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February 27, 2013
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Make a gift to Art21 today  | | Art21 has a tremendously rich archive of materials documenting artists' processes, and still, much from that archive has gone unpublished. With our year-long 100 Artists celebration, we are taking the opportunity to not only produce new resources from our archive, but also to catch up with our featured artists and produce new materials to add to our archive. Featured in this issue of Art21 News is an overview of new content released over the last month.
For educators, we are proud to announce the fifth year of the Art21 Educators program, and are now accepting applications. Read on to learn more about the program.
Our 100 Artists celebration is just getting started, and there will be plenty more activity to come throughout the year. We hope you will join us in the celebration!
 In this issue:
100 Artists: New Videos, Images, Interviews, and More Host an Art21 Screening: Register for Access 100 Artists Art21 Educators, 2013-2014: Apply by March 17th New Videos in Exclusive and New York Close Up Featured 100 Artists Video: Yinka Shonibare MBE Highlights from the Art21 Blog Art21 Translation Project: Bringing Artists' Words to Global Communities Support Art21 Available Now: The Art in the Twenty-First Century Box Set |
Banner: Artist Kerry James Marshall at work in his Chicago studio, 2000. Production still from the series Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 1, Episode: Identity. © Art21, Inc. 2001. Left: Artist Ellen Gallagher at work in Two Palms Press, New York, 2004. Production still from the series Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 3, Episode: Play. © Art21, Inc. 2005. |
| 100 Artists: New Videos, Images, Interviews, and More |
The year-long 100 Artists celebration officially started last month. As part of the celebration, Art21 will release previously unpublished content from our rich archive as well as new material produced in collaboration with the artists: films, interviews, lists, updates, and more.
In addition to the videos featured in this month's issue of Art21 News, highlights from the past month include:
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Art21 on Tumblr
The Art21 Tumblr launched in January, and it is off to a strong start. Visitors will find exclusive "100 Artists"-related content...with a Tumblr twist. That means photosets, and yes, the occasional animated GIF. |
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New Text Interviews on Art21.org
New to the Art21 website this month is a previously unpublished interview with Carrie Mae Weems, wherein the artist talks about her background in dance, the role of other women's bodies in her work, and the ongoing performative thread in her photographs and films. Read the full interview: Carrie Mae Weems: Dance, Bodies, and Aging. |
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| Host an Art21 Screening: Register for Access 100 Artists |
Access 100 Artists is a global campaign providing access to contemporary art and artists through hundreds of free public screenings and events. For the first time, organizations of all sizes are invited to screen any of Art21's films--free of charge--during 2013.
Art21 invites those interested in hosting a free Access 100 Artists screening to register on Art21.org.
Art21 will provide free materials for the events, including DVD screeners, video links, discussion materials, postcards, promotional materials, and more.
Learn more about Access 100 Artists--including information on how to host a screening--at Art21.org. Interested participants may also contact our Access Coordinator by email at access [AT] art21.org.
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| Art21 Educators, 2013-2014: Apply by March 17th |
Art21 Educators is a year-long professional learning community bringing together visual art, media, and humanities teachers interested in using contemporary art and Art21 films as resources for innovative teaching and learning across subject areas. Teachers are invited to apply from across the United States and Canada.
The 2012-13 program combines a six-day summer institute in New York City (July 10-17, 2013) with participation in a virtual community and distance learning sessions (July 2013-May 2014).
Visit Art21.org for additional information, including FAQs, and a link to the online application.
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| New Videos in Exclusive and New York Close Up |
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In this film artist Tommy Hartung leaves his Ridgewood, Queens studio and takes an extended run through the streets and woods of the surrounding neighborhoods. |
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In this film, artist Mika Rottenberg considers a survey of her videos in which women work in factory-like settings to create handmade objects. |
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Filmed in 2012 at Shahzia Sikander's Manhattan studio, the artist discusses her animated video work "The Last Post" (2010), describing animation as a natural evolution of her studio process. |
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Filmed in late 2012 and early 2013, artist El Anatsui discusses his large-scale sculpture "Broken Bridge II" (2012) and the importance of its location above the High Line in New York City. |
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| Featured 100 Artists Video: Yinka Shonibare MBE |
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"Art making is a form of alchemy, in a way, because you are trying...to make gold from nothing. When it works very well is when you manage to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary."
--Yinka Shonibare MBE
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Yinka Shonibare MBE discusses the theatricality and sense of wonder inherent in his public sculpture "Nelson's Ship in a Bottle," installed on the 4th Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London. |
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Highlights from the Art21 Blog
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Jacquelyn Gleisner of New Kids on the Block interviewed "self-confessed storyteller, punk, image maker, and feminist" Angela Dufresne; Joe Fusaro of Teaching with Contemporary Art mused on print materials and the "lingering" of images; Carol Cheh of Word is a Virus raved about the first ever Los Angles Art Book Fair--"what felt like the hottest party of the year"; and Nettrice Gaskins of Art 2.1 wrote a thought-provoking four-part series on "New Frontier" at the Sundance Film Festival. |
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Art21's February blogger-in-residence, art critic and curator Alicia Eler, ambitiously profiled eight artists from across the United States and Canada. She took as her focus one excellent question: how does a residency change an artist's creative practice? From traditional U.S. residencies, to Fulbright fellowships abroad, to a reality television show for artists, she covered a range of experiences. Read her entire series of posts on the Art21 Blog. |
Want to write for the Art21 Blog? Email a pitch and two to three writing samples to blog [at] art21 [dot] org and tell us who or what you are interested in writing about.
IMAGES (from top):
Zine World at the Los Angeles Art Book Fair at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA. Courtesy Printed Matter, Inc.
Young Sun Han. "Dance of the Cockatrice #1," 2010. Digital C-type print on Fuji Crystal Archive pearl paper, 16 x 16 in. Edition 1/5. Courtesy the artist.
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| Art21 Translation Project: Bringing Artists' Words to Global Communities |
Art21 has partnered with non-profit Amara for a project to help spread the words and ideas of contemporary artists to communities around the world.
The Art21 Translation Project brings together a community of volunteers to help transcribe and translate Art21 videos, in turn helping inspire a more creative world through the works and words of contemporary artists. Through the efforts of the translation community, the words of artists become more accessible to audiences across languages, as well as to viewers who are deaf and hard of hearing.
Within the first week, the community has generated over 50 subtitles in over 10 languages, which, in addition to English, includes Italian, Indonesian, Romanian, Hebrew, and Turkish.
Please help Art21 bring the voices of 100 artists to global audiences by joining the Art21 Translation team on Amara.
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| Support Art21 |
Donations from individuals like you amounts to 12% of Art21's annual programming budget. Each gift--no matter how small--is an essential building block that, combined with grants from foundations and sponsorships from corporations, allows Art21 to continue to present new programs.
Your support goes directly towards:
- Art in the Twenty-First Century: New season in 2014
- New York Close Up and Exclusive: New films each week
- Art21 Access: Free screenings throughout 2013
Art21 fans do make a difference. We hope that you will consider making a donation to Art21 today. Thank you for your continued support!
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| Available Now: The Art in the Twenty-First Century Box Set |
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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