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ART: 21 | Season 4 Preview | PBS Season 4 of Art:21--Art in the Twenty-First Century premieres Sunday, October 28 at 10:00 p.m. (ET) on PBS with Romance, with three remaining one-hour episodes airing the next three consecutive Sundays: November 4 (Protest), November 11 (Ecology) and November 18 (Paradox). Please check local listings. Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century is the only primetime national television series in the U.S. to focus exclusively on contemporary art and artists. Through in-depth profiles and interviews, the series reveals the inspiration, vision and techniques behind the creative works of some of today's most accomplished contemporary artists. For more information please visit http://www.pbs.org/art21 Tags: Art artist contemporary art21 season four PBS television tv episode trailer documentary education |
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Art:21 | Hiroshi Sugimoto Central to Hiroshi Sugimoto's work is the idea that photography is a time machine, a method of preserving and picturing memory and time. Sugimoto sees with the eye of the sculptor, painter, architect, and philosopher. He creates images that seem to convey his subjects' essence, whether architectural, sculptural, painterly, or of the natural world. Hiroshi Sugimoto is featured in the Season 3 episode "Memory" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2005-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary art artist art21 PBS television TV series documentary photos photography |
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Art:21 | Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg "Painting relates to both art and life. Neither can be made. (I try to act in that gap between the two.)" -- Robert Rauschenberg, 1959 Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg is an homage to an artist who was my personal hero, and my nemesis, in my student years. He was my hero because of the infallibility of his touch, and the constancy of his ability to invent and re-invent the potency and power of visual art — to push the boundaries of what art could be. He was my nemesis because I saw him as pure genius and his every gesture as perfection — conditions that were not, I thought, possible for others to attain. But my joy and delight in his work continued and my pleasure in talking with him from time to time over the years was enormous. Curated by Paul Schimmel, Robert Rauchenberg: Combines was shown in early 2006 at The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York. On seeing it there, and upon learning that there were no plans to film it, I asked Bob for permission to do so at the next venue, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. This elegy is dedicated to the memory of Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) and to the memory of his friendship with my late husband, Earle Brown (1926-2002), whose music has been intertwined and juxtaposed here with images of the glorious Combines. Susan Sollins-Brown Executive Director Art21 Elegy for Robert Rauschenberg has been created from footage filmed by Art21 at The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles during the 2006 exhibition of Robert Rauschenberg: Combines. Among the works seen in whole or in part are Minutiae (1954); Interview (1955); Monogram (1955-59); Canyon (1959); Gift for Apollo (1959); Black Market (1961); Empire II (1961); Pantomime (1961); Ace (1962); and Gold Standard (1964). The video is set to music composed by Earle Brown who, along with Rauschenberg, was a member of a small group of friends in the 1950s that included John Cage, Merce Cunningham, Morton Feldman, Jasper Johns, and Christian Wolff, among others. In the spirit of that long-ago friendship, and in the collaborative spirit of that time and group, excerpts from the following works by Brown have been selected and collaged, with permission of The Earle Brown Music Foundation, for this video: Music for Violin, Cello, & Piano (1952); Octet I (1953); Folio and 4 Systems (1954); String Quartet (1965); New Piece (1971); and Special Events (1999). VIDEO | Producer: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Lizzie Donahue. Special thanks to Robert Rauschenberg's Studio and David White; Paul Schimmel and The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; The Earle Brown Music Foundation and Thomas Fichter. Tags: contemporary visual art artist art21 PBS television TV series documentary 21 century |
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Art:21 | James Turrell James Turrell's work involves explorations in light and space that speak to viewers without words, impacting the eye, body, and mind with the force of a spiritual awakening. Situated near the Grand Canyon and Arizona's Painted Desert is Roden Crater, an extinct volcano the artist has been transforming into a celestial observatory for the past thirty years. Working with cosmological phenomena that have interested man since the dawn of civilization, Turrell's crater brings the heavens down to earth, linking the actions of people with the movements of planets and distant galaxies. James Turrell is featured in the Season 1 episode "Spirituality" of the Art21 series "Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2001-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary visual art artist art21 PBS television TV series documentary 21 century |
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Art:21 | Kara Walker Kara Walker's work explores the raw intersection of race, gender, and sexuality through iconic, silhouetted figures. Walker unleashes the traditionally Victorian medium of the silhouette directly onto the walls of the gallery. In recent works, the Walker uses overhead projectors to throw light onto the walls and floor of the exhibition space, implicating the audience through their own shadows. Kara Walker's is featured in the Season 2 episode "Stories" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2003, 2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary art artist art21 PBS television TV series documentary stories installations shadows silhouettes |
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Art:21 | Cai Guo-Qiang Cai Guo-Qiang's fireworks explosions—poetic and ambitious at their core—aim to establish an exchange between viewers and the larger universe. For his work, Cai draws on a wide variety of materials, symbols and traditions including elements of feng shui, Chinese medicine, gunpowder, as well as images of dragons and tigers, cars and boats, mushroom clouds and I Ching. Cai Guo-Qiang is featured in the Season 3 episode "Power" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2005, 2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary art artist art21 PBS television TV series documentary power fireworks gunpowder Chinese |
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Art:21 | Janine Antoni Janine Antoni's work blurs the distinction between performance art and sculpture. Antoni transforms everyday activities such as eating, bathing, and sleeping into ways of making art, such as painting and sculpting. Themes in her work include mortality, desire and the body. Janine Antoni is featured in the Season 2 episode "Loss & Desire" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2003-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary visual art artist art21 PBS television TV series documentary 21 century performance video balance horizon |
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Art:21 | Mel Chin | 'Fundred' at George Jackson Academy Art21-featured artist Mel Chin (Season 1) originated the Fundred Dollar Bill Project to draw attention to and develop solutions for environmentally responsible rebuilding of New Orleans from below the ground up. The artworks—individually created Fundred Dollar Bills made by students—will be collected by an armored truck and delivered to Washington D.C., where an even exchange of the value of their art currency for actual funds will be requested. This video was shot at George Jackson Academy in New York City, an independent middle school serving "bright boys from lower-income families" and which is participating in the project. Art teacher Gary Campbell worked with fourth- through eighth-graders to create Fundred Dollar Bills. This school is one of the collection centers for all bills created in New York State. Its students are featured discussing their involvement and thoughts on the current situation in New Orleans. Mel Chin will unveil more details on the project and examples of Fundred Dollar Bills themselves at next week's National Art Education Association convention in New Orleans. Camera/Editing: Larissa Nikola-Lisa; Interviews: Tana Hargest. Sound Operator: David Roesing. PA: Peter Synder. Special thanks to Mel Chin; Mary Rubin and the entire Fundred Dollar Bill Project team; and the students and staff of George Jackson Academy, especially: Jason Alejo, Daniel Baldwin, Darshan Desai, Jamal Elliot, Lateef Fall, Peter Garcia, Lukas Grattan, Joseph Hatton, Mattiyas Letang, Momo Lewis, Fernando Medina, James Norman, Armondo Perez, Mitchel Thomas, Robert Williams. More information: http://blog.art21.org/2008/03/03/mel-chin-the-fundred-dollar-bill-project/ © 2008 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary visual art artis PBS art21 documentary TV education mel chin fundred dollar bill project performance |
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Art:21 | Michael Ray Charles Michael Ray Charles' paintings investigate stereotypes drawn from the history of American advertising, product packaging, billboards, and commercials. Charles draws comparisons between Sambo, Mammy, and minstrel images of an earlier era and contemporary portrayals of black youths, celebrities, and athletes—images he sees as a constant in the American subconscious. Michael Ray Charles is featured in the Season 1 episode "Consumpsion" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2001-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary art artist art21 PBS television TV series documentary painting |
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Art:21 | Paul Pfeiffer Paul Pfeiffer's groundbreaking work in video, sculpture, and photography uses recent computer technologies to dissect the role that mass media plays in shaping consciousness. Pfeiffer's intimate and idealized video works are often presented on small LCD screens and loop infinitely—meditations on faith, desire, and a contemporary culture obsessed with celebrity. Paul Pfeiffer is featured in the Season 2 episode "Time" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2003-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary visual art artist art21 PBS television TV series documentary video basketball player photoshop computer |
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Art:21 | Martin Puryear Martin Puryear's sculptures—in wood, stone, tar, wire, and various metals—are a marriage of Minimalist logic with traditional ways of making. Puryear's exploration in abstract forms retain vestigial elements of utility from everyday objects found in the world. A form that reoccurs in Puryear's work is the hollow mass, a solid shape with qualities of uncertainty and emptiness. Martin Puryear is featured in the Season 2 episode "Time" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2003-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary art artist art21 PBS television TV series documentary sculpture wood minimalism |
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Art:21 | Matthew Ritchie | "The Morning Line" EXCLUSIVE: Matthew Ritchie discusses his upcoming exhibition "The Morning Line" (2008) in his New York studio, with animated architectural schematics of the installation. "The Morning Line" will be on view October 2, 2008 - January 11, 2009 at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, Spain, as part of the 3rd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Seville. Matthew Ritchie's artistic mission has been no less ambitious than an attempt to represent the entire universe and the structures of knowledge and belief that we use to understand and visualize it. Ritchie's encyclopedic project (continually expanding and evolving like the universe itself) stems from his imagination, and is cataloged in a conceptual chart replete with allusions drawn from Judeo-Christian religion, occult practices, Gnostic traditions, and scientific elements and principles. Matthew Ritchie is featured in the Season 3 (2005) episode Structures of the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century television series on PBS. DISCUSS: What do you think about this video? Leave a comment! VIDEO | Producer: Eve Moros Ortega and Nick Ravich. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Judy Karp. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Matthew Ritchie and Aranda/Lasch. Thanks: Benjamin Aranda. Tags: contemporary visual art artist art21 PBS television TV series documentary 21 century |
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Art:21 | Sally Mann Sally Mann's early "Immediate Family" photographs were of her three children and husband. In her more recent series of landscapes of the deep South, Mann uses damaged lenses to make images marked by the scratches, light leaks, and shifts in focus that were part of the photographic process as it developed during the 19th century. Sally Mann is featured in the Season 1 episode "Place" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2001-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary art artist art21 PBS television TV series documentary place photography |
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Art:21 | Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle's technologically sophisticated works use natural forms such as clouds, icebergs, and DNA as metaphors for understanding social issues such as immigration, gun violence, and human cloning. The artist's strategy of representing nature through information leads to an investigation of the underlying forces that shape the planet as well as points of human interaction and interference with the environment. Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle is featured in the Season 4 episode "Ecology" of the Art21 series "Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary art artist art21 season PBS television TV series documentary Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle videart sculpture |
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Art:21 | Laurie Simmons Laurie Simmons stages photographs and films with paper dolls, finger puppets, ventriloquist dummies, and costumed dancers as 'living objects', animating a dollhouse world suffused with nostalgia and colored by an adult's memories, longings, and regrets. Her work blends psychological, political and conceptual approaches to art making, transforming photography's propensity to objectify people, especially women, into a sustained critique of the medium. Laurie Simmons is featured in the Season 4 episode "Romance" of the Art21 series "Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary art artist art21 season PBS television TV documentary romance Meryl Streep Laurie Simmons film |
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Art:21 | Collier Schorr Collier Schorr's photographs examine the way nationality, gender and sexuality influence an individual's identity. Known for her portraits of adolescents, Schorr's pictures often blend photographic realism with elements of fiction. Schorr trains her camera on tribes of young men whose bodies and athletic training homogenize personal differences, including soldiers and wrestlers. Collier Schorr is featured in the Season 2 episode "Loss & Desire" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2001-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary art artist art21 PBS television TV series documentary video photography |
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Art:21 | Allora & Calzadilla Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla approach visual art as a set of experiments. Believing that art can function as a catalyst for social change, the artists solicit active participation and critical responses from their viewers. The artists' emphasis on cooperation and activism have led them to develop hybrid art forms—sculptures presented solely through video documentation, digitally manipulated photographs, and public artworks generated by pedestrians. Allora & Calzadilla are featured in the Season 4 episode "Protest" of the Art21 series "Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary art artists art21 season PBS television TV series documentary protest Allora Calzadilla activism |
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Art:21 | Laylah Ali Laylah Ali creates gouache-on-paper paintings that take her many months to complete. Ali meticulously plots out in advance every aspect of her work, from subject matter to choice of color, achieving a high level of emotional tension in her paintings as a result of juxtaposing brightly colored scenes with dark, often violent subject matter. Laylah Ali is featured in the Season 3 episode "Power" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2005, 2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary art artist art21 PBS television TV series documentary power painting |
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Art:21 | Robert Adams Robert Adams's black-and-white photographs document scenes of the American West, revealing the impact of human activity on the last vestiges of wilderness and open space. An underlying tension in Adams's body of work is the contradiction between landscapes visibly transformed or scarred by human presence and the inherent beauty of light and land rendered by the camera. Robert Adams is featured in the Season 4 episode "Ecology" of the Art21 series "Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary art artist art21 season PBS television TV series documentary photography ecology Robert Adams |
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Art:21 | Matthew Ritchie | Architect Benjamin Aranda Art:21 | Matthew Ritchie | Architect Benjamin Aranda EXCLUSIVE: Architect Benjamin Aranda, of Aranda/Lasch, discusses his contribution to artist Matthew Ritchies anti-pavillion project "The Morning Line" (2008), produced in collaboration with engineer-architect Daniel Bosia & Arup AGU, and physicists Paul J. Steinhardt and Neil Turok. Comissioned by Thyssen-Bornemisza Art Contemporary for the 3rd Bienal Internacional de Arte Contemporáneo de Seville, "The Morning Line" opens today and will be on view through January 11, 2009 at the Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo in Seville, Spain. Matthew Ritchies artistic mission has been no less ambitious than an attempt to represent the entire universe and the structures of knowledge and belief that we use to understand and visualize it. Ritchies encyclopedic project (continually expanding and evolving like the universe itself) stems from his imagination, and is cataloged in a conceptual chart replete with allusions drawn from Judaeo-Christian religion, occult practices, Gnostic traditions, and scientific elements and principles. Matthew Ritchie is featured in the Season 3 (2003) episode Structures of the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century television series on PBS. DISCUSS: What do you think about this video? Leave a comment! VIDEO | Producer: Eve Moros Ortega and Nick Ravich. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Judy Karp. Editor: Jenny Chiruco. Artwork Courtesy: Matthew Ritchie and Aranda/Lasch. Thanks: Benjamin Aranda. Tags: contemporary visual art artist art21 PBS television TV series documentary 21 century |
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Art:21 | Eleanor Antin An influential performance artist, filmmaker, photographer,and installation artist, Eleanor Antin delves into history—whether of ancient Rome, the Crimean War, the salons of nineteenth-century Europe, or her own Jewish heritage and Yiddish culture—as a way to explore the present. Antin is a cultural chameleon, masquerading in theatrical or stage roles to expose her many selves. Eleanor Antin is featured in the Season 2 episode "Humor" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2003-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary art artist art21 PBS television TV series documentary film performance photography installations |
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Art:21 | Oliver Herring Among Oliver Herring's earliest works were his woven sculptures and performance pieces in which he knitted Mylar, a transparent and reflective material, into human figures, clothing and furniture. Since 1998, Herring has created stop-motion videos, photo-collaged sculptures, and impromtu participatory performances with 'off-the-street' strangers, embracing chance and chance-encounters in his work. Oliver Herring is featured in the Season 3 episode "Play" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2005-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary art artist art21 PBS television TV series documentary performance sculpture videos collage photos |
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Art:21 | Gabriel Orozco Gabriel Orozco uses the urban landscape and everyday objects to twist conventional notions of reality. He considers philosophical problems, such as the concept of infinity, and evokes them in humble moments. Matching his passion for political engagement with poetry, Orozco's works propose a distinctive model for the ways in which artists can affect the world with their work. Gabriel Orozco is featured in the Season 2 episode "Loss & Desire" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2003-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary art artist art21 PBS television TV series documentary photography sculpture ping pong poetry chess ajedrez |
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Art:21 | Matthew Barney Matthew Barney is best known as the producer and creator of the "CREMASTER" films. The title of the films refers to the muscle that raises and lowers the male reproductive system according to temperature, external stimulation, or fear. The films themselves are a grand mixture of history, autobiography, and mythology—a universe in which symbols are densely layered and interconnected. Matthew Barney is featured in the Season 1 episode "Consumption" of the Art21 series "Art:21 -- Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2001-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary visual art artist art21 PBS television TV series documentary video performance installation |
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Art:21 | Richard Tuttle Richard Tuttle commonly refers to his work as drawing rather than sculpture, emphasizing the diminutive scale and idea-based nature of his practice. He subverts the conventions of modernist sculptural practice and instead creates small, eccentrically playful objects in decidedly humble materials such as paper, rope, twigs, and bubble wrap. Tuttle also manipulates the space in which his objects exist, forcing viewers to reconsider and renegotiate the white-cube gallery space in relation to their own bodies. Richard Tuttle is featured in the Season 3 episode "Structures" of the Art21 series "Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century". For more information: http://www.pbs.org/art21 © 2005-2007 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. Tags: contemporary visual art artist art21 PBS television TV series documentary 21 century |