Film & Video

Announcing Art21 Educators 2010-2011

Announcing Art21 Educators 2010-2011

The Education staff at Art21 is launching the second year of Art21 Educators and we are now accepting applications. For those of you just hearing about this program, Art21 Educators …

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Cao Fei | Avatars

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Cao Fei | Avatars

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS In her Beijing studio, Cao Fei reflects on the behavior of avatars in the digital environment of Second Life and the motivations behind …

On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production

Julie Mehretu & the Problem of Shooting Big

On Location: Inside Art Documentary Production

Julie Mehretu & the Problem of Shooting Big

In our new column, On Location, Art21 Director of Production Nick Ravich breaks his silence and gives you the scoop on Art21’s production comings and goings including, among other things, …

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Cindy Sherman | Mannequins & Masks

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Cindy Sherman | Mannequins & Masks

Surveying some of the props she’s used over the years, including masks and mannequin parts, artist Cindy Sherman demonstrates how she uses stand-ins to gauge the focus and composition of …

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Art21 “Exclusive” Video, Year 2

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Art21 “Exclusive” Video, Year 2

What a year it’s been! We’re taking a look back at the 42 Exclusive videos that premiered here on the Art21 Blog, and subsequently on YouTube and iTunes. We hope …

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Doris Salcedo | Third World Identity

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Doris Salcedo | Third World Identity

In her Bogotá studio, artist Doris Salcedo discusses the stereotypes she faces as a citizen of a Third World country and how she embraces these first-hand experiences of discrimination to …

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Kimsooja | “A Beggar Woman” & “A Homeless Woman”

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Kimsooja | “A Beggar Woman” & “A Homeless Woman”

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS Artist Kimsooja reflects on her series of videotaped performances — A Beggar Woman and A Homeless Woman (both 2000-01) — realized in cities …

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Yinka Shonibare MBE | Being an Artist

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Yinka Shonibare MBE | Being an Artist

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS In his London studio, artist Yinka Shonibare MBE reflects on what it means for him to be an artist, how he views his …

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Paul McCarthy | “Piccadilly Circus”

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Paul McCarthy | “Piccadilly Circus”

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS Artist Paul McCarthy describes the improvisational process and performances behind the video work Piccadilly Circus (2003). Filmed at an unoccupied London bank before …

Sweet Tactility…

Sweet Tactility…

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AI-6wMlaVTc] In my last post as your guest blogger, I want to indulge a bit and quickly acknowledge my un-quenchable lust for the artist’s book. No, I don’t mean the …

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

International Design Conservation: A Discussion with Tim Bechthold

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

International Design Conservation: A Discussion with Tim Bechthold

IMA art conservator Richard McCoy talks with Die Neue Sammlung conservator Tim Bechthold about conserving design arts.

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John Baldessari | “Raised Eyebrows/ Furrowed Foreheads”

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John Baldessari | “Raised Eyebrows/ Furrowed Foreheads”

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS During the installation of his exhibition Raised Eyebrows/ Furrowed Foreheads (2009) at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, artist John Baldessari discusses his …

Dermatographia

Dermatographia

Hello Art:21 interweb world! I hope to do you justice with my musings and bits and pieces of contemporary art knick-knacks. I think as an artist and designer working today, …

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Roni Horn | Water

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Roni Horn | Water

Artist Roni Horn discusses the paradoxical identity and dependency of water, paired with scenes of Icelandic landscapes. Water and Iceland serve as both subjects and metaphors in the artist’s work, …

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Jeff Koons | Versailles

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Jeff Koons | Versailles

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: From his studio in New York City, Jeff Koons discusses his 2008 exhibition at the Château de Versailles in France. Koons explores …

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside The Artist’s Studio: Joulia Strauss

Inside the Artist's Studio

Inside The Artist’s Studio: Joulia Strauss

It would be an oversimplification to introduce Joulia Strauss to you as a Russian visual artist who lives and works in Berlin, Germany. Joulia is a Mari, from the Mari …

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Mary Heilmann | Inspiration

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Mary Heilmann | Inspiration

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: In her Long Island studio, Mary Heilmann discusses two inspirations for her work: tea bowls that adhere to the Japanese aesthetic philosophy …

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Carrie Mae Weems | Thirteen Questions for Wynton Marsalis & Cornel West

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Carrie Mae Weems | Thirteen Questions for Wynton Marsalis & Cornel West

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: As part of a panel discussion moderated by Baraka Sele at the 20th National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, artist Carrie …

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Josiah McElheny | History & Originality

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Josiah McElheny | History & Originality

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Artist Josiah McElheny discusses the relationship between artworks and the context in which they were created, highlighting the distinctions between history and …

Full Episodes of Art:21 Available Online!

Full Episodes of Art:21 Available Online!

Earlier this week, with help from the fabulous team at PBS, we added the complete Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century series—16 full episodes from Seasons 1 through 4—to the PBS …

Season 5 Starts This Wednesday, October 7!

Season 5 Starts This Wednesday, October 7!

The wait is over. Season 5 of Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century begins airing this week on PBS. The season kicks off with the episode Compassion, featuring William Kentridge, Doris …

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Richard Tuttle | Pollock & Tiffany

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Richard Tuttle | Pollock & Tiffany

Artist Richard Tuttle pays homage to American art giants Jackson Pollock and Louis Comfort Tiffany, placing his work in an aesthetic tradition that spans abstraction and craft, expressionism and pragmatism. …

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Arturo Herrera | Failure

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Arturo Herrera | Failure

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: In his Berlin studio, Arturo Herrera discusses the importance of accepting failure in order to be able to learn and grow as …

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Krzysztof Wodiczko interviewed by Giuliana Bruno

BOMB in the Building

Flash Points

Krzysztof Wodiczko interviewed by Giuliana Bruno

Welcome back to BOMB in the Building, where each week we’re featuring a BOMB contributor relating to a Season 5 artist. This week, inspired by Kimsooja’s videos and installations, we’re …

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Laylah Ali | Meaning

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Laylah Ali | Meaning

While painting in her Williamstown, Massachusetts studio, artist Laylah Ali discusses the imperative she feels to make things and the nuanced relationship of political and personal events to the work. …

Letter from London

Letter from London: Beck to the Future!

Letter from London

Letter from London: Beck to the Future!

[youtube:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkcvrV4UhTM] The “cultural cringe” – the crippling inferiority complex that members of a particular country feel about their homeland, as evidenced in the bluffed provenance of just about every college …

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Ida Applebroog | City & Country

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Ida Applebroog | City & Country

Artist Ida Applebroog discusses the differences between making work and living in New York City versus her home in Upstate New York. Ida Applebroog propels her paintings and drawings into …

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Jessica Stockholder | Becoming An Artist

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Jessica Stockholder | Becoming An Artist

Artist Jessica Stockholder recounts her earliest memories of wanting to become an artist while she and her son Charlie paint and draw in the basement of their home in New …

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Oliver Herring | Participant Davis Thompson-Moss

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Oliver Herring | Participant Davis Thompson-Moss

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS Artist Davis Thompson-Moss discusses his experiences appearing as a performer, alongside his brother, in two videos by Oliver Herring: BASIC (2003) and THE …

BOMB in the Building

Letter from London

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

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What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

BOMB in the Building

Letter from London

No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

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What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

It’s mealtime! Join Sonya for a fine helping of nutrients and adventure with this week’s Index: Round ‘em up Nicole! Here’s what Art21 artists have been up to this past …

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Oliver Herring | Participant Joyce Pensato

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Oliver Herring | Participant Joyce Pensato

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: Artist Joyce Pensato discusses her experiences appearing as a performer in Oliver Herring’s videos. The work, which also features participant Davis-Thompson Moss, …

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

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What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

What's Cookin': The Art21ndex

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What’s Cookin at the Art21 Blog: A Weekly Index

Sports and art are holding hands. Trong Gia Nguyen takes us to first base with that and other news relating to Art21 artists. Bruce Willis was a pub rocker, Scarlett …

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Josiah McElheny | Assistant Anders Rydstedt

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Josiah McElheny | Assistant Anders Rydstedt

Long-time assistant and collaborator Anders Rydstedt discusses the differences between creating traditional forms in glass—such as vases—with Josiah McElheny’s sculptural objects and installations. Filmed at the Michael Davis Stained Glass …

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Arturo Herrera | Assistant Jeff Bechtel

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Arturo Herrera | Assistant Jeff Bechtel

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS Arturo Herrera’s assistant Jeff Bechtel describes the process for translating one of the artist’s complex drawings into a refined monochromatic paper collage. Filmed …

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Art21 Educator Joe Fusaro Teaching “Power” at Nyack High School

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Art21 Educator Joe Fusaro Teaching “Power” at Nyack High School

Embarrassing as it is, this is the first video I’ve ever made. I am immersed in the world of film production each day, yet focused on the Education side of …

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Laylah Ali | Television

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Laylah Ali | Television

DOWNLOAD VIA ITUNES | SUBSCRIBE VIA RSS EXCLUSIVE: In her Williamstown, Massachusetts studio, artist Laylah Ali describes how the television cartoons she watched as a child inform the way she …