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April 24, 2013
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Banner: Diana Al-Hadid at work in her Williamsburg, Brooklyn studio, 2012. Production still from the New York Close Up film, Diana Al-Hadid's Suspended Reality. © Art21, Inc. 2013. Left: Installation view of Barry McGee at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA), 2012. Production stills from the Exclusive film, Barry McGee: Tagging. © Art21, Inc. 2013. |
 New Videos in Exclusive and New York Close Up |
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Filmed in 2002, Elizabeth Murray (1940-2007) is shown working on the large-scale painting Bop (2002-03) in her Manhattan studio. |
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Filmed in 2012, Barry McGee describes his interests in tagging, as seen through works included as part of his self-titled retrospective exhibition at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAM/PFA). |
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In this film, artist Diana Al-Hadid creates sculptures and drawings that embrace illusionism and the unknown, culminating in the exhibition The Vanishing Point (2012) at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York. |
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| 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As part of the year-long 100 Artists celebration, Art21 will release previously unpublished content from our rich archive, as well as new material produced in collaboration with the artists: films, interviews, lists, updates, and more.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New to the Art21 website this month is a previously unpublished interview with Doris Salcedo, in which she discusses how people's experiences of war, displacement, and imprisonment form the foundation of her sculptures and ephemeral installations. Read the full interview: Doris Salcedo: Variations on Brutality. |
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| Access 100 Artists: Host or Attend a Screening |
To date, Art21 has confirmed 111 partners across the globe, spread over 6 continents. That's a total of nearly 600 screenings throughout 36 states and 20 countries. Find a screening event near you on Art21.org.
This month, we welcome new partners in Iowa, Kentucky, Georgia and Arizona. We would also like to put out a special call for screening partners in North Dakota, South Dakota, New Mexico, Nevada, Indiana, Ohio, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Utah, Minnesota, Mississippi, Washington, and Maine.
We invite individuals and organizations in your area to participate in the Access program and screen films from any of our three series--Art in the Twenty-First Century, New York Close Up, and Exclusive--as well as our feature-length film William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible. All films are available to order and screen free of charge.
Visit Art21.org for more information on how to host or attend a free Access 100 Artists screening.
Current Access partners: Let us know how your screening goes by sharing photos, comments, and stories across social media or by sending them to access [AT] art21.org.
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Highlights from the Art21 Blog
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| | From Our Columns
Charles Schultz, guest writer for Ink, reviewed a major exhibition of prints by Dieter Roth who "was among the first to radically expand the idea of what a book could be"; Joe Fusaro of Teaching with Contemporary Art took his students on an "in-school trip" with the sole purpose of making art for seven hours straight; Max Weintraub shared his thoughts on Jon Kessler's jungle of technology at the Swiss Institute; Jacquelyn Gleisner of New Kids on the Block traced the path of rising Brooklyn painter Summer Wheat; and calling John Baldessari's Your Name in Lights a "flaccid effort," Carol Cheh of Word is a Virus expressed support for Susan Stilton's intervention. |
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Thea Liberty Nichols returned to the Art21 Blog for the third time, helping us usher in the spring season with a series of blog posts about artists who are working outside of their primary practice or across disciplines. Included is an interview with artist Faheem Majeed who offers some words about the unique childhood that shaped him, his time as executive director and curator of Chicago's South Side Community Arts Center, and his administrative future.. |
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):
Summer Wheat, Missing Mandible Melvin, 2010. Acrylic and oil on canvas. 16 x 20 in. Courtesy the artist.
Faheem Majeed, Planting and Maintaining a Perennial Garden I, 2012. Mixed media. 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 |
By comparison with other art groups of its size, Art21's reach is 10 times the national average*. To translate: each year we reach more than 4 million individuals with our programs; the national average is 400,000.
This is the power of digital media. Individuals around the world gain unprecedented access to the work and processes of today's leading artists through Art21's films and resources: Art in the Twenty-First Century, New York Close Up, Exclusive, and more.
Yes--we're bragging--because we are fulfilling our mission in a big way. This is your dollar at work. Invest wisely--make a donation today.
*Based on Cultural Data Project reports, generating 2011 national comparison
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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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