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August 26, 2016
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This month's ART21 films have been reflecting on the past, in both historical and more personal, immediate ways. Brooklyn-based artist Daniel Gordon looked back on old portfolios in a New York Close Up episode, and a new ART21 Exclusive captured Carrie Mae Weems' powerful performance, Grace Notes, commemorating the tragic deaths of young black men. In a new preview of Art in the Twenty-First Century Season Eight, Stan Douglas describes the making of his 2008 photograph Abbott & Cordova, 7 August 1971--a careful restaging of the 1971 Gastown riots in Vancouver.
Whether personal or political, contemporary art's engagement with the past is crucial for its role as reflection, commentary, and critique.
Tina Kukielski
Executive Director, ART21
August 26, 2016
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In this issue of ART21 News:
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"You write something not because you have the answer.
You write something because you know that you need to work through it."
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| | | New Videos Featuring Carrie Mae Weems and Daniel Gordon | |
From the series, ART21 Exclusive
A look at artist Carrie Mae Weems staging Grace Notes: Reflections for Now, a performance that examines the escalating racial tensions across the United States, and the role of grace in the pursuit of democracy.
"I'm deeply aware of the stress that's put on our community, the stress that's put on black women, the stress that's put on black men," says the artist. "It's not a play, it's really this battle."
Premiered on August 9, 2016
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From the series, ART21 New York Close Up
Photographer Daniel Gordon reflects on his decade-long commitment to intensive practice and artistic invention.
"How can you continue to be truly invested and truly interested in what you're doing? For me, the only way to do that is to try new things--to invent new ways of making pictures."
Premiered on August 12, 2016
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| | | Season 8 Previews and Deep Focus Interviews | |
The premiere of Art in the Twenty-First Century Season Eight is only three weeks away!
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| | | Season 8 Screenings and Events | |
Chicago | Thursday, September 15, 2016, 5-8pm
Opening reception for On Space and Place: Contemporary Art from Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico City and Vancouver. ART21 and DePaul Art Museum have partnered to exhibit the 16 artists featured in Season 8.
Vancouver | Tuesday, September 27, 2016, 6:30pm
Screening of the Vancouver hour, followed by a Q&A with featured artist Liz Magor and a reception at The Contemporary Art Gallery.
Chicago | Tuesday, September 27, 2016, 7pm
Screening of the Chicago episode, followed by a conversation with featured artists Chris Ware, Barbara Kasten, and Theaster Gates.
Chicago | Friday, October 14, 2016, 6-7pm
Art Institute of Chicago | Free with museum admission | Register
Featured artist Chris Ware talks with multidisciplinary artist Gary Panter, literary scholar and comics expert Hillary Chute, and moderator Tina Kukielski, Executive Director of ART21. Includes a screening of Ware's segment from the Chicago hour.
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"I still don't really know why I'm not a painter...
The mid-sixties, that was just the beginning of really the explosion
of all the new alternative kinds of art."
Jeff Wall in the Art in the Twenty-First Century Season Eight episode, Vancouver
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| | | Highlights from the ART21 Magazine | |
From the July / August "Exposed" issue:
In a satirical Q&A, acclaimed self-help author Howard Moseley, PhD, answers readers' questions about gallery representation and the nature of creativity.
Jacquelyn Gleisner, New Kids on the Block column | August 4, 2016
On View Now column | August 12, 2016
In a personal essay artist Tanya Wischerath reflects on the complexities of bringing activist art to a culturally objective viewership.
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From the series, ART21 Exclusive
"I like to paint images of women who I find inspiring. I like to choose people that just do small things and yet somehow hit me in my heart." --Margaret Kilgallen
Premiered on March 8, 2013
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"Is the value of art activism conditional to the audience to which it's presented?"
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