Film & Video

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NYCU | Tommy Hartung Is Off and Running

Art21 New York Close Up

NYCU | Tommy Hartung Is Off and Running

by Jonathan Munar | Jan 18, 2013

How does an artist find relief from the pressures of the studio? Watch our latest NYCU film featuring artist Tommy Hartung.

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Richard Serra: Tools & Strategies

by Jonathan Munar | Jan 11, 2013

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Richard Serra: Tools & Strategies

by Jonathan Munar | Jan 11, 2013

In a new “Exclusive” video, artist Richard Serra describes the various tools and conceptual strategies he has used throughout his career when working with lead and steel.

Art21 New York Close Up

NYCU | Kalup Linzy Likes It A Little Bit Off

by Claudine Isé | Dec 21, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

NYCU | Kalup Linzy Likes It A Little Bit Off

by Claudine Isé | Dec 21, 2012

Our latest NYCU film featuring Kalup Linzy is now live! Watch as Linzy recounts the making of his 2008 video, “Keys to Our Heart.”

Ann Hamilton. "the event of a thread," 2012. Photo by Kemi Ilesanmi.

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Dec 17, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Dec 17, 2012

This week’s roundup has news on Ann Hamilton, Pierre Huyghe, Martin Puryear and other artists featured in Art21’s programs and documentaries.

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | David Altmejd: Assistants

by Claudine Isé | Dec 14, 2012

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | David Altmejd: Assistants

by Claudine Isé | Dec 14, 2012

Filmed in early 2011, two of David Altmejd’s assistants describe the experience of working for the sculptor in his Queens, New York studio.

Jeff Koons. "Coloring Book 1997–2005," 2012. Photo by Kenzo. Courtesy of the artist.

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Dec 10, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Dec 10, 2012

Come meet NYCU co-producers Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich at the Apple Store Soho, plus the latest news on Jeff Koons, William Kentridge, Gabriel Orozco and other Art21 artists.

Ai Weiwei. "Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads," 2012. Photo courtesy the artist. © 2012 Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden.

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Dec 3, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Dec 3, 2012

This week’s roundup has the latest news on Ai Weiwei, Erin Shirreff, Laurie Anderson and other artists featured in Art21’s television programs and online documentaries.

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Tabaimo: “dolefullhouse”

by Claudine Isé | Nov 30, 2012

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Tabaimo: “dolefullhouse”

by Claudine Isé | Nov 30, 2012

Our latest Exclusive video is now live! Watch Tabaimo discuss her 2007 animated video installation “dolefullhouse,” whose disparate elements suggest meaning through their interaction.

Art21 New York Close Up

NYCU | Liz Magic Laser Talks to the Hand

by Claudine Isé | Nov 20, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

NYCU | Liz Magic Laser Talks to the Hand

by Claudine Isé | Nov 20, 2012

In our latest NYCU short, Liz Magic Laser develops “The Digital Face” (2012), a new performance that examines hand gestures in contemporary presidential State of the Union addresses.

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Mary Reid Kelley: “You Make Me Iliad”

by Claudine Isé | Nov 16, 2012

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Mary Reid Kelley: “You Make Me Iliad”

by Claudine Isé | Nov 16, 2012

Watch video artist and painter Mary Reid Kelley discuss her work “You Make Me Iliad” (2010), which attempts to reconstitute the experience of women living during the first World War.

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Robert Mangold: Town & Country

by Claudine Isé | Nov 5, 2012

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Robert Mangold: Town & Country

by Claudine Isé | Nov 5, 2012

Our latest Exclusive video is now live! Click to watch Robert Mangold: Town & Country on Art21.org. Filmed at Robert Mangold’s upstate New York home and studio in 2011, …

Judy Pfaff. Humming in 5 Parts, 2012. Photo courtesy of the artist and Ameringer McEnery Yohe.

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Oct 22, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Oct 22, 2012

This week’s roundup has news on Eleanor Antin, Judy Pfaff, Rashid Johnson and other artists featured in Art21’s programs and documentaries.

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Rackstraw Downes: Some Painters

by Claudine Isé | Oct 19, 2012

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Rackstraw Downes: Some Painters

by Claudine Isé | Oct 19, 2012

Watch Art21’s latest Exclusive video, where Rackstraw Downes describes why he views the work of some long-deceased painters to be relevant to his own contemporary practice.

Art21 New York Close Up

NYCU | Erin Shirreff Takes Her Time

by Claudine Isé | Oct 12, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

NYCU | Erin Shirreff Takes Her Time

by Claudine Isé | Oct 12, 2012

Our latest New York Close Up is now live! Watch as Erin Shirreff discusses the creation of her recent video projection, “Lake,” 2012.

© Mary Heilmann; Private Collection, London. Foto Alex Delfanne

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Oct 8, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Oct 8, 2012

This week’s roundup has news on An-My Lê, Raymond Pettibon, Kiki Smith and other artists featured in Art21 programs and documentaries.

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | El Anatsui: Language & Symbols

by Claudine Isé | Oct 5, 2012

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | El Anatsui: Language & Symbols

by Claudine Isé | Oct 5, 2012

Our latest Exclusive video features El Anatsui discussing the role of language and symbols in his artwork.

Walton Ford. The Rolling Stones, Grrr! 2012. Image courtesy of rollingstones.com.

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Sep 24, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Sep 24, 2012

This week’s roundup has the latest news on Cai Guo-Qiang, Barbara Kruger, Walton Ford and other artists featured in Art21 documentaries and programs.

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Lynda Benglis: India

by Claudine Isé | Sep 21, 2012

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Lynda Benglis: India

by Claudine Isé | Sep 21, 2012

Watch Lynda Benglis give a tour of the family home of Anand Sarabhai in Ahmedabad, India, a city she’s been visiting and working in for over 30 years.

Art21 New York Close Up

NYCU | Alejandro Almanza Pereda’s Obstacle Course

by Claudine Isé | Sep 14, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

NYCU | Alejandro Almanza Pereda’s Obstacle Course

by Claudine Isé | Sep 14, 2012

How do artists overcome the hurdles of moving to New York City? Watch Alejandro Almanza Pereda contend with a series of obstacles during his first semester of graduate school at Hunter College.

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Catherine Opie: Cleveland Clinic

by Claudine Isé | Sep 10, 2012

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Catherine Opie: Cleveland Clinic

by Claudine Isé | Sep 10, 2012

Catherine Opie describes her intentions behind the permanent installation “Somewhere in the Middle” (2011) at Hillcrest Hospital, a branch of Cleveland Clinic, in Mayfield Heights, Ohio.

Kerry James Marshall, If They Come, 2012. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York.

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Sep 10, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Sep 10, 2012

This week’s Roundup has news on Bruce Nauman, Laylah Ali, Rashid Johnson and other artists featured in Art21’s programs and documentaries.

Ellen Gallagher. "Bird in Hand," 2006. Image courtesy of Tate Liverpool.

Art21 New York Close Up

Polyculturalist Visions Revisited

by Nettrice Gaskins | Sep 4, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

Polyculturalist Visions Revisited

by Nettrice Gaskins | Sep 4, 2012

Nettrice Gaskins revisits themes she first explored in her essay on “polyculturalism” for Art21.org’s Ideas series on “The Culture Wars, Redux.”

Carrie Mae Weems. Afro-Chic (video still), 2010. DVD, 5 minutes, 30 seconds. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York. © Carrie Mae Weems.

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Sep 3, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Sep 3, 2012

This week’s roundup has news on John Baldessari, Martha Colburn, Ann Hamilton and other artists featured in Art21 documentaries and programs.

Art21 New York Close Up

NYCU | Close Encounters with Josephine Halvorson

by Jonathan Munar | Aug 17, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

NYCU | Close Encounters with Josephine Halvorson

by Jonathan Munar | Aug 17, 2012

What’s the relationship between an artist and her subject? Watch our latest NYCU film featuring artist Josephine Halvorson.

Art21 New York Close Up

NYCU | Diana Al-Hadid’s Studio Boom

by Claudine Isé | Aug 3, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

NYCU | Diana Al-Hadid’s Studio Boom

by Claudine Isé | Aug 3, 2012

How do growing a business and maturing as an artist go hand in hand? Watch our latest NYCU short to find out!

Gabriel Orozco. Astroturf Constellation, 2012. Image courtesy the artist.

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jul 30, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jul 30, 2012

This week’s roundup has the latest news on Gabriel Orozco, Cai Guo-Qiang, Shahzia Sikander, and other artists featured in Art21’s programs.

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Sarah Sze: Improvisation

by Claudine Isé | Jul 27, 2012

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Sarah Sze: Improvisation

by Claudine Isé | Jul 27, 2012

Watch Sarah Sze discuss the importance of improvisation and spontaneity during her installation process, in Art21’s latest Exclusive video.

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | El Anatsui: Studio Process

by Claudine Isé | Jul 20, 2012

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | El Anatsui: Studio Process

by Claudine Isé | Jul 20, 2012

Watch our latest Exclusive video, where El Anatsui describes the collaborative and contemplative setting where his artworks are made.

Kara Walker. Exodus of Confederates from Atlanta. Courtesy of Kara Walker and the Museum of Modern Art, New York City.

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jul 16, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

Weekly Roundup

by Nettrice Gaskins | Jul 16, 2012

This week’s roundup has the latest news on Kara Walker, Cindy Sherman, Robert Adams and many other artists featured in Art21 programs.

Art21 New York Close Up

NYCU | “David Brooks Tears the Roof Off”

by Claudine Isé | Jul 13, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

NYCU | “David Brooks Tears the Roof Off”

by Claudine Isé | Jul 13, 2012

Watch artist David Brooks and a team of fabricators construct “Desert Rooftops” (2011–12), an Art Production Fund commission for the last undeveloped lot in Manhattan’s Times Square neighborhood.

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Ai Weiwei: New Communication

by Claudine Isé | Jul 6, 2012

Art21 Extended Play

Exclusive | Ai Weiwei: New Communication

by Claudine Isé | Jul 6, 2012

Art21’s latest Exclusive video: in one of his first on-camera interviews following his release from detention in 2011, Ai Weiwei discusses the potential for artists to express themselves online.