ART21 News
July 24, 2015
IMAGE: Artist Jamian Juliano-Villani in her Bedford-Stuyvesant studio, Brooklyn, NY, 2015. Production still from the ART21 New York Close Up film Jamian Juliano-Villani's Painting Compulsion. © ART21, Inc. 2015.
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In this issue of ART21 News:

New Videos Featuring Arlene Shechet & Jamian Juliano-Villani

Featured Videos from the ART21 Collection

Highlights from the ART21 Magazine

For Educators: Download the Learning with ART21 Guide

Support ART21 Films and Programs

Shop ART21 

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New Videos Featuring Arlene Shechet & Jamian Juliano-Villani
VIDEO: Arlene Shechet: Sculpting Time
From the series, ART21 Exclusive
Arlene Shechet discusses a series of plaster sculptures that she created over the course of six years in the mid-1990s, following the death of a close friend.
Premiered on June 29, 2015

VIDEO: Arlene Shechet: Pentimento in Paper
From the series, ART21 Exclusive
From the Dieu Donné papermaking studio in New York City, artist Arlene Shechet creates a series of cast paper reliefs.
Premiered on June 26, 2015


VIDEO: Jamian Juliano-Villani's Painting Compulsion
From the series, ART21 New York Close Up
Filmed in her Bedford-Stuyvesant studio, artist Jamian Juliano-Villani uses a digital projector to create surreal paintings and discusses the graphic source material that inspires her.
Premiered on June 30, 2015


Watch full episodes from the ART21 Exclusive series and the ART21 New York Close Up series on ART21.org. Join our communities on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Tumblr to catch new episodes as they premiere.

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Featured Videos from the ART21 Collection
VIDEO: Cindy Sherman: Characters
From the series, ART21 Exclusive
"My work is not about fantasizing about characters or situations. When I'm doing the characters, I really don't feel like it's something that grows out of my fantasy--my own dreams." --Cindy Sherman
Premiered on April 1, 2011

VIDEO: Elizabeth Murray in "Humor"
From Season 2 of ART21 Art in the Twenty-First Century
"It's like being a safe breaker--those movies where they've got their ear up against the safe and you' re listening for the right click. Sometimes it just felt really like that, like I'm just painting and painting and painting until the right thing happens." --Elizabeth Murray
Premiered on October 1, 2003



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Highlights from the ART21 Magazine
From the recently-launched "Sincerity" issue:
Guest editor Jacquelyn Gleisner looks to her past to introduce the current issue's "Sincerity" theme.
Contributor Angela DuFresne calls for art to be "as diverse and nonnormative as nature," free of binary labels and categorization.
Artist and contributor Summer Wheat finds inspiration in Tolstoy.

IMAGE: Nicole Eisenman. The Triumph of Poverty, 2009. Oil on canvas; 65 x 82 inches. Courtesy the artist. © Nicole Eisenman.

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For Educators: Download the Learning with ART21 Guide
Download the Learning with ART21 Guide
The Learning with ART21 Guide is a new downloadable resource offering starting points for introducing contemporary art and artists into classroom and community-based learning.

ART21 offers this and additional free resources to spur dialogue, facilitate critical inquiry, support research and exploration, and enhance curricula in a wide range of subject areas.


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Support ART21 Films and Programs
Support Art21
Giving to the ART21 Annual Fund enables the development of new initiatives and provides support for ongoing programming. Recent examples of Annual Fund dollars at work include a pair of ART21 Exclusive episodes featuring Arlene Shechet and the latest ART21 New York Close Up film Jamian Juliano-Villani's Painting Compulsion.

A donation to ART21 today ensures the release of new films on a continual basis.

Your gift makes a difference.


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Shop ART21
ART21 Season 7 DVD
ART21 Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 7
Add ART21's latest PBS-broadcast season to your video collection. Season 7, featuring twelve artists across four new hour-long episodes, is available to purchase on DVD through ShopPBS.org and other retailers, and as digital downloads through iTunes, Amazon Instant Video, and Google Play.

Companion Books
The ART21 Art in the Twenty-First Century companion books feature in-depth interviews with the featured artists, high-quality images, and essays from ART21 founder Susan Sollins. Available for Seasons 1 through 6 from ShopPBS.org and other retailers.

ART21 William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible
This Peabody Award-winning feature film provides an in-depth look at South African artist William Kentridge, including his staging of Shostakovich's The Nose at The Metropolitan Opera in New York City. The film is available on DVD from ShopPBS.org and other retailers.

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