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November 21, 2012
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Make a gift to Art21 today  | | This month, Art21 thanks our entire community for making 2012 such a special year.
With the help of over 400 partners, we celebrated the premiere of our sixth broadcast season by bringing over 800 screenings to communities around the world. We thank these partners, as well as viewers and supporters worldwide, for contributing to the success of Season 6.
We also thank the viewers and supporters of the New York Close Up series. With your help, we were able to launch a second year of the series, introducing eight new artists to the project's roster, which now sits at eighteen total artists.
Finally, we thank our very active online community. With your enthusiasm and support, we continue to produce new videos, writings, resources, and projects year-round, which we feature here every month in each issue of Art21 News.
Our programming could not thrive without the support of our community. As we celebrate Thanksgiving in and around our home town of New York City, we thank you all for continuing to support Art21.
 In this issue:
New Videos: Liz Magic Laser, Mary Reid Kelley, Robert Mangold, Rackstraw Downes Featured Video from the Archive: Susan Rothenberg Highlights from the Art21 Blog Online Projects with Eleanor Antin and assume vivid astro focus Panel with the New York Close Up Producers at the SoHo Apple Store in New York City Support Art21: Donate to the 2012 Annual Fund Available Now: The Art in the Twenty-First Century Box Set |
Banner: A performance of artist Liz Magic Laser's work The Digital Face during Sunday Sessions at the MoMA PS1 Performance Dome (Long Island City, 04.01.12). Production still from the New York Close Up film, Liz Magic Laser Talks to the Hand. © Art21, Inc. 2012. Cinematography by Amanda Long. Left: Allan McCollum. The Visible Markers, 1997-2000. Used to express gratitude. Oil-based enamel on Tuf-cal, 1 3/4 x 4 inches diameter each. Produced in collaboration with I.C. Editions, New York. © Allan McCollum. Courtesy the Susan Inglett Gallery, New York. |
| New Videos: Liz Magic Laser, Mary Reid Kelley, Robert Mangold, Rackstraw Downes |
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In this film, artist Liz Magic Laser develops "The Digital Face" (2012)--a new performance staged at Derek Eller Gallery in Chelsea and at MoMA PS1 in Long Island City--that examines hand gestures in contemporary presidential State of the Union addresses. |
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Filmed in 2011 at Mary Reid Kelley's home and studio in Saratoga Springs, New York, the video artist and painter discusses her video work "You Make Me Iliad" (2010). |
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Filmed at Robert Mangold's upstate New York home and studio in 2011, the artist describes his experiences living and working in New York City in the early 1960s as well as his decision to move to the country later that decade. |
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Filmed in Presidio, Texas in late 2010, painter Rackstraw Downes describes why he views the work of some long-deceased painters to be relevant to his own contemporary practice. |
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| Featured Video from the Archive: Susan Rothenberg |
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"In the paintings where it's there--the tenderness--I work for it. I'm not afraid of it. If I could put my bleeding heart in there, I would."
--Susan Rothenberg
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Susan Rothenberg explains how she transforms personal experiences and feelings into works that can become an "emotional moment" for the viewer. |
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Highlights from the Art21 Blog
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Want to write for the Art21 Blog? We're currently looking for writers to contribute posts to our Flash Points series on the theme of Storytelling. Email essay proposals and writing samples to blog [at] art21 [dot] org.
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Courtney Fiske, columnist for "Two or Three Things I Know: Independent Film in New York."
The view outside Printed Matter in New York in the days after Superstorm Sandy. Photo courtesy Printed Matter.
Yves Klein. "Le Saut dans le Vide (Leap into the Void)." Photomontage by Shunk Kender of a performance by Yves Klein at Rue Gentil-Bernard, Fontenay-aux-Roses, October 1960.
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| Online Projects with Eleanor Antin and assume vivid astro focus |
| | Eleanor Antin's Twitter Performance
Last month, we invited artist Eleanor Antin to take over our @Art21 Twitter account. The artist performed a reading from her memoir, Conversations with Stalin, followed by a Q&A session. Audience members were invited to share comments and reactions both during and after the reading.
The entire program has been preserved and can be viewed on Storify. |
| | Collaborate with assume vivid astro focus
More than 5 months after its launch, avaf + art21 comboworks continues to generate community contributions.
With avaf + art21 comboworks, anyone can contribute an 'avaf' phrase--or "combo"--to a growing online gallery of submissions, displayed in an 'LED' typeface designed by the artists. Combos submitted through avaf + art21 comboworks will be added to the artists' growing repository of email signatures, and some may possibly be used for future works by the artists.
Visit avaf + art21 comboworks to browse over 250 combos and to create one of your own! |
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Eleanor Antin with puppets during a 2012 reinstallation at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles of Before the Revolution (1979). Photo: Robert Gauthier © 2012. Los Angeles Times.
absolutely voluntary absolute freedom, submitted by contributor Jefrey Deane Hall on November 3, 2012.
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| Panel with the New York Close Up Producers at the SoHo Apple Store in New York City |
| | Join Nick Ravich and Wesley Miller, creators of New York Close Up, along with Tara Young, Senior Video Producer of Etsy, for a special event hosted by the SoHo Apple Store in New York City.
The panelists will discuss the challenges of producing online documentary shorts with limited means and big content ambitions. They will share some of their experiences in creating compelling arts-based documentaries for the ever-changing web video landscape.
The event--titled Creating a Portrait of an Artist: New York Close Up and Etsy--takes place on Tuesday, December 11, 2012, 7:00 p.m., at the SoHo Apple Store in New York City. |
IMAGE: Cinematographer Rafael Moreno Salazar with artist Josephine Halvorson and series co-creators Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich filming the exhibition What Looks Back at Sikkema Jenkins & Co. (Chelsea, 11.19.11). Production still from the series New York Close Up, © Art21, Inc. 2012. Cinematography by Rafael Moreno Salazar and Ava Wiland.
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| Support Art21: Donate to the 2012 Annual Fund |
A gift to Art21 is an investment:
* in imaginative problem solving * in innovation and creativity * in our collective future Each week we receive emails and letters from educators around the world reporting the positive effects of Art21 films and education programs on their students.
"Students are 100% absorbed.... Art21 allows me to drop these brilliant flashes of artmaking into their minds...and they're just...inspired."
--Middle School Art Teacher, Maui, HI Imagine this, and times it by the millions of students we reach each year. A foundation is laid--for change, growth, and a better tomorrow.
As a champion of Art21, we hope that you will consider making a donation to Art21 in your year-end giving. Every gift makes a difference!
Thank you, in advance, for your generous support.
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| Available Now: The Art in the Twenty-First Century Box Set |
New for the Holidays: The Art in the Twenty-First Century Collection
For the first time, all 24 one-hour programs spanning the all 6 seasons of the Art in the Twenty-First Century series are available in a beautiful box-set edition. The complete collection, showing how contemporary art can change how we see the world around us, is available today through ShopPBS.org and other retailers.
Single seasons of the Art in the Twenty-First Century series are also available as individual DVD sets (Seasons 1 and 2 are packaged in a 2-disc set). Each season includes 4 hours of programming featuring profiles of 12-16 of today's leading contemporary artists.
William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible
Art21's Peabody Award-winning feature film 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. William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible is available on DVD from ShopPBS and other retailers.
Companion books
Spanning all six seasons, the Art in the Twenty-First Century companion books feature in-depth interviews with all 100 series-featured artists, high-quality images, and essays from Art21 Executive Director Susan Sollins. The Season Six Companion Book is available today at Art21.org
Visit ShopPBS.org to view all available products from Art21.
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