ART:21 | Romance
Artists explore the roles that intuition, emotion, fantasy, and escapism play in contemporary art. Featuring artists Laurie Simmons, Lari Pittman, Judy Pfaff, and Pierre Huyghe.
View ArticleART:21 | Ecology
Artists explore how our understanding of the natural world becomes deeply cultural. Featuring artists Ursula von Rydingsvard, Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Robert Adams, and Mark Dion.
View ArticleART:21 | Protest
Artists engage politics, inequality, and the many conflicts that besiege the world today. Featuring artists Nancy Spero, An-My Le, Alfredo Jaar, and Jenny Holzer.
View ArticleART:21 | Paradox
Contemporary artists address contradiction, ambiguity, and truth. Featuring artists Mark Bradford, Catherine Sullivan, Robert Ryman, and Allora & Calzadilla.
View ArticleART:21 | Kerry James Marshall: Being an Artist
Kerry James Marshall discusses three recent paintings, all Untitled (2008), during the installation of his exhibition Black Romantic at Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.
View ArticleART:21 | Compassion
Artists explore conscience and reconcile the past and present while exposing injustice and expressing tolerance for others. Featuring artists William Kentridge, Carrie Mae Weems, and Doris Salcedo.
View ArticleART:21 | Fantasy
Artists transport us to imaginary worlds and altered states of consciousness with hallucinatory, irreverent, and sublime works. Featuring artists Jeff Koons, Mary Heilmann, Florian Maier-Aichen, and...
View ArticleART:21 | Transformation
Artists capture the sensibility of our age by satirizing society and reinventing icons of literature, art history, and popular culture. Featuring artists Yinka Shonibare MBE, Cindy Sherman, and Paul...
View ArticleART:21 | Systems
Artists invent new grammars, systems, and logics in today's supercharged, information-based society. Featuring artists Julie Mehretu, John Baldessari, Kimsooja, and Allan McCollum.
View ArticleART:21 | Cao Fei: Avatars
In her Beijing studio, Cao Fei reflects on the behavior of avatars in the digital environment of Second Life and the motivations behind people who explore and inhabit virtual worlds. The video...
View ArticleART:21 | The Present Perfect with Art21: June 23, 2010
The Present Perfect with Art21 featured artists Oliver Herring and Laurie Simmons in conversation with Robert MacNeil (formerly of the MacNeil-Lehrer Newshour), as well as with live and online...
View ArticleART:21 | Carrie Mae Weems & David Alan Grier: In Conversation
Carrie Mae Weems and David Alan Grier have an intimate discussion on a range of topics including childhood idols, the definition of blackness, race and politics during Obama's presidency, and a desire...
View ArticleART:21 | Trailer: William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible (2010)
"William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible" (2010) gives viewers an intimate look into the mind and creative process of William Kentridge, the South African artist whose acclaimed work has made him one...
View ArticleART:21 | William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible
Rich in visual imagery and music, this program gives viewers an intimate look into the mind and process of William Kentridge, the South African artist whose acclaimed charcoal drawings, animations,...
View ArticleART:21 | Composer Philip Miller on collaborating with William...
Composer Philip Miller talks about his long-time collaboration with William Kentridge, scoring and performing original music for the artist's animated films and the multi-channel video installation "I...
View ArticleART:21 | Trailer: Season 6, Art in the Twenty-First Century
Trailer for Season 6 of the Peabody Award-winning series, "Art in the Twenty-First Century." Featured artists include: Marina Abramovic, Ai Weiwei, David Altmejd, El Anatsui, assume vivid astro focus,...
View ArticleART:21 | Change
How do artists respond to a world in flux? In what ways do artists act as agents of change, and what kinds of aesthetic choices do they make to express it? This episode features artists who bear...
View ArticleART:21 | Art in the Twenty-First Century, "Change"
View the works and techniques of artists Ai Weiwei, El Anatsui and Catherine Opie. 4/13/2012
View ArticleART:21 | Boundaries
This episode features artists who synthesize disparate aesthetic traditions, present taboo subject matter, discover innovative uses of media, and explore the shape-shifting potential of the human...
View ArticleART:21 | Art in the Twenty-First Century, "Boundaries" - Preview
View the works and techiniques of artists David Altmejd, assume vivid astro focus, Tabaimo and Lynda Benglis. 4/20/2012
View ArticleART:21 | History
In this episode, artists play with historical events, explore and expose commonly held assumptions about historic ???truth???, and create narratives based on personal experiences. Featuring artists...
View ArticleART:21 | History - Preview
In this episode, artists Glenn Ligon, Mary Reid Kelley and Marina Abramovic play with historical events, explore and expose commonly held assumptions about historic "truth" and create narratives based...
View ArticleART:21 | Balance
This episode features artists whose works explore the distinctions between balance and imbalance, and demonstrate that the smallest change in a line, a formal element, or a structure can be a radical...
View ArticleART:21 | Art in the Twenty-First Century, "Balance" - Preview
View the works and techniques of artists Rackstraw Downes, Robert Mangold and Sarah Sze. 5/4/2012
View ArticleART:21 | U.S. Department of State Honors Five Art21 Featured Artists
As part of the 50th anniversary celebration of the Art in Embassies (AIE) program, U.S. Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton will honor five artists???Cai Guo-Qiang, Jeff Koons, Shahzia Sikander,...
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