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May 29, 2013
 

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 The 100 Artists celebration continued this past month, with new videos featuring James Turrell, Ann Hamilton, and Maya Lin, as well as additional materials featuring Julie Mehretu, Jessica Stockholder, and Walton Ford.

Read on for more from 100 Artists, including opportunities to host or attend a screening in your community.

Finally, the latest film from the New York Close Up series features artist Erin Shirreff. New artists will be added to the New York Close Up roster in June--stay tuned.


topIn this issue:  

New Videos in Exclusive and New York Close Up 

100 Artists: New Videos, Images, Interviews, and More 

Access 100 Artists: Host or Attend a Screening 

Highlights from the Art21 Blog 

Support Art21: Help Inspire a More Creative World 

Available Now: The Art in the Twenty-First Century Box Set 

Banner: Ann Hamilton, "the event of a thread" (2012) installed at the Park Avenue Armory, New York, 2012. Production still from the Exclusive film, Ann Hamilton: "the event of a thread". � Art21, Inc. 2013. Left: James Turrell, "The Light Inside" (1999) installed at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, 2000. Production stills from the series Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 1, Episode: Spirituality. � Art21, Inc. 2001.
videoNew Videos in Exclusive and New York Close Up
VIDEO: Ann Hamilton:
 
Ann Hamilton: "the event of a thread"
From the series, Exclusive
Filmed in 2012 at Manhattan's Park Avenue Armory, artist Ann Hamilton discusses her installation the event of a thread, which occupied the Armory's cavernous drill hall

VIDEO: Maya Lin: New York
 
Maya Lin: New York
From the series, Exclusive
Speaking from her Manhattan studio in late 2012 and early 2013, artist Maya Lin discusses her new series of sculptures which examine New York's ecological past.

VIDEO: James Turrell:
 
James Turrell: "Second Meeting"
From the series, Exclusive
Filmed in early 2013, James Turrell describes what initially attracted him to working with light and how skyspaces encourage a closer examination of our visual perceptions.

VIDEO: Erin Shirreff & Tony Smith Go Way Back
 
Erin Shirreff & Tony Smith Go Way Back
From the series, New York Close Up
While de-installing Sculpture for Snow (2011) in Downtown Brooklyn, artist Erin Shirreff discusses the creation and inspiration for her first public sculpture.
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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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:

Art21 on Tumblr
 
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:

Jessica Stockholder, Artist at Work; Maya Lin, Artist at Work; Walton Ford, Artist at Work; and James Turrell, Artist at Work.

Julie Mehretu: To Be Felt as Much as Read
 
New Text Interviews on Art21.org
New to the Art21 website this month is a previously unpublished interview with Julie Mehretu, in which she discusses her process of layering and erasing and the different references embodied in any one of her large-scale paintings. Read the full interview, Julie Mehretu: To Be Felt as Much as Read, on Art21.org
Explore all 100 artists on Art21.org, and join our communities on Facebook, Twitter, and Tumblr for regular updates.

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Host an Art21 Screening
To date, Art21 has confirmed over 125 partners across the globe, spread over 6 continents. That's a total of nearly 650 screenings throughout 40 states and 22 countries. Find a screening event near you on Art21.org.

This month, we welcome new partners in Rhode Island and Utah. We would also like to put out a special call for screening partners in North Dakota, South Dakota, Nevada, Indiana, Ohio, New Hampshire, Minnesota, Mississippi, Washington, and Maine.

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
On May 1, we announced the launch of themes on the Art21 Blog. Going forward, we will focus on a different idea every eight weeks--not so different from our long-running "Flash Points" series. Columnists and guest writers will continue to contribute their unique voices and perspectives, preserving the blog's eclectic spirit while also creating a unified conversation.

The blog theme for May and June is hindsight, and our writers have been digging deep into the distant and recent past.

Santiago Sierra,
 From Our Columns
Marissa Perel of "Gimme Shelter" contemplated the experiences of war veterans as citizens and performers in the work of Santiago Sierra; Max Weintraub of "On View Now" reviewed a "not to be missed" exhibition of Richard Serra's early works at David Zwirner Gallery; Jacquelyn Gleisner of "New Kids on the Block" profiled Aisha Cousins, whose public art project connects a laundromat to the life of Malcolm X; Catherine Wagley of "Looking at Los Angeles," looked back some 40 years to a "hair-raising" art and technology project by James Turrell and Robert Irwin; and Joe Fusaro of "Teaching with Contemporary Art" celebrated his column's five-year anniversary, writing, "looking backward I can't help but look forward."

Carl Cheng,
 Blogger-in-Residence
Los Angeles-based writer and curator Danielle Sommer became the first blogger-in-residence to engage with our new thematic framework. Lucky for us, the theme of hindsight works well with Danielle's interest in issues of collective memory and time in contemporary sculpture. "I'm really just a nostalgist at heart," she says. Throughout her residency, Danielle will be looking at new versions of old shows, speculative fiction and its art analogs, and the relationship between longing and touch. Read her 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):

Santiago Sierra, Veterans installation view, 2013. Courtesy Team Gallery.

Carl Cheng, U.N. of C., 1967. Film, molded plastic, Styrofoam and Plexiglas. Courtesy Cherry and Martin.


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The world's greatest questions--in science, art, politics, technology, and society--have been answered through creativity.

With the ideas of 100 artists available through the Art in the Twenty-First Century television series, Art21 offers creative ways to tackle a challenge, transform a situation, or expand horizons. These ideas go viral.

Help us to pass the creativity on with a donation to the 2013 Annual Fund.
  • $25 - Prints 5 free Educators' Guides--distributed to teachers worldwide
  • $50 - Makes possible multi-lingual subtitles of an Exclusive video
  • $100 - Sends a DVD and Screening Guide to an organization overseas to present a public film screening
  • $500 - Supports a day of on-site filming at an artist's studio
Thank you for supporting Art21. Together we can inspire a more creative world.

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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
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