Watch — Art21
WEBSep 4, 2024 · An always-on video channel featuring programming hand selected by Art21. Curated by Art21 staff, with guest contributions from artists, educators, and more. Explore over 700 videos from Art21's television and digital series. next to videos throughout the site to add them here. Save videos to watch later, or make a selection to play back-to-back ...
Inventing the Future: Art and Technology — Art21
WEBOct 26, 2017 · 1. Jon Gertner, “ True Innovation,” New York Times, February 25, 2012. Art21 is the world’s leading source to learn directly from the artists of our time. The mission of Art21 is to educate and expand access to contemporary art through the production of documentary films, resources, and public programs.
In the Studio: Laylah Ali — Art21
WEBSep 4, 2024 · Through meticulously labored paintings, Laylah Ali. investigates the disconnect between the human body and freedom. by Melissa Saenz Gordon. Art21 Television and cartoons have been noted as influences of your work. You’ve also mentioned that television and film have the possibility for …
Kevin Beasley’s Raw Materials - Art21
WEBSep 4, 2024 · Kevin Beasley’s Raw Materials. New York Close Up. February 6, 2019. One of five new films kicking off Art21’s 2019 programming season. Does the past have a sound? Celebrated for his material-oriented practice, Kevin Beasley juxtaposes sound, silence, and sculpture to examine the legacy of cotton in the American South.
Dismantling History: An Interview with Titus Kaphar
WEBDec 2, 2015 · Dismantling History: An Interview with Titus Kaphar. Titus Kaphar. Sacrifice (Diptych), 2011. Oil on canvas, 73 x 52 x 2 1/2 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York ©Titus Kaphar. A canvas curtain slips from its place of prestige, revealing another that’s hidden beneath. …
The 1913 Armory Show: America’s First Art War
WEBMar 8, 2017 · Readers wrote to local and city papers, calling the art “nonsense” and declaiming its “amorphous conceits.” 6 Gertrude Stein, as a champion of some of the most reviled art, came in for a drubbing many times. One writer complained that Stein’s criticism sounded like a drunk “who is suddenly called upon to make an after-dinner speech.” 7 The Chicago Tribune published this poem:
The Paradoxical Art of “Inception” - Art21 Magazine
WEBAug 3, 2010 · Art:21 Season Four featured contemporary artists Allora & Calzadilla, Mark Bradford, Robert Ryman, and Catherine Sullivan who investigate the boundaries between “abstraction and representation, fact and fiction, order and chaos.”. Throughout history, artists have been compelled to explore paradox as contradiction, ambiguity, and truth.
Sally Mann - Art21
WEBSep 4, 2024 · Sally Mann was born in 1951 in Lexington, Virginia, where she continues to live and work. She received a BA from Hollins College in 1974, and an MA in writing from the same school in 1975. Her early series of photographs of her three children and husband resulted in a series called Immediate Family. In her recent series of landscapes of Alabama ...
Contemporary Art in Context — Art21
WEBSep 4, 2024 · Art21 defines contemporary art as the work of artists who are living in the twenty-first century. Contemporary art mirrors contemporary culture and society, offering teachers, students, and general audiences a rich resource through which to consider current ideas and rethink the familiar. The work of contemporary artists is a dynamic ...
Material Renewal: Four Artists Turning Trash into Art
WEBMar 18, 2016 · 1. Tom Deininger. Tom Deininger uses what others throw away to build sculptural collages out of old toys, plastic cutlery, cigarettes, and colored pieces of plastic that have long been separated from the game or device they belonged to. He has made mandalas out of bottle caps and built a rabbit out of cigarette filters.He even recreated Monet’s painting, The Japanese Footbridge, from old ...