Program

Art Education for the 21st Century Book Project

What is Art Education? A 21st-Century Question?
Inspired by an ambitious series of symposia sponsored by the Anaphiel Foundation, this volume (to be published by MIT Press) will bring together a series of provocative essays that speculate on the roles of art schools and the dynamics of art education in the twenty-first century. The book is commissioned and edited by art critic and historian Steven Henry Madoff. The range of essays is broad, from the ethical responsibility of art schools to the usefulness of discipline-based learning in a primarily interdisciplinary world of contemporary art practice to thoughts on the architecture appropriate for an art school in the new millennium. Contributors include Thierry de Duve, John Baldessari, Michael Craig-Martin, Daniel Birnbaum, Okwui Enwezor, Liam Gillick, Charles Renfro, and Saskia Bos, among others. The book will be illustrated with photographs of some of the great art schools of the world alongside texts that describe the relation of their architecture to their pedagogies. In its questioning and propositions, the book will touch on the major issues of the field, providing insights that shed light on the challenges and possibilities that lie ahead.