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February 28, 2014
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Banner: Production still from the Exclusive film Janine Antoni: Milagros. © Art21, Inc. 2014. Left: Production still from the Exclusive film Fred Wilson: Beauty & Ugliness. © Art21, Inc. 2014. |
 New Videos from Exclusive and New York Close Up |
| | Fred Wilson: Beauty & Ugliness
From the Exclusive series
Filmed in 2004, Fred Wilson discusses how beauty and ugliness together create meaning. Speak of Me As I Am (2003), Wilson's installation for the 50th Venice Biennale, is featured along with his installation Cabinetmaking, 1820-1960 (1992), a group of ornate nineteenth-century chairs juxtaposed with a whipping post. |
| | Ellen Gallagher: Cutting
From the Exclusive series
Shown at the New Museum, seated in her solo exhibition Don't Axe Me (2013), Ellen Gallagher discusses the paper cutouts that she's embedded into paintings throughout her career. She explains how she scrapped away areas of thickly painted canvases and inlaid black paper birds, leaving their sharply cut edges distinctly visible. |
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| | Janine Antoni: Milagros
From the Exclusive series
Filmed in 2013, Janine Antoni discusses the sculptures in her solo exhibition, Within, at the Mattress Factory in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. Antoni explains how this body of work was inspired by small religious votive charms called milagros ("miracles"), which often take the shape of an ailing area of the body, such as a limb or organ. |
| | Mary Mattingly's Waterfront Development
From the series New York Close Up
Over the course of the summer and fall of 2013, artist Mary Mattingly constructs and occupies Triple Island (2013), an outdoor sculpture overlooking the East River. Situated in the newly developed Pier 42 public park, the sculpture rests on buoyant 55-gallon drums, which allow it to float in the event of rising sea levels. Mattingly and friends create a system for living off the grid in the densely-populated Lower East Side. |
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| Artist Interviews from the Art21 Archive |
Each month, we highlight materials from our rich archive, posting them on our website and sharing them across our social media platforms. Recently, we released two previously unpublished text interviews.
| | Florian Maier-Aichen: Built-In Mistakes
Interviewed in 2008 at his Los Angeles studio, Florian Maier-Aichen discusses his beginnings, the evolution of his hybrid practice, and nineteenth-century landscape photography.
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| | Jeff Koons: Art Changes Everyday
Interviewed in 2009 at his New York City studio, Koons talks about his relationship with art, his exhibition at the Château de Versailles, and misrepresentations of his work.
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| Highlights from the Art21 Magazine |
| | Inspired by the Art21 Translation Project, the current issue of the Art21 Magazine focuses on modes and issues of translation.
Newcomer Bean Gilsdorf helped us kick things off with her profile of performance artist Guillermo Gómez-Peña. "If we take translate to mean explaining in terms that can be more easily understood," writes Gilsdorf, "then Gómez-Peña...resists the facile option of translating for his audience." |
| | Writer-in-Residence
British/Mexican artist Alinka Echeverría came aboard as the "Translation" Issue writer-in-residence. In her first post, Echeverría presents never-before-seen photographs from her visit to South Africa, around the time of Nelson Mandela's burial. |
Top: Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Saul Garcia Lopez before the international premiere of the La Pocha Nostra Live Art Laboratory's Corpo Insurrecto: The Robo-Proletariat at Steirischer Herbst Festival, Austria, 2012. Photo: Wolfgang Silveri. Middle: Susan Silton, "In everything there is the trace," 2013. Installation view at the USC Fisher Museum of Art. Photo: Alexandra Brown. Bottom: Alinka Echeverria, from The Tenth Day of Mourning series, 2013.
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Art21 will premiere a new film--featuring an exclusive interview with Philip Tinari--at The Armory Show 2014. Tinari is director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing, China, as well as curator of this year's Armory Focus program.
Art21 and Tinari have also worked together to produce short video profiles of three Chinese artists featured in our Art in the Twenty-First Century series: Ai Weiwei, Cai Guo-Qiang, and Cao Fei. All films will screen on Friday, March 7 at 11am.
If you are unable to attend The Armory Show, look out for these new films in the "Translation" issue of the Art21 Magazine.
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Art21 is proud to partner once again with The Metropolitan Museum of Art's Spectrum initiative.
Join us at the Met on Thursday, March 20 for "Are You Smarter Than a Curator," the third annual evening of trivia inspired by art and culture. Come on your own or with a team of up to five people and face off against other art lovers in a multi-round battle of the wits.
Beer, wine, and light snacks will be served. Prizes will be awarded to the victors.
Purchase tickets via Eventbrite.
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| Art21 Education Programs and Presentations |
Art21 Educators are organizing exciting programs across the country.
- Twelfth grade Earth Science students at the Aaron School in New York City responded to the New York Close Up film Mary Mattingly Owns Up;
- Art21's Film School inquiry group, which meets online, explored different ways to introduce film as an artistic medium in the classroom;
- Students at Cawthra Park Secondary School in Mississauga, Ontario used emojis to represent the work of Art21 artists;
- And next week, a sixth grade class from Turquoise Trail Charter School in Santa Fe, New Mexico will visit SITE Santa Fe to discuss hospitality, collaboration, and installation in contemporary art.
In March, a number of Art21 educators will convene at the National Art Education Association annual convention in San Diego. Convention presenters include ART21 Educators alumni and staff Don Ball, Rebecca Belleville, Julia CopperSmith, Todd Elkin, Joe Fusaro, Jethro Gillespie, Jessica Hamlin, Mark Graham, James Rees, Jocelyn Salaz, and Jack Watson.
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| Art21 Access Screenings Near You |
Access is a global campaign providing access to contemporary art and artists through hundreds of free public screenings and events. Organizations of all sizes are invited to screen any of Art21's films free of charge.
By the end of 2013, Art21 had confirmed over 300 partners across the globe, spread over six continents. That's approximately 3,000 screenings spanning 49 states and 50 countries. Find a screening event near you.
Stay tuned for information about the 2014 Art21 Access program, in conjunction with Season 7 of Art in the Twenty-First Century. Registration will open in approximately one month.
Current Access 100 Artists partners: We want to know what happened at your screening. Share your photos, comments, and stories across social media using #Art21Access or send them to access [at] art21.org.
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| Support Art21, Make a Donation |
Every Art21 project--from the television series Art in the Twenty First Century to the online short-format video series New York Close Up to our online resources for educators--depends on the generosity of individuals like you.
Become a "contributing producer" by making a donation today. Join us in bringing worldwide audiences free access to the work and processes of today's leading artists. Thank you for your continued support!
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| Shop Art21: The Art in the Twenty-First Century Box Set |
The Art in the Twenty-First Century Collection
For the first time, all six seasons of the Art in the Twenty-First Century series, comprising 24 hours of programming, are available in a beautiful box set edition. The complete collection, showing how contemporary art can change the ways 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.
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
The Art in the Twenty-First Century companion books cover all six seasons of the series and feature in-depth interviews with all 100 featured artists, high-quality images, and essays from Art21 Executive Director Susan Sollins. The Season 6 companion book is available today at Art21.org
Visit ShopPBS.org to view all available products from Art21.
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