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Abraham Cruzvillegas: Self-Constructing Identity

Abraham Cruzvillegas: Self-Constructing Identity

by Ian Forster | Mar 4, 2016

In today’s ART21 Exclusive, Mexican artist Abraham Cruzvillegas discusses his personal and artistic relationship to the concept of autoconstrucción.

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Marela Zacarías’s Great Expectations

by Nick Ravich | Mar 2, 2016

Marela Zacarías’s Great Expectations

by Nick Ravich | Mar 2, 2016

Artist Marela Zacarías completes a large-scale project while anticipating the arrival of her first child in a new film from the ART21 “New York Close Up” series.

Creative Chemistries Turns One with a New Website!

by Art21 | Feb 29, 2016

Creative Chemistries Turns One with a New Website!

by Art21 | Feb 29, 2016

One year ago, 175 artists, students, educators, and arts administrators gathered at the Park Avenue Armory here in Manhattan for the inaugural edition of Creative Chemistries, a forum and experimental …

Hello world: A letter from ART21’s new director

by Tina Kukielski | Feb 24, 2016

Hello world: A letter from ART21’s new director

by Tina Kukielski | Feb 24, 2016

While my friends and colleagues were spending their winter breaks getting some R&R on sandy beaches in the Caribbean, I was happily watching some of ART21’s more than three hundred …

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Josiah McElheny Projects Maya Deren

by Ian Forster | Feb 12, 2016

Art21 Extended Play

Josiah McElheny Projects Maya Deren

by Ian Forster | Feb 12, 2016

“I’m trying to understand this relationship of abstraction and the body.” — Josiah McElheny Today’s ART21 Exclusive features Josiah McElheny exploring the relationship between abstraction and the body as he …

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Omer Fast Interrupts “Continuity”

by Ian Forster | Jan 29, 2016

Art21 Extended Play

Omer Fast Interrupts “Continuity”

by Ian Forster | Jan 29, 2016

“Those moments are magical in film—when we have a pure linear motion that approaches something and reveals it—but I’m interested in the stuff that gets in the way.” — Omer …

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Arlene Shechet Reveals the Unseen

by Ian Forster | Jun 26, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Arlene Shechet Reveals the Unseen

by Ian Forster | Jun 26, 2015

“The thing that’s unseen is sometimes way more interesting than what people want you to see.” —Arlene Shechet In the first of two new ART21 Exclusive episodes featuring Arlene Shechet, …

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Tania Bruguera and the Art of Empowerment

by Ian Forster | Jun 19, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Tania Bruguera and the Art of Empowerment

by Ian Forster | Jun 19, 2015

“The idea of sitting face to face, it’s a very intimate experience. Having a model and painting them always makes people open up.” —Aliza Nisenbaum Today’s ART21 Exclusive features Immigrant Movement …

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Elliott Hundley Is Playing with Your Emotions

by Ian Forster | Jun 5, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Elliott Hundley Is Playing with Your Emotions

by Ian Forster | Jun 5, 2015

“What’s appealing to me about collage is the fact that it’s so straightforward—that it’s a good foil to my subject.” —Elliott Hundley Today’s ART21 Exclusive features Elliott Hundley describing an …

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Joan Jonas Performs in the Streets of New York

by Ian Forster | May 6, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Joan Jonas Performs in the Streets of New York

by Ian Forster | May 6, 2015

“I wanted to develop my own language and the minute I started performing I began to invent in a different way.” —Joan Jonas Today’s ART21 Exclusive features Joan Jonas discussing her decision to …