April 24, 2014

This month's issue of Art21 News highlights three brand new videos featuring artists Glenn Ligon, Gabriel Orozco, and Shana Moulton.

Also in this issue is a report from Art21 Educators about their Carrie Mae Weems workshop at the Guggenheim Museum; a well-liked Louise Bourgeois GIF from the Art21 Tumblr page; and select writings from the "Value" issue of the Art21 Magazine.

And for those who have been waiting to join the Art21 Access '14 program, in conjunction with Season 7 of Art in the Twenty-First Century, registration is now open. Read on for instructions and other news from Art21.

In this issue:

New Videos from Exclusive and New York Close Up

Follow Art21 on Tumblr

Highlights from the Art21 Magazine

Art21 Educators at the Guggenheim

Host an Art21 Access '14 Screening

Support Art21, Donate Today

Purchase the Art in the Twenty-First Century Box Set

Banner: Production stills from the New York Close Up film Shana Moulton & Nick Hallet Stage an Opera. � Art21, Inc. 2014. Left: Production still from the Exclusive film Glenn Ligon: Layers of Meaning. � Art21, Inc. 2014.

New Videos from Exclusive and New York Close Up

Glenn Ligon: Layers of Meaning

From the Exclusive series

Glenn Ligon discusses texts and cultural events, such as the writings of James Baldwin and the Million Man March, which inspired some of his paintings.

Gabriel Orozco: Mirror Crit
From the Exclusive series

Gabriel Orozco conducts a "Mirror Crit," in which he presents a student's artwork as if it is his own. Orozco speaks without having previous knowledge of the student's background or intentions, allowing the images to, in a sense, speak for themselves.

Shana Moulton & Nick Hallet Stage an Opera
From the New York Close Up series

Artist Shana Moulton and composer Nick Hallett collaborate on the opera Whispering Pines 10--rehearsing and performing this one-act production at the New Museum of Contemporary Art.

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.

Follow Art21 on Tumblr

Your favorite Art21 artists are featured not only in our films, but also on our Tumblr page, where archival footage gets reincarnated, often as animated GIFs.

This month, we've turned the spotlight on Art in the Twenty-First Century artists Louise Bourgeois and assume vivid astro focus, and New York Close Up artists Shana Moulton and Jacolby Satterwhite.

On Tumblr you can also find photographs of new exhibitions by Art21-featured artists, mostly recently, Ai Weiwei: According to What? on view at the Brooklyn Museum.

Join our Tumblr community for regular updates.

Left: Looking back at Louise Bourgeois's Helping Hands (1993-96), relocated from Chicago's Jane Addams Memorial Park to Chicago Women's Park in 2011, and featured in Art21's 2001 Identity episode.

Highlights from the Art21 Magazine

In April and May, the Art21 Magazine is all about "Value." Articles published this month include:

"Money: worth more than the paper it's written on" by guest contributor Kirby Gookin;

"BFAMFAPhD: An Imaginative School of Thought", a profile of artist Caroline Woolard, by "New Kids on the Block" columnist Jacquelyn Gleisner;

"Occupation: Artist" by guest contributor Jayna Swartzman-Brosky;

"The Grift Economy," a satirical letter from "Copy That!" columnist Joy Garnett; and

a special playlist from artist Pinar Yolacan, in which she juxtaposes funk carioca and Turkish percussion with Afrobeat and R&B.

The "Value" issue continues through May 31, 2014.

Writer-in-Residence

Boston-based writer Elizabeth Devlin is the "Value" issue writer-in-residence. In her first piece, "Read Between the One-Liners," she profiles Boston artist Pat Falco whose text-based works made their museum debut in the 2013 deCordova Biennial.

In residence through the end of May, Devlin will continue to "examine the market-driven forces behind contemporary art appraisal, as well as the intangible, mutable, and subjective nature of worth."

Top: Kota Ezawa. Bohemians from The History of Photography Remix, 2005. Laminated duratrans transparency and lightbox; 22 x 28 inches. Edition of 5. Courtesy the artist and Haines Gallery. Featured in the Art21 Magazine article "Occupation: Artist." Bottom: Pat Falco. The Only Painting That Will Sell, 2013. Acrylic on found painting; 18�18 inches. Courtesy the artist.

Art21 Educators at the Guggenheim

Seeing the work of Carrie Mae Weems with fresh eyes and new lenses

Carrie Mae Weems: Three Decades of Photography and Video--on view at the Guggenheim Museum through May 14, 2014--provides an opportunity to survey Weems's rich body of work, images cohered by timeless and timely themes: beauty, equality, race, gender, and power, among others.

On April 5, the Guggenheim and Art21 brought together twenty educators to explore Weems's work using a variety of interpretive lenses, discussing how and why a work of art can move us to new ways of thinking and understanding, and the power of hearing the artist's voice.

Left: Art21 Educators at the Guggenheim Museum, April 2014. Photo: Jess Hamlin. To receive more information about educational resources and programs, sign up for the Art21 Education email list.

Art21 Access: Host or Attend a Screening

Art21 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.

To participate in the Access '14 program, in conjunction with Season 7 of Art in the Twenty-First Century premiering this fall, register here.

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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