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November 12, 2009
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 Cao Fei: Celebrating the RMB City opening. Art in the Twenty-First Century, production still, 2009. Season 5, Episode: Fantasy. © Art21, Inc. 2009.
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With record numbers in broadcast, online, and local community audiences, we hope that you had a chance to experience and enjoy Season 5 in some capacity this past October. Though Season 6 preparations are already underway, we will still continue to create and share plenty of fresh and exclusive content, spanning artists featured from all five seasons of Art:21--Art in the Twenty-First Century. We thank you for supporting Art21, and invite you to join us in conversation on the Art21 Blog, Facebook, and Twitter.
In this issue:
Watch Now: Last Chance for Season 5
Ask Art:21 on PBS
Season 5 Educators' Guide Available Now
Donate $5 for Season 5
New Web Exclusive Videos
Highlights from the Art21 Blog
Art21 Access '09: A Month of Screenings
Season 5 Products Now Available--21% Discount
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Watch Now: Last Chance for Season 5
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Miss a Season 5 episode during the national broadcast in October? This week is your last chance for online viewing of any or all of the episodes from the latest season. Season 5 episodes will be available in the online PBS Video portal through tomorrow, Friday, November 13.
Full episodes from Seasons 1 through 4--16 episodes total--will remain available for immediate viewing in the PBS Video portal.
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Earlier this year, associate curator Wesley Miller gave us a look inside the curatorial process. That same week, series producer Eve Moros Ortega took us behind the scenes of the production process. Last week, both Wes and Eve returned to field questions from our audience.
The latest installment of the Inside PBS blog's Q&A series opened the door for the audience to ask us anything--anything--about what we do here at Art21. Stay tuned to the Inside PBS blog for Wes's and Eve's answers to audience questions.
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Season 5 Educators' Guide Available Now
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Season 5 Educators' Guides are going fast! A limited number of printed Guides are available upon request. You can also download the complete Guide or specific artists in PDF form.
The Season 5 Educators' Guide is the fifth in a series of FREE, 32-page, full-color companion resources to the broadcast series. The Season 5 Guide provides additional background information about each of the 14 featured artists and 4 themes presented in the new season and is designed to support school and community-based learning about contemporary art.
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Thank you so much to everyone who donated $5 or more to Art21 during this past week. Your generosity means a great deal to all of us at Art21.
If you haven't donated yet, please consider making a donation of as little as $5 in honor of our fifth season. Your contribution would help underwrite Art21's activities and programs in the coming year.
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A blend of newly-shot original filming and previously unreleased archival footage, videos from the weekly Art:21--Exclusive series focus on singular aspects of an artist's process, significant individual works and exhibitions, provocative ideas, and biographical anecdotes.
Over 80 videos--more than 3 hours of exclusive content--are currently available, and new videos are added every week. Keep up with the series on the Art21 Blog, or subscribe to the series via RSS or iTunes (note: link opens in iTunes). Recent additions to the Art21--Exclusive series include:
Roni Horn | Water
Artist Roni Horn discusses the paradoxical identity and dependency of water, paired with scenes of Icelandic landscapes. Water and Iceland serve as both subjects and metaphors in the artist's work, coming together most recently in Vatnasafn/Library of Water, a building designed by the artist in Stykkishólmur, Iceland.
Jeff Koons | Versailles
From his studio in New York City, Jeff Koons discusses his 2008 exhibition at the Château de Versailles in France. Koons explores the power and sensuality of the grounds at Versailles, citing Louis Quatorze (Louis XIV) as an inspriation for his 1992 piece, Puppy, a large floral sculpture made out of 60,000 large flowers.
Mary Heilmann | Inspiration
In her Long Island studio, Mary Heilmann discusses two inspirations for her work: tea bowls that adhere to the Japanese aesthetic philosophy of Wabi-sabi and the cartoon color pallette used in The Simpsons television show.
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Highlights from the Art21 Blog
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New Flash Points topic!
Through the end of 2009, we'll be exploring issues of art and the environment, asking "How does art respond to and redefine the natural world?"
Guest Bloggers
Current: Maria Stenina, Writer & Designer, NYC
Previously: Kelly Huang, Arts Administrator, San Francisco; Nathan Townes-Anderson, Artist & Educator, Ithaca, NY; Bryce Dwyer, InCUBATE, Chicago
Think you have what it takes to write for us? Email interest and writing samples to blog [at] art21 [dot] org.
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Art21 Access '09: A Month of Screenings
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Art21 Access '09, the international screening initiative held in October 2009, featured over 630 screenings hosted by over 440 museums, schools, libraries, art spaces, and community centers in all 50 states, as well as in 25 other countries. Events ranged from small viewings and discussions to viewings for audiences of more than 200, where panels of art professionals lead conversations, question and answer sessions, and heated debate about the artists in Season 5 of Art:21--Art in the Twenty-First Century and the contemporary art world as a whole.
Art21 Access '09 events brought together audiences worldwide, igniting dialogue touching on subjects such as the art making process, the function of art in the contemporary world, and the ways contemporary artists use new materials and new processes.
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Season 5 Products Now Available--21% Discount
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Season 5 Companion Book
At 224 pages, with more than 400 illustrations, the Season 5 Companion Book
features interviews with the artists and an essay by Art21 Executive
Producer and Curator Susan Sollins. Edited by Marybeth Sollins. Visit the Art21 Shop for more information.
DVD and Blu-ray
Season 5 is now available in both standard-definition DVD and high-definition Blu-ray disc formats.
ShopPBS.org is offering a special discount to Art:21 viewers for all purchases. Enter the code ART21SHOP at checkout to receive 21% off your entire order. Offer valid through 12/31/09.
Visit ShopPBS.org to take advantage of this special pricing.
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Support for Art21 and Season 5
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Major underwriting for Season Five of Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century and its accompanying education programs has been provided by the National Endowment for the Arts, Agnes Gund, Bloomberg, The Nathan Cummings Foundation, the Public Broadcasting Service, The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, and by individual contributions to Art21. Support for the production of "Jeff Koons" has been provided by The Broad Art Foundation; support for the production of "Kimsooja" has been provided by the Korea Foundation.
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