Tag Archives: video

A Fickle Trickster Screen

by Caroline Picard | Aug 24, 2017

A Fickle Trickster Screen

by Caroline Picard | Aug 24, 2017

Although Joan Jonas might not work in the same public, ad-hoc settings, her recent work connects live performance, drawing, and live-feed video in a circular fashion to carve out new depths.

Artist Introspectives

Why Wishes Matter

by Amanda Long | Aug 17, 2017

Artist Introspectives

Why Wishes Matter

by Amanda Long | Aug 17, 2017

Amanda Long shares the motivation behind her public artwork, “Wishing Well,” which gives people a space in which to dream.

Rachel Rose: The Artist as Researcher

by Anna Burckhardt | Aug 16, 2017

Rachel Rose: The Artist as Researcher

by Anna Burckhardt | Aug 16, 2017

Artist Rachel Rose spends months researching materials and methods before constructing compelling narratives for her ten-minute video pieces.

On View Now

Tomáš Rafa: New Nationalisms at MoMA PS1

by Rachel Heidenry | Aug 10, 2017

On View Now

Tomáš Rafa: New Nationalisms at MoMA PS1

by Rachel Heidenry | Aug 10, 2017

Slovakian artist Tomáš Rafa’s latest film documents scenes of protests throughout the Balkans and Central Europe, capturing complexities regardless of politics.

Deep Focus: Inside Art21 Films

Six Tips for Shooting Underwater Video

by Nick Ravich | Jul 21, 2017

Deep Focus: Inside Art21 Films

Six Tips for Shooting Underwater Video

by Nick Ravich | Jul 21, 2017

Art21’s Director of Production offers helpful tips for shooting video underwater after filming Caroline Woolard’s sculptures on a Rockaway beach for a “New York Close Up” film.

Art on the Border

by Rachel Heidenry | Apr 7, 2017

Art on the Border

by Rachel Heidenry | Apr 7, 2017

Rachel Heidenry surveys the work of six artists investigating the U.S./Mexico border, all of whom collectively challenge political rhetoric with intimate perception.

Meet the New Art21.org

by Jonathan Munar | Mar 9, 2017

Meet the New Art21.org

by Jonathan Munar | Mar 9, 2017

Art21’s Director of Digital Media and Strategy Jonathan Munar introduces our new website, and all the new features—like Playlists and Watchlists—that come with it.

On View Now

Meriem Bennani’s Holiday Headscarf

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Feb 17, 2017

On View Now

Meriem Bennani’s Holiday Headscarf

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Feb 17, 2017

Playing on the Barclays Center’s “Oculus” screen through March 5 as part of the Public Art Fund’s “Commercial Break” series, Meriem Bennani’s 30-second video piece “Your Year by Fardaous Funjab,” features an ‘advertisement’ for the artist’s fictional hijab design.

Lili Reynaud-Dewar’s Teeth Gums Machines Future Society

by Rachel Valinsky | Feb 9, 2017

Lili Reynaud-Dewar’s Teeth Gums Machines Future Society

by Rachel Valinsky | Feb 9, 2017

Writer-in-Residence Rachel Valinsky reviews Lili Reynaud-Dewar’s recent exhibition “Teeth Gums Machines Future Society,” a techno-futurist take on the city of Memphis, Tennessee.

Art21 Extended Play

Diana Thater’s Animal Activism

by Ian Forster | Oct 21, 2016

Art21 Extended Play

Diana Thater’s Animal Activism

by Ian Forster | Oct 21, 2016

In a new ART21 “Exclusive” episode, Diana Thater discusses her interest in improving the lives of both humans and animals through art and activism.

Art21 Extended Play

Carrie Mae Weems Commemorates Black Lives

by Ian Forster | Aug 9, 2016

Art21 Extended Play

Carrie Mae Weems Commemorates Black Lives

by Ian Forster | Aug 9, 2016

In a new ART21 “Exclusive,” Carrie Mae Weems stages a performance that honors the deaths of black men in the U.S.

Art21 Extended Play

Eleanor Antin Plays with Politics

by Ian Forster | Jun 29, 2016

Art21 Extended Play

Eleanor Antin Plays with Politics

by Ian Forster | Jun 29, 2016

Eleanor Antin discusses her use of paper dolls to create politically charged sculptures and videos in a new episode of ART21 “Exclusive.”

Art21 Extended Play

Omer Fast Distills Broadcasted Anxiety

by Ian Forster | Dec 18, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Omer Fast Distills Broadcasted Anxiety

by Ian Forster | Dec 18, 2015

“What have we done to deserve this? What could we have done to prevent it from happening? What can we learn?” — CNN Concatenated (2002) Today’s ART21 Exclusive features Omer Fast …

Art21 New York Close Up

Welcome to Whoop Dee Doo! (with Matt Roche & Jaimie Warren Too)

by Wesley Miller | Jun 1, 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Welcome to Whoop Dee Doo! (with Matt Roche & Jaimie Warren Too)

by Wesley Miller | Jun 1, 2015

In a new “New York Close Up” film, artists Jaimie Warren and Matt Roche produce a one-day-only performance of their variety show, Whoop Dee Doo, at Abrons Arts Center.

Writer-in-Residence

The Ghosts Unearthed in the Films of Bill Morrison

by Brienne Walsh | Feb 18, 2015

Writer-in-Residence

The Ghosts Unearthed in the Films of Bill Morrison

by Brienne Walsh | Feb 18, 2015

Writer-in-Residence Brienne Walsh looks at the contemporary digital narratives of filmmaker Bill Morrison.

Season 7 Preview: Joan Jonas

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 20, 2014

Season 7 Preview: Joan Jonas

by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 20, 2014

In this preview from ART21 Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 7, Joan Jonas conducts a rehearsal for a reconfigured version of her early performance work, Mirror Piece I (1969).

Staff Pick

Jane Jin Kaisen’s “Reiterations of Dissent”

by Cristiana Baik | May 14, 2014

Staff Pick

Jane Jin Kaisen’s “Reiterations of Dissent”

by Cristiana Baik | May 14, 2014

Art21’s new development associate picks “a powerful reminder of the ways that the best art troubles and confronts seemingly given truths.”