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March 27, 2013
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Make a gift to Art21 today | | The 100 Artists celebration continued this past month, with new videos featuring Margaret Kilgallen and Martin Puryear, as well as additional materials featuring Ida Applebroog, Charles Atlas with Jane Alexander, Collier Schorr, Mary Heilmann, Cindy Sherman, and Laurie Simmons.
Read on for more from 100 Artists, including opportunities to host or attend a screening in your community.
In this issue: 100 Artists: New Videos, Images, Interviews, and More Host an Art21 Screening: Register for Access 100 Artists New Videos in Exclusive and New York Close Up 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: Margaret Kilgallen in a Bay Area rail yard, 2000. Production still from the Exclusive film, Margaret Kilgallen: Heroines. � Art21, Inc. 2013. Left: Collier Schorr photographing a member of the Blair Academy wrestling team, Blairstown, NJ, 2002. Production still from the series Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 2, Episode: Loss & Desire. � Art21, Inc. 2003. |
100 Artists: New Videos, Images, Interviews, and More |
As part of the year-long 100 Artists celebration, Art21 will release previously unpublished content from our rich archive, as well as new material produced in collaboration with the artists: films, interviews, lists, updates, and more.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
Visit the Art21 Tumblr for exclusive 100 Artists-related content, including photosets and animated GIFs from Art21 films. |
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New Text Interviews on Art21.org
New to the Art21 website this month is a previously unpublished interview with Mary Heilmann, in which she discusses her formative years in California; evolution from literature to ceramics to painting; and many inspirations, including video games and roadways. Read the full interview: Mary Heilmann: Every Piece has a Backstory. |
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Host an Art21 Screening: Register for Access 100 Artists |
Access 100 Artists is off to an exciting start. After only three months of this yearlong campaign, Art21 has confirmed 99 partners across the globe, spread over 5 continents. That's a total of 550 screenings throughout 33 states and 16 countries.
This month, we would like to give a special mention to North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada, Kentucky, Indiana, Ohio, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Utah, Minnesota, Mississippi, Georgia, Washington, Maine, and Iowa--we want more partners in your states. We invite individuals and organizations in your area to join the Access program and screen our films.
This is a great year to start participating in Access, as all episodes in our three series--Art in the Twenty-First Century, New York Close Up, and Exclusive--as well as our feature-length film Anything is Possible, are available to order and screen free of charge.
We invite those interested in hosting a free Access 100 Artists screening to register on Art21.org.
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New Videos in Exclusive and New York Close Up |
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Filmed in San Francisco in 2000, Margaret Kilgallen (1967-2001) discusses the female figures she incorporated into many of her paintings and graffiti tags. |
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Filmed in 2002, Martin Puryear discusses his interest in printmaking and how the directness of the process contrasts with the accretive approach he takes with sculpture. |
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In this film, artist Josephine Halvorson attempts to make a new painting in Thomaston, Connecticut, conscious throughout the day that her effort might result in failure. |
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In this film, artist David Brooks discusses the motivations and broader meanings behind his on-going work as a volunteer with conservation biologists in the Amazon basin region of South America. |
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Highlights from the Art21 Blog |
| | From Our Columns We transitioned into March with the launch of Queer Berlin, a new column written by Ali Fitzgerald that kicked off with her review of James Franco's "maddeningly egocentric and self-congratulatory" exhibition Gay Town. Subsequently, guest writer Julia V. Hendrickson, filling in for Sarah Kirk Hanley of Ink, shared her thoughts on the intersections of printmaking and the digital image; Max Weintraub of On View Now picked up on difference and timelessness in his review of the New Museum exhibition NYC 1993; Amelia Ishmael of Transmission raised new ideas about rock music as cultural signifier in her interview with artist Seth Kim-Cohen; and Joe Fusaro of Teaching with Contemporary Art took a look at the interdisciplinary connections offered by recent New York Close Up films featuring Liz Magic Laser and David Brooks. |
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):
David Hammons. "In the Hood," 1993. Athletic sweatshirt hood with wire. Courtesy the New Museum and Connie and Jack Tilton, New York.
Jen Schwarting, "Image Search (Drunk Girls) #7," 2012. Wood, burlap, paint, collage, plexi-glass. 28 x 26 in. 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.
To date, the community has contributed over 200 subtitles in over 25 languages, which, in addition to English, includes Spanish, French, 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.
All contributors are publicly recognized on Art21.org as well as on individual videos from the Art21 YouTube channel.
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Support Art21 |
This month, we would like to thank a few recent donors from around the world, hailing from Dallas, U.S.A.; Isle of Man, United Kingdom; Montreal, Canada; Queensland, Australia; and Salerno, Italy. We are most grateful to have your support.
Ccontributions--big and small, from across the globe--add up to thousands of dollars each year. No matter where you live, individuals like you make a difference.
In 2013, your individual donations support projects such as:
- Season 7 of Art in the Twenty-First Century, debuting in 2014
- New York Close Up and Exclusive--our two short-format Web video series
We hope that you will consider making a donation to Art21 today. Thank you for supporting Art21.
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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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