initials; she took it as a sign. Photo: Onlyfromhawaii.com. New relationships are often built...
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Bedfellows | Both a Science and an Art
Brian Rea, "Visions and Fears Mural" (detail). Mural installation at the Joan Miro Foundation, Barcelona, Spain. Every Wednesday night, my grammar teacher takes chalk to blackboard to underline...
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Bedfellows | Both a Science and an Art, Part 2
Alison Kendall, "1/2 and 1/2 Grasshopper," 2006. Half ink wash, half colored pencil on paper. Courtesy the artist. Alison Kendall creates drawings and paintings in which viewers’ expectations are...
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Bedfellows | Suburban Seriality
We were not the same, though when we came together, we acted as one. Growing up together, seven girls in the suburbs of Northern California, we told each other’s stories and slept in each other’s...
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Bedfellows | Blackout
I started the night in the corner, watching a girl in a sequined dress hover over the hors d’oeuvres and thinking about the inherent awkwardness of company holiday parties. After one glass of wine I...
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Bedfellows | Random! Jason Fulford and His Many Coincidences
My friend Lauren invited me to the lecture, but she couldn’t remember the name of the artist or anything about his work. I wasn’t doing anything Friday night, so I said yes, and that’s how we ended up...
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Bedfellows | Seeking Refuge
Lake Merritt Wildlife Refuge. Postcard published by Gilboy Agency, Oakland, California. Printed by E.C. Kropp Co, Milwaukee, Wisconsin. There is a bird refuge in Oakland, in the middle of an...
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Bedfellows | Waking Dreams
I was certain dusk had arrived too soon. It was the last week in May, and I had woken from my nap at five in the afternoon to find nightfall when the evening before the light had lingered until seven....
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Inside the Artist’s Studio: Leeza Ahmady (Part 2)
Ulan Djaparov. “Cold Head,” 2003. Photo documentation of a performance action. 80 x 120 cm. Courtesy of Ahmady Arts, The Taste of Others. I am pleased to share with you the second half of my...
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Bedfellows | Catalog Crimes
I steal catalogs from my neighbors. I know it’s wrong but I can’t stop. The mailman delivers them to a table in the building lobby, and late at night I walk into the brightly lit room and grab them. I...
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Bedfellows | The Magic Window
Desirée Holman. Television (Conduits of Fantasy) 1, 2007. Color pencil on paper, 16 x 16 in. Courtesy the artist. As a family we watched television. We watched during dark afternoons with the blinds...
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