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March 26, 2010
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Banner: Raymond Pettibon in the studio. Art in the Twenty-First Century, production still, 2003. Season 2, Episode: Humor. © Art21, Inc. 2003. Left: Installing Julie Mehretu's Mural at the Goldman Sachs building in lower Manhattan. Art21--Exclusive production still, 2010. © Art21, Inc. 2010. |
You Decide: Viewers Choose the 100th Exclusive Video
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That's right, we're nearing our 100th episode of the Exclusive video series and are asking viewers--that's you!--to decide which video (and artist) will have the distinction of being the big one zero zero.
Up for consideration are videos on the artists Mary Heilmann, Mike Kelley, William Kentridge, Beryl Korot, and Julie Mehretu.
View preview clips and vote today on the Art21 Blog. Voting ends Thursday, April 1st.
Can you guess which artist is currently in the lead?
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The Culture Wars Continue
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This past Wednesday, March 24, over 120 participants gathered at the 92YTribeca in New York City for the second installment of Culture Wars: A Night of Trivia with Art21. Twenty-six teams battled through four rounds of trivia, including representatives from The Museum of Modern Art, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Guggenheim, the Armory Show, the Jewish Museum, the Studio Museum, the Queens Museum of Art, WNYC Culture, The Brooklyn Historical Society, La Fundación Cisneros, RXArt, NYC Arts, CUNY Grad Center, prize sponsors 20x200, and some of New York City's most passionate art lovers.
Competition was tight, with multiple ties and tie breakers. In the end, the team from the Like the Spice Gallery in Williamsburg emerged victorious, taking home prizes provided by 20x200; the Distributed Art Publishers team finished in second place, receiving prizes provided by the Phaidon Store in SoHo; and BOMB Magazine edged out the MoMA team in a tie-breaker battle for third place, nabbing prizes from Art21 and the 92YTribeca.
Thanks to all who joined us that night! Big thanks to our prize sponsors at 20x200 and the Phaidon Store in SoHo, and, of course, to our lovely collaborators at the 92YTribeca.
Mark your calendars and brush up on your trivia: the next Culture Wars takes place on Wednesday, April 28.
Catch up with the night's Twitter activity by following the hashtag #culturewars.
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Exclusive Videos: Julie Mehretu and Jeff Koons
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Our most recent Exclusive videos highlight two artists who employ numerous studio assistants to accomplish complex works either grand in scale or numerous in quantity.
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Julie Mehretu: Studio Assistants
Episode #097: Filmed in her Berlin studio, a group of Julie Mehretu's assistants--Sarah Rentz, Damien Young, Erika Fortner and Harmony Murphy--discuss how they each bring different areas of expertise to the process of making paintings, from fine art backgrounds in printmaking and illustration to furniture polishing techniques and administrative skills.
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Jeff Koons: Money & Value
Episode #098: Artist Jeff Koons discusses themes of money, desire, perfection, and moral responsibility. Filmed in his busy New York studio and surrounded by numerous assistants at work on paintings and sculptures, Koons describes how the practicalities of running a business are often in service to creative ends. |
Keep up with the Exclusive series on the Art21 Blog, or subscribe to the series via RSS or iTunes (note: link opens in iTunes). A blend of newly-shot original filming and previously unreleased archival footage, videos from the weekly Exclusive series focus on singular aspects of an artist's process, significant individual works and exhibitions, provocative ideas, and biographical anecdotes.
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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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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. Visit ShopPBS.org to view products from all 5 seasons.
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