Art21 News
January 20, 2011
 
Alfredo Jaar's "Lament of the Images (Version 1)"


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 Happy new year, and welcome to the first issue of Art21 News for 2011! We are excited to get back into the swing of things, for what is sure to be another landmark year of programming from Art21.

Leading off this month's issue is a pair of educator-focused workshops, presented in collaboration with Museum of Modern Art in New York City and the Jacob Burns Film Center Media Arts Lab in Pleasantville, NY. We also are proud to officially announce here our partnership with the VIP Art Fair, the world's first online art fair, opening this weekend.

In other film projects, we posted a little tease at the end of last month to our Facebook page for an unannounced forthcoming new series. We will have more to share in the coming months, so be sure to watch this space!

Finally, a huge thank you to those readers who responded to our email survey, and congratualtions to all DVD winners. The number of respondants was quite amazing, and your collective feedback will no doubt help shape the format of this newsletter in the coming issues. Thank you for reading--your support is sincerely appreciated by all of us here at Art21!

In this issue:  

Upcoming Workshops for Educators 

Art21 at the VIP Art Fair, January 22-30 

New Videos: Paul McCarthy and Krzysztof Wodiczko 

Highlights from the Art21 Blog 

Support Art21: Donate to the 2011 Annual Fund 

Shop Art21 

Banner: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Random Sky, installed at the Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL, 2006. Production still from the series Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 4, Episode: Ecology. © Art21, Inc. 2007. Left: Alfredo Jaar, Lament of the Images (Version 1), installed at the Sala de Arte at the Fundacion Telephonica, Santiago, Chile, 2006. Production still from from the series Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 4, Episode: Protest. © Art21, Inc. 2007.
 Upcoming Workshops for Educators
On Line: Exploring Contemporary Drawing
 On Line: Exploring Contemporary Drawing
Two online sessions and one on-site workshop at the Museum of Modern Art, New York
Wednesday, February 9 (online); Saturday, February 19 (on-site); and Wednesday, March 2 (online)

The Museum of Modern Art and Art21 have partnered to offer a workshop series exploring contemporary drawing in connection with the exhibition On Line: Drawing Through the Twentieth Century, currently on view at the MoMA. Over the course of two online sessions and one day on-site at the MoMA, participants will explore how artists interpret the idea of drawing in diverse ways. This workshop will also provide classroom strategies for utilizing Art21 films and online media, as well as MoMA online resources. For more information and to register, please visit the MoMA Web site.

William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible (2010)
 Teaching with William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible
Two Saturday workshops at the Jacob Burns Film Center, Pleasantville, NY
January 29 and May 7, 2011
Open to secondary art educators grades 6-12

The Media Arts Lab at the Jacob Burns Film Center and Art21 have partnered to present a workshop series focusing on teaching, learning, and creating works of art inspired by the new Art21 film, William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible. Each participant in this special two-part workshop will view and discuss the film, learn strategies for working with the film in the classroom, and create works of art with students to be featured in a spring exhibition and reception at the Media Arts Lab. Participants will also receive a copy of William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible and a full-color educator's guide. For more information and to register, please visit the Jacob Burns Film Center Web site.

IMAGES (from top): Julie Mehretu; Rising Down, 2008; Ink and acrylic on canvas, 96 x 144" (243.8 x 365.8 cm); Collection Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn, New York; Photo by Tim Thayer; © 2010 Julie Mehretu. William Kentridge in his studio, Johannesburg, South Africa, 2003; Photo by Anne McIlleron; Copyright and courtesy of William Kentridge.

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 Art21 at the VIP Art Fair, January 22-30
VIP Art Fair
Art21 is proud to be the Creative Programming Partner at the inaugural VIP Art Fair, the first-ever art fair to take place exclusively online. Exhibitors include 139 of the world's leading contemporary art galleries, representing 30 countries.

Throughout the fair, Art21 will provide a selection of films for the fair's VIP Lounge. Programming includes the world premiere of nine forthcoming episodes from Art21's Exclusive video series, featuring artists such as Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, Hiroshi Sugimoto, and others. The videos will also be on display in the Art21 exhibitor booth, and will be released through the regular Art21 video channels throughout the coming year.

The VIP Art Fair opens this Saturday, January 22, and remains open through January 30. Admission to the fair is free to the general public, though registration is required. For additional information about the VIP Art Fair, including instructions for free registration, please visit the VIP Art Fair Web site.

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 New Videos: Paul McCarthy and Krzysztof Wodiczko
Paul McCarthy: Art & Entertainment
 Paul McCarthy: Art & Entertainment
Exclusive Episode #132: Filmed in his Los Angeles studio alongside his son and frequent collaborator Damon McCarthy, artist Paul McCarthy reflects on the documentary process and on being interviewed about his work, drawing conclusions about how it's the nature of television "to simplify existence" and the "difference between making art and making entertainment."

Krzysztof Wodiczko: Designer Adam Whiton
 Krzysztof Wodiczko: Designer Adam Whiton
Exclusive Episode #133: Filmed at the Interrogative Design Group offices at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, designer Adam Whiton discusses his work with artist Krzysztof Wodiczko. By developing innovative technology for projects such as The Tijuana Projection (2001), Dis-Armor (1999-2000), and AEgis (2000), Wodiczko and Whiton explore the potential for design to be used in a way that will "get people to think more...trigger questions and make people uncomfortable."

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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 Highlights from the Art21 Blog
Call For Artists: Creative Limitations by Ashley Martin
 Flash Points: What Influences Art?

Call For Artists: Creative Limitations by Ashley Martin

Relational Aesthetics is the New Black: DIY Art School by Meredith C. MacKenzie


Las Vegas Studio by Thea Liberty Nichols
 Don't miss

Las Vegas Studio by Thea Liberty Nichols

John Baldessari's "Your Name in Lights" by Nettrice Gaskins

New column: Turkish and Other Delights: An Introduction by Elizabeth Wolfson


The Art21 Blog's Most-Viewed Posts of 2010
 2010 Year-End Reviews

The Art21 Blog's Most-Viewed Posts of 2010 (Jonathan Munar)

Ten for '10 (Joe Fusaro)

Top 10 Chicago Art Events in 2010 (Bad at Sports)

Gastro-Vision: The Best in Food-Art 2010 (Nicole Caruth)

Top 10 of 2010: Entertainers Who Moonlight as Artists (Lily Simonson)

Top 10 iPhone Images (Richard McCoy)

Top 10 of 2010 (Marissa Perel)

Top 10 of 2010 (Liz K. Sheehan)

Top 9 European Gender-Journeys of 2010 (Ali Fitzgerald)

Noted in 2010 (Baseera Khan)


Parts of a Whole: John Baldessari's Prints
 From Our Columns

5 Questions: Nato Thompson 

Calling from Canada: Virtual Reality Bites 

Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports: Sustaining Practices; Interview with John Riepenhoff of The Green Gallery 

Ink: Parts of a Whole: John Baldessari's Prints 

Inside the Artist's Studio: Artemis Potamianou 

Letter from London: Porn, Porn Everywhere: Analog at Riflemaker Gallery; Terry O'Neill Award Show at Hotshoe Gallery; Hell Is Other People 

Lives and Works in Berlin: Stage Your Melodrama: An Elmgreen and a Dragset 

Looking at Los Angeles: Big, Broad Bunker Hill 

On View Now: The Spaces Between: John Baldessari at the Metropolitan Museum 

Open Enrollment: So My Last Semester Lies Ahead, Then What?; And the Nominations Are In... 

Teaching with Contemporary Art: Working with Violent Images; Out of Line; Teaching with David Wojnarowicz (and Not Teaching with the Smithsonian); Mark Bradford: Painter 



Guest Blogger: Dorota Biczel, Artist and Writer, Barcelona
 Guest Bloggers

Now: Dorota Biczel, Artist and Writer, Barcelona

Previously: Caroline Picard, Artist and Publisher, Chicago; Damien James, Writer, Chicago; Victoria Gannon, Writer, San Francisco


Want to write for the Art21 Blog? Email interest and writing samples to blog [at] art21 [dot] org.

IMAGES (from top): Still from David Wojnarowicz, A Fire In My Belly (Film In Progress), 1986-87, Super-8mm film, black and white & color, silent; Courtesy The Estate of David Wojnarowicz and P.P.O.W Gallery, New York and The Fales Library and Special Collections/New York University. Stardust Hotel and Casino; Las Vegas, 1968 © Venturi, Scott Brown, and Associates, Inc., Philadelphia. John Baldessari, Noses & Ears Etc.: The Gemini Series: Profile with Ear and Nose (Color); Two-layer screenprint construction (mounted to Sintra and hand cut), framed. 34 1/4 x 32 x 3 in.; Publisher: Gemini G.E.L., Los Angeles, edition of 45; © 2006 John Baldessari and Gemini G.E.L. LLC. Courtesy John Baldessari and Gemini G.E.L., LLC, Los Angeles.

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 Support Art21: Donate to the 2011 Annual Fund
Support Art21: Donate to the 2011 Annual Fund
As we move into the New Year, Art21's 2011 Annual Fund continues to gather donations--and is just a short distance from reaching its winter campaign goal. If you missed us in your end-of-year giving, please consider making an early 2011 gift. The 2011 Annual Fund provides critical support for Art21's free programming, ensuring that students, educators, and audiences around the world have unlimited access to films, educational resources, and public programs focused on today's visual artists.
  • Art in the Twenty-First Century (Season 6), our Peabody Award-winning PBS television series
  • Art21 Educators, a year-long professional development program for K-12 teachers that facilitates contemporary art in the classroom
  • A forthcoming new series focused on emerging regional artists, launching in June 2011
We hope that you will be able to give generously.

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 Shop Art21
Shop Art21
William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible
The William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible DVD provides an in-depth portrait of South African artist William Kentridge as he creates a series of new works, including a staging of Shostakovich's The Nose at The Metropolitan Opera in New York City.

Art in the Twenty-First Century
Miss a season? Looking for a particular artist's segment? All 5 seasons of Art in the Twenty-First Century are available on DVD, high-definition Blu-ray (Season 5 only), and digital download, giving you first-hand access to today's most compelling artists and thought-provoking themes.

Companion Books
Spanning across all 5 seasons, the Art in the Twenty-First Century companion books feature in-depth interviews with all 86 series-featured artists, in addition to high-quality images and essays from Art21 Executive Director Susan Sollins.

Visit ShopPBS.org to view all available products from Art21.

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