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March 27, 2013
 

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 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.


topIn 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.
100artists100 Artists: New Videos, Images, Interviews, and More
100 Artists

As part of the year-long 100 Artists celebration, Art21 will release previously unpublished content from our rich archive, as well as new material produced in collaboration with the artists: films, interviews, lists, updates, and more.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.

New Image Slideshows on Art21.org
 
New Image Slideshows on Art21.org
New image slideshows are being added to the Art21 website on a weekly basis, drawing from images featured throughout all of Art21 films. New slideshows from the past month include:

Ida Applebroog, Artist at Work; Charles Atlas, Introduction to "Loss & Desire" featuring Jane Alexander (2003); Margaret Kilgallen, additions to Artwork Survey: 1990s and Artwork Survey: 2000s; and Collier Schorr, Artist at Work.

Mary Heilmann: Every Piece has a Backstory
 
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New to the Art21 website this month is a previously unpublished interview with Mary Heilmann, in which she discusses her formative years in California; evolution from literature to ceramics to painting; and many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.
Explore all 100 artists on Art21.org, and join our communities on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr for regular updates.

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accessHost an Art21 Screening: Register for Access 100 Artists
Host an Art21 Screening
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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VIDEO: Margaret Kilgallen: Heroines
 
Margaret Kilgallen: Heroines
From the series, Exclusive
Filmed in San Francisco in 2000, Margaret Kilgallen (1967-2001) discusses the female figures she incorporated into many of her paintings and graffiti tags.

VIDEO: Martin Puryear: Printmaking
 
Martin Puryear: Printmaking
From the series, Exclusive
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.

VIDEO: Josephine Halvorson Is on the Clock
 
Josephine Halvorson Is on the Clock
From the series, New York Close Up
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.

VIDEO: David Brooks Is In His Element
 
David Brooks Is In His Element
From the series, New York Close Up
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.
Keep up with the Exclusive series on Art21.org, or subscribe to the series via RSS or iTunes (note: link opens in iTunes). Keep up with the New York Close Up series at the project website.

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 Highlights from the Art21 Blog
On View Now | Time Warp: "NYC 1993" at the New Museum
 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.

A Conversation with Jen Schwarting
 March Blogger-in-Residence
Brooklyn-based artist Amanda Beroza Friedman threaded ideas of feminism, the overlooked, and the empathy of art objects through her month-long series for the Art21 Blog. In her interview with artist and university professor Jen Schwarting, they discuss Schwarting's process of Google searching for "drunk girls" to build a body of work. Visit the Art21 Blog to read this and other posts in Friedman's series.

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.


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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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translationArt21 Translation Project: Bringing Artists' Words to Global Communities
Art21 Translation Project
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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shopAvailable Now: The Art in the Twenty-First Century Box Set
Shop Art21
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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