Columns & Features
Deep Focus: Inside Art21 Films
Directing Season 8’s Vancouver: An Interview with Pamela Mason Wagner
Deep Focus: Inside Art21 Films
Directing Season 8’s Vancouver: An Interview with Pamela Mason Wagner
In this interview with Pamela Mason Wagner, the director of the “Vancouver” hour shares what it was like to film contemporary artists for Season 8 of “Art in the Twenty-First Century.”
Center Field: Art in the Middle
The Brevity of Space: An Interview with Allison Glenn
Center Field: Art in the Middle
The Brevity of Space: An Interview with Allison Glenn
Curator and writer Allison Glenn discusses her exhibition “In the beginning, sometimes I left messages in the street,” which brought artwork to billboards and public sites across Chicago.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Why Contemporary Art? Art21 & The Value of Inspiration
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Why Contemporary Art? Art21 & The Value of Inspiration
This Giving Tuesday, four Art21 Educators share how Art21’s films and programs have opened their students’ eyes to new possibilities.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
On Not Feeling Powerless: How Youth Activists and Art21 Artists Can Model Proactive Social Engagement
Teaching with Contemporary Art
On Not Feeling Powerless: How Youth Activists and Art21 Artists Can Model Proactive Social Engagement
Art21 Educator Todd Elkin discusses his students’ reactions to the 2016 presidential election, and how Art21 artists can serve as a model for constructive social engagement.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Finding Community: Art21 Educators and Contemporary Art in the Classroom
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Finding Community: Art21 Educators and Contemporary Art in the Classroom
Art21 Educator Jeannine Bardo shares how using Art21 films and resources in the classroom has expanded her teaching practice.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art + Action: Creating a Platform for Social Justice
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art + Action: Creating a Platform for Social Justice
Art21 Educator Jack Watson shares his recent experience with launching a social justice collective at his high school in Durham, North Carolina.
Center Field: Art in the Middle
Cheryl Pope and the Poetics of Yelling
Center Field: Art in the Middle
Cheryl Pope and the Poetics of Yelling
Rachel Heidenry surveys the work of Chicago artist Cheryl Pope, who employs the aesthetic of high-school athletics and collaborates with local students to address the effects of gun violence.
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor: Lee Plested
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor: Lee Plested
Curator Lee Plested joins Art21 Magazine as guest editor for the final 2016 issue, “Place Part II,” investigating notions of place with an emphasis on the art and artists in Vancouver and Chicago.
Looking at Los Angeles
Devin Farrand, Ariel Herwitz and the Phenomenon of Gravitation
Looking at Los Angeles
Devin Farrand, Ariel Herwitz and the Phenomenon of Gravitation
Erin Sweeny explores the lives and work of LA-based artists Devin Farrand and Ariel Herwitz, a couple investigating vastly different materials in their independent art practices.
New Kids on the Block
Places Within Us: Jesse Chun’s On Paper Series
New Kids on the Block
Places Within Us: Jesse Chun’s On Paper Series
An exploration of Jesse Chun’s “On Paper” series, which appropriates immigration paperwork and passports, searching for a place of belonging that extends beyond geography.
Writer-in-Residence
New Works by Marilyn Lerner: A Sustained Spontaneity
Writer-in-Residence
New Works by Marilyn Lerner: A Sustained Spontaneity
In this essay, Writer-in-Residence Anna Tome explores the rich abstracted colors in Marilyn Lerner’s exhibition “Harmonies,” closing next week at CUE Art Foundation.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
ART21 Educators Institute: Laylah Ali on Process and “John Brown Song!”
Teaching with Contemporary Art
ART21 Educators Institute: Laylah Ali on Process and “John Brown Song!”
Artist Laylah Ali shares her thoughts on ‘process’ at July’s ART21 Educators Institute in New York City.
Deep Focus: Inside Art21 Films
Directing Los Angeles and Mexico City: An Interview with Deborah Dickson
Deep Focus: Inside Art21 Films
Directing Los Angeles and Mexico City: An Interview with Deborah Dickson
Executive Producer Eve Moros Ortega interviews the director of the “Los Angeles” and “Mexico City” hours in “Art in the Twenty-First Century” Season 8, three-time Academy Award nominee Deborah Dickson.
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor: Chris Sharp
Letter from the Editor
Letter from the Editor: Chris Sharp
Writer and curator Chris Sharp joins ART21 Magazine as guest editor of the September/October issue “Place Part I,” explored with a focus on art and artists in Mexico City and Los Angeles.
Deep Focus: Inside Art21 Films
What Do Cities Sound Like? An Interview with Season 8 Composer Joel Pickard
Deep Focus: Inside Art21 Films
What Do Cities Sound Like? An Interview with Season 8 Composer Joel Pickard
Composer Joel Pickard speaks with Executive Producer Eve Moros Ortega about writing the music for Season 8 of “Art in the Twenty-First Century.”
Deep Focus: Inside Art21 Films
Picturing Place: An Interview with Season 8 Designer Matt Eller
Deep Focus: Inside Art21 Films
Picturing Place: An Interview with Season 8 Designer Matt Eller
Designer Matt Eller speaks with Executive Producer Eve Moros Ortega about producing the title sequences, motion design, and typography for Season 8 of “Art in the Twenty-First Century.”
Deep Focus: Inside Art21 Films
Directing Season 8’s Chicago: An Interview with Stanley Nelson
Deep Focus: Inside Art21 Films
Directing Season 8’s Chicago: An Interview with Stanley Nelson
Executive Producer Eve Moros Ortega sits down with Stanley Nelson, award-winning director of the “Chicago” hour in the upcoming season of “Art in the Twenty-First Century.”
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