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Art21 http://www.art21.org http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-300x300_show_image536.jpg http://www.art21.org http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg </image> <description>Documenting artists at work and in their own words</description> <itunes:summary>Documenting artists at work and in their own words</itunes:summary> <geo:lat>40.725746464314504</geo:lat> <geo:long>-74.00699615478516</geo:long> <itunes:author>Art21</itunes:author> <itunes:block>no</itunes:block> <language>en</language> <generator>http://blip.tv</generator> <lastBuildDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:51:10 +0000</lastBuildDate> <pubDate>Fri, 11 May 2012 16:51:10 +0000</pubDate> <item> <guid isPermaLink="false">82FB7842-9B89-11E1-8CA6-C226FE7E029C</guid> <link>http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/marina-abramović-embracing-fashion-exclusive-art21-6140505</link> <title>Marina Abramović: Embracing Fashion | "Exclusive" | Art21 art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 6140505 6123708 file no 0.0 2012-05-11T16:51:10Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 339 6lOC9uU9Ag http://blip.tv/play/6lOC9uU9Ag http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post6140505&skin=rss Art21-MarinaAbramoviEmbracingFashionExclusiveArt21490.jpg Episode #155: Filmed at her New York office in 2011, Marina Abramović discusses how her relationship to fashion and femininity have evolved over the course of a 40-year career. In the 1970s, Abramović relied upon stark, neutral performance uniforms that were always either "naked or dirty black or dirty white." She reached a turning point in 1988 after the dissolution of her artistic collaboration with Ulay Laysiepen, which culminated in "The Great Wall Walk" (1988). Abramović's subsequent embrace of fashion and femininity parallel her re-emergence as a solo performance artist in the 1990s and 2000s. A pioneer of performance as a visual art form, Marina Abramović uses her body as both subject and medium in performances that test physical, mental, and emotional limits—often pushing beyond them and even risking her life—in a quest for heightened consciousness, transcendence, and self-transformation. Characterized by repetitive behavior, actions of long duration, and intense public interactions, Abramović’s work engages universal themes of life and death as recurring motifs, while drawing on the artist’s personal biography and reflecting contemporary events. Learn more about Marina Abramović at: http://www.art21.org/artists/marina-abramovic CREDITS: Producer: Ian Forster. Consulting Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Charles Atlas. Camera: Paul Gibson. Sound: Mark Mandler. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Morgan Riles. Artwork Courtesy: Marina Abramović Archives & Sean Kelly Gallery. Photography Courtesy: ELLE Serbia, Givenchy, Museum of Modern Art, Dusan Reljin, Mario Testino / Art Partner & V Magazine. Special Thanks: Danica Newell & Sidney Russell. Theme Music: Peter Foley No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #155: Filmed at her New York office in 2011, Marina Abramović discusses how her relationship to fashion and femininity have evolved over the course of a 40-year career. In the 1970s, Abramović relied upon stark, neutral performance uniforms that were always either "naked or dirty black or dirty white." She reached a turning point in 1988 after the dissolution of her artistic collaboration with Ulay Laysiepen, which culminated in "The Great Wall Walk" (1988). Abramović's subsequent embrace of fashion and femininity parallel her re-emergence as a solo performance artist in the 1990s and 2000s. A pioneer of performance as a visual art form, Marina Abramović uses her body as both subject and medium in performances that test physical, mental, and emotional limits—often pushing beyond them and even risking her life—in a quest for heightened consciousness, transcendence, and self-transformation. Characterized by repetitive behavior, actions of long duration, and intense public interactions, Abramović’s work engages universal themes of life and death as recurring motifs, while drawing on the artist’s personal biography and reflecting contemporary events. Learn more about Marina Abramović at: http://www.art21.org/artists/marina-abramovic CREDITS: Producer: Ian Forster. Consulting Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Charles Atlas. Camera: Paul Gibson. Sound: Mark Mandler. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Morgan Riles. Artwork Courtesy: Marina Abramović Archives & Sean Kelly Gallery. Photography Courtesy: ELLE Serbia, Givenchy, Museum of Modern Art, Dusan Reljin, Mario Testino / Art Partner & V Magazine. Special Thanks: Danica Newell & Sidney Russell. Theme Music: Peter Foley 339 http://blip.tv/file/6123708 Art Fri, 11 May 2012 16:51:10 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-MarinaAbramoviEmbracingFashionExclusiveArt21490.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOC9uU9Ag.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOC9uU9Ag" style="display:none"></embed> Marina Abramović: Embracing Fashion | "Exclusive" | Art21 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 1F5809C8-7A9A-11E1-ACC5-C5721E9267D0 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/william-kentridge-meaning-exclusive-art21-6057677 William Kentridge: Meaning | "Exclusive" | Art21 art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 6057677 6040859 file no 0.0 2012-03-30T18:56:56Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 129 6lOC8d4xAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOC8d4xAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post6057677&skin=rss Art21-WilliamKentridgeMeaningExclusiveArt21158.jpg Episode #154: Filmed at his Johannesburg studio in 2008, William Kentridge discusses how the physical activities of cutting, tearing and collaging generate ideas and infuse his work with meaning. Rather than starting with an idea that is then executed, Kentridge relies on these freeform processes and the resulting juxtapositions to find connections and raise questions. Finished works are shown at the Annandale Galleries in Sydney, Australia. Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century's most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions. Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridge CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Philippe Charluet & Robert Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. Special Thanks: Annandale Galleries. Video: © 2012 Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #154: Filmed at his Johannesburg studio in 2008, William Kentridge discusses how the physical activities of cutting, tearing and collaging generate ideas and infuse his work with meaning. Rather than starting with an idea that is then executed, Kentridge relies on these freeform processes and the resulting juxtapositions to find connections and raise questions. Finished works are shown at the Annandale Galleries in Sydney, Australia. Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century's most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions. Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridge CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Philippe Charluet & Robert Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. Special Thanks: Annandale Galleries. Video: © 2012 Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. 129 http://blip.tv/file/6040859 Art art artist visual contemporary art art21 documentary william kentridge animation drawing annandale galleries collage Fri, 30 Mar 2012 18:56:56 +0000 art, artist, visual, contemporary art, art21, documentary, william kentridge, animation, drawing, annandale galleries, collage http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgeMeaningExclusiveArt21158.jpg art, artist, visual, contemporary art, art21, documentary, william kentridge, animation, drawing, annandale galleries, collage <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOC8d4xAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOC8d4xAg" style="display:none"></embed> William Kentridge: Meaning | "Exclusive" | Art21 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 C39CDC80-6F8B-11E1-9599-FF0E52DD4E1A http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/paul-mccarthy-chaos-debauchery-exclusive-art21-6027522 Paul McCarthy: Chaos & Debauchery | "Exclusive" | Art21 art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 6027522 6010687 file no 0.0 2012-03-16T17:16:27Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 246 6lOC7_JmAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOC7_JmAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post6027522&skin=rss Art21-PaulMcCarthyChaosDebaucheryExclusiveArt21280.jpg Episode #153: Filmed in his Los Angeles studio, two of Paul McCarthy's long-time assistants — Thomas Harris and Craig McIntyre — describe the process of sculpting, molding, and fabricating the artist's large-scale works. Likening McCarthy's artistic approach to taking a "snapshot of disorder" that's then meticulously reproduced, Harris and McIntyre discuss how the formal qualities of the work dovetail with themes of chaos and debauchery. Paul McCarthy's video-taped performances and provocative multimedia installations lampoon polite society, ridicule authority, and bombard the viewer with a sensory overload of often sexually-tinged, violent imagery. With irreverent wit, McCarthy often takes aim at cherished American myths and icons—Walt Disney, the Western, and even the Modern Artist—adding a touch of malice to subjects that have been traditionally revered for their innocence or purity. Whether conflating real-world political figures with fantastical characters such as Santa Claus, or treating erotic and abject content with frivolity and charm, McCarthy's work confuses codes, mixes high and low culture, and provokes an analysis of fundamental beliefs. Learn more about Paul McCarthy at: http://www.art21.org/artists/paul-mccarthy CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Robert Elfstrom. Sound: Doug Dunderdale. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Paul McCarthy. Special Thanks: Thomas Harris & Craig McIntyre. Video: © 2012, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #153: Filmed in his Los Angeles studio, two of Paul McCarthy's long-time assistants — Thomas Harris and Craig McIntyre — describe the process of sculpting, molding, and fabricating the artist's large-scale works. Likening McCarthy's artistic approach to taking a "snapshot of disorder" that's then meticulously reproduced, Harris and McIntyre discuss how the formal qualities of the work dovetail with themes of chaos and debauchery. Paul McCarthy's video-taped performances and provocative multimedia installations lampoon polite society, ridicule authority, and bombard the viewer with a sensory overload of often sexually-tinged, violent imagery. With irreverent wit, McCarthy often takes aim at cherished American myths and icons—Walt Disney, the Western, and even the Modern Artist—adding a touch of malice to subjects that have been traditionally revered for their innocence or purity. Whether conflating real-world political figures with fantastical characters such as Santa Claus, or treating erotic and abject content with frivolity and charm, McCarthy's work confuses codes, mixes high and low culture, and provokes an analysis of fundamental beliefs. Learn more about Paul McCarthy at: http://www.art21.org/artists/paul-mccarthy CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Robert Elfstrom. Sound: Doug Dunderdale. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Paul McCarthy. Special Thanks: Thomas Harris & Craig McIntyre. Video: © 2012, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. 246 http://blip.tv/file/6010687 Art Fri, 16 Mar 2012 17:16:27 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-PaulMcCarthyChaosDebaucheryExclusiveArt21280.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOC7_JmAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOC7_JmAg" style="display:none"></embed> Paul McCarthy: Chaos & Debauchery | "Exclusive" | Art21 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 982C2B34-648F-11E1-9B8C-FBC6691BA395 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/judy-pfaff-ursula-von-rydingsvard-zygmunt-exclusive-art21-5997550 Judy Pfaff & Ursula von Rydingsvard: "Zygmunt" | "Exclusive" | Art21 art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 5997550 5980699 file no 0.0 2012-03-02T17:46:09Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 171 6lOC7ohSAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOC7ohSAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post5997550&skin=rss Art21-JudyPfaffUrsulaVonRydingsvardZygmuntExclusiveArt21615.jpg Episode #152: Filmed at their respective studios in 2006, longtime friends Judy Pfaff and Ursula von Rydingsvard discuss their experience collaborating in 1992 on a large sculpture titled "Zygmunt." Commissioned by Exit Art founders Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, "Zygmunt" was an intersection of their ideas regarding weight and space and an opportunity for Pfaff and von Rydingsvard to learn from each other. Balancing intense planning with improvisational decision-making, Judy Pfaff creates exuberant, sprawling sculptures and installations that weave landscape, architecture, and synthetic color into a tense yet organic whole. A pioneer of installation art in the 1970s, Pfaff synthesizes sculpture, painting, and architecture into dynamic environments in which space seems to expand and collapse, fluctuating between two and three dimensions. Ursula von Rydingsvard builds towering cedar structures, creating an intricate network of individual beams and sensuous, puzzle-like surfaces. While abstract at its core, von Rydingsvard's work takes visual cues from the landscape, the human body, and utilitarian objects--such as the artists collection of household vessels--and demonstrates an interest in the point where the man-made meets nature. Learn more about Judy Pfaff: http://www.art21.org/artists/judy-pfaff Learn more about Ursula von Rydingsvard: http://www.art21.org/artists/ursula-von-rydingsvard CREDITS | Producer: Ian Forster, Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Morgan Riles. Artwork Courtesy: Exit Art, Judy Pfaff & Ursula von Rydingsvard. Archival Photography Courtesy: Exit Art & James Hamilton. Special Thanks: Audrey Christensen & Andria Morales. Video: © 2012 Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #152: Filmed at their respective studios in 2006, longtime friends Judy Pfaff and Ursula von Rydingsvard discuss their experience collaborating in 1992 on a large sculpture titled "Zygmunt." Commissioned by Exit Art founders Jeanette Ingberman and Papo Colo, "Zygmunt" was an intersection of their ideas regarding weight and space and an opportunity for Pfaff and von Rydingsvard to learn from each other. Balancing intense planning with improvisational decision-making, Judy Pfaff creates exuberant, sprawling sculptures and installations that weave landscape, architecture, and synthetic color into a tense yet organic whole. A pioneer of installation art in the 1970s, Pfaff synthesizes sculpture, painting, and architecture into dynamic environments in which space seems to expand and collapse, fluctuating between two and three dimensions. Ursula von Rydingsvard builds towering cedar structures, creating an intricate network of individual beams and sensuous, puzzle-like surfaces. While abstract at its core, von Rydingsvard's work takes visual cues from the landscape, the human body, and utilitarian objects--such as the artists collection of household vessels--and demonstrates an interest in the point where the man-made meets nature. Learn more about Judy Pfaff: http://www.art21.org/artists/judy-pfaff Learn more about Ursula von Rydingsvard: http://www.art21.org/artists/ursula-von-rydingsvard CREDITS | Producer: Ian Forster, Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Morgan Riles. Artwork Courtesy: Exit Art, Judy Pfaff & Ursula von Rydingsvard. Archival Photography Courtesy: Exit Art & James Hamilton. Special Thanks: Audrey Christensen & Andria Morales. Video: © 2012 Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. 171 http://blip.tv/file/5980699 Art Fri, 02 Mar 2012 17:46:09 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JudyPfaffUrsulaVonRydingsvardZygmuntExclusiveArt21615.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOC7ohSAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="299" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOC7ohSAg" style="display:none"></embed> Judy Pfaff & Ursula von Rydingsvard: "Zygmunt" | "Exclusive" | Art21 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 40306644-598F-11E1-BB81-C3920612AB9A http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/lari-pittman-audience-exclusive-art21-5965440 Lari Pittman: Audience | "Exclusive" | Art21 art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 5965440 5948561 file no 0.0 2012-02-17T17:45:59Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 204 6lOC7I1kAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOC7I1kAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post5965440&skin=rss Art21-LariPittmanAudienceExclusiveArt21667.jpg Episode #151: Filmed in 2010 at Lari Pittman's dual exhibitions "Orangerie" and "New Paintings" at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, the artist discusses the common misconception that his work is preplanned. Though he understands how audiences reach this conclusion, Pittman explains that his paintings result from a series of spontaneous decisions. Inspired by commercial advertising, folk art, and decorative traditions, Lari Pittman's meticulously layered paintings transform pattern and signage into luxurious scenes. Meditations on romantic love, violence, and mortality, his work demonstrates the complementary nature of beauty and suffering, pain and pleasure. In a manner both visually gripping and psychologically strange, Pittman's hallucinatory works reference myriad aesthetic styles, from Victorian silhouettes to social realist murals to Southwestern kitsch. Learn more about Lari Pittman: http://www.art21.org/artists/lari-pittman CREDITS | Producer: Ian Forster, Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Morgan Riles. Artwork Courtesy: Lari Pittman & Regen Projects. Special Thanks: Stacey Bengtson. No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #151: Filmed in 2010 at Lari Pittman's dual exhibitions "Orangerie" and "New Paintings" at Regen Projects, Los Angeles, the artist discusses the common misconception that his work is preplanned. Though he understands how audiences reach this conclusion, Pittman explains that his paintings result from a series of spontaneous decisions. Inspired by commercial advertising, folk art, and decorative traditions, Lari Pittman's meticulously layered paintings transform pattern and signage into luxurious scenes. Meditations on romantic love, violence, and mortality, his work demonstrates the complementary nature of beauty and suffering, pain and pleasure. In a manner both visually gripping and psychologically strange, Pittman's hallucinatory works reference myriad aesthetic styles, from Victorian silhouettes to social realist murals to Southwestern kitsch. Learn more about Lari Pittman: http://www.art21.org/artists/lari-pittman CREDITS | Producer: Ian Forster, Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Morgan Riles. Artwork Courtesy: Lari Pittman & Regen Projects. Special Thanks: Stacey Bengtson. 204 http://blip.tv/file/5948561 Art Fri, 17 Feb 2012 17:45:59 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-LariPittmanAudienceExclusiveArt21667.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOC7I1kAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="299" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOC7I1kAg" style="display:none"></embed> Lari Pittman: Audience | "Exclusive" | Art21 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 6DC2CC66-4E84-11E1-B8BF-FFC6C9CE1DE3 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/yinka-shonibare-mbe-black-artists-exclusive-art21-5931591 Yinka Shonibare MBE: Black Artists | "Exclusive" | Art21 art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 5931591 5914664 file no 0.0 2012-02-03T16:30:48Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 265 6lOC6oUrAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOC6oUrAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post5931591&skin=rss Art21-YinkaShonibareMBEBlackArtistsExclusiveArt21545.jpg Episode #150: As Yinka Shonibare MBE installs his 2008 solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia, he discusses his experience as a black artist living and working in the United Kingdom. With few black artist role models from the previous generation to follow in the path of, Shonibare describes his motivation and strategy for getting his work into the art system. Known for using batik in costumed dioramas that explore race and colonialism, Yinka Shonibare MBE also employs painting, sculpture, photography, and film in work that disrupts and challenges our notions of cultural identity. Taking on the honorific MBE as part of his name in everyday use, Shonibare plays with the ambiguities and contradictions of his attitude toward the Establishment and its legacies of colonialism and class. In multimedia projects that reveal his passion for art history, literature, and philosophy, Shonibare provides a critical tour of Western civilization and its achievements and failures. Learn more about Yinka Shonibare MBE: http://www.art21.org/artists/yinka-shonibare-mbe CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Philippe Charluet & Ian Serfontein. Sound: Mark Cornish & Paul Stadden. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Yinka Shonibare MBE. Thanks: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #150: As Yinka Shonibare MBE installs his 2008 solo show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia, he discusses his experience as a black artist living and working in the United Kingdom. With few black artist role models from the previous generation to follow in the path of, Shonibare describes his motivation and strategy for getting his work into the art system. Known for using batik in costumed dioramas that explore race and colonialism, Yinka Shonibare MBE also employs painting, sculpture, photography, and film in work that disrupts and challenges our notions of cultural identity. Taking on the honorific MBE as part of his name in everyday use, Shonibare plays with the ambiguities and contradictions of his attitude toward the Establishment and its legacies of colonialism and class. In multimedia projects that reveal his passion for art history, literature, and philosophy, Shonibare provides a critical tour of Western civilization and its achievements and failures. Learn more about Yinka Shonibare MBE: http://www.art21.org/artists/yinka-shonibare-mbe CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Philippe Charluet & Ian Serfontein. Sound: Mark Cornish & Paul Stadden. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Yinka Shonibare MBE. Thanks: Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney. 265 http://blip.tv/file/5914664 Art Fri, 03 Feb 2012 16:30:48 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-YinkaShonibareMBEBlackArtistsExclusiveArt21545.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOC6oUrAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOC6oUrAg" style="display:none"></embed> Yinka Shonibare MBE: Black Artists | "Exclusive" | Art21 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 DA2522B4-4385-11E1-AB9F-A3A852B65675 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/ursula-von-rydingsvard-becoming-an-artist-exclusive-art21-5899935 Ursula von Rydingsvard: "Becoming an Artist" | "Exclusive" | Art21 art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 5899935 5882965 file no 0.0 2012-01-20T16:43:16Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 256 6lOC6I4DAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOC6I4DAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post5899935&skin=rss Art21-UrsulaVonRydingsvardBecomingAnArtistExclusiveArt21859.jpg Episode #149: Filmed at her Brooklyn studio, artist Ursula von Rydingsvard recounts her family's journey from German refugee camps during WWII to their difficult early years in Connecticut. Accompanied by images from her personal archive, von Rydingsvard describes how her family's struggles still influence her studio practice today. Ursula von Rydingsvard builds towering cedar structures, creating an intricate network of individual beams and sensuous, puzzle-like surfaces. While abstract at its core, von Rydingsvard's work takes visual cues from the landscape, the human body, and utilitarian objects--such as the artists collection of household vessels--and demonstrates an interest in the point where the man-made meets nature. Learn more about Ursula von Rydingsvard at: http://www.art21.org/artists/ursula-von-rydingsvard CREDITS | Producer: Ian Forster, Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Mark Mandler & Roger Phenix. Editor: Morgan Riles. Archival Photography Courtesy: Ursula von Rydingsvard & Marbeth. Special Thanks: Andria Morales. Video: © 2012 Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #149: Filmed at her Brooklyn studio, artist Ursula von Rydingsvard recounts her family's journey from German refugee camps during WWII to their difficult early years in Connecticut. Accompanied by images from her personal archive, von Rydingsvard describes how her family's struggles still influence her studio practice today. Ursula von Rydingsvard builds towering cedar structures, creating an intricate network of individual beams and sensuous, puzzle-like surfaces. While abstract at its core, von Rydingsvard's work takes visual cues from the landscape, the human body, and utilitarian objects--such as the artists collection of household vessels--and demonstrates an interest in the point where the man-made meets nature. Learn more about Ursula von Rydingsvard at: http://www.art21.org/artists/ursula-von-rydingsvard CREDITS | Producer: Ian Forster, Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Mark Mandler & Roger Phenix. Editor: Morgan Riles. Archival Photography Courtesy: Ursula von Rydingsvard & Marbeth. Special Thanks: Andria Morales. Video: © 2012 Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. 256 http://blip.tv/file/5882965 Art contemporary art visual art artist art21 pbs television tv series documentary ursula von rydingsvard sculpture wwii germany polish refugee Fri, 20 Jan 2012 16:43:16 +0000 contemporary art, visual art, artist, art21, pbs, television, tv series, documentary, ursula von rydingsvard, sculpture, wwii, germany, polish, refugee http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-UrsulaVonRydingsvardBecomingAnArtistExclusiveArt21859.jpg contemporary art, visual art, artist, art21, pbs, television, tv series, documentary, ursula von rydingsvard, sculpture, wwii, germany, polish, refugee <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOC6I4DAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="299" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOC6I4DAg" style="display:none"></embed> Ursula von Rydingsvard: "Becoming an Artist" | "Exclusive" | Art21 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 45834860-3887-11E1-B5CC-E2CEBEB47102 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/laurie-simmons-actress-meryl-streep-exclusive-art21-5868088 Laurie Simmons: Actress Meryl Streep | "Exclusive" | Art21 art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 5868088 5851093 file no 0.0 2012-01-06T16:55:43Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 216 6lOC5pUcAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOC5pUcAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post5868088&skin=rss Art21-LaurieSimmonsActressMerylStreepExclusiveArt21574.jpg Filmed in 2006 at Industria Studios, New York, photographer Laurie Simmons directs scenes for her first film, “The Music of Regret” starring Meryl Streep. A longtime friend of Simmons and married to a sculptor herself, Streep conveys the difficulties and advantages of leaving a solitary studio practice to work with dozens of crew and collaborators on a motion picture. 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. Learn more about Laurie Simmons at: http://www.art21.org/artists/laurie-simmons CREDITS | Producer: Ian Forster, Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mead Hunt & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix & Merce Williams. Editor: Morgan Riles. Artwork Courtesy: Laurie Simmons, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn & Donald Rosenfeld. Special Thanks: Ed Lachman, Industria Studios, New York & Catherine Tatge. Video: © 2012 Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Filmed in 2006 at Industria Studios, New York, photographer Laurie Simmons directs scenes for her first film, “The Music of Regret” starring Meryl Streep. A longtime friend of Simmons and married to a sculptor herself, Streep conveys the difficulties and advantages of leaving a solitary studio practice to work with dozens of crew and collaborators on a motion picture. 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. Learn more about Laurie Simmons at: http://www.art21.org/artists/laurie-simmons CREDITS | Producer: Ian Forster, Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mead Hunt & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix & Merce Williams. Editor: Morgan Riles. Artwork Courtesy: Laurie Simmons, Jeanne Greenberg Rohatyn & Donald Rosenfeld. Special Thanks: Ed Lachman, Industria Studios, New York & Catherine Tatge. Video: © 2012 Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. 216 http://blip.tv/file/5851093 Art art contemporary art artist documentary film art21 photography meryl streep music of regret Fri, 06 Jan 2012 16:55:43 +0000 art, contemporary art, artist, documentary, film, art21, photography, meryl streep, music of regret http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-LaurieSimmonsActressMerylStreepExclusiveArt21574.jpg art, contemporary art, artist, documentary, film, art21, photography, meryl streep, music of regret <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOC5pUcAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="299" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOC5pUcAg" style="display:none"></embed> Laurie Simmons: Actress Meryl Streep | "Exclusive" | Art21 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 CD768424-280D-11E1-8B1D-D6CCEDB28072 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/an-my-lê-trap-rock-5828454 An-My Lê: "Trap Rock" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 5828454 5811422 file no 0.0 2011-12-16T17:45:54Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 326 6lOC499KAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOC499KAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post5828454&skin=rss Art21-AnMyLTrapRock395.jpg Exclusive Episode #147: Commissioned by Dia:Beacon, artist An-My Lê makes photographs of the Trap Rock basalt quarry on the Hudson river with her large-format camera. Comparing the quarry images to her other series that focus on the U.S. military, Lê considers how landscapes are sites for both battlefields and renewal. An-My Lê's photographs and films examine the impact, consequences, and representation of war, framing a tension between the natural landscape and its violent transformation into battlefields. Suspended between the formal traditions of documentary and staged photography, Lê’s work explores the disjunction between wars as historical events and the ubiquitous representation of war in contemporary entertainment, politics, and collective consciousness. Learn more about An-My Lê at: http://www.art21.org/artists/an-my-le CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: An-My Lê. Video: © 2011 Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Exclusive Episode #147: Commissioned by Dia:Beacon, artist An-My Lê makes photographs of the Trap Rock basalt quarry on the Hudson river with her large-format camera. Comparing the quarry images to her other series that focus on the U.S. military, Lê considers how landscapes are sites for both battlefields and renewal. An-My Lê's photographs and films examine the impact, consequences, and representation of war, framing a tension between the natural landscape and its violent transformation into battlefields. Suspended between the formal traditions of documentary and staged photography, Lê’s work explores the disjunction between wars as historical events and the ubiquitous representation of war in contemporary entertainment, politics, and collective consciousness. Learn more about An-My Lê at: http://www.art21.org/artists/an-my-le CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: An-My Lê. Video: © 2011 Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. 326 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 5828454 http://blip.tv/file/5811422 Art Fri, 16 Dec 2011 17:45:54 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-AnMyLTrapRock395.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOC499KAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOC499KAg" style="display:none"></embed> An-My Lê: "Trap Rock" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 363A5022-1D22-11E1-91BF-D14DFB75E72D http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/cao-fei-building-rmb-city-exclusive-art21-5788253 Cao Fei: Building "RMB City" | "Exclusive" | Art21 art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 5788253 5771206 file no 0.0 2011-12-02T20:14:17Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 225 6lOC4aVBAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOC4aVBAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post5788253&skin=rss Art21-61985447.png Episode #146: In her Beijing studio, Cao Fei discusses the inspirations, process, and challenges behind developing and building a virtual urban environment within the digital realm of Second Life for her project, "RMB City" (2007). Comparing the virtual landscape of "RMB City" to the styles of traditional Chinese brush paintings, Cao draws connections between the past and the present, Eastern and Western cultures, and aesthetic sensibilities developed from her upbringing. Cao's work reflects the fluidity of a world in which cultures have mixed and diverged in rapid evolution. Her video installations and new media works explore perception and reality in places as diverse as a Chinese factory and the virtual world of Second Life. Depictions of Chinese architecture and landscape abound in scenes of hyper-capitalistic Pearl River Delta development, in images that echo traditional Chinese painting, and in the design of her own virtual utopia, "RMB City." Fascinated by the world of Second Life, Cao Fei has created several works in which she is both participant and observer through her Second Life avatar, China Tracy, who acts as a guide, philosopher, and tourist. Cao Fei is featured in the Season 5 (2009) episode "Fantasy" of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" television series on PBS. Learn more about Cao Fei: http://www.art21.org/artists/cao-fei VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview & Translation: Phil Tinari & Xiaotong Wang. Camera & Sound: Takahisa Araki & Frank Dellario. Editor: Joaquin Phoenix. Voiceover: Clara S. Jo. Artwork Courtesy: Cao Fei. No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #146: In her Beijing studio, Cao Fei discusses the inspirations, process, and challenges behind developing and building a virtual urban environment within the digital realm of Second Life for her project, "RMB City" (2007). Comparing the virtual landscape of "RMB City" to the styles of traditional Chinese brush paintings, Cao draws connections between the past and the present, Eastern and Western cultures, and aesthetic sensibilities developed from her upbringing. Cao's work reflects the fluidity of a world in which cultures have mixed and diverged in rapid evolution. Her video installations and new media works explore perception and reality in places as diverse as a Chinese factory and the virtual world of Second Life. Depictions of Chinese architecture and landscape abound in scenes of hyper-capitalistic Pearl River Delta development, in images that echo traditional Chinese painting, and in the design of her own virtual utopia, "RMB City." Fascinated by the world of Second Life, Cao Fei has created several works in which she is both participant and observer through her Second Life avatar, China Tracy, who acts as a guide, philosopher, and tourist. Cao Fei is featured in the Season 5 (2009) episode "Fantasy" of the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" television series on PBS. Learn more about Cao Fei: http://www.art21.org/artists/cao-fei VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview & Translation: Phil Tinari & Xiaotong Wang. Camera & Sound: Takahisa Araki & Frank Dellario. Editor: Joaquin Phoenix. Voiceover: Clara S. Jo. Artwork Courtesy: Cao Fei. 225 http://blip.tv/file/5771206 Art art artist contemporary visual cao fei second life china tracy virtual worlds rmb city art21 documentary Fri, 02 Dec 2011 20:14:17 +0000 art, artist, contemporary, visual, cao fei, second life, china tracy, virtual worlds, rmb city, art21, documentary http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-61985447.png art, artist, contemporary, visual, cao fei, second life, china tracy, virtual worlds, rmb city, art21, documentary <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOC4aVBAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOC4aVBAg" style="display:none"></embed> Cao Fei: Building "RMB City" | "Exclusive" | Art21 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 A4DA41DC-0C73-11E1-91A9-93C515C629F1 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/paul-mccarthy-captain-ballsack-5727608 Paul McCarthy: "Captain Ballsack" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 5727608 5710525 file no 0.0 2011-11-11T14:44:22Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 243 6lOC3ctcAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOC3ctcAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post5727608&skin=rss Art21-PaulMcCarthyCaptainBallsack156-184.jpg Episode #143: Filmed in his Los Angeles studio, artist Paul McCarthy and production manager Amy Baumann describe the nearly decade-long, organic process behind the sculpture "Captain Ballsack" (2001-2009) and various editions cast from the original work. Paul McCarthy's video-taped performances and provocative multimedia installations lampoon polite society, ridicule authority, and bombard the viewer with a sensory overload of often sexually-tinged, violent imagery. With irreverent wit, McCarthy often takes aim at cherished American myths and icons—Walt Disney, the Western, and even the Modern Artist—adding a touch of malice to subjects that have been traditionally revered for their innocence or purity. Whether conflating real-world political figures with fantastical characters such as Santa Claus, or treating erotic and abject content with frivolity and charm, McCarthy's work confuses codes, mixes high and low culture, and provokes an analysis of fundamental beliefs. Learn more about Paul McCarthy at: http://www.art21.org/artists/paul-mccarthy CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Doug Dunderdale. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Paul McCarthy. Special Thanks: Amy Baumann. Video: © 2011, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #143: Filmed in his Los Angeles studio, artist Paul McCarthy and production manager Amy Baumann describe the nearly decade-long, organic process behind the sculpture "Captain Ballsack" (2001-2009) and various editions cast from the original work. Paul McCarthy's video-taped performances and provocative multimedia installations lampoon polite society, ridicule authority, and bombard the viewer with a sensory overload of often sexually-tinged, violent imagery. With irreverent wit, McCarthy often takes aim at cherished American myths and icons—Walt Disney, the Western, and even the Modern Artist—adding a touch of malice to subjects that have been traditionally revered for their innocence or purity. Whether conflating real-world political figures with fantastical characters such as Santa Claus, or treating erotic and abject content with frivolity and charm, McCarthy's work confuses codes, mixes high and low culture, and provokes an analysis of fundamental beliefs. Learn more about Paul McCarthy at: http://www.art21.org/artists/paul-mccarthy CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Doug Dunderdale. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Paul McCarthy. Special Thanks: Amy Baumann. Video: © 2011, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. 243 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 5727608 http://blip.tv/file/5710525 Art Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:44:22 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-PaulMcCarthyCaptainBallsack156-184.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOC3ctcAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOC3ctcAg" style="display:none"></embed> Paul McCarthy: "Captain Ballsack" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 E109C73A-DAFB-11E0-ADE3-EC23D8C3A99C http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/cindy-sherman-fashion-exclusive-art21-5538210 Cindy Sherman: Fashion | "Exclusive" | Art21 art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 5538210 5521037 file no 0.0 2011-09-09T15:53:36Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 193 6lOC0oQGAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOC0oQGAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post5538210&skin=rss Art21-CindyShermanFashionExclusiveArt21313-234.jpg Episode #143: Commissioned by French Vogue to create a fashion editorial featuring clothes from the Spanish design house Balenciaga, artist Cindy Sherman discusses the first time she used a digital camera to make pictures, ultimately creating different versions of images for the magazine and for herself. In self-reflexive photographs and films, Cindy Sherman invents myriad guises, metamorphosing from Hollywood starlet to clown to society matron. Often with the simplest of means—a camera, a wig, makeup, an outfit—Sherman fashions ambiguous but memorable characters that suggest complex lives lived out of frame. Shermans investigations have a compelling relationship to public images, from kitsch (film stills and centerfolds) to art history (Old Masters and Surrealism) to green-screen technology and the latest advances in digital photography. Learn more about Cindy Sherman at: http://www.art21.org/artists/cindy-sherman CREDITS | Producer: Ian Forster, Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Cindy Sherman. Video: © 2011, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #143: Commissioned by French Vogue to create a fashion editorial featuring clothes from the Spanish design house Balenciaga, artist Cindy Sherman discusses the first time she used a digital camera to make pictures, ultimately creating different versions of images for the magazine and for herself. In self-reflexive photographs and films, Cindy Sherman invents myriad guises, metamorphosing from Hollywood starlet to clown to society matron. Often with the simplest of means—a camera, a wig, makeup, an outfit—Sherman fashions ambiguous but memorable characters that suggest complex lives lived out of frame. Shermans investigations have a compelling relationship to public images, from kitsch (film stills and centerfolds) to art history (Old Masters and Surrealism) to green-screen technology and the latest advances in digital photography. Learn more about Cindy Sherman at: http://www.art21.org/artists/cindy-sherman CREDITS | Producer: Ian Forster, Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Cindy Sherman. Video: © 2011, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. 193 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 5538210 http://blip.tv/file/5521037 Art Fri, 09 Sep 2011 15:53:36 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-CindyShermanFashionExclusiveArt21313-234.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOC0oQGAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOC0oQGAg" style="display:none"></embed> Cindy Sherman: Fashion | "Exclusive" | Art21 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 F95A85F0-7DAD-11E0-B9FE-AC6F99FAF6D0 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/paul-mccarthy-central-symmetrical-rotation-movement-5160285 Paul McCarthy: "Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 5160285 5142639 file no 0.0 2011-05-13T22:11:38Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 261 6lOCuvtBAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOCuvtBAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post5160285&skin=rss Art21-PaulMcCarthyCentralSymmetricalRotationMovement150.jpg Episode #142: Artist Paul McCarthy discusses his interest in art as political theater and his sculptures as akin to amusement park rides. Featuring the works "Bang Bang Room" (1992), "Spinning Room" (2008), and "Mad House" (2008) in the exhibition "Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement, Three Installations, Two Films" (2008) at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Paul McCarthy's video-taped performances and provocative multimedia installations lampoon polite society, ridicule authority, and bombard the viewer with a sensory overload of often sexually-tinged, violent imagery. With irreverent wit, McCarthy often takes aim at cherished American myths and icons—Walt Disney, the Western, and even the Modern Artist—adding a touch of malice to subjects that have been traditionally revered for their innocence or purity. Whether conflating real-world political figures with fantastical characters such as Santa Claus, or treating erotic and abject content with frivolity and charm, McCarthy's work confuses codes, mixes high and low culture, and provokes an analysis of fundamental beliefs. Learn more about Paul McCarthy at: http://www.art21.org/artists/paul-mccarthy CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom & Richard Numeroff. Sound: Doug Dunderdale & Merce Williams. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Paul McCarthy. Special Thanks: Whitney Museum of American Art. Video: © 2011, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-PaulMcCarthyCentralSymmetricalRotationMovement150-944.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #142: Artist Paul McCarthy discusses his interest in art as political theater and his sculptures as akin to amusement park rides. Featuring the works "Bang Bang Room" (1992), "Spinning Room" (2008), and "Mad House" (2008) in the exhibition "Paul McCarthy: Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement, Three Installations, Two Films" (2008) at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Paul McCarthy's video-taped performances and provocative multimedia installations lampoon polite society, ridicule authority, and bombard the viewer with a sensory overload of often sexually-tinged, violent imagery. With irreverent wit, McCarthy often takes aim at cherished American myths and icons—Walt Disney, the Western, and even the Modern Artist—adding a touch of malice to subjects that have been traditionally revered for their innocence or purity. Whether conflating real-world political figures with fantastical characters such as Santa Claus, or treating erotic and abject content with frivolity and charm, McCarthy's work confuses codes, mixes high and low culture, and provokes an analysis of fundamental beliefs. Learn more about Paul McCarthy at: http://www.art21.org/artists/paul-mccarthy CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom & Richard Numeroff. Sound: Doug Dunderdale & Merce Williams. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Paul McCarthy. Special Thanks: Whitney Museum of American Art. Video: © 2011, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. 261 http://blip.tv/file/5142639 Art art art21 contemporary art paul mccarthy sculpture installation whitney museum whitney museum of american art Fri, 13 May 2011 22:11:38 +0000 art, art21, contemporary art, paul mccarthy, sculpture, installation, whitney museum, whitney museum of american art http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-PaulMcCarthyCentralSymmetricalRotationMovement150.jpg art, art21, contemporary art, paul mccarthy, sculpture, installation, whitney museum, whitney museum of american art <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOCuvtBAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOCuvtBAg" style="display:none"></embed> Paul McCarthy: "Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 2E4B96E4-7289-11E0-AAC5-EEDF72E6AA63 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/hiroshi-sugimoto-becoming-an-artist-5102138 Hiroshi Sugimoto: Becoming an Artist art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 5102138 5084404 file no 0.0 2011-04-29T17:50:33Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 192 6lOCt7UeAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOCt7UeAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post5102138&skin=rss Art21-HiroshiSugimotoBecomingAnArtist263-502.jpg Episode #141: Filmed in his New York studio, artist Hiroshi Sugimoto recounts his student days studying Western philosophy (Hegel, Kant, Marx) in Tokyo, encountering Oriental philosophy (such as Zen Buddhism) in California, and his interest in the history of Modernism—all schools of thought that demonstrate "the human ability to see things in a different way." 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. Learn more about Hiroshi Sugimoto at: http://www.art21.org/artists/hiroshi-sugimoto CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mead Hunt. Sound: Merce Williams. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Hiroshi Sugimoto. Video: © 2011, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-HiroshiSugimotoBecomingAnArtist263-502-598.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #141: Filmed in his New York studio, artist Hiroshi Sugimoto recounts his student days studying Western philosophy (Hegel, Kant, Marx) in Tokyo, encountering Oriental philosophy (such as Zen Buddhism) in California, and his interest in the history of Modernism—all schools of thought that demonstrate "the human ability to see things in a different way." 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. Learn more about Hiroshi Sugimoto at: http://www.art21.org/artists/hiroshi-sugimoto CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mead Hunt. Sound: Merce Williams. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Hiroshi Sugimoto. Video: © 2011, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. 192 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 5102138 http://blip.tv/file/5084404 Art Fri, 29 Apr 2011 17:50:33 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-HiroshiSugimotoBecomingAnArtist263-502.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOCt7UeAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOCt7UeAg" style="display:none"></embed> Hiroshi Sugimoto: Becoming an Artist 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 1D709D8A-677E-11E0-ACF4-9922333A0DA8 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/cao-fei-prd-anti-heroes-5042092 Cao Fei: "PRD Anti-Heroes" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 5042092 5024279 file no 0.0 2011-04-15T16:33:37Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 242 6lOCs+AQAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOCs+AQAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post5042092&skin=rss Art21-CaoFeiPRDAntiHeroes706.jpg Episode #140: Artist Cao Fei discusses her multi-media theatrical work "PRD Anti-Heroes" (2005), a play performed by non-professional actors. Investigating the "anonymous and unsung heroes" of the Pearl River Delta or "the factory of the world," Cao's production incorporates elements of traditional Chinese legends, Hong Kong soap operas, and Cantonese farces. Cao's work reflects the fluidity of a world in which cultures have mixed and diverged in rapid evolution. Her video installations and new media works explore perception and reality in places as diverse as a Chinese factory and the virtual world of Second Life. Depictions of Chinese architecture and landscape abound in scenes of hyper-capitalistic Pearl River Delta development, in images that echo traditional Chinese painting, and in the design of her own virtual utopia, "RMB City." Fascinated by the world of Second Life, Cao Fei has created several works in which she is both participant and observer through her Second Life avatar, China Tracy, who acts as a guide, philosopher, and tourist. Learn more about Cao Fei: http://www.art21.org/artists/cao-fei CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview & Translation: Phil Tinari & Xiaotong Wang. Camera: Takahisa Araki. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Voiceover: Clara Jo. Artwork Courtesy: Cao Fei. Video: © 2011 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-CaoFeiPRDAntiHeroes706-495.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #140: Artist Cao Fei discusses her multi-media theatrical work "PRD Anti-Heroes" (2005), a play performed by non-professional actors. Investigating the "anonymous and unsung heroes" of the Pearl River Delta or "the factory of the world," Cao's production incorporates elements of traditional Chinese legends, Hong Kong soap operas, and Cantonese farces. Cao's work reflects the fluidity of a world in which cultures have mixed and diverged in rapid evolution. Her video installations and new media works explore perception and reality in places as diverse as a Chinese factory and the virtual world of Second Life. Depictions of Chinese architecture and landscape abound in scenes of hyper-capitalistic Pearl River Delta development, in images that echo traditional Chinese painting, and in the design of her own virtual utopia, "RMB City." Fascinated by the world of Second Life, Cao Fei has created several works in which she is both participant and observer through her Second Life avatar, China Tracy, who acts as a guide, philosopher, and tourist. Learn more about Cao Fei: http://www.art21.org/artists/cao-fei CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview & Translation: Phil Tinari & Xiaotong Wang. Camera: Takahisa Araki. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Voiceover: Clara Jo. Artwork Courtesy: Cao Fei. Video: © 2011 Art21, Inc. All Rights Reserved. 242 http://blip.tv/file/5024279 Art Fri, 15 Apr 2011 16:33:37 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-CaoFeiPRDAntiHeroes706.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOCs%2BAQAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOCs+AQAg" style="display:none"></embed> Cao Fei: "PRD Anti-Heroes" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 98C126AE-5CA1-11E0-9470-D2AFD56EB88D http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/cindy-sherman-characters-4982252 Cindy Sherman: Characters art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4982252 4964367 file no 0.0 2011-04-01T20:49:54Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 216 6lOCsIxQAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOCsIxQAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4982252&skin=rss Art21-CindyShermanCharacters503-266.jpg Episode #139: Cindy Sherman reveals how dressing up in character began as a kind of performance and evolved into her earliest photographic series such as "Bus Riders" (1976), "Untitled Film Stills" (1977-1980), and the untitled rear screen projections (1980). In self-reflexive photographs and films, Cindy Sherman invents myriad guises, metamorphosing from Hollywood starlet to clown to society matron. Often with the simplest of means—a camera, a wig, makeup, an outfit—Sherman fashions ambiguous but memorable characters that suggest complex lives lived out of frame. Shermans investigations have a compelling relationship to public images, from kitsch (film stills and centerfolds) to art history (Old Masters and Surrealism) to green-screen technology and the latest advances in digital photography. Learn more about Cindy Sherman at: http://www.art21.org/artists/cindy-sherman CREDITS | Producer: Ian Forster, Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Cindy Sherman. Video: © 2011, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-CindyShermanCharacters503-266-844.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #139: Cindy Sherman reveals how dressing up in character began as a kind of performance and evolved into her earliest photographic series such as "Bus Riders" (1976), "Untitled Film Stills" (1977-1980), and the untitled rear screen projections (1980). In self-reflexive photographs and films, Cindy Sherman invents myriad guises, metamorphosing from Hollywood starlet to clown to society matron. Often with the simplest of means—a camera, a wig, makeup, an outfit—Sherman fashions ambiguous but memorable characters that suggest complex lives lived out of frame. Shermans investigations have a compelling relationship to public images, from kitsch (film stills and centerfolds) to art history (Old Masters and Surrealism) to green-screen technology and the latest advances in digital photography. Learn more about Cindy Sherman at: http://www.art21.org/artists/cindy-sherman CREDITS | Producer: Ian Forster, Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Cindy Sherman. Video: © 2011, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. 216 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 4982252 http://blip.tv/file/4964367 Art Fri, 01 Apr 2011 20:49:54 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-CindyShermanCharacters503-266.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOCsIxQAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOCsIxQAg" style="display:none"></embed> Cindy Sherman: Characters 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 55F9074C-517F-11E0-98F6-F2DAE89EF47E http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/carrie-mae-weems-the-kitchen-table-series-4920598 Carrie Mae Weems: "The Kitchen Table Series" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4920598 4902649 file no 0.0 2011-03-18T16:46:56Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 189 6lOCrKp6Ag http://blip.tv/play/6lOCrKp6Ag http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4920598&skin=rss Art21-CarrieMaeWeemsTheKitchenTableSeries177.jpg Episode #138: Filmed in her Syracuse studio, artist Carrie Mae Weems discusses the impetus for her work "The Kitchen Table Series" (1990), a photographic investigation of a single domestic space in which the artist staged scenes of "the battle around the family" between women and men, friends and lovers, parents and children. Carrie Mae Weems's vibrant explorations of photography, video, and verse breathe new life into traditional narrative forms—social documentary, tableaux, self-portrait, and oral history. Eliciting epic contexts from individually framed moments, Weems debunks racist and sexist labels, examines the relationship between power and aesthetics, and uses personal biography to articulate broader truths. Whether adapting or appropriating archival images, restaging famous news photographs, or creating altogether new scenes, she traces an indirect history of the depiction of African Americans for more than a century. Learn more about Carrie Mae Weems at: http://www.art21.org/artists/carrie-mae-weems CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Catherine Tatge. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Jack Shainman Gallery & Carrie Mae Weems. Special Thanks: Elvira Dyangani Ose. Video: © 2011, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #138: Filmed in her Syracuse studio, artist Carrie Mae Weems discusses the impetus for her work "The Kitchen Table Series" (1990), a photographic investigation of a single domestic space in which the artist staged scenes of "the battle around the family" between women and men, friends and lovers, parents and children. Carrie Mae Weems's vibrant explorations of photography, video, and verse breathe new life into traditional narrative forms—social documentary, tableaux, self-portrait, and oral history. Eliciting epic contexts from individually framed moments, Weems debunks racist and sexist labels, examines the relationship between power and aesthetics, and uses personal biography to articulate broader truths. Whether adapting or appropriating archival images, restaging famous news photographs, or creating altogether new scenes, she traces an indirect history of the depiction of African Americans for more than a century. Learn more about Carrie Mae Weems at: http://www.art21.org/artists/carrie-mae-weems CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Catherine Tatge. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Jack Shainman Gallery & Carrie Mae Weems. Special Thanks: Elvira Dyangani Ose. Video: © 2011, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. 189 http://blip.tv/file/4902649 Art Fri, 18 Mar 2011 16:46:56 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-CarrieMaeWeemsTheKitchenTableSeries177.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOCrKp6Ag.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOCrKp6Ag" style="display:none"></embed> Carrie Mae Weems: "The Kitchen Table Series" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 1E21F3CC-46A0-11E0-AF01-D6FCD8C5F01E http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/allan-mccollum-lost-objects-natural-copies-4861831 Allan McCollum: "Lost Objects" & "Natural Copies" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4861831 4843770 file no 0.0 2011-03-04T20:43:53Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 251 6lOCqN9rAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOCqN9rAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4861831&skin=rss Art21-AllanMcCollumLostObjectsNaturalCopies122.jpg Episode #137: Filmed in his Brooklyn studio, artist Allan McCollum discusses two projects utilizing dinosaur fossils—"Lost Objects" (begun 1991) and "Natural Copies (begun 1994)—and his interest in how both scientific and local communities define the historical value of objects. Applying strategies of mass production to hand-made objects, Allan McCollum's labor-intensive practice questions the intrinsic value of the unique work of art. McCollum's installations—fields of vast numbers of small-scale works, systematically arranged—are the product of many tiny gestures, built up over time. Viewing his work often produces a sublime effect as one slowly realizes that the dizzying array of thousands of identical-looking shapes is, in fact, comprised of subtly different, distinct things. Engaging assistants, scientists, and local craftspeople in his process, McCollum embraces a collaborative and democratic form of creativity. Learn more about Allan McCollum at: http://www.art21.org/artists/allan-mccollum CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Wesley Miller. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Allan McCollum. Special Thanks: Vera Alemani, Celina Paiz, Marcie Paper & Adele Röder. Video: © 2011, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-AllanMcCollumLostObjectsNaturalCopies122-320.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #137: Filmed in his Brooklyn studio, artist Allan McCollum discusses two projects utilizing dinosaur fossils—"Lost Objects" (begun 1991) and "Natural Copies (begun 1994)—and his interest in how both scientific and local communities define the historical value of objects. Applying strategies of mass production to hand-made objects, Allan McCollum's labor-intensive practice questions the intrinsic value of the unique work of art. McCollum's installations—fields of vast numbers of small-scale works, systematically arranged—are the product of many tiny gestures, built up over time. Viewing his work often produces a sublime effect as one slowly realizes that the dizzying array of thousands of identical-looking shapes is, in fact, comprised of subtly different, distinct things. Engaging assistants, scientists, and local craftspeople in his process, McCollum embraces a collaborative and democratic form of creativity. Learn more about Allan McCollum at: http://www.art21.org/artists/allan-mccollum CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Wesley Miller. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Allan McCollum. Special Thanks: Vera Alemani, Celina Paiz, Marcie Paper & Adele Röder. Video: © 2011, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. 251 http://blip.tv/file/4843770 Art Fri, 04 Mar 2011 20:43:53 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-AllanMcCollumLostObjectsNaturalCopies122.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOCqN9rAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOCqN9rAg" style="display:none"></embed> Allan McCollum: "Lost Objects" & "Natural Copies" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 FCA22964-3B65-11E0-A30F-E094CDD0D2B5 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/an-my-lê-29-palms-art21-exclusive-4800890 An-My Lê: "29 Palms" | Art21 "Exclusive" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4800890 4782768 file no 0.0 2011-02-18T13:50:03Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 243 6lOCpYNeAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOCpYNeAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4800890&skin=rss Art21-AnMyL29PalmsArt21Exclusive530.jpg "I just wanted to approach the idea of war in a more complicated and more challenging way" says artist An-My Lê, whose photographic series and film "29 Palms" (2003-04) explore the training exercises and desert landscape near Joshua Tree National Park as a staging ground for the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. An-My Lê's photographs and films examine the impact, consequences, and representation of war, framing a tension between the natural landscape and its violent transformation into battlefields. Suspended between the formal traditions of documentary and staged photography, Lê’s work explores the disjunction between wars as historical events and the ubiquitous representation of war in contemporary entertainment, politics, and collective consciousness. CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: An-My Lê. Video: © 2011, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-AnMyL29PalmsArt21Exclusive530-869.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture "I just wanted to approach the idea of war in a more complicated and more challenging way" says artist An-My Lê, whose photographic series and film "29 Palms" (2003-04) explore the training exercises and desert landscape near Joshua Tree National Park as a staging ground for the conflicts in Iraq and Afghanistan. An-My Lê's photographs and films examine the impact, consequences, and representation of war, framing a tension between the natural landscape and its violent transformation into battlefields. Suspended between the formal traditions of documentary and staged photography, Lê’s work explores the disjunction between wars as historical events and the ubiquitous representation of war in contemporary entertainment, politics, and collective consciousness. CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: An-My Lê. Video: © 2011, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. 243 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 4800890 http://blip.tv/file/4782768 Art Fri, 18 Feb 2011 13:50:03 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-AnMyL29PalmsArt21Exclusive530.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOCpYNeAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOCpYNeAg" style="display:none"></embed> An-My Lê: "29 Palms" | Art21 "Exclusive" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 1BEC52C0-305F-11E0-B817-83004CD44AB2 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/hiroshi-sugimoto-cabinet-of-curiosities-4739869 Hiroshi Sugimoto: Cabinet of Curiosities art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4739869 4721669 file no 0.0 2011-02-04T13:03:06Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 193 6lOCoacBAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOCoacBAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4739869&skin=rss Art21-HiroshiSugimotoCabinetOfCuriosities589-615.jpg Episode #135: Filmed in his New York studio, artist Hiroshi Sugimoto gives a tour of his private cabinet of curiosities which includes meteorites, stone age tools, and whimsical toys. 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. Learn more about Hiroshi Sugimoto at: ;http://www.art21.org/artists/hiroshi-sugimoto CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mead Hunt. Sound: Merce Williams. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Hiroshi Sugimoto. Video: © 2011, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-HiroshiSugimotoCabinetOfCuriosities589-615-223.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #135: Filmed in his New York studio, artist Hiroshi Sugimoto gives a tour of his private cabinet of curiosities which includes meteorites, stone age tools, and whimsical toys. 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. Learn more about Hiroshi Sugimoto at: ;http://www.art21.org/artists/hiroshi-sugimoto CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mead Hunt. Sound: Merce Williams. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Hiroshi Sugimoto. Video: © 2011, Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. 193 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 4739869 http://blip.tv/file/4721669 Art Fri, 04 Feb 2011 13:03:06 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-HiroshiSugimotoCabinetOfCuriosities589-615.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOCoacBAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOCoacBAg" style="display:none"></embed> Hiroshi Sugimoto: Cabinet of Curiosities 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 AD8DCF76-2568-11E0-9AA2-DA10EDEF7363 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/william-kentridge-the-magic-flute-4679848 William Kentridge: "The Magic Flute" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4679848 4661559 file no 0.0 2011-01-21T14:13:54Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 265 6lOCndIMAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOCndIMAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4679848&skin=rss Art21-WilliamKentridgeTheMagicFlute897.jpg Episode #134: In his 2005 production of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" (1791), artist William Kentridge reframes the opera's original themes of Enlightenment philosophy through the bitter legacy of colonialism. "The most toxic combination in the world is…the certainty of being right and a monopoly of power," says the artist, who casts the character of Sarastro in the role of a colonial overlord, "a benevolent figure that hides a monster." Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions. Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridge CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Archival Footage Courtesy: Mann Made Media & Theatre de la Monnaie. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. Video: © 2011 Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgeTheMagicFlute897-470.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #134: In his 2005 production of Mozart's "The Magic Flute" (1791), artist William Kentridge reframes the opera's original themes of Enlightenment philosophy through the bitter legacy of colonialism. "The most toxic combination in the world is…the certainty of being right and a monopoly of power," says the artist, who casts the character of Sarastro in the role of a colonial overlord, "a benevolent figure that hides a monster." Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions. Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridge CREDITS | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Archival Footage Courtesy: Mann Made Media & Theatre de la Monnaie. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. Video: © 2011 Art21, Inc. All rights reserved. 265 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 4679848 http://blip.tv/file/4661559 Art Fri, 21 Jan 2011 14:13:54 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgeTheMagicFlute897.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOCndIMAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOCndIMAg" style="display:none"></embed> William Kentridge: "The Magic Flute" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 98D0C482-1A8F-11E0-AFDA-DEB962738CF2 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/krzysztof-wodiczko-designer-adam-whiton-4622451 Krzysztof Wodiczko: Designer Adam Whiton art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4622451 4604119 file no 0.0 2011-01-07T18:54:46Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 179 6lOCmpFXAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOCmpFXAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4622451&skin=rss Art21-KrzysztofWodiczkoDesignerAdamWhiton324-154.jpg Episode #133: Filmed at the Interrogative Design Group offices at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, designer Adam Whiton discusses his work with artist Krzysztof Wodiczko. By developing innovative technology for projects such as "The Tijuana Projection" (2001), "Dis-Armor" (1999-2000), and "AEgis" (2000), Wodiczko and Whiton explore the potential for design to be used in a way that will "get people to think more…trigger questions and make people uncomfortable." By appropriating public buildings and monuments as backdrops for projections, Krzysztof Wodiczko focuses attention on ways in which architecture and monuments reflect collective memory and history. Projecting images of community members’ hands, faces, or entire bodies onto architectural façades, and combining those images with voiced testimonies, Wodiczko disrupts our traditional understanding of the functions of public space and architecture. He challenges the silent, stark monumentality of buildings, activating them in an examination of notions of human rights, democracy, and truths about the violence, alienation, and inhumanity that underlie countless aspects of social interaction in present-day society. Learn more about Krzysztof Wodiczko: http://www.art21.org/artists/krzysztof-wodiczko VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Gary Henoch. Sound: Steve Bores. Editor: Joaquin Perez??. Artwork Courtesy: Interrogative Design Group & Krzysztof Wodiczko. Special Thanks?: Catherine Tatge, the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). @ 2011, Art21, Inc. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-KrzysztofWodiczkoDesignerAdamWhiton324-154-843.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #133: Filmed at the Interrogative Design Group offices at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, designer Adam Whiton discusses his work with artist Krzysztof Wodiczko. By developing innovative technology for projects such as "The Tijuana Projection" (2001), "Dis-Armor" (1999-2000), and "AEgis" (2000), Wodiczko and Whiton explore the potential for design to be used in a way that will "get people to think more…trigger questions and make people uncomfortable." By appropriating public buildings and monuments as backdrops for projections, Krzysztof Wodiczko focuses attention on ways in which architecture and monuments reflect collective memory and history. Projecting images of community members’ hands, faces, or entire bodies onto architectural façades, and combining those images with voiced testimonies, Wodiczko disrupts our traditional understanding of the functions of public space and architecture. He challenges the silent, stark monumentality of buildings, activating them in an examination of notions of human rights, democracy, and truths about the violence, alienation, and inhumanity that underlie countless aspects of social interaction in present-day society. Learn more about Krzysztof Wodiczko: http://www.art21.org/artists/krzysztof-wodiczko VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Gary Henoch. Sound: Steve Bores. Editor: Joaquin Perez??. Artwork Courtesy: Interrogative Design Group & Krzysztof Wodiczko. Special Thanks?: Catherine Tatge, the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). @ 2011, Art21, Inc. 179 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 4622451 http://blip.tv/file/4604119 Art Fri, 07 Jan 2011 18:54:46 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-KrzysztofWodiczkoDesignerAdamWhiton324-154.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOCmpFXAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOCmpFXAg" style="display:none"></embed> Krzysztof Wodiczko: Designer Adam Whiton 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 DE9515B8-09FF-11E0-9CAF-A38CE962314D http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/paul-mccarthy-art-entertainment-4543092 Paul McCarthy: Art & Entertainment art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4543092 4524643 file no 0.0 2010-12-17T17:05:37Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 191 6lOClaVYAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOClaVYAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4543092&skin=rss Art21-PaulMcCarthyArtEntertainment791.jpg Episode #132: Filmed in his Los Angeles studio alongside his son and frequent collaborator Damon McCarthy, artist Paul McCarthy reflects on the documentary process and on being interviewed about his work, drawing conclusions about how it's the nature of television "to simplify existence" and the "difference between making art and making entertainment." Paul McCarthy's video-taped performances and provocative multimedia installations lampoon polite society, ridicule authority, and bombard the viewer with a sensory overload of often sexually-tinged, violent imagery. With irreverent wit, McCarthy often takes aim at cherished American myths and icons—Walt Disney, the Western, and even the Modern Artist—adding a touch of malice to subjects that have been traditionally revered for their innocence or purity. Whether conflating real-world political figures with fantastical characters such as Santa Claus, or treating erotic and abject content with frivolity and charm, McCarthy's work confuses codes, mixes high and low culture, and provokes an analysis of fundamental beliefs. Learn more about Paul McCarthy at: ;http://www.art21.org/artists/paul-mcc... VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Robert Elfstrom. Sound: Doug Dunderdale. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Paul McCarthy. Special Thanks: Damon McCarthy http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-PaulMcCarthyArtEntertainment791-353.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #132: Filmed in his Los Angeles studio alongside his son and frequent collaborator Damon McCarthy, artist Paul McCarthy reflects on the documentary process and on being interviewed about his work, drawing conclusions about how it's the nature of television "to simplify existence" and the "difference between making art and making entertainment." Paul McCarthy's video-taped performances and provocative multimedia installations lampoon polite society, ridicule authority, and bombard the viewer with a sensory overload of often sexually-tinged, violent imagery. With irreverent wit, McCarthy often takes aim at cherished American myths and icons—Walt Disney, the Western, and even the Modern Artist—adding a touch of malice to subjects that have been traditionally revered for their innocence or purity. Whether conflating real-world political figures with fantastical characters such as Santa Claus, or treating erotic and abject content with frivolity and charm, McCarthy's work confuses codes, mixes high and low culture, and provokes an analysis of fundamental beliefs. Learn more about Paul McCarthy at: ;http://www.art21.org/artists/paul-mcc... VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Robert Elfstrom. Sound: Doug Dunderdale. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Paul McCarthy. Special Thanks: Damon McCarthy 191 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 4543092 http://blip.tv/file/4524643 Art Fri, 17 Dec 2010 17:05:37 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-PaulMcCarthyArtEntertainment791.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOClaVYAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOClaVYAg" style="display:none"></embed> Paul McCarthy: Art & Entertainment 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 1C18513E-0474-11E0-9384-F1D040C49268 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/beryl-korot-text-and-commentary-4511509 Beryl Korot: "Text and Commentary" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4511509 4493026 file no 0.0 2010-12-10T15:42:35Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 184 6lOCk655Ag http://blip.tv/play/6lOCk655Ag http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4511509&skin=rss Art21-BerylKorotTextAndCommentary267-235.jpg Episode #131: Featuring excerpts from her groundbreaking video installation "Text and Commentary" (1977), artist Beryl Korot discusses how information has been encoded in lines and patterns throughout human history, whether in print media, through video, or on a weaving loom. An early video-art pioneer and an internationally exhibited artist, Beryl Korot’s multiple-channel (and multiple-monitor) video installation works explored the relationship between programming tools as diverse as the technology of the loom and multiple-channel video. For most of the 1980s, Korot concentrated on a series of paintings that were based on a language she created that was an analogue to the Latin alphabet. Drawing on her earlier interest in weaving and video as related technologies, she made most of these paintings on hand-woven and traditional linen canvas. More recently, she has collaborated with her husband, the composer Steve Reich, on "Three Tales," a documentary digital video opera in three acts that explores the way technology creates and frames our experience. Learn more about Beryl Korot: http://www.art21.org/artists/beryl-korot VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Wesley Miller. Camera & Sound: Nick Ravich. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Beryl Korot. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-BerylKorotTextAndCommentary267-235-131.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #131: Featuring excerpts from her groundbreaking video installation "Text and Commentary" (1977), artist Beryl Korot discusses how information has been encoded in lines and patterns throughout human history, whether in print media, through video, or on a weaving loom. An early video-art pioneer and an internationally exhibited artist, Beryl Korot’s multiple-channel (and multiple-monitor) video installation works explored the relationship between programming tools as diverse as the technology of the loom and multiple-channel video. For most of the 1980s, Korot concentrated on a series of paintings that were based on a language she created that was an analogue to the Latin alphabet. Drawing on her earlier interest in weaving and video as related technologies, she made most of these paintings on hand-woven and traditional linen canvas. More recently, she has collaborated with her husband, the composer Steve Reich, on "Three Tales," a documentary digital video opera in three acts that explores the way technology creates and frames our experience. Learn more about Beryl Korot: http://www.art21.org/artists/beryl-korot VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Wesley Miller. Camera & Sound: Nick Ravich. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Beryl Korot. 184 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 4511509 http://blip.tv/file/4493026 Art Fri, 10 Dec 2010 15:42:35 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-BerylKorotTextAndCommentary267-235.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOCk655Ag.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOCk655Ag" style="display:none"></embed> Beryl Korot: "Text and Commentary" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 1D545176-FEFF-11DF-9FCA-F123D3293C43 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/beryl-korot-babel-the-7-minute-scroll-4481902 Beryl Korot: "Babel: the 7 minute scroll" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4481902 4463365 file no 0.0 2010-12-03T17:02:30Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 227 6lOCkcdSAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOCkcdSAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4481902&skin=rss Art21-BerylKorotBabelThe7MinuteScroll168-421.jpg Episode #130: Beryl Korot discusses a recent work — "Babel: the 7 minute scroll" (2007) — which takes the form as both a large-scale print and an animated digital video. With pictographs that reference ancient Egypt and the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, Korot's work investigates the history of tools and technology, language and narrative. An early video-art pioneer and an internationally exhibited artist, Beryl Korot's multiple-channel (and multiple-monitor) video installation works explored the relationship between programming tools as diverse as the technology of the loom and multiple-channel video. For most of the 1980s, Korot concentrated on a series of paintings that were based on a language she created that was an analogue to the Latin alphabet. Drawing on her earlier interest in weaving and video as related technologies, she made most of these paintings on hand-woven and traditional linen canvas. More recently, she has collaborated with her husband, the composer Steve Reich, on "Three Tales," a documentary digital video opera in three acts that explores the way technology creates and frames our experience. Learn more about Beryl Korot: http://www.art21.org/artists/beryl-korot VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Wesley Miller. Camera & Sound: Nick Ravich. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Beryl Korot. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-BerylKorotBabelThe7MinuteScroll168-421-481.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #130: Beryl Korot discusses a recent work — "Babel: the 7 minute scroll" (2007) — which takes the form as both a large-scale print and an animated digital video. With pictographs that reference ancient Egypt and the biblical story of the Tower of Babel, Korot's work investigates the history of tools and technology, language and narrative. An early video-art pioneer and an internationally exhibited artist, Beryl Korot's multiple-channel (and multiple-monitor) video installation works explored the relationship between programming tools as diverse as the technology of the loom and multiple-channel video. For most of the 1980s, Korot concentrated on a series of paintings that were based on a language she created that was an analogue to the Latin alphabet. Drawing on her earlier interest in weaving and video as related technologies, she made most of these paintings on hand-woven and traditional linen canvas. More recently, she has collaborated with her husband, the composer Steve Reich, on "Three Tales," a documentary digital video opera in three acts that explores the way technology creates and frames our experience. Learn more about Beryl Korot: http://www.art21.org/artists/beryl-korot VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Wesley Miller. Camera & Sound: Nick Ravich. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Beryl Korot. 227 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 4481902 http://blip.tv/file/4463365 Art Fri, 03 Dec 2010 17:02:30 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-BerylKorotBabelThe7MinuteScroll168-421.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOCkcdSAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOCkcdSAg" style="display:none"></embed> Beryl Korot: "Babel: the 7 minute scroll" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 E45F0B4C-F3FD-11DF-847F-8941ABB1EDC3 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/allan-mccollum-over-ten-thousand-individual-works-4423125 Allan McCollum: "Over Ten Thousand Individual Works" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4423125 4404533 file no 0.0 2010-11-19T16:56:02Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 324 6lOCjfw5Ag http://blip.tv/play/6lOCjfw5Ag http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4423125&skin=rss Art21-AllanMcCollumOverTenThousandIndividualWorks684.jpg Episode #129: Filmed in his Brooklyn studio, Allan McCollum reveals the process and logic behind the project Over Ten Thousand Individual Works (begun in 1982). Cast in plaster, hand-painted, and displayed in vast quantities, each Individual Work is a unique combination of shapes adapted from commercially-produced objects.Applying strategies of mass production to hand-made objects, Allan McCollum's labor-intensive practice questions the intrinsic value of the unique work of art. McCollum's installations—fields of vast numbers of small-scale works, systematically arranged—are the product of many tiny gestures, built up over time. Viewing his work often produces a sublime effect as one slowly realizes that the dizzying array of thousands of identical-looking shapes is, in fact, comprised of subtly different, distinct things. Engaging assistants, scientists, and local craftspeople in his process, McCollum embraces a collaborative and democratic form of creativity.Learn more about Allan McCollum: http://www.art21.org/artists/allan-mccollumVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Wesley Miller. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Allan McCollum & Friedrich Petzel Gallery. Special Thanks: Celina Paiz, Marcie Paper & Adele Röder.This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-AllanMcCollumOverTenThousandIndividualWorks684-261.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #129: Filmed in his Brooklyn studio, Allan McCollum reveals the process and logic behind the project Over Ten Thousand Individual Works (begun in 1982). Cast in plaster, hand-painted, and displayed in vast quantities, each Individual Work is a unique combination of shapes adapted from commercially-produced objects.Applying strategies of mass production to hand-made objects, Allan McCollum's labor-intensive practice questions the intrinsic value of the unique work of art. McCollum's installations—fields of vast numbers of small-scale works, systematically arranged—are the product of many tiny gestures, built up over time. Viewing his work often produces a sublime effect as one slowly realizes that the dizzying array of thousands of identical-looking shapes is, in fact, comprised of subtly different, distinct things. Engaging assistants, scientists, and local craftspeople in his process, McCollum embraces a collaborative and democratic form of creativity.Learn more about Allan McCollum: http://www.art21.org/artists/allan-mccollumVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Wesley Miller. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Allan McCollum & Friedrich Petzel Gallery. Special Thanks: Celina Paiz, Marcie Paper & Adele Röder.This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. 324 http://blip.tv/file/4404533 Art Fri, 19 Nov 2010 16:56:02 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-AllanMcCollumOverTenThousandIndividualWorks684.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOCjfw5Ag.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOCjfw5Ag" style="display:none"></embed> Allan McCollum: "Over Ten Thousand Individual Works" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 74735E40-EE9F-11DF-9849-C7AFEFF1C676 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/paul-mccarthy-black-white-tapes-4393435 Paul McCarthy: "Black & White Tapes" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4393435 4374793 file no 0.0 2010-11-12T20:57:26Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 301 6lOCjJQ_Ag http://blip.tv/play/6lOCjJQ_Ag http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4393435&skin=rss Art21-PaulMcCarthyBlackWhiteTapes323.jpg Episode #128: Interviewed in his Los Angeles studio, Paul McCarthy discusses the genesis of his "Black and White Tapes" (1970-75), a suite of 13 videos begun while he was a student at the University of Southern California (USC). Also featuring excerpts from the video "Ma Bell" (1971) and works in the exhibition "Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement—Three Installations, Two Films" (2008) at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.Paul McCarthy's video-taped performances and provocative multimedia installations lampoon polite society, ridicule authority, and bombard the viewer with a sensory overload of often sexually-tinged, violent imagery. With irreverent wit, McCarthy often takes aim at cherished American myths and icons—Walt Disney, the Western, and even the Modern Artist—adding a touch of malice to subjects that have been traditionally revered for their innocence or purity. Whether conflating real-world political figures with fantastical characters such as Santa Claus, or treating erotic and abject content with frivolity and charm, McCarthy's work confuses codes, mixes high and low culture, and provokes an analysis of fundamental beliefs.Learn more about Paul McCarthy: http://www.art21.org/artists/paul-mccarthyVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom & Richard Numeroff. Sound: Doug Dunderdale & Merce Williams. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Paul McCarthy. Special Thanks: Whitney Museum of American Art. No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #128: Interviewed in his Los Angeles studio, Paul McCarthy discusses the genesis of his "Black and White Tapes" (1970-75), a suite of 13 videos begun while he was a student at the University of Southern California (USC). Also featuring excerpts from the video "Ma Bell" (1971) and works in the exhibition "Central Symmetrical Rotation Movement—Three Installations, Two Films" (2008) at the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.Paul McCarthy's video-taped performances and provocative multimedia installations lampoon polite society, ridicule authority, and bombard the viewer with a sensory overload of often sexually-tinged, violent imagery. With irreverent wit, McCarthy often takes aim at cherished American myths and icons—Walt Disney, the Western, and even the Modern Artist—adding a touch of malice to subjects that have been traditionally revered for their innocence or purity. Whether conflating real-world political figures with fantastical characters such as Santa Claus, or treating erotic and abject content with frivolity and charm, McCarthy's work confuses codes, mixes high and low culture, and provokes an analysis of fundamental beliefs.Learn more about Paul McCarthy: http://www.art21.org/artists/paul-mccarthyVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom & Richard Numeroff. Sound: Doug Dunderdale & Merce Williams. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Paul McCarthy. Special Thanks: Whitney Museum of American Art. 301 http://blip.tv/file/4374793 Art Fri, 12 Nov 2010 20:57:26 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-PaulMcCarthyBlackWhiteTapes323.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOCjJQ_Ag.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOCjJQ_Ag" style="display:none"></embed> Paul McCarthy: "Black & White Tapes" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 E6A32E96-E8FA-11DF-B921-A00FFFE63D42 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/william-kentridge-collaboration-4361333 William Kentridge: Collaboration art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4361333 4342679 file no 0.0 2010-11-05T16:36:55Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 211 6lOCiplZAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOCiplZAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4361333&skin=rss Art21-WilliamKentridgeCollaboration428-571.jpg Episode #127: Three of William Kentridge's long-time collaborators — Sabine Theunissen (Set Design), Catherine Meyburgh (Video Composite & Editing), and Kim Gunning (Video Control & Projection) — recount the creative process of mounting a production of The Nose (2010) at The Metropolitan Opera, New York.Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions.Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridgeThe film William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible premiered October 21, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit: http://www.art21.org/anythingispossibleVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Eve Moros Ortega & Susan Sollins. Camera: Robert Elfstrom & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Ray Day, Roger Phenix & Mark Roy. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. Special Thanks: Kim Gunning, Catherine Meyburgh, Sabine Theunissen, & The Metropolitan Opera, New York. © 2010 Art21, Inc.This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgeCollaboration428-571-612.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #127: Three of William Kentridge's long-time collaborators — Sabine Theunissen (Set Design), Catherine Meyburgh (Video Composite & Editing), and Kim Gunning (Video Control & Projection) — recount the creative process of mounting a production of The Nose (2010) at The Metropolitan Opera, New York.Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions.Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridgeThe film William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible premiered October 21, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit: http://www.art21.org/anythingispossibleVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Eve Moros Ortega & Susan Sollins. Camera: Robert Elfstrom & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Ray Day, Roger Phenix & Mark Roy. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. Special Thanks: Kim Gunning, Catherine Meyburgh, Sabine Theunissen, & The Metropolitan Opera, New York. © 2010 Art21, Inc.This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. 211 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 4361333 http://blip.tv/file/4342679 Art Fri, 05 Nov 2010 16:36:55 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgeCollaboration428-571.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOCiplZAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOCiplZAg" style="display:none"></embed> William Kentridge: Collaboration 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 DCD98F48-E361-11DF-B91B-ABF6FD2BA829 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/william-kentridge-studio-manager-anne-mcilleron-art21-exclusive-4330207 William Kentridge: Studio Manager Anne McIlleron | Art21 "Exclusive" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4330207 4311543 file no 0.0 2010-10-29T13:38:50Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 180 6lOCiKZDAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOCiKZDAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4330207&skin=rss Art21-WilliamKentridgeStudioManagerAnneMcIlleronArt21Exclusive909.jpg Episode #126: Anne McIlleron, William Kentridge's studio manager, discusses the artist's working method and penchant for collaboration. Featuring behind-the-scenes moments from the artist's studio in Johannesburg, South Africa; a performance of "I am not me, the horse is not mine" (2008) at the 16th Biennale of Sydney, Australia; and rehearsals for Kentridge's production of "The Nose" (2010) at The Metropolitan Opera, New York. Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions.Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridgeThe film "William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible" premiered October 21, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. ET on PBS. For more information, visit: http://www.art21.org/anythingispossibleVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Philipe Charlut, Robert Elfstrom & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Ray Day, Patrick Mullins & Roger Phenix. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. Special Thanks: Anne McIlleron, The Biennale of Sydney & The Metropolitan Opera, New York. © 2010 Art21, Inc.This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgeStudioManagerAnneMcIlleronArt21Exclusive909-390.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #126: Anne McIlleron, William Kentridge's studio manager, discusses the artist's working method and penchant for collaboration. Featuring behind-the-scenes moments from the artist's studio in Johannesburg, South Africa; a performance of "I am not me, the horse is not mine" (2008) at the 16th Biennale of Sydney, Australia; and rehearsals for Kentridge's production of "The Nose" (2010) at The Metropolitan Opera, New York. Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions.Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridgeThe film "William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible" premiered October 21, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. ET on PBS. For more information, visit: http://www.art21.org/anythingispossibleVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Philipe Charlut, Robert Elfstrom & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Ray Day, Patrick Mullins & Roger Phenix. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. Special Thanks: Anne McIlleron, The Biennale of Sydney & The Metropolitan Opera, New York. © 2010 Art21, Inc.This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. 180 http://blip.tv/file/4311543 Art art artist contemporary visual william kentridge anne mcilleron studio manager collaboration music animation video drawing shostakovich south africa the nose i am not me the horse is not mine Fri, 29 Oct 2010 13:38:50 +0000 art artist contemporary visual william kentridge anne mcilleron studio manager collaboration music animation video drawing shostakovich south africa the nose i am not me, the horse is not mine http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgeStudioManagerAnneMcIlleronArt21Exclusive909.jpg art artist contemporary visual william kentridge anne mcilleron studio manager collaboration music animation video drawing shostakovich south africa the nose i am not me, the horse is not mine <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOCiKZDAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOCiKZDAg" style="display:none"></embed> William Kentridge: Studio Manager Anne McIlleron | Art21 "Exclusive" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 35A094C2-DD14-11DF-91C1-E2C1F23A6F1C http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/william-kentridge-the-nose-opera-curtain-4294935 William Kentridge: "The Nose" Opera Curtain art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4294935 4276244 file no 0.0 2010-10-21T13:07:51Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 254 6lOChpJ7Ag http://blip.tv/play/6lOChpJ7Ag http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4294935&skin=rss Art21-WilliamKentridgeTheNoseOperaCurtain784.jpg Episode #125: Set designer Sabine Theunissen and scenic artist John Pitts share how the opera curtain for William Kentridge's production of "The Nose" (2010) was enlarged, by hand, from a humble collage. Filmed on location at Kentridge's studio in Johannesburg, South Africa, and at The Metropolitan Opera's workshop in The Bronx, New York.Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions.Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridgeThe film "William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible" premieres October 21, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit: http://www.art21.org/anythingispossibleVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Eve Moros Ortega & Susan Sollins. Camera: Robert Elfstrom & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin & Ray Day. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. Special Thanks: The Metropolitan Opera, New York; John Pitts & Sabine Theunissen. © 2010 Art21, Inc.This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #125: Set designer Sabine Theunissen and scenic artist John Pitts share how the opera curtain for William Kentridge's production of "The Nose" (2010) was enlarged, by hand, from a humble collage. Filmed on location at Kentridge's studio in Johannesburg, South Africa, and at The Metropolitan Opera's workshop in The Bronx, New York.Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions.Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridgeThe film "William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible" premieres October 21, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit: http://www.art21.org/anythingispossibleVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Eve Moros Ortega & Susan Sollins. Camera: Robert Elfstrom & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin & Ray Day. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. Special Thanks: The Metropolitan Opera, New York; John Pitts & Sabine Theunissen. © 2010 Art21, Inc.This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. 254 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 4294935 http://blip.tv/file/4276244 Art Thu, 21 Oct 2010 13:07:51 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgeTheNoseOperaCurtain784.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOChpJ7Ag.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOChpJ7Ag" style="display:none"></embed> William Kentridge: "The Nose" Opera Curtain 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 5E69A75E-D87D-11DF-9522-9D79887E1C96 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/william-kentridge-weaver-marguerite-stephens-4269565 William Kentridge: Weaver Marguerite Stephens art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4269565 4250852 file no 0.0 2010-10-15T16:58:01Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 228 6lOChMxhAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOChMxhAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4269565&skin=rss Art21-WilliamKentridgeWeaverMargueriteStephens748.jpg Episode #124: Weaver Marguerite Stephens discusses translating the artist William Kentridge's original concepts into intricate, large-scale tapestries. Located in Diepsloot (a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa), the Stephens Tapestry Studio employs a team of local weavers, spinners, and dyers who work on vertical looms using mohair spun in Swaziland. Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions.Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridgeThe film William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible premieres October 21, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit: http://www.art21.org/anythingispossibleVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. Special Thanks: Marguerite Stephens & Stephens Tapestry Studio. © 2010 Art21, Inc. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgeWeaverMargueriteStephens748-966.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #124: Weaver Marguerite Stephens discusses translating the artist William Kentridge's original concepts into intricate, large-scale tapestries. Located in Diepsloot (a suburb of Johannesburg, South Africa), the Stephens Tapestry Studio employs a team of local weavers, spinners, and dyers who work on vertical looms using mohair spun in Swaziland. Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions.Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridgeThe film William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible premieres October 21, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit: http://www.art21.org/anythingispossibleVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. Special Thanks: Marguerite Stephens & Stephens Tapestry Studio. © 2010 Art21, Inc. 228 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 4269565 http://blip.tv/file/4250852 Art Fri, 15 Oct 2010 16:58:01 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgeWeaverMargueriteStephens748.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOChMxhAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOChMxhAg" style="display:none"></embed> William Kentridge: Weaver Marguerite Stephens 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 FAA7EF7C-D2DD-11DF-A23C-874F6DA16D49 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/william-kentridge-composer-philip-miller-4239657 William Kentridge: Composer Philip Miller art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4239657 4220904 file no 0.0 2010-10-08T13:14:27Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 319 6lOCguMNAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOCguMNAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4239657&skin=rss Art21-WilliamKentridgeComposerPhilipMiller364-144.jpg Episode #123: Composer Philip Miller talks about his long-time collaboration with William Kentridge, scoring and performing original music for the artist's animated films such as "Felix in Exile" (1994) and the multi-channel video installation "I am not me, the horse is not mine" (2009). Miller's compositions synthesize and draw inspiration from various musical traditions, from the romantic classicism of Antonín Dvořák, to the modern atonality of Dmitri Shostakovich, to the folk instrumentation and harmonies of contemporary South African choral music. Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions. Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridge The film "William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible" premieres October 21, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit: http://www.art21.org/anythingispossible VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Jarred Alterman & Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. Special Thanks: Philip Miller & The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2010 Art21, Inc. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgeComposerPhilipMiller364-144-107.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #123: Composer Philip Miller talks about his long-time collaboration with William Kentridge, scoring and performing original music for the artist's animated films such as "Felix in Exile" (1994) and the multi-channel video installation "I am not me, the horse is not mine" (2009). Miller's compositions synthesize and draw inspiration from various musical traditions, from the romantic classicism of Antonín Dvořák, to the modern atonality of Dmitri Shostakovich, to the folk instrumentation and harmonies of contemporary South African choral music. Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions. Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridge The film "William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible" premieres October 21, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit: http://www.art21.org/anythingispossible VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Jarred Alterman & Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. Special Thanks: Philip Miller & The Museum of Modern Art, New York. © 2010 Art21, Inc. 319 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 4239657 http://blip.tv/file/4220904 Art Fri, 08 Oct 2010 13:14:27 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgeComposerPhilipMiller364-144.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOCguMNAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOCguMNAg" style="display:none"></embed> William Kentridge: Composer Philip Miller 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 33EDFA46-CD76-11DF-98EE-D88B6F032398 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/william-kentridge-peter-gelb-the-metropolitan-opera-4210044 William Kentridge: Peter Gelb, The Metropolitan Opera art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4210044 4191265 file no 0.0 2010-10-01T16:09:00Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 328 6lOCgPtgAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOCgPtgAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4210044&skin=rss Art21-WilliamKentridgePeterGelbTheMetropolitanOpera107.jpg Episode #122: Peter Gelb, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, discusses the historical context and artistic sensibility of William Kentridge's 2010 production of Dmitri Shostakovich's "The Nose" (1928), based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol (1836). Featuring behind-the-scenes technical and dress rehearsals, as well as performances from the production's opening night.Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century's most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions.Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridgeThe film "William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible" premieres October 21, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit: http://www.art21.org/anythingispossibleVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. Special Thanks: Peter Gelb & The Metropolitan Opera, New York. © 2010 Art21, Inc.This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgePeterGelbTheMetropolitanOpera107-43.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #122: Peter Gelb, General Manager of the Metropolitan Opera in New York, discusses the historical context and artistic sensibility of William Kentridge's 2010 production of Dmitri Shostakovich's "The Nose" (1928), based on the short story by Nikolai Gogol (1836). Featuring behind-the-scenes technical and dress rehearsals, as well as performances from the production's opening night.Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century's most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions.Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridgeThe film "William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible" premieres October 21, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings). For more information, visit: http://www.art21.org/anythingispossibleVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. Special Thanks: Peter Gelb & The Metropolitan Opera, New York. © 2010 Art21, Inc.This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. 328 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 4210044 http://blip.tv/file/4191265 Art Fri, 01 Oct 2010 16:09:00 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgePeterGelbTheMetropolitanOpera107.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOCgPtgAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOCgPtgAg" style="display:none"></embed> William Kentridge: Peter Gelb, The Metropolitan Opera 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 591E3AE4-C7ED-11DF-8F76-CB4784CC8F0D http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/krzysztof-wodiczko-peace-4181182 Krzysztof Wodiczko: Peace art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4181182 4162383 file no 0.0 2010-09-24T15:06:46Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 205 6lOB_5oiAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB_5oiAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4181182&skin=rss Art21-KrzysztofWodiczkoPeace841.jpg Episode #121: "You cannot work towards peace being peaceful" says artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, who explains this paradoxical position in terms of his personal experiences growing up in Poland under communist rule. Filmed at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Wodiczko's interview is punctuated by the sound of sirens from outside, the city in a state of "full alert."By appropriating public buildings and monuments as backdrops for projections, Krzysztof Wodiczko focuses attention on ways in which architecture and monuments reflect collective memory and history. Projecting images of community members’ hands, faces, or entire bodies onto architectural façades, and combining those images with voiced testimonies, Wodiczko disrupts our traditional understanding of the functions of public space and architecture. He challenges the silent, stark monumentality of buildings, activating them in an examination of notions of human rights, democracy, and truths about the violence, alienation, and inhumanity that underlie countless aspects of social interaction in present-day society.Learn more about Krzysztof Wodiczko: http://www.art21.org/artists/krzysztof-wodiczkoVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Gary Henoch. Sound: Steve Bores. Editor: Joaquin Perez  . Special Thanks : Catherine Tatge, the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-KrzysztofWodiczkoPeace841-216.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #121: "You cannot work towards peace being peaceful" says artist Krzysztof Wodiczko, who explains this paradoxical position in terms of his personal experiences growing up in Poland under communist rule. Filmed at the Center for Advanced Visual Studies at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts, Wodiczko's interview is punctuated by the sound of sirens from outside, the city in a state of "full alert."By appropriating public buildings and monuments as backdrops for projections, Krzysztof Wodiczko focuses attention on ways in which architecture and monuments reflect collective memory and history. Projecting images of community members’ hands, faces, or entire bodies onto architectural façades, and combining those images with voiced testimonies, Wodiczko disrupts our traditional understanding of the functions of public space and architecture. He challenges the silent, stark monumentality of buildings, activating them in an examination of notions of human rights, democracy, and truths about the violence, alienation, and inhumanity that underlie countless aspects of social interaction in present-day society.Learn more about Krzysztof Wodiczko: http://www.art21.org/artists/krzysztof-wodiczkoVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Gary Henoch. Sound: Steve Bores. Editor: Joaquin Perez  . Special Thanks : Catherine Tatge, the Center for Advanced Visual Studies, and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). 205 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 4181182 http://blip.tv/file/4162383 Art Fri, 24 Sep 2010 15:06:46 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-KrzysztofWodiczkoPeace841.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB_5oiAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB_5oiAg" style="display:none"></embed> Krzysztof Wodiczko: Peace 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 DFC14056-C260-11DF-99C9-F8D920FEE805 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/allan-mccollum-surrogate-paintings-plaster-surrogates-4151986 Allan McCollum: "Surrogate Paintings" & "Plaster Surrogates" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4151986 4133158 file no 0.0 2010-09-17T13:38:37Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 222 6lOB_bYWAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB_bYWAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4151986&skin=rss Art21-AllanMcCollumSurrogatePaintingsPlasterSurrogates431.jpg Episode #120: Filmed in his Brooklyn studio, Allan McCollum discusses his "Surrogate Paintings" (begun in 1978) and "Plaster Surrogates" (begun in 1982). Wanting to “construct an emblem” for what an artist does and demystify what it means to be an artist, McCollum’s symbolic works reveal the social game of looking at, selling, and making art through theatrical installations of mass-produced objects.Applying strategies of mass production to hand-made objects, Allan McCollum's labor-intensive practice questions the intrinsic value of the unique work of art. McCollum's installations—fields of vast numbers of small-scale works, systematically arranged—are the product of many tiny gestures, built up over time. Viewing his work often produces a sublime effect as one slowly realizes that the dizzying array of thousands of identical-looking shapes is, in fact, comprised of subtly different, distinct things. Engaging assistants, scientists, and local craftspeople in his process, McCollum embraces a collaborative and democratic form of creativity.Learn more about Allan McCollum: http://www.art21.org/artists/allan-mccollumVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Wesley Miller & Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Allan McCollum & Friedrich Petzel Gallery. Special Thanks: Celina Paiz, Marcie Paper & Adele Röder.This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-AllanMcCollumSurrogatePaintingsPlasterSurrogates431-412.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #120: Filmed in his Brooklyn studio, Allan McCollum discusses his "Surrogate Paintings" (begun in 1978) and "Plaster Surrogates" (begun in 1982). Wanting to “construct an emblem” for what an artist does and demystify what it means to be an artist, McCollum’s symbolic works reveal the social game of looking at, selling, and making art through theatrical installations of mass-produced objects.Applying strategies of mass production to hand-made objects, Allan McCollum's labor-intensive practice questions the intrinsic value of the unique work of art. McCollum's installations—fields of vast numbers of small-scale works, systematically arranged—are the product of many tiny gestures, built up over time. Viewing his work often produces a sublime effect as one slowly realizes that the dizzying array of thousands of identical-looking shapes is, in fact, comprised of subtly different, distinct things. Engaging assistants, scientists, and local craftspeople in his process, McCollum embraces a collaborative and democratic form of creativity.Learn more about Allan McCollum: http://www.art21.org/artists/allan-mccollumVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Wesley Miller & Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Allan McCollum & Friedrich Petzel Gallery. Special Thanks: Celina Paiz, Marcie Paper & Adele Röder.This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. 222 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 4151986 http://blip.tv/file/4133158 Art Fri, 17 Sep 2010 13:38:37 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-AllanMcCollumSurrogatePaintingsPlasterSurrogates431.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB_bYWAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB_bYWAg" style="display:none"></embed> Allan McCollum: "Surrogate Paintings" & "Plaster Surrogates" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 BD1DF17C-BF70-11DF-B092-FB9C26AD6AA5 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/allan-mccollum-over-ten-thousand-individual-works-4135010 Allan McCollum: "Over Ten Thousand Individual Works" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4135010 4116160 file no 0.0 2011-10-17T14:25:06Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 324 6lOB_LFGAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB_LFGAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4135010&skin=rss Art21-AllanMcCollumOverTenThousandIndividualWorks348-657.jpg descriptive text tbd http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-AllanMcCollumOverTenThousandIndividualWorks348-657-944.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture descriptive text tbd 324 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 4135010 http://blip.tv/file/4116160 Art Mon, 17 Oct 2011 14:25:06 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-AllanMcCollumOverTenThousandIndividualWorks348-657.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB_LFGAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB_LFGAg" style="display:none"></embed> Allan McCollum: "Over Ten Thousand Individual Works" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 C899842E-BCED-11DF-B188-A6D5D9437A1B http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/carrie-mae-weems-roaming-4124157 Carrie Mae Weems: "Roaming" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4124157 4105304 file no 0.0 2010-09-10T15:12:10Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 156 6lOB+9xhAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB+9xhAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4124157&skin=rss Art21-CarrieMaeWeemsRoaming536.jpg Episode #119: Carrie Mae Weems describes the impetus for her series Roaming (2006). An investigation into “the edifice of power,” Weems performed a series of photographic actions throughout Rome, Italy, contrasting her body with grand architectural structures and monumental surroundings.Weems's vibrant explorations of photography, video, and verse breathe new life into traditional narrative forms—social documentary, tableaux, self-portrait, and oral history. Eliciting epic contexts from individually framed moments, Weems debunks racist and sexist labels, examines the relationship between power and aesthetics, and uses personal biography to articulate broader truths. Whether adapting or appropriating archival images, restaging famous news photographs, or creating altogether new scenes, she traces an indirect history of the depiction of African Americans for more than a century.Learn more about Carrie Mae Weems: http://www.art21.org/artists/carrie-mae-weemsVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Catherine Tatge. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Jack Shainman Gallery & Carrie Mae Weems. © 2010 Art21, Inc. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-CarrieMaeWeemsRoaming536-212.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #119: Carrie Mae Weems describes the impetus for her series Roaming (2006). An investigation into “the edifice of power,” Weems performed a series of photographic actions throughout Rome, Italy, contrasting her body with grand architectural structures and monumental surroundings.Weems's vibrant explorations of photography, video, and verse breathe new life into traditional narrative forms—social documentary, tableaux, self-portrait, and oral history. Eliciting epic contexts from individually framed moments, Weems debunks racist and sexist labels, examines the relationship between power and aesthetics, and uses personal biography to articulate broader truths. Whether adapting or appropriating archival images, restaging famous news photographs, or creating altogether new scenes, she traces an indirect history of the depiction of African Americans for more than a century.Learn more about Carrie Mae Weems: http://www.art21.org/artists/carrie-mae-weemsVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Catherine Tatge. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Jack Shainman Gallery & Carrie Mae Weems. © 2010 Art21, Inc. 156 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 4124157 http://blip.tv/file/4105304 Art Fri, 10 Sep 2010 15:12:10 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-CarrieMaeWeemsRoaming536.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB%2B9xhAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB+9xhAg" style="display:none"></embed> Carrie Mae Weems: "Roaming" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 1F61FDBC-B75E-11DF-8621-8491A79CB996 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/laylah-ali-choreographer-dean-moss-4097466 Laylah Ali: Choreographer Dean Moss art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4097466 4078583 file no 0.0 2010-09-03T13:21:12Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 329 6lOB+oweAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB+oweAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4097466&skin=rss Art21-LaylahAliChoreographerDeanMoss916.jpg Episode #118: Dancer/choreographer Dean Moss discusses his collaboration with visual artist Laylah Ali, entitled figures on a field (2005). This behind-the-scenes look features preliminary rehearsals at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, as well as a preview performance at The Kitchen in New York City. An artist working in both dance and video, Dean Moss's recent projects use the irrational logic of the body to articulate personal, cultural, and socioeconomic forces that impact a perception of self and environment. Nameless forest, Moss's newest work (developed in collaboration with artist Sungmyung Chun), premieres at The Kitchen in May 2011 with previews at the Arts Presenters and Producers Conference (APAP) and Yale University. Artist 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. In style, her paintings resemble comic-book serials, but they also contain stylistic references to hieroglyphics and American folk-art traditions. Learn more about Laylah Ali: http://www.art21.org/artists/laylah-aliLearn more about Dean Moss: http://www.gametophyte.org/VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Tom Hurwtiz & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin & Roger Phenix. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Laylah Ali & Dean Moss. Special Thanks: MASS MoCA & The Kitchen. © 2010 Art21, Inc. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-LaylahAliChoreographerDeanMoss916-2.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #118: Dancer/choreographer Dean Moss discusses his collaboration with visual artist Laylah Ali, entitled figures on a field (2005). This behind-the-scenes look features preliminary rehearsals at MASS MoCA in North Adams, Massachusetts, as well as a preview performance at The Kitchen in New York City. An artist working in both dance and video, Dean Moss's recent projects use the irrational logic of the body to articulate personal, cultural, and socioeconomic forces that impact a perception of self and environment. Nameless forest, Moss's newest work (developed in collaboration with artist Sungmyung Chun), premieres at The Kitchen in May 2011 with previews at the Arts Presenters and Producers Conference (APAP) and Yale University. Artist 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. In style, her paintings resemble comic-book serials, but they also contain stylistic references to hieroglyphics and American folk-art traditions. Learn more about Laylah Ali: http://www.art21.org/artists/laylah-aliLearn more about Dean Moss: http://www.gametophyte.org/VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Tom Hurwtiz & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin & Roger Phenix. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Laylah Ali & Dean Moss. Special Thanks: MASS MoCA & The Kitchen. © 2010 Art21, Inc. This program is supported, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council. 329 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 4097466 http://blip.tv/file/4078583 Art Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:21:12 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-LaylahAliChoreographerDeanMoss916.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB%2BoweAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB+oweAg" style="display:none"></embed> Laylah Ali: Choreographer Dean Moss 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 3DD7C044-B432-11DF-BE9A-A07AA9F0F53D http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/trailer-1-william-kentridge-anything-is-possible-2010-art21-4080781 Trailer #1 | "William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible" (2010) | Art21 art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 4080781 4061895 file no 0.0 2010-08-30T12:29:32Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 78 6lOB+YlxAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB+YlxAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post4080781&skin=rss Art21-Trailer1WilliamKentridgeAnythingIsPossible2010Art21340.jpg First trailer for "William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible," a new hour-long film from the producers of the Peabody-Award winning "Art in the Twenty-First Century" television series. The film gives viewers an intimate look into the mind and creative process of William Kentridge, the South African artist whose acclaimed work has made him one of the most dynamic and exciting contemporary artists working today."William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible" premieres October 21, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings).For more information, visit:art21.org/anythingispossible http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-Trailer1WilliamKentridgeAnythingIsPossible2010Art21340-858.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture First trailer for "William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible," a new hour-long film from the producers of the Peabody-Award winning "Art in the Twenty-First Century" television series. The film gives viewers an intimate look into the mind and creative process of William Kentridge, the South African artist whose acclaimed work has made him one of the most dynamic and exciting contemporary artists working today."William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible" premieres October 21, 2010 at 10:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings).For more information, visit:art21.org/anythingispossible 78 http://blip.tv/file/4061895 Art art21 contemporary art william kentridge anything is possible charcoal drawings animations video installations shadow plays mechanical puppets tapestries sculptures performance Mon, 30 Aug 2010 12:29:32 +0000 art21, contemporary art, william kentridge, anything is possible, charcoal drawings, animations, video installations, shadow plays, mechanical puppets, tapestries, sculptures, performance http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-Trailer1WilliamKentridgeAnythingIsPossible2010Art21340.jpg art21, contemporary art, william kentridge, anything is possible, charcoal drawings, animations, video installations, shadow plays, mechanical puppets, tapestries, sculptures, performance <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB%2BYlxAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB+YlxAg" style="display:none"></embed> Trailer #1 | "William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible" (2010) | Art21 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 CDA22E12-A159-11DF-AFFA-ABC4CF6B5D02 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/mike-kelley-bad-boy-3992483 Mike Kelley: Bad Boy art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3992483 3973574 file no 0.0 2010-08-06T12:54:51Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 179 6lOB89gHAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB89gHAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3992483&skin=rss Art21-MikeKelleyBadBoy349.jpg Episode #117: Mike Kelley sets the record straight about being called a “bad boy” throughout his career, describing the shifting tastes of critics and artists towards abject art in recent years.Mike Kelley’s work ranges from highly symbolic and ritualistic performance pieces, to arrangements of stuffed-animal sculptures, to wall-sized drawings, to multi-room installations that restage institutional environments (schools, offices, zoos), to extended collaborations with artists such as Paul McCarthy, Tony Oursler, and the band Sonic Youth. His work questions the legitimacy of ‘normative’ values and systems of authority, and attacks the sanctity of cultural attitudes toward family, religion, sexuality, art history, and education. He also comments on and undermines the legitimacy of the concept of victim or trauma culture, which posits that almost all behavior results from some form of repressed abuse. Kelley’s aesthetic mines the rich and often overlooked history of vernacular art in America, and his practice borrows heavily from the confrontational, politically conscious “by all means necessary” attitude of punk music.Learn more about Mike Kelley: http://www.art21.org/artists/mike-kelleyVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Norbert Arnsteiner & Nancy Schreiber. Sound: Stacy Hruby & Ullrich Vlasak. Editor: Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Mike Kelley. Special Thanks: MUMOK, Vienna. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-MikeKelleyBadBoy349-5.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #117: Mike Kelley sets the record straight about being called a “bad boy” throughout his career, describing the shifting tastes of critics and artists towards abject art in recent years.Mike Kelley’s work ranges from highly symbolic and ritualistic performance pieces, to arrangements of stuffed-animal sculptures, to wall-sized drawings, to multi-room installations that restage institutional environments (schools, offices, zoos), to extended collaborations with artists such as Paul McCarthy, Tony Oursler, and the band Sonic Youth. His work questions the legitimacy of ‘normative’ values and systems of authority, and attacks the sanctity of cultural attitudes toward family, religion, sexuality, art history, and education. He also comments on and undermines the legitimacy of the concept of victim or trauma culture, which posits that almost all behavior results from some form of repressed abuse. Kelley’s aesthetic mines the rich and often overlooked history of vernacular art in America, and his practice borrows heavily from the confrontational, politically conscious “by all means necessary” attitude of punk music.Learn more about Mike Kelley: http://www.art21.org/artists/mike-kelleyVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Norbert Arnsteiner & Nancy Schreiber. Sound: Stacy Hruby & Ullrich Vlasak. Editor: Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Mike Kelley. Special Thanks: MUMOK, Vienna. 179 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3992483 http://blip.tv/file/3973574 Art Fri, 06 Aug 2010 12:54:51 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-MikeKelleyBadBoy349.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB89gHAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB89gHAg" style="display:none"></embed> Mike Kelley: Bad Boy 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 4473C5EA-9652-11DF-AF89-A1B5D3983AC7 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/doris-salcedo-istanbul-3937064 Doris Salcedo: Istanbul art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3937064 3918106 file no 0.0 2010-07-23T12:03:12Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 106 6lOB8KcMAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB8KcMAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3937064&skin=rss Art21-DorisSalcedoIstanbul893.jpg Episode #115: Doris Salcedo discusses her installation for the Istanbul Biennial, describing how she wanted to create a “topography of war” that would transcend the specificity of historical events. Doris Salcedo’s understated sculptures and installations embody the silenced lives of the marginalized, from individual victims of violence to the disempowered of the Third World. Although elegiac in tone, her works are not memorials: Salcedo concretizes absence, oppression, and the gap between the disempowered and powerful. While abstract in form and open to interpretation, her works serve as testimonies on behalf of both victims and perpetrators. Salcedo’s work reflects a collective effort and close collaboration with a team of architects, engineers, and assistants and—as Salcedo says—with the victims of the senseless and brutal acts to which her work refers.Learn more about Doris Salcedo: http://www.art21.org/artists/doris-salcedoVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Paulo Padilha & Mark Sutton. Artwork Courtesy: Alexander & Bonin and Doris Salcedo. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-DorisSalcedoIstanbul893-760.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #115: Doris Salcedo discusses her installation for the Istanbul Biennial, describing how she wanted to create a “topography of war” that would transcend the specificity of historical events. Doris Salcedo’s understated sculptures and installations embody the silenced lives of the marginalized, from individual victims of violence to the disempowered of the Third World. Although elegiac in tone, her works are not memorials: Salcedo concretizes absence, oppression, and the gap between the disempowered and powerful. While abstract in form and open to interpretation, her works serve as testimonies on behalf of both victims and perpetrators. Salcedo’s work reflects a collective effort and close collaboration with a team of architects, engineers, and assistants and—as Salcedo says—with the victims of the senseless and brutal acts to which her work refers.Learn more about Doris Salcedo: http://www.art21.org/artists/doris-salcedoVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Paulo Padilha & Mark Sutton. Artwork Courtesy: Alexander & Bonin and Doris Salcedo. 106 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3937064 http://blip.tv/file/3918106 Art Fri, 23 Jul 2010 12:03:12 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-DorisSalcedoIstanbul893.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB8KcMAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB8KcMAg" style="display:none"></embed> Doris Salcedo: Istanbul 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 353E3D2E-90D2-11DF-B0DF-CF2802162BEF http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/kimsooja-art-everyday-life-3908622 Kimsooja: Art & Everyday Life art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3908622 3889648 file no 0.0 2010-07-16T12:03:55Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 172 6lOB7shyAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB7shyAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3908622&skin=rss Art21-KimsoojaArtEverydayLife362.jpg Episode #114: With her video Sewing into Walking as a backdrop, Kimsooja tells a story about mending traditional Korean bed covers and realizing that art can be drawn out of everyday activities.Kimsooja's videos and installations blur the boundaries between aesthetics and transcendent experience through their use of repetitive actions, meditative practices, and serial forms. In many pieces, everyday actions—such as sewing or doing laundry—become two- and three-dimensional or performative activities. In videos that feature her in various personas (Needle Woman, Beggar Woman, Homeless Woman), she leads us to reflect on the human condition, offering open-ended perspectives through which she presents and questions reality.Learn more about Kimsooja: http://www.art21.org/artists/kimsoojaVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Richard Numeroff. Sound: Merce Williams. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Kimsooja. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-KimsoojaArtEverydayLife362-980.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #114: With her video Sewing into Walking as a backdrop, Kimsooja tells a story about mending traditional Korean bed covers and realizing that art can be drawn out of everyday activities.Kimsooja's videos and installations blur the boundaries between aesthetics and transcendent experience through their use of repetitive actions, meditative practices, and serial forms. In many pieces, everyday actions—such as sewing or doing laundry—become two- and three-dimensional or performative activities. In videos that feature her in various personas (Needle Woman, Beggar Woman, Homeless Woman), she leads us to reflect on the human condition, offering open-ended perspectives through which she presents and questions reality.Learn more about Kimsooja: http://www.art21.org/artists/kimsoojaVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Richard Numeroff. Sound: Merce Williams. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Kimsooja. 172 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3908622 http://blip.tv/file/3889648 Art Fri, 16 Jul 2010 12:03:55 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-KimsoojaArtEverydayLife362.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB7shyAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB7shyAg" style="display:none"></embed> Kimsooja: Art & Everyday Life 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 4513F1F0-8B53-11DF-9FED-DEF841E40682 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/florian-maier-aichen-rejecting-tradition-3878661 Florian Maier-Aichen: Rejecting Tradition art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3878661 3859666 file no 0.0 2010-07-09T12:12:40Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 159 6lOB7N5pAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB7N5pAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3878661&skin=rss Art21-FlorianMaierAichenRejectingTradition182.jpg Episode #113: Florian Maier-Aichen talks about rejecting the dogmatic approach and lighting sensibility of the Dusseldorf School of photography, traveling to Los Angeles to make a fresh start. Alternately romantic, cerebral, and unearthly, Florian Maier-Aichen’s digitally altered photographs are closer to the realm of drawing and fiction than documentation. He embraces difficult techniques, chooses equipment that produces accidents such as light leaks and double exposures, and uses computer enhancements to introduce imperfections and illogical elements into images that paradoxically "feel" visually right, though they are factually wrong. Often employing an elevated viewpoint (the objective but haunting "God’s-eye view" of aerial photography and satellite imaging), Maier-Aichen creates idealized, painterly landscapes that function like old postcards. Interested in places where landscape and cityscape meet, he chooses locations and subjects from the American West and Europe—from his own neighborhoods to vistas of the natural world. Looking backwards for his influences, Maier-Aichen often reenacts or pays homage to the work of the pioneer photographers of the nineteenth century, sometimes even remaking their subject matter from their original standpoints. Always experimenting, he marries digital technologies with traditional processes and films (black-and-white, color, infrared, and tricolor), restoring and reinvigorating the artistry and alchemy of early photography.Learn more about Florian Maier-Aichen at: http://www.art21.org/artists/florian-maier-aichenVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Robert Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Joaquin Perez, Mark Sutton & Jake Yuzna. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-FlorianMaierAichenRejectingTradition182-425.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #113: Florian Maier-Aichen talks about rejecting the dogmatic approach and lighting sensibility of the Dusseldorf School of photography, traveling to Los Angeles to make a fresh start. Alternately romantic, cerebral, and unearthly, Florian Maier-Aichen’s digitally altered photographs are closer to the realm of drawing and fiction than documentation. He embraces difficult techniques, chooses equipment that produces accidents such as light leaks and double exposures, and uses computer enhancements to introduce imperfections and illogical elements into images that paradoxically "feel" visually right, though they are factually wrong. Often employing an elevated viewpoint (the objective but haunting "God’s-eye view" of aerial photography and satellite imaging), Maier-Aichen creates idealized, painterly landscapes that function like old postcards. Interested in places where landscape and cityscape meet, he chooses locations and subjects from the American West and Europe—from his own neighborhoods to vistas of the natural world. Looking backwards for his influences, Maier-Aichen often reenacts or pays homage to the work of the pioneer photographers of the nineteenth century, sometimes even remaking their subject matter from their original standpoints. Always experimenting, he marries digital technologies with traditional processes and films (black-and-white, color, infrared, and tricolor), restoring and reinvigorating the artistry and alchemy of early photography.Learn more about Florian Maier-Aichen at: http://www.art21.org/artists/florian-maier-aichenVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Robert Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Joaquin Perez, Mark Sutton & Jake Yuzna. 159 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3878661 http://blip.tv/file/3859666 Art Fri, 09 Jul 2010 12:12:40 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-FlorianMaierAichenRejectingTradition182.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB7N5pAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB7N5pAg" style="display:none"></embed> Florian Maier-Aichen: Rejecting Tradition 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 AEEF138C-85F6-11DF-8445-A71390030F04 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/jeff-koons-art-history-3850839 Jeff Koons: Art History art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3850839 3831842 file no 0.0 2010-07-02T16:27:18Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 158 6lOB64U7Ag http://blip.tv/play/6lOB64U7Ag http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3850839&skin=rss Art21-JeffKoonsArtHistory446.jpg Episode #112: Jeff Koons describes how he likes to "communicate with other artists" by making art historical references — from Classical to Modern — in his sculptures and paintings. Jeff Koons plucks images and objects from popular culture, framing questions about taste and pleasure. His contextual sleight-of-hand, which transforms banal items into sumptuous icons, takes on a psychological dimension through dramatic shifts in scale, spectacularly engineered surfaces, and subliminal allegories of animals, humans, and anthropomorphized objects. The subject of art history is a constant undercurrent, whether Koons elevates kitsch to the level of Classical art, produces photos in the manner of Baroque paintings, or develops public works that borrow techniques and elements of seventeenth-century French garden design. Organizing his own studio production in a manner that rivals a Renaissance workshop, Koons makes computer-assisted, handcrafted works that communicate through their meticulous attention to detail.Learn more about Jeff Koons: http://www.art21.org/artists/jeff-koonsVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Kurt Branstetter &  Joel Shapiro. Sound: Mark Mandler. Editor: Paulo Padilha & Mark Sutton. Artwork Courtesy: Jeff Koons. Special Thanks: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JeffKoonsArtHistory446-223.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #112: Jeff Koons describes how he likes to "communicate with other artists" by making art historical references — from Classical to Modern — in his sculptures and paintings. Jeff Koons plucks images and objects from popular culture, framing questions about taste and pleasure. His contextual sleight-of-hand, which transforms banal items into sumptuous icons, takes on a psychological dimension through dramatic shifts in scale, spectacularly engineered surfaces, and subliminal allegories of animals, humans, and anthropomorphized objects. The subject of art history is a constant undercurrent, whether Koons elevates kitsch to the level of Classical art, produces photos in the manner of Baroque paintings, or develops public works that borrow techniques and elements of seventeenth-century French garden design. Organizing his own studio production in a manner that rivals a Renaissance workshop, Koons makes computer-assisted, handcrafted works that communicate through their meticulous attention to detail.Learn more about Jeff Koons: http://www.art21.org/artists/jeff-koonsVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Kurt Branstetter &  Joel Shapiro. Sound: Mark Mandler. Editor: Paulo Padilha & Mark Sutton. Artwork Courtesy: Jeff Koons. Special Thanks: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. 158 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3850839 http://blip.tv/file/3831842 Art Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:27:18 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JeffKoonsArtHistory446.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB64U7Ag.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB64U7Ag" style="display:none"></embed> Jeff Koons: Art History 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 4C6EE59A-8054-11DF-858C-E330D7369A1A http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/carrie-mae-weems-david-alan-grier-in-conversation-3821279 Carrie Mae Weems & David Alan Grier: In Conversation art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3821279 3802231 file no 0.0 2010-06-25T12:22:19Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 534 6lOB6Z5DAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB6Z5DAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3821279&skin=rss Art21-CarrieMaeWeemsDavidAlanGrierInConversation665.jpg Carrie Mae Weems and David Alan Grier have an intimate discussion on a range of topics including childhood idols, the definition of blackness, race and politics during Obama's presidency, and a desire to make work that addresses not only personal identity but also the broader human condition.With the pitch and timbre of an accomplished storyteller, Carrie Mae Weems uses colloquial forms-jokes, songs, rebukes-in photographic series that scrutinize subjectivity and expose pernicious stereotypes. Weems's vibrant explorations of photography, video, and verse breathe new life into traditional narrative forms-social documentary, tableaux, self-portrait, and oral history. Eliciting epic contexts from individually framed moments, Weems debunks racist and sexist labels, examines the relationship between power and aesthetics, and uses personal biography to articulate broader truths. Whether adapting or appropriating archival images, restaging famous news photographs, or creating altogether new scenes, she traces an indirect history of the depiction of African Americans for more than a century. David Alan Grier started his career in New York, on Broadway in the production of "The First" playing the role of Jackie Robinson for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. Grier has appeared in many productions on the New York stage, including "Soldiers Play", and Shakespeare In The Park. On Broadway he has been seen in "Dream Girls", "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum", and starred in "Race", written and directed by David Mamet, for which he received a Tony nomination. Grier has appeared in over 30 films, most recently "Dance Flick", "The Woodsman", "Bewitched", and "The Poker House". Grier won the Golden Lion award for best actor for the film "Streamers" directed by Robert Altman at the Venice film festival. On television he has appeared in "The Chocolate News" and for four seasons in the Emmy award winning series "In Living Color". Grier is the author of the book "Barack Like Me: The Chocolate Covered Truth". Grier has been an avid collector of art, and has collaborated on a performance piece "The Alchemy Of Comedy, Stupid" with the artist Edgar Arceneaux which was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.VIDEO | Producer: Ian Forster, Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Camera & Sound: Ian Forster & Nick Ravich. Additional Camera: Erica Matson. Editor: Ian Forster & Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Carrie Mae Weems. Photos Courtesy: Roberts J. Saferstein & Comedy Central. Thanks: CORE:club, Pablo de Ritis & Jason Smith. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-CarrieMaeWeemsDavidAlanGrierInConversation665-200.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Carrie Mae Weems and David Alan Grier have an intimate discussion on a range of topics including childhood idols, the definition of blackness, race and politics during Obama's presidency, and a desire to make work that addresses not only personal identity but also the broader human condition.With the pitch and timbre of an accomplished storyteller, Carrie Mae Weems uses colloquial forms-jokes, songs, rebukes-in photographic series that scrutinize subjectivity and expose pernicious stereotypes. Weems's vibrant explorations of photography, video, and verse breathe new life into traditional narrative forms-social documentary, tableaux, self-portrait, and oral history. Eliciting epic contexts from individually framed moments, Weems debunks racist and sexist labels, examines the relationship between power and aesthetics, and uses personal biography to articulate broader truths. Whether adapting or appropriating archival images, restaging famous news photographs, or creating altogether new scenes, she traces an indirect history of the depiction of African Americans for more than a century. David Alan Grier started his career in New York, on Broadway in the production of "The First" playing the role of Jackie Robinson for which he was nominated for a Tony Award. Grier has appeared in many productions on the New York stage, including "Soldiers Play", and Shakespeare In The Park. On Broadway he has been seen in "Dream Girls", "A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum", and starred in "Race", written and directed by David Mamet, for which he received a Tony nomination. Grier has appeared in over 30 films, most recently "Dance Flick", "The Woodsman", "Bewitched", and "The Poker House". Grier won the Golden Lion award for best actor for the film "Streamers" directed by Robert Altman at the Venice film festival. On television he has appeared in "The Chocolate News" and for four seasons in the Emmy award winning series "In Living Color". Grier is the author of the book "Barack Like Me: The Chocolate Covered Truth". Grier has been an avid collector of art, and has collaborated on a performance piece "The Alchemy Of Comedy, Stupid" with the artist Edgar Arceneaux which was included in the 2008 Whitney Biennial.VIDEO | Producer: Ian Forster, Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Camera & Sound: Ian Forster & Nick Ravich. Additional Camera: Erica Matson. Editor: Ian Forster & Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Carrie Mae Weems. Photos Courtesy: Roberts J. Saferstein & Comedy Central. Thanks: CORE:club, Pablo de Ritis & Jason Smith. 534 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3821279 http://blip.tv/file/3802231 Art Fri, 25 Jun 2010 12:22:19 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-CarrieMaeWeemsDavidAlanGrierInConversation665.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB6Z5DAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB6Z5DAg" style="display:none"></embed> Carrie Mae Weems & David Alan Grier: In Conversation 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 48E88922-7AE0-11DF-B9AC-9877595A895B http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/yinka-shonibare-mbe-nelson-s-ship-in-a-bottle-3792023 Yinka Shonibare MBE: "Nelson's Ship in a Bottle" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3792023 3772951 file no 0.0 2010-06-18T13:49:15Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 235 6lOB57l7Ag http://blip.tv/play/6lOB57l7Ag http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3792023&skin=rss Art21-YinkaShonibareMBENelsonsShipInABottle661.jpg Episode #111: Yinka Shonibare MBE discusses the theatricality and sense of wonder inherent in his public sculpture "Nelson's Ship in a Bottle," installed on the 4th Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London. Situated across from "Nelson's Column," a monument erected to honor Admiral Lord Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars, the brightly-colored sails of Shonibare's boat reference the complex heritage of British colonialism and its multicultural present. Known for using batik in costumed dioramas that explore race and colonialism, Yinka Shonibare MBE also employs painting, sculpture, photography, and film in work that disrupts and challenges our notions of cultural identity. Taking on the honorific MBE as part of his name in everyday use, Shonibare plays with the ambiguities and contradictions of his attitude toward the Establishment and its legacies of colonialism and class. In multimedia projects that reveal his passion for art history, literature, and philosophy, Shonibare provides a critical tour of Western civilization and its achievements and failures. Learn more about Yinka Shonibare MBE: http://www.art21.org/artists/yinka-shonibare-mbe VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Ian Serfontein. Sound: Paul Stadden & Luke Williams. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Yinka Shonibare MBE. Thanks: Tamsin Selby & Greater London Authority. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-YinkaShonibareMBENelsonsShipInABottle661-432.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #111: Yinka Shonibare MBE discusses the theatricality and sense of wonder inherent in his public sculpture "Nelson's Ship in a Bottle," installed on the 4th Plinth in Trafalgar Square, London. Situated across from "Nelson's Column," a monument erected to honor Admiral Lord Nelson's death at the Battle of Trafalgar in 1805 during the Napoleonic Wars, the brightly-colored sails of Shonibare's boat reference the complex heritage of British colonialism and its multicultural present. Known for using batik in costumed dioramas that explore race and colonialism, Yinka Shonibare MBE also employs painting, sculpture, photography, and film in work that disrupts and challenges our notions of cultural identity. Taking on the honorific MBE as part of his name in everyday use, Shonibare plays with the ambiguities and contradictions of his attitude toward the Establishment and its legacies of colonialism and class. In multimedia projects that reveal his passion for art history, literature, and philosophy, Shonibare provides a critical tour of Western civilization and its achievements and failures. Learn more about Yinka Shonibare MBE: http://www.art21.org/artists/yinka-shonibare-mbe VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Ian Serfontein. Sound: Paul Stadden & Luke Williams. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Yinka Shonibare MBE. Thanks: Tamsin Selby & Greater London Authority. 235 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3792023 http://blip.tv/file/3772951 Art Fri, 18 Jun 2010 13:49:15 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-YinkaShonibareMBENelsonsShipInABottle661.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB57l7Ag.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB57l7Ag" style="display:none"></embed> Yinka Shonibare MBE: "Nelson's Ship in a Bottle" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 8E66C704-7548-11DF-8025-9E175C15F18F http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/allan-mccollum-shapes-ornaments-3761054 Allan McCollum: "Shapes Ornaments" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3761054 3741970 file no 0.0 2010-06-11T11:00:33Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 259 6lOB5cgCAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB5cgCAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3761054&skin=rss Art21-AllanMcCollumShapesOrnaments197.jpg Episode #110: Horace & Noella Varnum in Sedgwick, Maine, describe their experiences working with artist Allan McCollum on the Shapes from Maine (2009) exhibition at Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York. Applying strategies of mass production to hand-made objects, Allan McCollum's labor-intensive practice questions the intrinsic value of the unique work of art. McCollum's installations—fields of vast numbers of small-scale works, systematically arranged—are the product of many tiny gestures, built up over time. Viewing his work often produces a sublime effect as one slowly realizes that the dizzying array of thousands of identical-looking shapes is, in fact, comprised of subtly different, distinct things. Engaging assistants, scientists, and local craftspeople in his process, McCollum embraces a collaborative and democratic form of creativity.Learn more about Allan McCollum: http://www.art21.org/artists/allan-mccollumVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Dowling. Camera: Richard Kane & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Kenny Weinberg. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Allan McCollum. Special Thanks: Horace & Noella Varnum. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-AllanMcCollumShapesOrnaments197-818.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #110: Horace & Noella Varnum in Sedgwick, Maine, describe their experiences working with artist Allan McCollum on the Shapes from Maine (2009) exhibition at Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York. Applying strategies of mass production to hand-made objects, Allan McCollum's labor-intensive practice questions the intrinsic value of the unique work of art. McCollum's installations—fields of vast numbers of small-scale works, systematically arranged—are the product of many tiny gestures, built up over time. Viewing his work often produces a sublime effect as one slowly realizes that the dizzying array of thousands of identical-looking shapes is, in fact, comprised of subtly different, distinct things. Engaging assistants, scientists, and local craftspeople in his process, McCollum embraces a collaborative and democratic form of creativity.Learn more about Allan McCollum: http://www.art21.org/artists/allan-mccollumVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Dowling. Camera: Richard Kane & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Kenny Weinberg. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Allan McCollum. Special Thanks: Horace & Noella Varnum. 259 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3761054 http://blip.tv/file/3741970 Art Fri, 11 Jun 2010 11:00:33 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-AllanMcCollumShapesOrnaments197.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB5cgCAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB5cgCAg" style="display:none"></embed> Allan McCollum: "Shapes Ornaments" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 3ABDE004-6FC8-11DF-B5D3-CB109D5B5FF8 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/jeff-koons-potential-3731955 Jeff Koons: Potential art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3731955 3712854 file no 0.0 2010-06-04T10:59:21Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 152 6lOB4+RXAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB4+RXAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3731955&skin=rss Art21-JeffKoonsPotential680.jpg Episode #109: Jeff Koons tells a story from his childhood about finding a sense of self through making art, asserting that art has the potential to inspire similar transformations within each viewer.Jeff Koons plucks images and objects from popular culture, framing questions about taste and pleasure. His contextual sleight-of-hand, which transforms banal items into sumptuous icons, takes on a psychological dimension through dramatic shifts in scale, spectacularly engineered surfaces, and subliminal allegories of animals, humans, and anthropomorphized objects. The subject of art history is a constant undercurrent, whether Koons elevates kitsch to the level of Classical art, produces photos in the manner of Baroque paintings, or develops public works that borrow techniques and elements of seventeenth-century French garden design. Organizing his own studio production in a manner that rivals a Renaissance workshop, Koons makes computer-assisted, handcrafted works that communicate through their meticulous attention to detail.Learn more about Jeff Koons: http://www.art21.org/artists/jeff-koonsVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Kurt Branstetter & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Mark Mandler. Editor: Paulo Padilha & Mark Sutton. Artwork Courtesy: Jeff Koons. Special Thanks: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JeffKoonsPotential680-357.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #109: Jeff Koons tells a story from his childhood about finding a sense of self through making art, asserting that art has the potential to inspire similar transformations within each viewer.Jeff Koons plucks images and objects from popular culture, framing questions about taste and pleasure. His contextual sleight-of-hand, which transforms banal items into sumptuous icons, takes on a psychological dimension through dramatic shifts in scale, spectacularly engineered surfaces, and subliminal allegories of animals, humans, and anthropomorphized objects. The subject of art history is a constant undercurrent, whether Koons elevates kitsch to the level of Classical art, produces photos in the manner of Baroque paintings, or develops public works that borrow techniques and elements of seventeenth-century French garden design. Organizing his own studio production in a manner that rivals a Renaissance workshop, Koons makes computer-assisted, handcrafted works that communicate through their meticulous attention to detail.Learn more about Jeff Koons: http://www.art21.org/artists/jeff-koonsVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Kurt Branstetter & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Mark Mandler. Editor: Paulo Padilha & Mark Sutton. Artwork Courtesy: Jeff Koons. Special Thanks: Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. 152 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3731955 http://blip.tv/file/3712854 Art Fri, 04 Jun 2010 10:59:21 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JeffKoonsPotential680.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB4%2BRXAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB4+RXAg" style="display:none"></embed> Jeff Koons: Potential 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 3D982FFC-6A49-11DF-8219-A1343580836C http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/florian-maier-aichen-infrared-landscapes-3702719 Florian Maier-Aichen: Infrared Landscapes art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3702719 3683612 file no 0.0 2010-05-28T11:07:44Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 169 6lOB4oAjAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB4oAjAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3702719&skin=rss Art21-FlorianMaierAichenInfraredLandscapes371.jpg Episode #108: Florian Maier-Aichen likens his use of infrared film to an in-between state, discussing photography’s role in picturing the American West and its ability to confound past and present.Alternately romantic, cerebral, and unearthly, Florian Maier-Aichen’s digitally altered photographs are closer to the realm of drawing and fiction than documentation. He embraces difficult techniques, chooses equipment that produces accidents such as light leaks and double exposures, and uses computer enhancements to introduce imperfections and illogical elements into images that paradoxically "feel" visually right, though they are factually wrong. Often employing an elevated viewpoint (the objective but haunting "God’s-eye view" of aerial photography and satellite imaging), Maier-Aichen creates idealized, painterly landscapes that function like old postcards. Interested in places where landscape and cityscape meet, he chooses locations and subjects from the American West and Europe—from his own neighborhoods to vistas of the natural world. Looking backwards for his influences, Maier-Aichen often reenacts or pays homage to the work of the pioneer photographers of the nineteenth century, sometimes even remaking their subject matter from their original standpoints. Always experimenting, he marries digital technologies with traditional processes and films (black-and-white, color, infrared, and tricolor), restoring and reinvigorating the artistry and alchemy of early photography.Learn more about Florian Maier-Aichen at: http://www.art21.org/artists/florian-maier-aichenVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Robert Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: 303 Gallery, New York; Blum & Poe, Los Angeles; and Florian Maier-Aichen. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-FlorianMaierAichenInfraredLandscapes371-346.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #108: Florian Maier-Aichen likens his use of infrared film to an in-between state, discussing photography’s role in picturing the American West and its ability to confound past and present.Alternately romantic, cerebral, and unearthly, Florian Maier-Aichen’s digitally altered photographs are closer to the realm of drawing and fiction than documentation. He embraces difficult techniques, chooses equipment that produces accidents such as light leaks and double exposures, and uses computer enhancements to introduce imperfections and illogical elements into images that paradoxically "feel" visually right, though they are factually wrong. Often employing an elevated viewpoint (the objective but haunting "God’s-eye view" of aerial photography and satellite imaging), Maier-Aichen creates idealized, painterly landscapes that function like old postcards. Interested in places where landscape and cityscape meet, he chooses locations and subjects from the American West and Europe—from his own neighborhoods to vistas of the natural world. Looking backwards for his influences, Maier-Aichen often reenacts or pays homage to the work of the pioneer photographers of the nineteenth century, sometimes even remaking their subject matter from their original standpoints. Always experimenting, he marries digital technologies with traditional processes and films (black-and-white, color, infrared, and tricolor), restoring and reinvigorating the artistry and alchemy of early photography.Learn more about Florian Maier-Aichen at: http://www.art21.org/artists/florian-maier-aichenVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Robert Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: 303 Gallery, New York; Blum & Poe, Los Angeles; and Florian Maier-Aichen. 169 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3702719 http://blip.tv/file/3683612 Art Fri, 28 May 2010 11:07:44 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-FlorianMaierAichenInfraredLandscapes371.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB4oAjAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB4oAjAg" style="display:none"></embed> Florian Maier-Aichen: Infrared Landscapes 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 7BCC6CBE-64CE-11DF-9560-D9D0356EB3FA http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/beryl-korot-dachau-1974-3671838 Beryl Korot: "Dachau, 1974" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3671838 3652714 file no 0.0 2010-05-21T11:46:24Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 260 6lOB4I8CAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB4I8CAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3671838&skin=rss Art21-BerylKorotDachau1974476.jpg Episode #107: Beryl Korot narrates the process of creating one of the first multi-channel works of video art — Dachau, 1974 — a haunting document of tourists visiting the notorious Nazi concentration camp. An early video-art pioneer and an internationally exhibited artist, Beryl Korot’s multiple-channel (and multiple-monitor) video installation works explored the relationship between programming tools as diverse as the technology of the loom and multiple-channel video. For most of the 1980s, Korot concentrated on a series of paintings that were based on a language she created that was an analogue to the Latin alphabet. Drawing on her earlier interest in weaving and video as related technologies, she made most of these paintings on hand-woven and traditional linen canvas. More recently, she has collaborated with her husband, the composer Steve Reich, on “Three Tales,” a documentary digital video opera in three acts that explores the way technology creates and frames our experience.Learn more about Beryl Korot: http://www.art21.org/artists/beryl-korotVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Wesley Miller. Camera & Sound: Nick Ravich. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Beryl Korot. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-BerylKorotDachau1974476-817.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #107: Beryl Korot narrates the process of creating one of the first multi-channel works of video art — Dachau, 1974 — a haunting document of tourists visiting the notorious Nazi concentration camp. An early video-art pioneer and an internationally exhibited artist, Beryl Korot’s multiple-channel (and multiple-monitor) video installation works explored the relationship between programming tools as diverse as the technology of the loom and multiple-channel video. For most of the 1980s, Korot concentrated on a series of paintings that were based on a language she created that was an analogue to the Latin alphabet. Drawing on her earlier interest in weaving and video as related technologies, she made most of these paintings on hand-woven and traditional linen canvas. More recently, she has collaborated with her husband, the composer Steve Reich, on “Three Tales,” a documentary digital video opera in three acts that explores the way technology creates and frames our experience.Learn more about Beryl Korot: http://www.art21.org/artists/beryl-korotVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Wesley Miller. Camera & Sound: Nick Ravich. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Beryl Korot. 260 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3671838 http://blip.tv/file/3652714 Art Fri, 21 May 2010 11:46:24 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-BerylKorotDachau1974476.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB4I8CAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB4I8CAg" style="display:none"></embed> Beryl Korot: "Dachau, 1974" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 C7A10280-5F47-11DF-A228-ACD8C7857F99 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/julie-mehretu-mural-3641312 Julie Mehretu: "Mural" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3641312 3622152 file no 0.0 2010-05-14T10:59:34Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 313 6lOB3qBEAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB3qBEAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3641312&skin=rss Art21-JulieMehretuMural494.jpg Episode #106: Julie Mehretu puts the finishing touches on her large-scale painting Mural at Goldman Sachs, adjusting shapes and colors in dialogue with the architecture and views from the street. Julie Mehretu's paintings and drawings refer to elements of mapping and architecture, achieving a calligraphic complexity that resembles turbulent atmospheres and dense social networks. Architectural renderings and aerial views of urban grids enter the work as fragments, losing their real-world specificity and challenging narrow geographic and cultural readings. The paintings' wax-like surfaces—built up over weeks and months in thin translucent layers—have a luminous warmth and spatial depth, with formal qualities of light and space made all the more complex by Mehretu's delicate depictions of fire, explosions, and perspectives in both two and three dimensions. Her works engage the history of nonobjective art—from Constructivism to Futurism—posing contemporary questions about the relationship between utopian impulses and abstraction.Learn more about Julie Mehretu at: http://www.art21.org/artists/julie-mehretuVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Wesley Miller. Camera & Sound: Nick Ravich. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Thanks: Erika Fortner; Jessica Kingdon; Goldman, Sachs, & Co.; Harmony Murphy; and Damien Young. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JulieMehretuMural494-949.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #106: Julie Mehretu puts the finishing touches on her large-scale painting Mural at Goldman Sachs, adjusting shapes and colors in dialogue with the architecture and views from the street. Julie Mehretu's paintings and drawings refer to elements of mapping and architecture, achieving a calligraphic complexity that resembles turbulent atmospheres and dense social networks. Architectural renderings and aerial views of urban grids enter the work as fragments, losing their real-world specificity and challenging narrow geographic and cultural readings. The paintings' wax-like surfaces—built up over weeks and months in thin translucent layers—have a luminous warmth and spatial depth, with formal qualities of light and space made all the more complex by Mehretu's delicate depictions of fire, explosions, and perspectives in both two and three dimensions. Her works engage the history of nonobjective art—from Constructivism to Futurism—posing contemporary questions about the relationship between utopian impulses and abstraction.Learn more about Julie Mehretu at: http://www.art21.org/artists/julie-mehretuVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Wesley Miller. Camera & Sound: Nick Ravich. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Thanks: Erika Fortner; Jessica Kingdon; Goldman, Sachs, & Co.; Harmony Murphy; and Damien Young. 313 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3641312 http://blip.tv/file/3622152 Art Fri, 14 May 2010 10:59:34 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JulieMehretuMural494.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB3qBEAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB3qBEAg" style="display:none"></embed> Julie Mehretu: "Mural" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 C7D88BAC-59CE-11DF-9538-A79490DD3E4F http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/susan-rothenberg-bruce-the-studio-3610158 Susan Rothenberg: Bruce & the Studio art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3610158 3590968 file no 0.0 2010-05-07T11:50:49Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 257 6lOB3K0SAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB3K0SAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3610158&skin=rss Art21-SusanRothenbergBruceTheStudio362.jpg Episode #105: Susan Rothenberg describes the blend of studio time and ranch work that she shares with her husband, the artist Bruce Nauman, at their New Mexico home. Susan Rothenberg's early work—large acrylic, figurative paintings—came to prominence in the 1970s New York art world, a time and place almost completely dominated and defined by Minimalist aesthetics and theories. The first body of work for which she became known centered on life-sized images of horses. Glyph-like and iconic, these images are not so much abstracted as pared down to their most essential elements. The horses, along with fragmented body parts (heads, eyes, and hands) are almost totemic, like primitive symbols, and serve as formal elements through which Rothenberg investigated the meaning, mechanics, and essence of painting. Rothenbergs paintings since the 1990s reflect her move from New York to New Mexico, her adoption of oil painting, and her new-found interest in using the memory of observed and experienced events (a riding accident, a near-fatal bee sting, walking the dog, a game of poker or dominoes) as an armature for creating a painting. These scenes excerpted from daily life, whether highlighting an untoward event or a moment of remembrance, come to life through Rothenbergs thickly layered and nervous brushwork. A distinctive characteristic of these paintings is a tilted perspective in which the vantage point is located high above the ground. A common experience in the New Mexico landscape, this unexpected perspective invests the work with an eerily objective psychological edge.Learn more about Susan Rothenberg at: http://www.art21.org/artists/susan-rothenbergVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Robert Elfstrom & Dyanna Taylor. Sound: Jim Gallup & Ray Day. Editor: Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Bruce Nauman & Susan Rothenberg. Special Thanks: Bruce Nauman. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-SusanRothenbergBruceTheStudio362-384.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #105: Susan Rothenberg describes the blend of studio time and ranch work that she shares with her husband, the artist Bruce Nauman, at their New Mexico home. Susan Rothenberg's early work—large acrylic, figurative paintings—came to prominence in the 1970s New York art world, a time and place almost completely dominated and defined by Minimalist aesthetics and theories. The first body of work for which she became known centered on life-sized images of horses. Glyph-like and iconic, these images are not so much abstracted as pared down to their most essential elements. The horses, along with fragmented body parts (heads, eyes, and hands) are almost totemic, like primitive symbols, and serve as formal elements through which Rothenberg investigated the meaning, mechanics, and essence of painting. Rothenbergs paintings since the 1990s reflect her move from New York to New Mexico, her adoption of oil painting, and her new-found interest in using the memory of observed and experienced events (a riding accident, a near-fatal bee sting, walking the dog, a game of poker or dominoes) as an armature for creating a painting. These scenes excerpted from daily life, whether highlighting an untoward event or a moment of remembrance, come to life through Rothenbergs thickly layered and nervous brushwork. A distinctive characteristic of these paintings is a tilted perspective in which the vantage point is located high above the ground. A common experience in the New Mexico landscape, this unexpected perspective invests the work with an eerily objective psychological edge.Learn more about Susan Rothenberg at: http://www.art21.org/artists/susan-rothenbergVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Robert Elfstrom & Dyanna Taylor. Sound: Jim Gallup & Ray Day. Editor: Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Bruce Nauman & Susan Rothenberg. Special Thanks: Bruce Nauman. 257 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3610158 http://blip.tv/file/3590968 Art Fri, 07 May 2010 11:50:49 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-SusanRothenbergBruceTheStudio362.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB3K0SAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB3K0SAg" style="display:none"></embed> Susan Rothenberg: Bruce & the Studio 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 5D13D8CE-5449-11DF-ADCD-8FC0C386E8EF http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/mike-kelley-day-is-done-3578224 Mike Kelley: "Day Is Done" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3578224 3559026 file no 0.0 2010-04-30T11:13:11Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 281 6lOB2rNUAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB2rNUAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3578224&skin=rss Art21-MikeKelleyDayIsDone979.jpg Episode #104: Mike Kelley reveals how photographs from yearbooks and newspapers in Detroit served as the inspiration behind the performative project "Day Is Done," shown installed at Gagosian Gallery. Mike Kelley’s work ranges from highly symbolic and ritualistic performance pieces, to arrangements of stuffed-animal sculptures, to wall-sized drawings, to multi-room installations that restage institutional environments (schools, offices, zoos), to extended collaborations with artists such as Paul McCarthy, Tony Oursler, and the band Sonic Youth. His work questions the legitimacy of ‘normative’ values and systems of authority, and attacks the sanctity of cultural attitudes toward family, religion, sexuality, art history, and education. He also comments on and undermines the legitimacy of the concept of victim or trauma culture, which posits that almost all behavior results from some form of repressed abuse. Kelley’s aesthetic mines the rich and often overlooked history of vernacular art in America, and his practice borrows heavily from the confrontational, politically conscious “by all means necessary” attitude of punk music.Learn more about Mike Kelley: http://www.art21.org/artists/mike-kelleyVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Nancy Schreiber & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin & Stacy Hruby. Editor: Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Mike Kelley. Special Thanks: Gagosian Gallery, New York. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-MikeKelleyDayIsDone979-635.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #104: Mike Kelley reveals how photographs from yearbooks and newspapers in Detroit served as the inspiration behind the performative project "Day Is Done," shown installed at Gagosian Gallery. Mike Kelley’s work ranges from highly symbolic and ritualistic performance pieces, to arrangements of stuffed-animal sculptures, to wall-sized drawings, to multi-room installations that restage institutional environments (schools, offices, zoos), to extended collaborations with artists such as Paul McCarthy, Tony Oursler, and the band Sonic Youth. His work questions the legitimacy of ‘normative’ values and systems of authority, and attacks the sanctity of cultural attitudes toward family, religion, sexuality, art history, and education. He also comments on and undermines the legitimacy of the concept of victim or trauma culture, which posits that almost all behavior results from some form of repressed abuse. Kelley’s aesthetic mines the rich and often overlooked history of vernacular art in America, and his practice borrows heavily from the confrontational, politically conscious “by all means necessary” attitude of punk music.Learn more about Mike Kelley: http://www.art21.org/artists/mike-kelleyVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Nancy Schreiber & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin & Stacy Hruby. Editor: Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Mike Kelley. Special Thanks: Gagosian Gallery, New York. 281 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3578224 http://blip.tv/file/3559026 Art Fri, 30 Apr 2010 11:13:11 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-MikeKelleyDayIsDone979.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB2rNUAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB2rNUAg" style="display:none"></embed> Mike Kelley: "Day Is Done" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 F68B1EFC-4ED3-11DF-967A-BF3DFAAA2010 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/beryl-korot-radical-software-1970-74-3545829 Beryl Korot: "Radical Software" 1970-74 art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3545829 3526592 file no 0.0 2010-04-23T12:30:12Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 248 6lOB2LZJAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB2LZJAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3545829&skin=rss Art21-BerylKorotRadicalSoftware197074372.jpg Episode #103: Beryl Korot describes the impetus behind the innovative 1970s publication Radical Software, elucidating the history of video in art and the impact of mass media on society. Emerging from an independent video community that included media visionaries such as Marshall McLuhan and groups such as Televisionaries, Videofreex, People's Video Theater, and Global Village, the first issue of Radical Software debuted in Spring of 1970 as a publication by the Raindance Corporation. Beryl Korot and Phyllis Segura (Gershuny) acted as Editors, while Michael Shamburg served as Publisher with Ira Schneider as co-Originator. Early contributors included Nam June Paik, Buckminster Fuller, Ant Farm, Frank Gillette, and Paul Ryan, among others. After eleven issues, Radical Software ceased publication in the Spring of 1974 and is now an invaluable time capsule of an era.An early video-art pioneer and an internationally exhibited artist, Beryl Korots multiple-channel (and multiple-monitor) video installation works explored the relationship between programming tools as diverse as the technology of the loom and multiple-channel video. For most of the 1980s, Korot concentrated on a series of paintings that were based on a language she created that was an analogue to the Latin alphabet. Drawing on her earlier interest in weaving and video as related technologies, she made most of these paintings on hand-woven and traditional linen canvas. More recently, she has collaborated with her husband, the composer Steve Reich, on "Three Tales," a documentary digital video opera in three acts that explores the way technology creates and frames our experience.Learn more about Beryl Korot: http://www.art21.org/artists/beryl-korotVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Wesley Miller. Camera & Sound: Nick Ravich. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Archival Material Courtesy: Beryl Korot & the Daniel Langlois Foundation of Montreal. Special Thanks: Davidson Gigliotti & Ira Schneider. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-BerylKorotRadicalSoftware197074372-134.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #103: Beryl Korot describes the impetus behind the innovative 1970s publication Radical Software, elucidating the history of video in art and the impact of mass media on society. Emerging from an independent video community that included media visionaries such as Marshall McLuhan and groups such as Televisionaries, Videofreex, People's Video Theater, and Global Village, the first issue of Radical Software debuted in Spring of 1970 as a publication by the Raindance Corporation. Beryl Korot and Phyllis Segura (Gershuny) acted as Editors, while Michael Shamburg served as Publisher with Ira Schneider as co-Originator. Early contributors included Nam June Paik, Buckminster Fuller, Ant Farm, Frank Gillette, and Paul Ryan, among others. After eleven issues, Radical Software ceased publication in the Spring of 1974 and is now an invaluable time capsule of an era.An early video-art pioneer and an internationally exhibited artist, Beryl Korots multiple-channel (and multiple-monitor) video installation works explored the relationship between programming tools as diverse as the technology of the loom and multiple-channel video. For most of the 1980s, Korot concentrated on a series of paintings that were based on a language she created that was an analogue to the Latin alphabet. Drawing on her earlier interest in weaving and video as related technologies, she made most of these paintings on hand-woven and traditional linen canvas. More recently, she has collaborated with her husband, the composer Steve Reich, on "Three Tales," a documentary digital video opera in three acts that explores the way technology creates and frames our experience.Learn more about Beryl Korot: http://www.art21.org/artists/beryl-korotVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Wesley Miller. Camera & Sound: Nick Ravich. Editor: Joaquin Perez. Archival Material Courtesy: Beryl Korot & the Daniel Langlois Foundation of Montreal. Special Thanks: Davidson Gigliotti & Ira Schneider. 248 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3545829 http://blip.tv/file/3526592 Art Fri, 23 Apr 2010 12:30:12 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-BerylKorotRadicalSoftware197074372.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB2LZJAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB2LZJAg" style="display:none"></embed> Beryl Korot: "Radical Software" 1970-74 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 E3FD97FE-4949-11DF-ACB7-AE06812BAE5A http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/mary-heilmann-home-studio-3513214 Mary Heilmann: Home & Studio art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3513214 3493927 file no 0.0 2010-04-16T11:19:15Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 191 6lOB1rdiAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB1rdiAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3513214&skin=rss Art21-MaryHeilmannHomeStudio511.jpg Episode #102: Mary Heilmann leads a tour of her home and studio on Long Island, pointing out how she’s modified the surrounding landscape and the ways in which the scenery has seeped into her paintings. For every piece of Mary Heilmann's work—abstract paintings, ceramics, and furniture—there is a backstory. Imbued with recollections, stories spun from her imagination, and references to music, aesthetic influences, and dreams, her paintings are like meditations or icons. Her compositions are often hybrid spatial environments that juxtapose two- and three-dimensional renderings in a single frame, join several canvases into new works, or create diptychs of paintings and photographs in the form of prints, slideshows, and videos. Heilmann sometimes installs her paintings alongside chairs and benches that she builds by hand, an open invitation for viewers to socialize and contemplate her work communally.Learn more about Mary Heilmann: http://www.art21.org/artists/mary-heilmannVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: David Howe. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Mary Heilmann http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-MaryHeilmannHomeStudio511-76.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #102: Mary Heilmann leads a tour of her home and studio on Long Island, pointing out how she’s modified the surrounding landscape and the ways in which the scenery has seeped into her paintings. For every piece of Mary Heilmann's work—abstract paintings, ceramics, and furniture—there is a backstory. Imbued with recollections, stories spun from her imagination, and references to music, aesthetic influences, and dreams, her paintings are like meditations or icons. Her compositions are often hybrid spatial environments that juxtapose two- and three-dimensional renderings in a single frame, join several canvases into new works, or create diptychs of paintings and photographs in the form of prints, slideshows, and videos. Heilmann sometimes installs her paintings alongside chairs and benches that she builds by hand, an open invitation for viewers to socialize and contemplate her work communally.Learn more about Mary Heilmann: http://www.art21.org/artists/mary-heilmannVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: David Howe. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Mary Heilmann 191 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3513214 http://blip.tv/file/3493927 Art Fri, 16 Apr 2010 11:19:15 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-MaryHeilmannHomeStudio511.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB1rdiAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB1rdiAg" style="display:none"></embed> Mary Heilmann: Home & Studio 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 7B7E1BE0-43E0-11DF-8CF7-9A963B3AAE69 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/julie-mehretu-painting-conservator-luca-bonetti-3481913 Julie Mehretu: Painting Conservator Luca Bonetti art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3481913 3462590 file no 0.0 2010-04-09T14:02:06Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 391 6lOB1MMdAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB1MMdAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3481913&skin=rss Art21-JulieMehretuPaintingConservatorLucaBonetti890.jpg Episode #101: Luca Bonetti leads the installation of artist Julie Mehretu’s massive painting Mural (2009) at Goldman Sachs, coordinating a team of installers and studio assistants.Julie Mehretu's paintings and drawings refer to elements of mapping and architecture, achieving a calligraphic complexity that resembles turbulent atmospheres and dense social networks. Architectural renderings and aerial views of urban grids enter the work as fragments, losing their real-world specificity and challenging narrow geographic and cultural readings. The paintings' wax-like surfaces—built up over weeks and months in thin translucent layers—have a luminous warmth and spatial depth, with formal qualities of light and space made all the more complex by Mehretu's delicate depictions of fire, explosions, and perspectives in both two and three dimensions. Her works engage the history of nonobjective art—from Constructivism to Futurism—posing contemporary questions about the relationship between utopian impulses and abstraction.Learn more about Julie Mehretu at: http://www.art21.org/artists/julie-mehretuVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Nick Ravich. Camera & Sound: Nick Ravich. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Thanks: Luca Bonetti; Travis Fitzgerald; Goldman, Sachs, & Co.; and Harmony Murphy. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JulieMehretuPaintingConservatorLucaBonetti890-706.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #101: Luca Bonetti leads the installation of artist Julie Mehretu’s massive painting Mural (2009) at Goldman Sachs, coordinating a team of installers and studio assistants.Julie Mehretu's paintings and drawings refer to elements of mapping and architecture, achieving a calligraphic complexity that resembles turbulent atmospheres and dense social networks. Architectural renderings and aerial views of urban grids enter the work as fragments, losing their real-world specificity and challenging narrow geographic and cultural readings. The paintings' wax-like surfaces—built up over weeks and months in thin translucent layers—have a luminous warmth and spatial depth, with formal qualities of light and space made all the more complex by Mehretu's delicate depictions of fire, explosions, and perspectives in both two and three dimensions. Her works engage the history of nonobjective art—from Constructivism to Futurism—posing contemporary questions about the relationship between utopian impulses and abstraction.Learn more about Julie Mehretu at: http://www.art21.org/artists/julie-mehretuVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Nick Ravich. Camera & Sound: Nick Ravich. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Thanks: Luca Bonetti; Travis Fitzgerald; Goldman, Sachs, & Co.; and Harmony Murphy. 391 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3481913 http://blip.tv/file/3462590 Art julie mehretu art artist contemporary visual painting mural conservation installation goldman sachs new york Fri, 09 Apr 2010 14:02:06 +0000 julie mehretu, art, artist, contemporary, visual, painting, mural, conservation, installation, goldman sachs, new york http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JulieMehretuPaintingConservatorLucaBonetti890.jpg julie mehretu, art, artist, contemporary, visual, painting, mural, conservation, installation, goldman sachs, new york <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB1MMdAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB1MMdAg" style="display:none"></embed> Julie Mehretu: Painting Conservator Luca Bonetti 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 2E8E9518-3E53-11DF-9601-A635876CB208 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/william-kentridge-pain-sympathy-3452420 William Kentridge: Pain & Sympathy art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3452420 3433090 file no 0.0 2010-04-02T12:28:02Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 175 6lOB0txoAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB0txoAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3452420&skin=rss Art21-WilliamKentridgePainSympathy253.jpg Episode #100: With his video "History of the Main Complaint" (1996) serving as a backdrop, William Kentridge discusses how artists draw upon tragedy as subject matter for their work and how drawing itself can be a compassionate act. Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions. Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridge VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgePainSympathy253-512.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #100: With his video "History of the Main Complaint" (1996) serving as a backdrop, William Kentridge discusses how artists draw upon tragedy as subject matter for their work and how drawing itself can be a compassionate act. Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions. Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridge VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. 175 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3452420 http://blip.tv/file/3433090 Art Fri, 02 Apr 2010 12:28:02 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgePainSympathy253.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB0txoAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB0txoAg" style="display:none"></embed> William Kentridge: Pain & Sympathy 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 70C3198E-38FB-11DF-BBCC-DCCC0C20F05C http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/you-decide-viewers-choose-the-100th-exclusive-3419751 YOU DECIDE: Viewers Choose the 100th "Exclusive" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3419751 3400402 file no 0.0 2010-03-26T17:17:22Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 121 6lOB0N1LAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB0N1LAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3419751&skin=rss Art21-YOUDECIDEViewersChooseThe100thExclusive238.png We're inviting viewers to choose which video will be our 100th episode in the "Exclusive" series.Will it be Mary Heilmann? William Kentridge? Beryl Korot? Julie Mehretu? Mike Kelley? YOU DECIDE!VOTE NOW & SEE THE RESULTS:http://www.art21.org/exclusive(polls close April 1st, 2010) http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-YOUDECIDEViewersChooseThe100thExclusive238-465.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture We're inviting viewers to choose which video will be our 100th episode in the "Exclusive" series.Will it be Mary Heilmann? William Kentridge? Beryl Korot? Julie Mehretu? Mike Kelley? YOU DECIDE!VOTE NOW & SEE THE RESULTS:http://www.art21.org/exclusive(polls close April 1st, 2010) 121 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3419751 http://blip.tv/file/3400402 Art Fri, 26 Mar 2010 17:17:22 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-YOUDECIDEViewersChooseThe100thExclusive238.png <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB0N1LAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB0N1LAg" style="display:none"></embed> YOU DECIDE: Viewers Choose the 100th "Exclusive" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 DB5B10A2-38CF-11DF-8687-AD59019BB5C0 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/susan-rothenberg-emotions-3418569 Susan Rothenberg: Emotions art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3418569 3399220 file no 0.0 2010-03-26T12:05:23Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 227 6lOB0NQtAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOB0NQtAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3418569&skin=rss Art21-SusanRothenbergEmotions260.jpg Episode #099: Filmed at her home and studio in New Mexico, artist Susan Rothenberg explains how she transforms personal experiences and feelings into works that can become an "emotional moment" for the viewer. While discussing the loss of her dog, Rothenberg describes the process of recovering a memory of her pet through the act of painting. Susan Rothenberg's early work—large acrylic, figurative paintings—came to prominence in the 1970s New York art world, a time and place almost completely dominated and defined by Minimalist aesthetics and theories. The first body of work for which she became known centered on life-sized images of horses. Glyph-like and iconic, these images are not so much abstracted as pared down to their most essential elements. The horses, along with fragmented body parts (heads, eyes, and hands) are almost totemic, like primitive symbols, and serve as formal elements through which Rothenberg investigated the meaning, mechanics, and essence of painting. Rothenberg’s paintings since the 1990s reflect her move from New York to New Mexico, her adoption of oil painting, and her new-found interest in using the memory of observed and experienced events (a riding accident, a near-fatal bee sting, walking the dog, a game of poker or dominoes) as an armature for creating a painting. These scenes excerpted from daily life, whether highlighting an untoward event or a moment of remembrance, come to life through Rothenberg’s thickly layered and nervous brushwork. A distinctive characteristic of these paintings is a tilted perspective in which the vantage point is located high above the ground. A common experience in the New Mexico landscape, this unexpected perspective invests the work with an eerily objective psychological edge. Learn more about Susan Rothenberg at: http://www.art21.org/artists/susan-rothenberg VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Dyanna Taylor. Sound: Jim Gallup. Editor: Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Susan Rothenberg. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-SusanRothenbergEmotions260-262.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #099: Filmed at her home and studio in New Mexico, artist Susan Rothenberg explains how she transforms personal experiences and feelings into works that can become an "emotional moment" for the viewer. While discussing the loss of her dog, Rothenberg describes the process of recovering a memory of her pet through the act of painting. Susan Rothenberg's early work—large acrylic, figurative paintings—came to prominence in the 1970s New York art world, a time and place almost completely dominated and defined by Minimalist aesthetics and theories. The first body of work for which she became known centered on life-sized images of horses. Glyph-like and iconic, these images are not so much abstracted as pared down to their most essential elements. The horses, along with fragmented body parts (heads, eyes, and hands) are almost totemic, like primitive symbols, and serve as formal elements through which Rothenberg investigated the meaning, mechanics, and essence of painting. Rothenberg’s paintings since the 1990s reflect her move from New York to New Mexico, her adoption of oil painting, and her new-found interest in using the memory of observed and experienced events (a riding accident, a near-fatal bee sting, walking the dog, a game of poker or dominoes) as an armature for creating a painting. These scenes excerpted from daily life, whether highlighting an untoward event or a moment of remembrance, come to life through Rothenberg’s thickly layered and nervous brushwork. A distinctive characteristic of these paintings is a tilted perspective in which the vantage point is located high above the ground. A common experience in the New Mexico landscape, this unexpected perspective invests the work with an eerily objective psychological edge. Learn more about Susan Rothenberg at: http://www.art21.org/artists/susan-rothenberg VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Dyanna Taylor. Sound: Jim Gallup. Editor: Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Susan Rothenberg. 227 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3418569 http://blip.tv/file/3399220 Art Fri, 26 Mar 2010 12:05:23 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-SusanRothenbergEmotions260.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOB0NQtAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOB0NQtAg" style="display:none"></embed> Susan Rothenberg: Emotions 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 7B5E2218-3350-11DF-AFC5-96F293F9757E http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/jeff-koons-money-value-3385808 Jeff Koons: Money & Value art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3385808 3366444 file no 0.0 2010-03-19T12:11:00Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 184 6lOBztQ0Ag http://blip.tv/play/6lOBztQ0Ag http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3385808&skin=rss Art21-JeffKoonsMoneyValue317.jpg Episode #098: Artist Jeff Koons discusses themes of money, desire, perfection, and moral responsibility. Filmed in his busy New York studio and surrounded by numerous assistants at work on paintings and sculptures, Koons describes how the practicalities of running a business are often in service to creative ends.Jeff Koons plucks images and objects from popular culture, framing questions about taste and pleasure. His contextual sleight-of-hand, which transforms banal items into sumptuous icons, takes on a psychological dimension through dramatic shifts in scale, spectacularly engineered surfaces, and subliminal allegories of animals, humans, and anthropomorphized objects. The subject of art history is a constant undercurrent, whether Koons elevates kitsch to the level of Classical art, produces photos in the manner of Baroque paintings, or develops public works that borrow techniques and elements of seventeenth-century French garden design. Organizing his own studio production in a manner that rivals a Renaissance workshop, Koons makes computer-assisted, handcrafted works that communicate through their meticulous attention to detail.Learn more about Jeff Koons: http://www.art21.org/artists/jeff-koonsVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Brian Hwang, Clair Popkin & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Mark Mandler. Editor: Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Jeff Koons. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JeffKoonsMoneyValue317-255.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #098: Artist Jeff Koons discusses themes of money, desire, perfection, and moral responsibility. Filmed in his busy New York studio and surrounded by numerous assistants at work on paintings and sculptures, Koons describes how the practicalities of running a business are often in service to creative ends.Jeff Koons plucks images and objects from popular culture, framing questions about taste and pleasure. His contextual sleight-of-hand, which transforms banal items into sumptuous icons, takes on a psychological dimension through dramatic shifts in scale, spectacularly engineered surfaces, and subliminal allegories of animals, humans, and anthropomorphized objects. The subject of art history is a constant undercurrent, whether Koons elevates kitsch to the level of Classical art, produces photos in the manner of Baroque paintings, or develops public works that borrow techniques and elements of seventeenth-century French garden design. Organizing his own studio production in a manner that rivals a Renaissance workshop, Koons makes computer-assisted, handcrafted works that communicate through their meticulous attention to detail.Learn more about Jeff Koons: http://www.art21.org/artists/jeff-koonsVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Brian Hwang, Clair Popkin & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Mark Mandler. Editor: Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Jeff Koons. 184 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3385808 http://blip.tv/file/3366444 Art Fri, 19 Mar 2010 12:11:00 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JeffKoonsMoneyValue317.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBztQ0Ag.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBztQ0Ag" style="display:none"></embed> Jeff Koons: Money & Value 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 62FCB12E-3285-11DF-B115-D5F4877388BF http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/mary-heilmann-abstract-painting-3381034 Mary Heilmann: Abstract Painting art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3381034 3361670 file no 0.0 2010-07-30T12:50:07Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 120 6lOBzq8OAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBzq8OAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3381034&skin=rss Art21-MaryHeilmannAbstractPainting605.jpg Episode #116: Mary Heilmann describes a breakthrough she had of combining gestural and hard-edge abstracton in a single painting, combining the legacies of Willem de Kooning and Josef Albers. For every piece of Mary Heilmann's work—abstract paintings, ceramics, and furniture—there is a backstory. Imbued with recollections, stories spun from her imagination, and references to music, aesthetic influences, and dreams, her paintings are like meditations or icons. Her compositions are often hybrid spatial environments that juxtapose two- and three-dimensional renderings in a single frame, join several canvases into new works, or create diptychs of paintings and photographs in the form of prints, slideshows, and videos. Heilmann sometimes installs her paintings alongside chairs and benches that she builds by hand, an open invitation for viewers to socialize and contemplate her work communally. Learn more about Mary Heilmann: http://www.art21.org/artists/mary-heilmann VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mark Falstad & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Mary Heilmann. Special Thanks: Wexner Center for the Arts. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-MaryHeilmannAbstractPainting605-138.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #116: Mary Heilmann describes a breakthrough she had of combining gestural and hard-edge abstracton in a single painting, combining the legacies of Willem de Kooning and Josef Albers. For every piece of Mary Heilmann's work—abstract paintings, ceramics, and furniture—there is a backstory. Imbued with recollections, stories spun from her imagination, and references to music, aesthetic influences, and dreams, her paintings are like meditations or icons. Her compositions are often hybrid spatial environments that juxtapose two- and three-dimensional renderings in a single frame, join several canvases into new works, or create diptychs of paintings and photographs in the form of prints, slideshows, and videos. Heilmann sometimes installs her paintings alongside chairs and benches that she builds by hand, an open invitation for viewers to socialize and contemplate her work communally. Learn more about Mary Heilmann: http://www.art21.org/artists/mary-heilmann VIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mark Falstad & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Mary Heilmann. Special Thanks: Wexner Center for the Arts. 120 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3381034 http://blip.tv/file/3361670 Art Fri, 30 Jul 2010 12:50:07 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-MaryHeilmannAbstractPainting605.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBzq8OAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBzq8OAg" style="display:none"></embed> Mary Heilmann: Abstract Painting 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 5C2AA1E2-2DDC-11DF-AD72-F34656B69A5D http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/julie-mehretu-studio-assistants-3354808 Julie Mehretu: Studio Assistants art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3354808 3335425 file no 0.0 2010-03-12T13:37:10Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 291 6lOBzOIcAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBzOIcAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3354808&skin=rss Art21-JulieMehretuStudioAssistants986.jpg Episode #097: Filmed in her Berlin studio, a group of Julie Mehretu's assistants — Sarah Rentz, Damien Young, Erika Fortner and Harmony Murphy — discuss how they each bring different areas of expertise to the process of making paintings, from fine art backgrounds in printmaking and illustration to furniture polishing techniques and administrative skills.Julie Mehretu's paintings and drawings refer to elements of mapping and architecture, achieving a calligraphic complexity that resembles turbulent atmospheres and dense social networks. Architectural renderings and aerial views of urban grids enter the work as fragments, losing their real-world specificity and challenging narrow geographic and cultural readings. The paintings' wax-like surfaces—built up over weeks and months in thin translucent layers—have a luminous warmth and spatial depth, with formal qualities of light and space made all the more complex by Mehretu's delicate depictions of fire, explosions, and perspectives in both two and three dimensions. Her works engage the history of nonobjective art—from Constructivism to Futurism—posing contemporary questions about the relationship between utopian impulses and abstraction.Learn more about Julie Mehretu at: http://www.art21.org/artists/julie-mehretuVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Ian Serfontein. Sound: Paul Stadden. Editor: Lizzie Donahue, Paulo Padilha & Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Julie Mehretu. Special Thanks: Erika Fortner, Harmony Murphy, Sarah Rentz & Damien Young. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JulieMehretuStudioAssistants986-155.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #097: Filmed in her Berlin studio, a group of Julie Mehretu's assistants — Sarah Rentz, Damien Young, Erika Fortner and Harmony Murphy — discuss how they each bring different areas of expertise to the process of making paintings, from fine art backgrounds in printmaking and illustration to furniture polishing techniques and administrative skills.Julie Mehretu's paintings and drawings refer to elements of mapping and architecture, achieving a calligraphic complexity that resembles turbulent atmospheres and dense social networks. Architectural renderings and aerial views of urban grids enter the work as fragments, losing their real-world specificity and challenging narrow geographic and cultural readings. The paintings' wax-like surfaces—built up over weeks and months in thin translucent layers—have a luminous warmth and spatial depth, with formal qualities of light and space made all the more complex by Mehretu's delicate depictions of fire, explosions, and perspectives in both two and three dimensions. Her works engage the history of nonobjective art—from Constructivism to Futurism—posing contemporary questions about the relationship between utopian impulses and abstraction.Learn more about Julie Mehretu at: http://www.art21.org/artists/julie-mehretuVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Ian Serfontein. Sound: Paul Stadden. Editor: Lizzie Donahue, Paulo Padilha & Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Julie Mehretu. Special Thanks: Erika Fortner, Harmony Murphy, Sarah Rentz & Damien Young. 291 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3354808 http://blip.tv/file/3335425 Art Fri, 12 Mar 2010 13:37:10 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JulieMehretuStudioAssistants986.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBzOIcAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBzOIcAg" style="display:none"></embed> Julie Mehretu: Studio Assistants 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 CF53FF56-2891-11DF-8A17-DD79B9F6D26E http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/jessica-stockholder-form-3324464 Jessica Stockholder: Form art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3324464 3305061 file no 0.0 2010-03-05T20:00:55Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 122 6lOByvUUAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOByvUUAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3324464&skin=rss Art21-JessicaStockholderForm490.jpg Episode #096: From her home in New Haven, Connecticut, Jessica Stockholder discusses the strength of form and the difficulty in articulating the meaning behind abstract shapes. A pioneer of multimedia genre-bending installations, Jessica Stockholder’s site-specific interventions and autonomous floor and wall pieces have been described as “paintings in space.” Her work is energetic, cacophonous, and idiosyncratic, but closer observation reveals formal decisions about color and composition, and a tempering of chaos with control.Learn more about Jessica Stockholder at: http://www.art21.org/artists/jessica-stockholderVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mead Hunt. Sound: Merce Williams. Editor: Jenny Chiurco and Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Jessica Stockholder. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JessicaStockholderForm490-694.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #096: From her home in New Haven, Connecticut, Jessica Stockholder discusses the strength of form and the difficulty in articulating the meaning behind abstract shapes. A pioneer of multimedia genre-bending installations, Jessica Stockholder’s site-specific interventions and autonomous floor and wall pieces have been described as “paintings in space.” Her work is energetic, cacophonous, and idiosyncratic, but closer observation reveals formal decisions about color and composition, and a tempering of chaos with control.Learn more about Jessica Stockholder at: http://www.art21.org/artists/jessica-stockholderVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mead Hunt. Sound: Merce Williams. Editor: Jenny Chiurco and Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Jessica Stockholder. 122 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3324464 http://blip.tv/file/3305061 Art Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:00:55 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JessicaStockholderForm490.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOByvUUAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOByvUUAg" style="display:none"></embed> Jessica Stockholder: Form 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 F16DC46A-22F5-11DF-9B57-FA316634465A http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/paul-mccarthy-lifecasting-3292916 Paul McCarthy: Lifecasting art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3292916 3273496 file no 0.0 2010-02-26T16:42:35Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 177 6lOByP5YAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOByP5YAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3292916&skin=rss Art21-PaulMcCarthyLifecasting990.jpg Episode #095: Surrounded by various figurative sculptures in progress in his Los Angeles studio, including an over-sized bust of President George W. Bush, artist Paul McCarthy discusses the process of casting from life and the resulting perfections and imperfections.Paul McCarthy’s video-taped performances and provocative multimedia installations lampoon polite society, ridicule authority, and bombard the viewer with a sensory overload of often sexually-tinged, violent imagery. With irreverent wit, McCarthy often takes aim at cherished American myths and icons—Walt Disney, the Western, and even the Modern Artist—adding a touch of malice to subjects that have been traditionally revered for their innocence or purity. Whether conflating real-world political figures with fantastical characters such as Santa Claus, or treating erotic and abject content with frivolity and charm, McCarthy’s work confuses codes, mixes high and low culture, and provokes an analysis of fundamental beliefs.Learn more about Paul McCarthy at: http://www.art21.org/artists/paul-mccarthyVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Robert Elfstrom. Sound: Doug Dunderdale. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Paul McCarthy. Special Thanks: Jacobine van der Meer. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-PaulMcCarthyLifecasting990-160.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #095: Surrounded by various figurative sculptures in progress in his Los Angeles studio, including an over-sized bust of President George W. Bush, artist Paul McCarthy discusses the process of casting from life and the resulting perfections and imperfections.Paul McCarthy’s video-taped performances and provocative multimedia installations lampoon polite society, ridicule authority, and bombard the viewer with a sensory overload of often sexually-tinged, violent imagery. With irreverent wit, McCarthy often takes aim at cherished American myths and icons—Walt Disney, the Western, and even the Modern Artist—adding a touch of malice to subjects that have been traditionally revered for their innocence or purity. Whether conflating real-world political figures with fantastical characters such as Santa Claus, or treating erotic and abject content with frivolity and charm, McCarthy’s work confuses codes, mixes high and low culture, and provokes an analysis of fundamental beliefs.Learn more about Paul McCarthy at: http://www.art21.org/artists/paul-mccarthyVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Robert Elfstrom. Sound: Doug Dunderdale. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Joaquin Perez. Artwork Courtesy: Paul McCarthy. Special Thanks: Jacobine van der Meer. 177 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3292916 http://blip.tv/file/3273496 Art Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:42:35 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-PaulMcCarthyLifecasting990.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOByP5YAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOByP5YAg" style="display:none"></embed> Paul McCarthy: Lifecasting 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 8D215624-1D60-11DF-868E-F9EB5160256F http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/william-kentridge-return-3259038 William Kentridge: "Return" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3259038 3239600 file no 0.0 2010-02-19T14:10:36Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 178 6lOBxvYCAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBxvYCAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3259038&skin=rss Art21-WilliamKentridgeReturn355.jpg Episode #094: Shot in his Johannesburg studio in South Africa, William Kentridge reveals the process and unusual presentation of the video work Return — a component of the larger project (REPEAT) from the beginning / Da Capo (2008) — which had its debut on the fire screen of Teatro La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy. Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions.Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridgeVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgeReturn355-374.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #094: Shot in his Johannesburg studio in South Africa, William Kentridge reveals the process and unusual presentation of the video work Return — a component of the larger project (REPEAT) from the beginning / Da Capo (2008) — which had its debut on the fire screen of Teatro La Fenice opera house in Venice, Italy. Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions.Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridgeVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. 178 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3259038 http://blip.tv/file/3239600 Art Fri, 19 Feb 2010 14:10:36 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgeReturn355.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBxvYCAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBxvYCAg" style="display:none"></embed> William Kentridge: "Return" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 DA28CB4E-17D1-11DF-94F3-BF69D9A75C5B http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/john-baldessari-recycling-images-3229024 John Baldessari: Recycling Images art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3229024 3209567 file no 0.0 2010-02-12T12:26:32Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 118 6lOBxYtEAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBxYtEAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3229024&skin=rss Art21-JohnBaldessariRecyclingImages285.jpg Episode #093: While sifting through boxes of film stills in his Santa Monica studio, artist John Baldessari talks about being a pack rat and discusses his attitude towards appropriating images.Synthesizing photomontage, painting, and language, Baldessari’s deadpan visual juxtapositions equate images with words and illuminate, confound, and challenge meaning. He upends commonly held expectations of how images function, often by drawing the viewer’s attention to minor details, absences, or the spaces between things.Learn more about John Baldessari at: http://www.art21.org/artists/john-baldessariVIDEO | Producer:  Wesley Miller &  Nick Ravich  . Interview:  Susan Sollins  . Camera:  Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Lizzie Donahue &  Paulo Padilha.   Artwork Courtesy:  John Baldessari. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JohnBaldessariRecyclingImages285-242.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #093: While sifting through boxes of film stills in his Santa Monica studio, artist John Baldessari talks about being a pack rat and discusses his attitude towards appropriating images.Synthesizing photomontage, painting, and language, Baldessari’s deadpan visual juxtapositions equate images with words and illuminate, confound, and challenge meaning. He upends commonly held expectations of how images function, often by drawing the viewer’s attention to minor details, absences, or the spaces between things.Learn more about John Baldessari at: http://www.art21.org/artists/john-baldessariVIDEO | Producer:  Wesley Miller &  Nick Ravich  . Interview:  Susan Sollins  . Camera:  Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Lizzie Donahue &  Paulo Padilha.   Artwork Courtesy:  John Baldessari. 118 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3229024 http://blip.tv/file/3209567 Art Fri, 12 Feb 2010 12:26:32 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JohnBaldessariRecyclingImages285.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBxYtEAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBxYtEAg" style="display:none"></embed> John Baldessari: Recycling Images 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 715D20C4-127C-11DF-857D-85B31DB324D4 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/julie-mehretu-workday-3199597 Julie Mehretu: Workday art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3199597 3180084 file no 0.0 2010-02-05T17:32:33Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 129 6lOBw6VRAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBw6VRAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3199597&skin=rss Art21-JulieMehretuWorkday795.jpg Episode #092: Filmed in her Berlin studio, Julie Mehretu discusses the ups and downs of her daily studio practice. Mehretu is shown working on the painting Middle Grey (2007-2009), one work in a suite of seven paintings commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim as part of the exhibition Julie Mehretu: Grey Area.Mehretu’s paintings and drawings refer to elements of mapping and architecture, achieving a calligraphic complexity that resembles turbulent atmospheres and dense social networks. Architectural renderings and aerial views of urban grids enter the work as fragments, losing their real-world specificity and challenging narrow geographic and cultural readings. The paintings’ wax-like surfaces—built up over weeks and months in thin translucent layers—have a luminous warmth and spatial depth, with formal qualities of light and space made all the more complex by Mehretu’s delicate depictions of fire, explosions, and perspectives in both two and three dimensions. Her works engage the history of nonobjective art—from Constructivism to Futurism—posing contemporary questions about the relationship between utopian impulses and abstraction.Learn more about Julie Mehretu at: http://www.art21.org/artists/julie-mehretuVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Ian Serfontein. Sound: Paul Stadden. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Julie Mehretu. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JulieMehretuWorkday795-202.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #092: Filmed in her Berlin studio, Julie Mehretu discusses the ups and downs of her daily studio practice. Mehretu is shown working on the painting Middle Grey (2007-2009), one work in a suite of seven paintings commissioned by the Deutsche Guggenheim as part of the exhibition Julie Mehretu: Grey Area.Mehretu’s paintings and drawings refer to elements of mapping and architecture, achieving a calligraphic complexity that resembles turbulent atmospheres and dense social networks. Architectural renderings and aerial views of urban grids enter the work as fragments, losing their real-world specificity and challenging narrow geographic and cultural readings. The paintings’ wax-like surfaces—built up over weeks and months in thin translucent layers—have a luminous warmth and spatial depth, with formal qualities of light and space made all the more complex by Mehretu’s delicate depictions of fire, explosions, and perspectives in both two and three dimensions. Her works engage the history of nonobjective art—from Constructivism to Futurism—posing contemporary questions about the relationship between utopian impulses and abstraction.Learn more about Julie Mehretu at: http://www.art21.org/artists/julie-mehretuVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Ian Serfontein. Sound: Paul Stadden. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Julie Mehretu. 129 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3199597 http://blip.tv/file/3180084 Art Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:32:33 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JulieMehretuWorkday795.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBw6VRAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBw6VRAg" style="display:none"></embed> Julie Mehretu: Workday 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 A9CC215A-B811-11DE-ABBE-B3708CBCADA0 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/william-kentridge-breathe-2735246 William Kentridge: "Breathe" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2735246 2715360 file no 0.0 2009-10-13T16:01:27Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 182 6lOBpvlyAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBpvlyAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2735246&skin=rss Art21-WilliamKentridgeBreathe553.jpg Episode #091: Shot in his Johannesburg studio in South Africa, William Kentridge reveals the process behind the video work "Breathe" — a component of the larger project "(REPEAT) from the beginning / Da Capo" that debuted at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and at the nearby Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in San Barnaba, Italy. Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions. Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridgeVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Paulo Padilha & Mark Sutton. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgeBreathe553-135.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #091: Shot in his Johannesburg studio in South Africa, William Kentridge reveals the process behind the video work "Breathe" — a component of the larger project "(REPEAT) from the beginning / Da Capo" that debuted at the Teatro La Fenice in Venice and at the nearby Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa in San Barnaba, Italy. Having witnessed first-hand one of the twentieth century’s most contentious struggles—the dissolution of apartheid—William Kentridge brings the ambiguity and subtlety of personal experience to public subjects most often framed in narrowly defined terms. Using film, drawing, sculpture, animation, and performance, he transmutes sobering political events into powerful poetic allegories. Aware of myriad ways in which we construct the world by looking, Kentridge often uses optical illusions to extend his drawings-in-time into three dimensions. Learn more about William Kentridge at: http://www.art21.org/artists/william-kentridgeVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Paulo Padilha & Mark Sutton. Artwork Courtesy: William Kentridge. 182 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2735246 http://blip.tv/file/2715360 Art Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:01:27 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-WilliamKentridgeBreathe553.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBpvlyAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBpvlyAg" style="display:none"></embed> William Kentridge: "Breathe" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 9BBB8E82-C8D0-11DE-8024-C3E707A3D918 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/paul-mccarthy-animatronic-designer-jon-dawe-2824231 Paul McCarthy: Animatronic Designer Jon Dawe art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2824231 2804371 file no 0.0 2010-01-21T23:28:35Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 216 6lOBrLELAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBrLELAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2824231&skin=rss Art21-PaulMcCarthyAnimatronicDesignerJonDawe226.jpg Episode #090: Animatronic Designer Jon Dawe reveals the process behind the robotic creature effects in artist Paul McCarthy's sculpture "Bush and Pig." Dawe's previous work, as part of Stan Winston Studio and Tatopoulos Studios, includes special effects and mechanical designs for the popular films "Jurassic Park," "Hellboy," "Underworld," and "Fantastic Four," among others.Paul McCarthy's video-taped performances and provocative multimedia installations lampoon polite society, ridicule authority, and bombard the viewer with a sensory overload of often sexually-tinged, violent imagery. With irreverent wit, McCarthy often takes aim at cherished American myths and icons—Walt Disney, the Western, and even the Modern Artist—adding a touch of malice to subjects that have been traditionally revered for their innocence or purity. Whether conflating real-world political figures with fantastical characters such as Santa Claus, or treating erotic and abject content with frivolity and charm, McCarthy's work confuses codes, mixes high and low culture, and provokes an analysis of fundamental beliefs.Learn more about Paul McCarthy at: http://www.art21.org/artists/paul-mccarthyVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera : Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Doug Dunderdale. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Paul McCarthy. Special Thanks: Jon Dawe. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-PaulMcCarthyAnimatronicDesignerJonDawe226-242.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #090: Animatronic Designer Jon Dawe reveals the process behind the robotic creature effects in artist Paul McCarthy's sculpture "Bush and Pig." Dawe's previous work, as part of Stan Winston Studio and Tatopoulos Studios, includes special effects and mechanical designs for the popular films "Jurassic Park," "Hellboy," "Underworld," and "Fantastic Four," among others.Paul McCarthy's video-taped performances and provocative multimedia installations lampoon polite society, ridicule authority, and bombard the viewer with a sensory overload of often sexually-tinged, violent imagery. With irreverent wit, McCarthy often takes aim at cherished American myths and icons—Walt Disney, the Western, and even the Modern Artist—adding a touch of malice to subjects that have been traditionally revered for their innocence or purity. Whether conflating real-world political figures with fantastical characters such as Santa Claus, or treating erotic and abject content with frivolity and charm, McCarthy's work confuses codes, mixes high and low culture, and provokes an analysis of fundamental beliefs.Learn more about Paul McCarthy at: http://www.art21.org/artists/paul-mccarthyVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera : Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Doug Dunderdale. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Paul McCarthy. Special Thanks: Jon Dawe. 216 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2824231 http://blip.tv/file/2804371 Art Thu, 21 Jan 2010 23:28:35 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-PaulMcCarthyAnimatronicDesignerJonDawe226.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBrLELAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBrLELAg" style="display:none"></embed> Paul McCarthy: Animatronic Designer Jon Dawe 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 954AA7F6-CEDC-11DE-AB1B-9863A896A5CA http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/allan-mccollum-shapes-copper-cookie-cutters-2855873 Allan McCollum: "Shapes Copper Cookie Cutters" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2855873 2836039 file no 0.0 2010-01-14T16:09:26Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 268 6lOBrqglAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBrqglAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2855873&skin=rss Art21-AllanMcCollumShapesCopperCookieCutters425-336.jpg Episode #089: Larry Little, co-founder of Aunt Holly's Copper Cookie Cutters with his wife Holly, describes his experiences working with artist Allan McCollum on the "Shapes from Maine" (2009) exhibition at Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York. Little describes the origins of his home business in Trescott, Maine, the process he developed for making cookie cutters by hand, and his working relationship with McCollum.Applying strategies of mass production to hand-made objects, Allan McCollum’s labor-intensive practice questions the intrinsic value of the unique work of art. McCollum’s installations—fields of vast numbers of small-scale works, systematically arranged—are the product of many tiny gestures, built up over time. Viewing his work often produces a sublime effect as one slowly realizes that the dizzying array of thousands of identical-looking shapes is, in fact, comprised of subtly different, distinct things. Engaging assistants, scientists, and local craftspeople in his process, McCollum embraces a collaborative and democratic form of creativity.Learn more about Allan McCollum at: http://www.art21.org/artists/allan-mccollumVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Dowling. Camera: Richard Kane & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Kenny Weinberg. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Allan McCollum. Thanks: Holly & Larry Little. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-AllanMcCollumShapesCopperCookieCutters425-336-486.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #089: Larry Little, co-founder of Aunt Holly's Copper Cookie Cutters with his wife Holly, describes his experiences working with artist Allan McCollum on the "Shapes from Maine" (2009) exhibition at Friedrich Petzel Gallery in New York. Little describes the origins of his home business in Trescott, Maine, the process he developed for making cookie cutters by hand, and his working relationship with McCollum.Applying strategies of mass production to hand-made objects, Allan McCollum’s labor-intensive practice questions the intrinsic value of the unique work of art. McCollum’s installations—fields of vast numbers of small-scale works, systematically arranged—are the product of many tiny gestures, built up over time. Viewing his work often produces a sublime effect as one slowly realizes that the dizzying array of thousands of identical-looking shapes is, in fact, comprised of subtly different, distinct things. Engaging assistants, scientists, and local craftspeople in his process, McCollum embraces a collaborative and democratic form of creativity.Learn more about Allan McCollum at: http://www.art21.org/artists/allan-mccollumVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Dowling. Camera: Richard Kane & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Kenny Weinberg. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Allan McCollum. Thanks: Holly & Larry Little. 268 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2855873 http://blip.tv/file/2836039 Art Thu, 14 Jan 2010 16:09:26 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-AllanMcCollumShapesCopperCookieCutters425-336.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBrqglAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBrqglAg" style="display:none"></embed> Allan McCollum: "Shapes Copper Cookie Cutters" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 415B6CDE-FC72-11DE-9289-AF58F460CEC3 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/cao-fei-avatars-3081088 Cao Fei: Avatars art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 3081088 3061454 file no 0.0 2010-01-08T16:24:12Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 147 6lOBvIdkAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBvIdkAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post3081088&skin=rss Art21-CaoFeiAvatars691.jpg Episode #088: In her Beijing studio, Cao Fei reflects on the behavior of avatars in the digital environment of Second Life and the motivations behind people who explore and inhabit virtual worlds. The video showcases Cao’s project RMB City and the many avatars that frequent it, including the artist’s own avatar China Tracy. Cao’s work reflects the fluidity of a world in which cultures have mixed and diverged in rapid evolution. Her video installations and new media works explore perception and reality in places as diverse as a Chinese factory and the virtual world of Second Life. Depictions of Chinese architecture and landscape abound in scenes of hyper-capitalistic Pearl River Delta development, in images that echo traditional Chinese painting, and in the design of her own virtual utopia, RMB City. Fascinated by the world of Second Life, Cao Fei has created several works in which she is both participant and observer through her Second Life avatar, China Tracy, who acts as a guide, philosopher, and tourist. Cao Fei is featured in the Season 5 (2009) episode Fantasy of the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century television series on PBS. Learn more about Cao Fei at: http://www.art21.org/artists/cao-feiVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview & Translation: Phil Tinari & Xiaotong Wang. Camera: Takahisa Araki & Frank Dellario. Editor: Paulo Padilha & Mark Sutton. Voiceover: Clara S. Jo. Artwork Courtesy: Cao Fei. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-CaoFeiAvatars691-865.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #088: In her Beijing studio, Cao Fei reflects on the behavior of avatars in the digital environment of Second Life and the motivations behind people who explore and inhabit virtual worlds. The video showcases Cao’s project RMB City and the many avatars that frequent it, including the artist’s own avatar China Tracy. Cao’s work reflects the fluidity of a world in which cultures have mixed and diverged in rapid evolution. Her video installations and new media works explore perception and reality in places as diverse as a Chinese factory and the virtual world of Second Life. Depictions of Chinese architecture and landscape abound in scenes of hyper-capitalistic Pearl River Delta development, in images that echo traditional Chinese painting, and in the design of her own virtual utopia, RMB City. Fascinated by the world of Second Life, Cao Fei has created several works in which she is both participant and observer through her Second Life avatar, China Tracy, who acts as a guide, philosopher, and tourist. Cao Fei is featured in the Season 5 (2009) episode Fantasy of the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century television series on PBS. Learn more about Cao Fei at: http://www.art21.org/artists/cao-feiVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview & Translation: Phil Tinari & Xiaotong Wang. Camera: Takahisa Araki & Frank Dellario. Editor: Paulo Padilha & Mark Sutton. Voiceover: Clara S. Jo. Artwork Courtesy: Cao Fei. 147 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 3081088 http://blip.tv/file/3061454 Art Fri, 08 Jan 2010 16:24:12 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-CaoFeiAvatars691.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBvIdkAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBvIdkAg" style="display:none"></embed> Cao Fei: Avatars 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 3C8589B0-C8CE-11DE-B1FC-871EC82878EA http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/cindy-sherman-mannequins-masks-2824160 Cindy Sherman: Mannequins & Masks art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2824160 2804300 file no 0.0 2009-12-17T23:11:37Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 161 6lOBrLBEAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBrLBEAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2824160&skin=rss Art21-CindyShermanMasksMannequins730.jpg Episode #087: Surveying some of the props she's used over the years, including masks and mannequin parts, artist Cindy Sherman demonstrates how she uses stand-ins to gauge the focus and composition of her images. In self-reflexive photographs and films, Cindy Sherman invents myriad guises, metamorphosing from Hollywood starlet to clown to society matron. Often with the simplest of means—a camera, a wig, makeup, an outfit—Sherman fashions ambiguous but memorable characters that suggest complex lives lived out of frame. Sherman’s investigations have a compelling relationship to public images, from kitsch (film stills and centerfolds) to art history (Old Masters and Surrealism) to green-screen technology and the latest advances in digital photography. Learn more about Cindy Sherman at: http://www.art21.org/artists/cindy-shermanVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Cindy Sherman. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-CindyShermanMasksMannequins730-395.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #087: Surveying some of the props she's used over the years, including masks and mannequin parts, artist Cindy Sherman demonstrates how she uses stand-ins to gauge the focus and composition of her images. In self-reflexive photographs and films, Cindy Sherman invents myriad guises, metamorphosing from Hollywood starlet to clown to society matron. Often with the simplest of means—a camera, a wig, makeup, an outfit—Sherman fashions ambiguous but memorable characters that suggest complex lives lived out of frame. Sherman’s investigations have a compelling relationship to public images, from kitsch (film stills and centerfolds) to art history (Old Masters and Surrealism) to green-screen technology and the latest advances in digital photography. Learn more about Cindy Sherman at: http://www.art21.org/artists/cindy-shermanVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Cindy Sherman. 161 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2824160 http://blip.tv/file/2804300 Art Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:11:37 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-CindyShermanMasksMannequins730.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBrLBEAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBrLBEAg" style="display:none"></embed> Cindy Sherman: Mannequins & Masks 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 FFAC3E5E-C8CC-11DE-AED7-996864F31A0B http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/doris-salcedo-third-world-identity-2824129 Doris Salcedo: Third World Identity art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2824129 2804269 file no 0.0 2009-12-10T23:02:45Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 172 6lOBrLAlAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBrLAlAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2824129&skin=rss Art21-DorisSalcedoThirdWorldIdentity315.jpg Episode #086: In her Bogotá studio, artist Doris Salcedo discusses the stereotypes she faces as a citizen of a Third World country and how she embraces these first-hand experiences of discrimination to inform her art. Shown working alongside her team of assistants, whose collective labor underscores the political messages of her sculptures, Salcedo proposes a more humble role for artists working today.Doris Salcedo’s understated sculptures and installations embody the silenced lives of the marginalized, from individual victims of violence to the disempowered of the Third World. Although elegiac in tone, her works are not memorials: Salcedo concretizes absence, oppression, and the gap between the disempowered and powerful. While abstract in form and open to interpretation, her works serve as testimonies on behalf of both victims and perpetrators. Salcedo’s work reflects a collective effort and close collaboration with a team of architects, engineers, and assistants and—as Salcedo says—with the victims of the senseless and brutal acts to which her work refers.Learn more about Doris Salcedo at: http://www.art21.org/artists/doris-salcedoVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Paulo Padilha & Mark Sutton. Artwork Courtesy: Doris Salcedo. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-DorisSalcedoThirdWorldIdentity315-9.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #086: In her Bogotá studio, artist Doris Salcedo discusses the stereotypes she faces as a citizen of a Third World country and how she embraces these first-hand experiences of discrimination to inform her art. Shown working alongside her team of assistants, whose collective labor underscores the political messages of her sculptures, Salcedo proposes a more humble role for artists working today.Doris Salcedo’s understated sculptures and installations embody the silenced lives of the marginalized, from individual victims of violence to the disempowered of the Third World. Although elegiac in tone, her works are not memorials: Salcedo concretizes absence, oppression, and the gap between the disempowered and powerful. While abstract in form and open to interpretation, her works serve as testimonies on behalf of both victims and perpetrators. Salcedo’s work reflects a collective effort and close collaboration with a team of architects, engineers, and assistants and—as Salcedo says—with the victims of the senseless and brutal acts to which her work refers.Learn more about Doris Salcedo at: http://www.art21.org/artists/doris-salcedoVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Ray Day. Editor: Paulo Padilha & Mark Sutton. Artwork Courtesy: Doris Salcedo. 172 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2824129 http://blip.tv/file/2804269 Art Thu, 10 Dec 2009 23:02:45 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-DorisSalcedoThirdWorldIdentity315.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBrLAlAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBrLAlAg" style="display:none"></embed> Doris Salcedo: Third World Identity 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 DF6EEDF0-C96F-11DE-A2F0-9837CE8DF92D http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/kimsooja-a-beggar-woman-a-homeless-woman-2827687 Kimsooja: "A Beggar Woman" & "A Homeless Woman" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2827687 2807827 file no 0.0 2009-12-03T18:28:39Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 216 6lOBrMwLAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBrMwLAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2827687&skin=rss Art21-KimsoojaABeggarWomanAHomelessWoman316.jpg Episode #085: Artist Kimsooja reflects on her series of videotaped performances — "A Beggar Woman" and "A Homeless Woman" (both 2000-01) — realized in cities around the world: Cairo, Delhi, Lagos, and Mexico City.Kimsooja’s videos and installations blur the boundaries between aesthetics and transcendent experience through their use of repetitive actions, meditative practices, and serial forms. In many pieces, everyday actions—such as sewing or doing laundry—become two- and three-dimensional or performative activities. In videos that feature her in various personas (Needle Woman, Beggar Woman, Homeless Woman), she leads us to reflect on the human condition, offering open-ended perspectives through which she presents and questions reality. Learn more about Kimsooja at: http://www.art21.org/artists/kimsoojaVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Richard Numeroff. Sound: Merce Williams. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Kimsooja. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-KimsoojaABeggarWomanAHomelessWoman316-134.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #085: Artist Kimsooja reflects on her series of videotaped performances — "A Beggar Woman" and "A Homeless Woman" (both 2000-01) — realized in cities around the world: Cairo, Delhi, Lagos, and Mexico City.Kimsooja’s videos and installations blur the boundaries between aesthetics and transcendent experience through their use of repetitive actions, meditative practices, and serial forms. In many pieces, everyday actions—such as sewing or doing laundry—become two- and three-dimensional or performative activities. In videos that feature her in various personas (Needle Woman, Beggar Woman, Homeless Woman), she leads us to reflect on the human condition, offering open-ended perspectives through which she presents and questions reality. Learn more about Kimsooja at: http://www.art21.org/artists/kimsoojaVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Richard Numeroff. Sound: Merce Williams. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Kimsooja. 216 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2827687 http://blip.tv/file/2807827 Art Thu, 03 Dec 2009 18:28:39 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-KimsoojaABeggarWomanAHomelessWoman316.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBrMwLAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBrMwLAg" style="display:none"></embed> Kimsooja: "A Beggar Woman" & "A Homeless Woman" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 F305B372-C8CE-11DE-85FD-FE2644921F4F http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/yinka-shonibare-mbe-being-an-artist-2824175 Yinka Shonibare MBE: Being an Artist art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2824175 2804315 file no 0.0 2009-11-30T23:16:43Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 139 6lOBrLBTAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBrLBTAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2824175&skin=rss Art21-YinkaShonibareMBEBeingAnArtist309-337.jpg Episode #084: In his London studio, artist Yinka Shonibare MBE reflects on what it means for him to be an artist, how he views his occupation as a utopian pursuit, and how the lines between the personal and professional aspects of his life are blurred.Known for using batik in costumed dioramas that explore race and colonialism, Yinka Shonibare MBE also employs painting, sculpture, photography, and film in work that disrupts and challenges our notions of cultural identity. Taking on the honorific MBE as part of his name in everyday use, Shonibare plays with the ambiguities and contradictions of his attitude toward the Establishment and its legacies of colonialism and class. In multimedia projects that reveal his passion for art history, literature, and philosophy, Shonibare provides a critical tour of Western civilization and its achievements and failures.Learn more about Yinka Shonibare MBE at: http://www.art21.org/artists/yinka-shonibare-mbeVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Ian Serfontein. Sound: Paul Stadden. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Yinka Shonibare MBE. Thanks: Ann Marie Peña. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-YinkaShonibareMBEBeingAnArtist309-337-901.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #084: In his London studio, artist Yinka Shonibare MBE reflects on what it means for him to be an artist, how he views his occupation as a utopian pursuit, and how the lines between the personal and professional aspects of his life are blurred.Known for using batik in costumed dioramas that explore race and colonialism, Yinka Shonibare MBE also employs painting, sculpture, photography, and film in work that disrupts and challenges our notions of cultural identity. Taking on the honorific MBE as part of his name in everyday use, Shonibare plays with the ambiguities and contradictions of his attitude toward the Establishment and its legacies of colonialism and class. In multimedia projects that reveal his passion for art history, literature, and philosophy, Shonibare provides a critical tour of Western civilization and its achievements and failures.Learn more about Yinka Shonibare MBE at: http://www.art21.org/artists/yinka-shonibare-mbeVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Ian Serfontein. Sound: Paul Stadden. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Yinka Shonibare MBE. Thanks: Ann Marie Peña. 139 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2824175 http://blip.tv/file/2804315 Art Mon, 30 Nov 2009 23:16:43 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-YinkaShonibareMBEBeingAnArtist309-337.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBrLBTAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBrLBTAg" style="display:none"></embed> Yinka Shonibare MBE: Being an Artist 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 BECFC810-CEDF-11DE-92D7-F69ED2104B22 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/paul-mccarthy-piccadilly-circus-2855976 Paul McCarthy: "Piccadilly Circus" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2855976 2836142 file no 0.0 2009-11-19T16:32:04Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 254 6lOBrqkMAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBrqkMAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2855976&skin=rss Art21-PaulMcCarthyPiccadillyCircus195.jpg Episode #083: Artist Paul McCarthy describes the improvisational process and performances behind the video work "Piccadilly Circus" (2003). Filmed at an unoccupied London bank before being renovated by Hauser & Wirth gallery in 2002, and shot several months before the start of the Iraq War, the work features costumed players in the roles of President George W. Bush, Osama Bin Laden, and the Queen Mum (in three versions). Paul McCarthy's video-taped performances and provocative multimedia installations lampoon polite society, ridicule authority, and bombard the viewer with a sensory overload of often sexually-tinged, violent imagery. With irreverent wit, McCarthy often takes aim at cherished American myths and icons—Walt Disney, the Western, and even the Modern Artist—adding a touch of malice to subjects that have been traditionally revered for their innocence or purity. Whether conflating real-world political figures with fantastical characters such as Santa Claus, or treating erotic and abject content with frivolity and charm, McCarthy's work confuses codes, mixes high and low culture, and provokes an analysis of fundamental beliefs.Learn more about Paul McCarthy at: http://www.art21.org/artists/paul-mccarthyVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Doug Dunderdale. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Paul McCarthy. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-PaulMcCarthyPiccadillyCircus195-791.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #083: Artist Paul McCarthy describes the improvisational process and performances behind the video work "Piccadilly Circus" (2003). Filmed at an unoccupied London bank before being renovated by Hauser & Wirth gallery in 2002, and shot several months before the start of the Iraq War, the work features costumed players in the roles of President George W. Bush, Osama Bin Laden, and the Queen Mum (in three versions). Paul McCarthy's video-taped performances and provocative multimedia installations lampoon polite society, ridicule authority, and bombard the viewer with a sensory overload of often sexually-tinged, violent imagery. With irreverent wit, McCarthy often takes aim at cherished American myths and icons—Walt Disney, the Western, and even the Modern Artist—adding a touch of malice to subjects that have been traditionally revered for their innocence or purity. Whether conflating real-world political figures with fantastical characters such as Santa Claus, or treating erotic and abject content with frivolity and charm, McCarthy's work confuses codes, mixes high and low culture, and provokes an analysis of fundamental beliefs.Learn more about Paul McCarthy at: http://www.art21.org/artists/paul-mccarthyVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom. Sound: Doug Dunderdale. Editor: Lizzie Donahue & Paulo Padilha. Artwork Courtesy: Paul McCarthy. 254 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2855976 http://blip.tv/file/2836142 Art Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:32:04 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-PaulMcCarthyPiccadillyCircus195.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBrqkMAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBrqkMAg" style="display:none"></embed> Paul McCarthy: "Piccadilly Circus" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 074454FC-C8C9-11DE-BDD9-B792A551D5F8 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/john-baldessari-raised-eyebrows-furrowed-foreheads-2824026 John Baldessari: "Raised Eyebrows/ Furrowed Foreheads" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2824026 2804166 file no 0.0 2009-11-12T22:34:20Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 163 6lOBrK8+Ag http://blip.tv/play/6lOBrK8+Ag http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2824026&skin=rss Art21-JohnBaldessariRaisedEyebrowsFurrowedForeheads189.jpg Episode #082: During the installation of his exhibition "Raised Eyebrows/ Furrowed Foreheads" (2009) at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, artist John Baldessari discusses his life-long obsession with the distinction between parts and wholes, as well as his reductive philosophy of art-making.Synthesizing photomontage, painting, and language, Baldessari’s deadpan visual juxtapositions equate images with words and illuminate, confound, and challenge meaning. He upends commonly held expectations of how images function, often by drawing the viewer’s attention to minor details, absences, or the spaces between things.Learn more about John Baldessari at: http://www.art21.org/artists/john-baldessariVIDEO | Producer:  Wesley Miller &  Nick Ravich  . Interview:  Susan Sollins  . Camera:  Bob Elfstrom & Sam Henriques. Sound: Tom Bergin. Ray Day. Editor: Lizzie Donahue &  Paulo Padilha.   Artwork Courtesy:  John Baldessari. Thanks: Analia Saban & Marian Goodman Gallery, New York. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JohnBaldessariRaisedEyebrowsFurrowedForeheads189-920.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #082: During the installation of his exhibition "Raised Eyebrows/ Furrowed Foreheads" (2009) at Marian Goodman Gallery in New York, artist John Baldessari discusses his life-long obsession with the distinction between parts and wholes, as well as his reductive philosophy of art-making.Synthesizing photomontage, painting, and language, Baldessari’s deadpan visual juxtapositions equate images with words and illuminate, confound, and challenge meaning. He upends commonly held expectations of how images function, often by drawing the viewer’s attention to minor details, absences, or the spaces between things.Learn more about John Baldessari at: http://www.art21.org/artists/john-baldessariVIDEO | Producer:  Wesley Miller &  Nick Ravich  . Interview:  Susan Sollins  . Camera:  Bob Elfstrom & Sam Henriques. Sound: Tom Bergin. Ray Day. Editor: Lizzie Donahue &  Paulo Padilha.   Artwork Courtesy:  John Baldessari. Thanks: Analia Saban & Marian Goodman Gallery, New York. 163 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2824026 http://blip.tv/file/2804166 Art Thu, 12 Nov 2009 22:34:20 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JohnBaldessariRaisedEyebrowsFurrowedForeheads189.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBrK8%2BAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBrK8+Ag" style="display:none"></embed> John Baldessari: "Raised Eyebrows/ Furrowed Foreheads" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 E01320BE-7244-11DE-BB6A-B3173F18DE63 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/roni-horn-water-2387577 Roni Horn: Water art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2387577 2367513 file no 0.0 2009-11-05T21:11:00Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 113 6lOBkd1dAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBkd1dAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2387577&skin=rss Art21-RoniHornWater445-103.jpg Episode #081: Artist Roni Horn discusses the paradoxical identity and dependency of water, paired with scenes of Icelandic landscapes. Water and Iceland serve as both subjects and metaphors in the artist’s work, coming together most recently in Vatnasafn/Library of Water, a building designed by the artist in Stykkishólmur, Iceland.Roni Horn explores the mutable nature of art through sculptures, works on paper, photography, and books. Horn describes drawing as the key activity in all her work because drawing is about composing relationships. Horn crafts complex relationships between the viewer and her work by installing a single piece on opposing walls or in adjoining rooms.Learn more about Roni Horn at: http://www.art21.org/artists/roni-hornVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Terry Doe & Mead Hunt. Sound: Ron Garson & Mark Mandler. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Special Thanks: Hauser & Wirth, London. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-RoniHornWater445-103-963.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #081: Artist Roni Horn discusses the paradoxical identity and dependency of water, paired with scenes of Icelandic landscapes. Water and Iceland serve as both subjects and metaphors in the artist’s work, coming together most recently in Vatnasafn/Library of Water, a building designed by the artist in Stykkishólmur, Iceland.Roni Horn explores the mutable nature of art through sculptures, works on paper, photography, and books. Horn describes drawing as the key activity in all her work because drawing is about composing relationships. Horn crafts complex relationships between the viewer and her work by installing a single piece on opposing walls or in adjoining rooms.Learn more about Roni Horn at: http://www.art21.org/artists/roni-hornVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Terry Doe & Mead Hunt. Sound: Ron Garson & Mark Mandler. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Special Thanks: Hauser & Wirth, London. 113 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2387577 http://blip.tv/file/2367513 Art Thu, 05 Nov 2009 21:11:00 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-RoniHornWater445-103.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBkd1dAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBkd1dAg" style="display:none"></embed> Roni Horn: Water 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 E3AA2920-B812-11DE-B046-9DD009448739 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/jeff-koons-versailles-2735285 Jeff Koons: Versailles art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2735285 2715399 file no 0.0 2009-10-30T03:59:00Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 169 6lOBpvoZAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBpvoZAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2735285&skin=rss Art21-JeffKoonsVersailles973.jpg Episode #080: From his studio in New York City, Jeff Koons discusses his 2008 exhibition at the Château de Versailles in France. Koons explores the power and sensuality of the grounds at Versailles, citing Louis Quatorze (Louis XIV) as an inspriation for his 1992 piece, "Puppy," a large floral sculpture made out of 60,000 large flowers.Jeff Koons plucks images and objects from popular culture, framing questions about taste and pleasure. His contextual sleight-of-hand, which transforms banal items into sumptuous icons, takes on a psychological dimension through dramatic shifts in scale, spectacularly engineered surfaces, and subliminal allegories of animals, humans, and anthropomorphized objects. The subject of art history is a constant undercurrent, whether Koons elevates kitsch to the level of Classical art, produces photos in the manner of Baroque paintings, or develops public works that borrow techniques and elements of seventeenth-century French garden design. Organizing his own studio production in a manner that rivals a Renaissance workshop, Koons makes computer-assisted, handcrafted works that communicate through their meticulous attention to detail.Learn more about Jeff Koons at: http://www.art21.org/artists/jeff-koonsVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Martial Barrault & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Mark Mandler. Editor: Paulo Padilha & Mark Sutton. Artwork Courtesy: Jeff Koons. Special Thanks: L'Etablissement Public du musée et du domaine national de Versailles. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JeffKoonsVersailles973-665.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #080: From his studio in New York City, Jeff Koons discusses his 2008 exhibition at the Château de Versailles in France. Koons explores the power and sensuality of the grounds at Versailles, citing Louis Quatorze (Louis XIV) as an inspriation for his 1992 piece, "Puppy," a large floral sculpture made out of 60,000 large flowers.Jeff Koons plucks images and objects from popular culture, framing questions about taste and pleasure. His contextual sleight-of-hand, which transforms banal items into sumptuous icons, takes on a psychological dimension through dramatic shifts in scale, spectacularly engineered surfaces, and subliminal allegories of animals, humans, and anthropomorphized objects. The subject of art history is a constant undercurrent, whether Koons elevates kitsch to the level of Classical art, produces photos in the manner of Baroque paintings, or develops public works that borrow techniques and elements of seventeenth-century French garden design. Organizing his own studio production in a manner that rivals a Renaissance workshop, Koons makes computer-assisted, handcrafted works that communicate through their meticulous attention to detail.Learn more about Jeff Koons at: http://www.art21.org/artists/jeff-koonsVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Martial Barrault & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Mark Mandler. Editor: Paulo Padilha & Mark Sutton. Artwork Courtesy: Jeff Koons. Special Thanks: L'Etablissement Public du musée et du domaine national de Versailles. 169 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2735285 http://blip.tv/file/2715399 Art Fri, 30 Oct 2009 03:59:00 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JeffKoonsVersailles973.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBpvoZAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBpvoZAg" style="display:none"></embed> Jeff Koons: Versailles 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 E3D5F730-BFE7-11DE-9D25-D4F3785C135A http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/mary-heilmann-inspiration-2778849 Mary Heilmann: Inspiration art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2778849 2758976 file no 0.0 2009-10-23T15:22:34Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 168 6lOBqc5FAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBqc5FAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2778849&skin=rss Art21-MaryHeilmannInspiration582.jpg Episode #079: In her Long Island studio, Mary Heilmann discusses two inspirations for her work: tea bowls that adhere to the Japanese aesthetic philosophy of "Wabi-sabi" and the cartoon color pallette used in "The Simpsons" television show. Heilmann contrasts her working method with that of the Abtract Expressionists, preferring to find "the easiest way to do it" which often involves thinking through the compositions and colors with a computer. The video features ceramics and paintings installed as part of the artist's traveling retrospective "To Be Someone" at the New Museum and the Wexner Center for the Arts.For every piece of Mary Heilmann's work—abstract paintings, ceramics, and furniture—there is a backstory. Imbued with recollections, stories spun from her imagination, and references to music, aesthetic influences, and dreams, her paintings are like meditations or icons. Her compositions are often hybrid spatial environments that juxtapose two- and three-dimensional renderings in a single frame, join several canvases into new works, or create diptychs of paintings and photographs in the form of prints, slideshows, and videos. Heilmann sometimes installs her paintings alongside chairs and benches that she builds by hand, an open invitation for viewers to socialize and contemplate her work communally.Learn more about Mary Heilmann at: http://www.art21.org/artists/mary-heilmannVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mark Falstad & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Paulo Padilha & Mark Sutton. Artwork Courtesy: Mary Heilmann. Special Thanks: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, & The New Museum, New York. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-MaryHeilmannInspiration582-65.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #079: In her Long Island studio, Mary Heilmann discusses two inspirations for her work: tea bowls that adhere to the Japanese aesthetic philosophy of "Wabi-sabi" and the cartoon color pallette used in "The Simpsons" television show. Heilmann contrasts her working method with that of the Abtract Expressionists, preferring to find "the easiest way to do it" which often involves thinking through the compositions and colors with a computer. The video features ceramics and paintings installed as part of the artist's traveling retrospective "To Be Someone" at the New Museum and the Wexner Center for the Arts.For every piece of Mary Heilmann's work—abstract paintings, ceramics, and furniture—there is a backstory. Imbued with recollections, stories spun from her imagination, and references to music, aesthetic influences, and dreams, her paintings are like meditations or icons. Her compositions are often hybrid spatial environments that juxtapose two- and three-dimensional renderings in a single frame, join several canvases into new works, or create diptychs of paintings and photographs in the form of prints, slideshows, and videos. Heilmann sometimes installs her paintings alongside chairs and benches that she builds by hand, an open invitation for viewers to socialize and contemplate her work communally.Learn more about Mary Heilmann at: http://www.art21.org/artists/mary-heilmannVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mark Falstad & Joel Shapiro. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Paulo Padilha & Mark Sutton. Artwork Courtesy: Mary Heilmann. Special Thanks: Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, & The New Museum, New York. 168 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2778849 http://blip.tv/file/2758976 Art Fri, 23 Oct 2009 15:22:34 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-MaryHeilmannInspiration582.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBqc5FAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBqc5FAg" style="display:none"></embed> Mary Heilmann: Inspiration 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 01293AB4-BA65-11DE-BB23-818205306184 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/carrie-mae-weems-thirteen-questions-for-wynton-marsalis-cornel-west-2748874 Carrie Mae Weems: Thirteen Questions for Wynton Marsalis & Cornel West art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2748874 2728990 file no 0.0 2009-10-16T15:03:04Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 309 6lOBp+QuAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBp+QuAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2748874&skin=rss Art21-CarrieMaeWeemsThirteenQuestionsForWyntonMarsalisCornel172.jpg Episode #078: As part of a panel discussion moderated by Baraka Sele at the 20th National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, artist Carrie Mae Weems poses thirteen questions to musician Wynton Marsalis and professor Cornel West, followed by an impromptu song and dance by the participants and audience. Weems's vibrant explorations of photography, video, and verse breathe new life into traditional narrative forms—social documentary, tableaux, self-portrait, and oral history. Eliciting epic contexts from individually framed moments, Weems debunks racist and sexist labels, examines the relationship between power and aesthetics, and uses personal biography to articulate broader truths. Whether adapting or appropriating archival images, restaging famous news photographs, or creating altogether new scenes, she traces an indirect history of the depiction of African Americans for more than a century. Learn more about Carrie Mae Weems at: http://www.art21.org/artists/carrie-mae-weemsVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Evan McIntosh. Editor: Paulo Padilha & Mark Sutton. Thanks: Wynton Marsalis, Baraka Sele, Dr. Cornel West, and the National Black Arts Festival. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-CarrieMaeWeemsThirteenQuestionsForWyntonMarsalisCornel172-166.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #078: As part of a panel discussion moderated by Baraka Sele at the 20th National Black Arts Festival in Atlanta, Georgia, artist Carrie Mae Weems poses thirteen questions to musician Wynton Marsalis and professor Cornel West, followed by an impromptu song and dance by the participants and audience. Weems's vibrant explorations of photography, video, and verse breathe new life into traditional narrative forms—social documentary, tableaux, self-portrait, and oral history. Eliciting epic contexts from individually framed moments, Weems debunks racist and sexist labels, examines the relationship between power and aesthetics, and uses personal biography to articulate broader truths. Whether adapting or appropriating archival images, restaging famous news photographs, or creating altogether new scenes, she traces an indirect history of the depiction of African Americans for more than a century. Learn more about Carrie Mae Weems at: http://www.art21.org/artists/carrie-mae-weemsVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Evan McIntosh. Editor: Paulo Padilha & Mark Sutton. Thanks: Wynton Marsalis, Baraka Sele, Dr. Cornel West, and the National Black Arts Festival. 309 http://blip.tv/file/2728990 Art Fri, 16 Oct 2009 15:03:04 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-CarrieMaeWeemsThirteenQuestionsForWyntonMarsalisCornel172.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBp%2BQuAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBp+QuAg" style="display:none"></embed> Carrie Mae Weems: Thirteen Questions for Wynton Marsalis & Cornel West 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 B83038A8-B514-11DE-8212-B613CF576663 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/josiah-mcelheny-history-originality-2722666 Josiah McElheny: History & Originality art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2722666 2702779 file no 0.0 2009-10-09T20:45:46Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 183 6lOBppdOAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBppdOAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2722666&skin=rss Art21-JosiahMcElhenyHistoryOriginality599.jpg Episode #077: Artist Josiah McElheny discusses the relationship between artworks and the context in which they were created, highlighting the distinctions between history and the personal and interpretive reinvention of historical facts.Josiah McElheny creates finely crafted, handmade glass objects that he combines with photographs, text, and museological displays to evoke notions of meaning and memory. McElheny's work takes as its subject the object, idea, and social nexus of glass. Influenced by the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, McElheny's work often takes the form of historical fictions. Part of McElheny's fascination with storytelling is that glassmaking is part of an oral tradition handed down generation to generation, artisan to artisan. Sculptural models of Modernist ideals, these totally reflective environments are both elegant seductions as well as parables of the vices of utopian aspirations.Learn more about Josiah McElheny at: http://www.art21.org/artists/josiah-mcelhenyVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera & Sound: Kurt Branstetter, Joel Shapiro, and Tom Bergin. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Josiah McElheny. Special Thanks: Donald Young Gallery, Chicago and MoMA QNS, Long Island City. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JosiahMcElhenyHistoryOriginality599-279.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #077: Artist Josiah McElheny discusses the relationship between artworks and the context in which they were created, highlighting the distinctions between history and the personal and interpretive reinvention of historical facts.Josiah McElheny creates finely crafted, handmade glass objects that he combines with photographs, text, and museological displays to evoke notions of meaning and memory. McElheny's work takes as its subject the object, idea, and social nexus of glass. Influenced by the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, McElheny's work often takes the form of historical fictions. Part of McElheny's fascination with storytelling is that glassmaking is part of an oral tradition handed down generation to generation, artisan to artisan. Sculptural models of Modernist ideals, these totally reflective environments are both elegant seductions as well as parables of the vices of utopian aspirations.Learn more about Josiah McElheny at: http://www.art21.org/artists/josiah-mcelhenyVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera & Sound: Kurt Branstetter, Joel Shapiro, and Tom Bergin. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Josiah McElheny. Special Thanks: Donald Young Gallery, Chicago and MoMA QNS, Long Island City. 183 http://blip.tv/file/2702779 Art contemporary visual art artist art21 pbs television tv series documentary 21 century Fri, 09 Oct 2009 20:45:46 +0000 contemporary, visual, art, artist, art21, pbs, television, tv, series, documentary, 21, century http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JosiahMcElhenyHistoryOriginality599.jpg contemporary, visual, art, artist, art21, pbs, television, tv, series, documentary, 21, century <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBppdOAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBppdOAg" style="display:none"></embed> Josiah McElheny: History & Originality 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 B475A39A-723B-11DE-8B19-BB4FD7BE7DB1 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/richard-tuttle-pollock-tiffany-2387327 Richard Tuttle: Pollock & Tiffany art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2387327 2367263 file no 0.0 2009-10-01T19:06:02Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 154 6lOBkdtjAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBkdtjAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2387327&skin=rss Art21-RichardTuttlePollockTiffany796-9.jpg Episode #076: Artist Richard Tuttle pays homage to American art giants Jackson Pollock and Louis Comfort Tiffany, placing his work in an aesthetic tradition that spans abstraction and craft, expressionism and pragmatism. Interviewed outside his home New Mexico, Tuttle's dialogue on being the "brush of society" versus "using society as your paintbrush" is paired with a retrospective of his works installed at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.Richard Tuttle commonly refers to his art as drawing rather than sculpture, emphasizing the diminutive scale and idea-based nature of his work. He subverts the conventions of modernist sculptural practice by creating small, eccentrically playful objects in decidedly humble materials. Influences on his work include calligraphy, architecture, and poetry.Learn more about Richard Tuttle at: http://www.art21.org/artists/richard-tuttleVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom & Sam Henriques. Sound: Ray Day & Merce Williams. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Richard Tuttle. Special Thanks: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-RichardTuttlePollockTiffany796-9-177.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #076: Artist Richard Tuttle pays homage to American art giants Jackson Pollock and Louis Comfort Tiffany, placing his work in an aesthetic tradition that spans abstraction and craft, expressionism and pragmatism. Interviewed outside his home New Mexico, Tuttle's dialogue on being the "brush of society" versus "using society as your paintbrush" is paired with a retrospective of his works installed at The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York.Richard Tuttle commonly refers to his art as drawing rather than sculpture, emphasizing the diminutive scale and idea-based nature of his work. He subverts the conventions of modernist sculptural practice by creating small, eccentrically playful objects in decidedly humble materials. Influences on his work include calligraphy, architecture, and poetry.Learn more about Richard Tuttle at: http://www.art21.org/artists/richard-tuttleVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Bob Elfstrom & Sam Henriques. Sound: Ray Day & Merce Williams. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Richard Tuttle. Special Thanks: The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York 154 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2387327 http://blip.tv/file/2367263 Art Thu, 01 Oct 2009 19:06:02 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-RichardTuttlePollockTiffany796-9.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBkdtjAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBkdtjAg" style="display:none"></embed> Richard Tuttle: Pollock & Tiffany 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 7B1A5FD8-AA16-11DE-8ABB-B9FB0BC3BCB1 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/arturo-herrera-failure-2666265 Arturo Herrera: Failure art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2666265 2646347 file no 0.0 2009-09-25T21:00:39Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 122 6lOBot59Ag http://blip.tv/play/6lOBot59Ag http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2666265&skin=rss Art21-ArturoHerreraFailure601.jpg Episode #075: In his Berlin studio, Arturo Herrera discusses the importance of accepting failure in order to be able to learn and grow as an artist.Arturo Herrera’s work includes collage, work on paper, sculpture, relief, wall painting, photography, and felt wall-hangings. Rooted in the history of abstraction, Herrera’s playful work taps into the viewer’s unconscious, often intertwining fragments of cartoon characters with cut-out shapes and partially obscured images that evoke memory and recollection.Learn more about Arturo Herrera at: http://www.art21.org/artists/arturo-herreraVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera & Sound: Terry Doe and Leigh Crisp. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Arturo Herrera. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-ArturoHerreraFailure601-276.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #075: In his Berlin studio, Arturo Herrera discusses the importance of accepting failure in order to be able to learn and grow as an artist.Arturo Herrera’s work includes collage, work on paper, sculpture, relief, wall painting, photography, and felt wall-hangings. Rooted in the history of abstraction, Herrera’s playful work taps into the viewer’s unconscious, often intertwining fragments of cartoon characters with cut-out shapes and partially obscured images that evoke memory and recollection.Learn more about Arturo Herrera at: http://www.art21.org/artists/arturo-herreraVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera & Sound: Terry Doe and Leigh Crisp. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Arturo Herrera. 122 http://blip.tv/file/2646347 Art Fri, 25 Sep 2009 21:00:39 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-ArturoHerreraFailure601.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBot59Ag.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBot59Ag" style="display:none"></embed> Arturo Herrera: Failure 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 F9822C28-EE39-11DD-A2E8-D17576872EF1 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/laylah-ali-meaning-1725578 Laylah Ali: Meaning art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 1725578 1716983 file no 0.0 2009-09-17T18:21:05Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 178 6lPpqW4C http://blip.tv/play/6lPpqW4C http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post1725578&skin=rss Art21-LaylahAliMeaning392.jpg Episode #074: While painting in her Williamstown, Massachusetts studio, artist Laylah Ali discusses the imperative she feels to make things and the nuanced relationship of political and personal events to the work.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.Learn more about Laylah Ali at: http://www.art21.org/artists/laylah-aliVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Laylah Ali. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-LaylahAliMeaning392-82.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #074: While painting in her Williamstown, Massachusetts studio, artist Laylah Ali discusses the imperative she feels to make things and the nuanced relationship of political and personal events to the work.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.Learn more about Laylah Ali at: http://www.art21.org/artists/laylah-aliVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Laylah Ali. 178 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 1725578 http://blip.tv/file/1716983 Art art21 art artist visual laylah ali painting drawing contemporary Thu, 17 Sep 2009 18:21:05 +0000 art21, art, artist, visual, laylah, ali, painting, drawing, contemporary http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-LaylahAliMeaning392.jpg art21, art, artist, visual, laylah, ali, painting, drawing, contemporary <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lPpqW4C.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lPpqW4C" style="display:none"></embed> Laylah Ali: Meaning 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 91E31BEA-0CF2-11DE-B0E9-C772FE307F25 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/ida-applebroog-city-country-1868640 Ida Applebroog: City & Country art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 1868640 1859104 file no 0.0 2009-09-10T21:38:03Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 115 6lPyh0QC http://blip.tv/play/6lPyh0QC http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post1868640&skin=rss Art21-IdaApplebroogCityCountry682-568.jpg Episode #073: Artist Ida Applebroog discusses the differences between living and making work in New York City versus her home in Upstate New York. Ida Applebroog propels her paintings and drawings into the realm of installation by arranging and stacking canvases in space, exploding the frame-by-frame logic of comic-book and film narrative into three-dimensional environments. Strong themes in her work include gender and sexual identity, power struggles, and the pernicious role of mass media in desensitizing the public to violence.Learn more about Ida Applebroog at: http://www.art21.org/artists/ida-applebroogVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mead Hunt. Sound: Merce Williams. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Ida Applebroog http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-IdaApplebroogCityCountry682-568-332.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #073: Artist Ida Applebroog discusses the differences between living and making work in New York City versus her home in Upstate New York. Ida Applebroog propels her paintings and drawings into the realm of installation by arranging and stacking canvases in space, exploding the frame-by-frame logic of comic-book and film narrative into three-dimensional environments. Strong themes in her work include gender and sexual identity, power struggles, and the pernicious role of mass media in desensitizing the public to violence.Learn more about Ida Applebroog at: http://www.art21.org/artists/ida-applebroogVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mead Hunt. Sound: Merce Williams. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Ida Applebroog 115 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 1868640 http://blip.tv/file/1859104 Art Thu, 10 Sep 2009 21:38:03 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-IdaApplebroogCityCountry682-568.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lPyh0QC.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lPyh0QC" style="display:none"></embed> Ida Applebroog: City & Country 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 C00EB53E-F06D-11DD-AC6C-A9E47D11B50F http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/jessica-stockholder-becoming-an-artist-1734287 Jessica Stockholder: Becoming an Artist art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 1734287 1725675 file no 0.0 2009-09-03T13:36:45Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 110 6lPp7XMC http://blip.tv/play/6lPp7XMC http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post1734287&skin=rss Art21-JessicaStockholderBecomingAnArtist945.jpg Episode #072: Artist Jessica Stockholder recounts her earliest memories of wanting to become an artist while she and her son Charlie paint and draw in the basement of their home in New Haven, Connecticut.A pioneer of multimedia genre-bending installations, Jessica Stockholder’s site-specific interventions and autonomous floor and wall pieces have been described as "paintings in space." Her work is energetic, cacophonous, and idiosyncratic, but closer observation reveals formal decisions about color and composition, and a tempering of chaos with control. Learn more about Jessica Stockholder at: http://www.art21.org/artists/jessica-stockholderProducer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mead Hunt. Sound: Merce Williams. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Jessica Stockholder. Special Thanks: Charles Pippin Chamberlain. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JessicaStockholderBecomingAnArtist945-619.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #072: Artist Jessica Stockholder recounts her earliest memories of wanting to become an artist while she and her son Charlie paint and draw in the basement of their home in New Haven, Connecticut.A pioneer of multimedia genre-bending installations, Jessica Stockholder’s site-specific interventions and autonomous floor and wall pieces have been described as "paintings in space." Her work is energetic, cacophonous, and idiosyncratic, but closer observation reveals formal decisions about color and composition, and a tempering of chaos with control. Learn more about Jessica Stockholder at: http://www.art21.org/artists/jessica-stockholderProducer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mead Hunt. Sound: Merce Williams. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Jessica Stockholder. Special Thanks: Charles Pippin Chamberlain. 110 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 1734287 http://blip.tv/file/1725675 Art art21 artist contemporary visual jessica stockholder sculpture painting installation Thu, 03 Sep 2009 13:36:45 +0000 art21, artist, contemporary, visual, jessica, stockholder, sculpture, painting, installation http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JessicaStockholderBecomingAnArtist945.jpg art21, artist, contemporary, visual, jessica, stockholder, sculpture, painting, installation <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lPp7XMC.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lPp7XMC" style="display:none"></embed> Jessica Stockholder: Becoming an Artist 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 9A601CCC-F2E0-11DD-9E3B-A40C974259F0 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/oliver-herring-participant-davis-thompson-moss-1745992 Oliver Herring: Participant Davis Thompson-Moss art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 1745992 1737370 file no 0.0 2009-08-27T16:23:56Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 111 6lPqySwC http://blip.tv/play/6lPqySwC http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post1745992&skin=rss Art21-OliverHerringPerformerDavisThompsonMoss463.jpg Episode #071: Artist Davis Thompson-Moss discusses his experiences appearing as a performer, alongside his brother, in two videos by Oliver Herring: BASIC (2003) and THE DAY I PERSUADED TWO BROTHERS TO TURN THEIR BACKYARD INTO A MUD POOL (2004).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 impromptu participatory performances with ‘off-the-street’ strangers, embracing chance and chance-encounters in his work.Learn more about Julie Mehretu at: http://www.art21.org/artists/julie-mehretuVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Eve Moros Ortega. Camera & Sound: Joel Shapiro and Roger Phenix. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Oliver Herring. Special Thanks: Davis Thompson-Moss. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-OliverHerringPerformerDavisThompsonMoss463-866.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #071: Artist Davis Thompson-Moss discusses his experiences appearing as a performer, alongside his brother, in two videos by Oliver Herring: BASIC (2003) and THE DAY I PERSUADED TWO BROTHERS TO TURN THEIR BACKYARD INTO A MUD POOL (2004).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 impromptu participatory performances with ‘off-the-street’ strangers, embracing chance and chance-encounters in his work.Learn more about Julie Mehretu at: http://www.art21.org/artists/julie-mehretuVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Eve Moros Ortega. Camera & Sound: Joel Shapiro and Roger Phenix. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Oliver Herring. Special Thanks: Davis Thompson-Moss. 111 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 1745992 http://blip.tv/file/1737370 Art art21 art artist visual contemporary oliver herring dance basic davis thompson-moss Thu, 27 Aug 2009 16:23:56 +0000 art21, art, artist, visual, contemporary, oliver, herring, dance, basic, davis, thompson-moss http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-OliverHerringPerformerDavisThompsonMoss463.jpg art21, art, artist, visual, contemporary, oliver, herring, dance, basic, davis, thompson-moss <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lPqySwC.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lPqySwC" style="display:none"></embed> Oliver Herring: Participant Davis Thompson-Moss 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 577E6216-F2DF-11DD-87FA-DEDCBCF21B36 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/oliver-herring-participant-joyce-pensato-1745961 Oliver Herring: Participant Joyce Pensato art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 1745961 1737339 file no 0.0 2009-08-20T15:59:00Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 116 6lPqyQ0C http://blip.tv/play/6lPqyQ0C http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post1745961&skin=rss Art21-OliverHerringPerformerJoycePensato792.jpg Episode #070: Artist Joyce Pensato discusses her experiences appearing as a performer in Oliver Herring's videos. The work, which also features participant Davis-Thompson Moss, is the first in a series of Oliver Herring videos that feature the pair of performers.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 impromptu participatory performances with ‘off-the-street’ strangers, embracing chance and chance-encounters in his work.Learn more about Oliver Herring at: http://www.art21.org/artists/oliver-herringVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Eve Moros Ortega. Camera & Sound: Joel Shapiro and Roger Phenix. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Oliver Herring. Special Thanks: Joyce Pensato. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-OliverHerringPerformerJoycePensato792-13.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #070: Artist Joyce Pensato discusses her experiences appearing as a performer in Oliver Herring's videos. The work, which also features participant Davis-Thompson Moss, is the first in a series of Oliver Herring videos that feature the pair of performers.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 impromptu participatory performances with ‘off-the-street’ strangers, embracing chance and chance-encounters in his work.Learn more about Oliver Herring at: http://www.art21.org/artists/oliver-herringVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Eve Moros Ortega. Camera & Sound: Joel Shapiro and Roger Phenix. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Oliver Herring. Special Thanks: Joyce Pensato. 116 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 1745961 http://blip.tv/file/1737339 Art art art21 artist visual video contemporary dance basic joyce pensato davis thompson-moss Thu, 20 Aug 2009 15:59:00 +0000 art, art21, artist, visual, video, contemporary, dance, basic, joyce, pensato, davis, thompson-moss http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-OliverHerringPerformerJoycePensato792.jpg art, art21, artist, visual, video, contemporary, dance, basic, joyce, pensato, davis, thompson-moss <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lPqyQ0C.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lPqyQ0C" style="display:none"></embed> Oliver Herring: Participant Joyce Pensato 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 4C788BF4-7240-11DE-A554-979FDB598A05 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/josiah-mcelheny-assistant-anders-rydstedt-2387455 Josiah McElheny: Assistant Anders Rydstedt art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2387455 2367391 file no 0.0 2009-08-13T19:38:55Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 128 6lOBkdxjAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBkdxjAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2387455&skin=rss Art21-JosiahMcElhenyAssistantAndersRydstedt574.jpg Episode #069: Long-time assistant and collaborator Anders Rydstedt discusses the differences between creating traditional forms in glass—such as vases—with Josiah McElheny's sculptural objects and installations. Filmed at the Michael Davis Stained Glass workshop in Long Island City, New York, objects from this session were later given a mirrored surface as part of the artist's "Total Reflective Abstraction" series of works that took as their point of departure a conversation between Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi.Josiah McElheny creates finely crafted, handmade glass objects that he combines with photographs, text, and museological displays to evoke notions of meaning and memory. McElheny’s work takes as its subject the object, idea, and social nexus of glass. Influenced by the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, McElheny’s work often takes the form of historical fictions.Learn more about Josiah McElheny at: http://www.art21.org/artists/josiah-mcelhenyVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Gary Silver. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Josiah McElheny. Special Thanks: Michael Davis Stained Glass & Anders Rydstedt. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JosiahMcElhenyAssistantAndersRydstedt574-941.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #069: Long-time assistant and collaborator Anders Rydstedt discusses the differences between creating traditional forms in glass—such as vases—with Josiah McElheny's sculptural objects and installations. Filmed at the Michael Davis Stained Glass workshop in Long Island City, New York, objects from this session were later given a mirrored surface as part of the artist's "Total Reflective Abstraction" series of works that took as their point of departure a conversation between Buckminster Fuller and Isamu Noguchi.Josiah McElheny creates finely crafted, handmade glass objects that he combines with photographs, text, and museological displays to evoke notions of meaning and memory. McElheny’s work takes as its subject the object, idea, and social nexus of glass. Influenced by the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, McElheny’s work often takes the form of historical fictions.Learn more about Josiah McElheny at: http://www.art21.org/artists/josiah-mcelhenyVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Gary Silver. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Josiah McElheny. Special Thanks: Michael Davis Stained Glass & Anders Rydstedt. 128 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2387455 http://blip.tv/file/2367391 Art Thu, 13 Aug 2009 19:38:55 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JosiahMcElhenyAssistantAndersRydstedt574.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBkdxjAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBkdxjAg" style="display:none"></embed> Josiah McElheny: Assistant Anders Rydstedt 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 E63E6A20-8374-11DE-A591-C2062E1A12E6 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/arturo-herrera-assistant-jeff-bechtel-2470058 Arturo Herrera: Assistant Jeff Bechtel art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2470058 2450042 file no 0.0 2009-08-07T17:08:17Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 142 6lOBluIOAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBluIOAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2470058&skin=rss Art21-ArturoHerreraAssistantJeffBechtel127.jpg Episode #068: Arturo Herrera's assistant Jeff Bechtel describes the process for translating one of the artist's complex drawings into a refined monochromatic paper collage. Filmed in Herrera's New York studio, Bechtel discusses how cartoon sources and stock imagery become abstracted into larger systems. Arturo Herrera’s work includes collage, work on paper, sculpture, relief, wall painting, photography, and felt wall-hangings. Rooted in the history of abstraction, Herrera’s playful work taps into the viewer’’s unconscious, often intertwining fragments of cartoon characters with cut-out shapes and partially obscured images that evoke memory and recollection.Learn more about Arturo Herrera at: http://www.art21.org/artists/arturo-herreraVIDEO | Producer Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Eve Moros Ortega. Camera: Mead Hunt. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Arturo Herrera. Special Thanks: Jeff Bechtel. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-ArturoHerreraAssistantJeffBechtel127-431.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #068: Arturo Herrera's assistant Jeff Bechtel describes the process for translating one of the artist's complex drawings into a refined monochromatic paper collage. Filmed in Herrera's New York studio, Bechtel discusses how cartoon sources and stock imagery become abstracted into larger systems. Arturo Herrera’s work includes collage, work on paper, sculpture, relief, wall painting, photography, and felt wall-hangings. Rooted in the history of abstraction, Herrera’s playful work taps into the viewer’’s unconscious, often intertwining fragments of cartoon characters with cut-out shapes and partially obscured images that evoke memory and recollection.Learn more about Arturo Herrera at: http://www.art21.org/artists/arturo-herreraVIDEO | Producer Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Eve Moros Ortega. Camera: Mead Hunt. Sound: Roger Phenix. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Arturo Herrera. Special Thanks: Jeff Bechtel. 142 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2470058 http://blip.tv/file/2450042 Art Fri, 07 Aug 2009 17:08:17 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-ArturoHerreraAssistantJeffBechtel127.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBluIOAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBluIOAg" style="display:none"></embed> Arturo Herrera: Assistant Jeff Bechtel 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 8AF35F56-EE3A-11DD-B4E6-E3212FFF4E6C http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/laylah-ali-television-1725595 Laylah Ali: Television art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 1725595 1717000 file no 0.0 2009-07-30T18:25:09Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 114 6lPpqX8C http://blip.tv/play/6lPpqX8C http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post1725595&skin=rss Art21-LaylahAliTelevision139.jpg Episode #067: In her Williamstown, Massachusetts studio, artist Laylah Ali describes how the television cartoons she watched as a child inform the way she works and thinks today.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.Learn more about Laylah Ali at: http://www.art21.org/artists/laylah-aliVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin. Editor: Jenny Chiurco & Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Laylah Ali http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-LaylahAliTelevision139-598.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #067: In her Williamstown, Massachusetts studio, artist Laylah Ali describes how the television cartoons she watched as a child inform the way she works and thinks today.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.Learn more about Laylah Ali at: http://www.art21.org/artists/laylah-aliVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Tom Bergin. Editor: Jenny Chiurco & Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Laylah Ali 114 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 1725595 http://blip.tv/file/1717000 Art art21 art artist contemporary visual laylah ali painting drawing Thu, 30 Jul 2009 18:25:09 +0000 art21, art, artist, contemporary, visual, laylah, ali, painting, drawing http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-LaylahAliTelevision139.jpg art21, art, artist, contemporary, visual, laylah, ali, painting, drawing <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lPpqX8C.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lPpqX8C" style="display:none"></embed> Laylah Ali: Television 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 4E1C2E9A-F070-11DD-BA6E-F5ED70DC9778 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/jessica-stockholder-vortex-in-the-play-of-theater-with-real-passion-in-memory-of-kay-stockholder-1734326 Jessica Stockholder: "Vortex in the Play of Theater with Real Passion: In Memory of Kay Stockholder" art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 1734326 1725714 file no 0.0 2009-07-23T13:55:02Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 168 6lPp7hoC http://blip.tv/play/6lPp7hoC http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post1734326&skin=rss Art21-JessicaStockholderVortexInThePlayOfTheaterWithRealPas512.jpg Episode #066: At her home in New Haven, Jessica Stockholder discusses the inspiration for "Vortex in the Play of Theater with Real Passion: In Memory of Kay Stockholder" (2000) at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen in Switzerland. A temporary site-specific installation, the materials for the project include Duplo, work site construction containers, and elements from a theatrical stage.A pioneer of multimedia genre-bending installations, Jessica Stockholder’s site-specific interventions and autonomous floor and wall pieces have been described as "paintings in space." Her work is energetic, cacophonous, and idiosyncratic, but closer observation reveals formal decisions about color and composition, and a tempering of chaos with control.Learn more about Jessica Stockholder at: http://www.art21.org/artists/jessica-stockholderVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mead Hunt. Sound: Merce Williams. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Jessica Stockholder http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JessicaStockholderVortexInThePlayOfTheaterWithRealPas512-182.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #066: At her home in New Haven, Jessica Stockholder discusses the inspiration for "Vortex in the Play of Theater with Real Passion: In Memory of Kay Stockholder" (2000) at the Kunstmuseum St. Gallen in Switzerland. A temporary site-specific installation, the materials for the project include Duplo, work site construction containers, and elements from a theatrical stage.A pioneer of multimedia genre-bending installations, Jessica Stockholder’s site-specific interventions and autonomous floor and wall pieces have been described as "paintings in space." Her work is energetic, cacophonous, and idiosyncratic, but closer observation reveals formal decisions about color and composition, and a tempering of chaos with control.Learn more about Jessica Stockholder at: http://www.art21.org/artists/jessica-stockholderVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Mead Hunt. Sound: Merce Williams. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Jessica Stockholder 168 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 1734326 http://blip.tv/file/1725714 Art art21 artist art visual contemporary jessica stockholder painting sculpture installation Thu, 23 Jul 2009 13:55:02 +0000 art21, artist, art, visual, contemporary, jessica, stockholder, painting, sculpture, installation http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JessicaStockholderVortexInThePlayOfTheaterWithRealPas512.jpg art21, artist, art, visual, contemporary, jessica, stockholder, painting, sculpture, installation <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lPp7hoC.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lPp7hoC" style="display:none"></embed> Jessica Stockholder: "Vortex in the Play of Theater with Real Passion: In Memory of Kay Stockholder" 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 938551F0-F2E1-11DD-92FE-91C68067BDC2 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/oliver-herring-participant-davide-borella-1746017 Oliver Herring: Participant Davide Borella art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 1746017 1737395 file no 0.0 2009-07-16T16:55:00Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 190 6lPqyUUC http://blip.tv/play/6lPqyUUC http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post1746017&skin=rss Art21-OilverHerringPerformerDavidBorella704-290.jpg Episode #065: On the roof of his Brooklyn studio, artist Oliver Herring photographs Davide Borella during an exhausting performance as Borella spits various colors of water, tinted by food dye, up into the air and onto his face. 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. Learn more about Oliver Herring at: http://www.art21.org/artists/oliver-herringVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Gary Silver. Editor: Jenny Chiurco and Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Oliver Herring. Special Thanks: Davide Borella. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-OilverHerringPerformerDavidBorella686-922.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #065: On the roof of his Brooklyn studio, artist Oliver Herring photographs Davide Borella during an exhausting performance as Borella spits various colors of water, tinted by food dye, up into the air and onto his face. 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. Learn more about Oliver Herring at: http://www.art21.org/artists/oliver-herringVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera: Joel Shapiro. Sound: Gary Silver. Editor: Jenny Chiurco and Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Oliver Herring. Special Thanks: Davide Borella. 190 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 1746017 http://blip.tv/file/1737395 Art art art21 artist visual contemporary oliver herring spitting food dye david borellaart art21 artist visual contemporary oliver herring spitting food dye david borella Thu, 16 Jul 2009 16:55:00 +0000 art, art21, artist, visual, contemporary, oliver, herring, spitting, food, dye, david, borellaart, art21, artist, visual, contemporary, oliver, herring, spitting, food, dye, david, borella http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-OilverHerringPerformerDavidBorella704-290.jpg art, art21, artist, visual, contemporary, oliver, herring, spitting, food, dye, david, borellaart, art21, artist, visual, contemporary, oliver, herring, spitting, food, dye, david, borella <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lPqyUUC.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lPqyUUC" style="display:none"></embed> Oliver Herring: Participant Davide Borella 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 84D7212C-6CCD-11DE-B6B6-D8B38992A3E4 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/ida-applebroog-inspiration-2360377 Ida Applebroog: Inspiration art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2360377 2340292 file no 0.0 2009-07-09T21:14:42Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 95 6lOBkIkdAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBkIkdAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2360377&skin=rss Art21-IdaApplebroogInspiration516.jpg Episode #064: Ida Applebroog discusses her life as an "image scavenger" in her New York studio, while working on her "Photogenetics" series—a blend of photography, sculpture, painting and digital media.Ida Applebroog propels her paintings and drawings into the realm of installation by arranging and stacking canvases in space, exploding the frame-by-frame logic of comic-book and film narrative into three-dimensional environments. Strong themes in her work include gender and sexual identity, power struggles, and the pernicious role of mass media in desensitizing the public to violence.Learn more about Ida Applebroog at: http://www.art21.org/artists/ida-applebroogVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera & Sound: Mead Hunt and Merce Williams. Editor: Mary Ann Toman . Artwork Courtesy: Ida Applebroog. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-IdaApplebroogInspiration516-233.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #064: Ida Applebroog discusses her life as an "image scavenger" in her New York studio, while working on her "Photogenetics" series—a blend of photography, sculpture, painting and digital media.Ida Applebroog propels her paintings and drawings into the realm of installation by arranging and stacking canvases in space, exploding the frame-by-frame logic of comic-book and film narrative into three-dimensional environments. Strong themes in her work include gender and sexual identity, power struggles, and the pernicious role of mass media in desensitizing the public to violence.Learn more about Ida Applebroog at: http://www.art21.org/artists/ida-applebroogVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera & Sound: Mead Hunt and Merce Williams. Editor: Mary Ann Toman . Artwork Courtesy: Ida Applebroog. 95 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2360377 http://blip.tv/file/2340292 Art Thu, 09 Jul 2009 21:14:42 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-IdaApplebroogInspiration516.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBkIkdAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBkIkdAg" style="display:none"></embed> Ida Applebroog: Inspiration 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 3E88645A-6724-11DE-B6AC-C91DA397F0BE http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/richard-tuttle-art-life-2330867 Richard Tuttle: Art & Life art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2330867 2312222 file no 0.0 2009-07-02T16:20:23Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 155 6lOBjqJXAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBjqJXAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2330867&skin=rss Art21-RichardTuttleArtLife752.jpg Episode #063: Richard Tuttle discusses his philosophical relationship to art and life in his New Mexico studio.Richard Tuttle commonly refers to his art as drawing rather than sculpture, emphasizing the diminutive scale and idea-based nature of his work. He subverts the conventions of modernist sculptural practice by creating small, eccentrically playful objects in decidedly humble materials. Influences on his work include calligraphy, architecture, and poetry.Learn more about Richard Tuttle at: http://www.art21.org/artists/richard-tuttleVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera & Sound: Bob Elfstrom and Ray Day. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Richard Tuttle. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-RichardTuttleArtLife752-548.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #063: Richard Tuttle discusses his philosophical relationship to art and life in his New Mexico studio.Richard Tuttle commonly refers to his art as drawing rather than sculpture, emphasizing the diminutive scale and idea-based nature of his work. He subverts the conventions of modernist sculptural practice by creating small, eccentrically playful objects in decidedly humble materials. Influences on his work include calligraphy, architecture, and poetry.Learn more about Richard Tuttle at: http://www.art21.org/artists/richard-tuttleVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera & Sound: Bob Elfstrom and Ray Day. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Richard Tuttle. 155 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2330867 http://blip.tv/file/2312222 Art Thu, 02 Jul 2009 16:20:23 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-RichardTuttleArtLife752.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBjqJXAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBjqJXAg" style="display:none"></embed> Richard Tuttle: Art & Life 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 52D02D16-61D5-11DE-9F89-C7DADE5B7ACA http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/josiah-mcelheny-beauty-seduction-2299736 Josiah McElheny: Beauty & Seduction art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2299736 2286037 file no 0.0 2009-06-25T22:12:51Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 209 6lOBjK88Ag http://blip.tv/play/6lOBjK88Ag http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2299736&skin=rss Art21-JosiahMcElhenyBeautySeduction658.jpg Episode #062: Artist Josiah McElheny discusses the intentionally problematic nature of beauty and seduction in his "Total Reflective Abstraction" (2004) installation, on view at Donald Young Gallery in Chicago, as well as works by fellow artists and architectural masterpieces such as Renaissance palaces.Josiah McElheny creates finely crafted, handmade glass objects that he combines with photographs, text, and museological displays to evoke notions of meaning and memory. McElheny’s work takes as its subject the object, idea, and social nexus of glass. Influenced by the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, McElheny’s work often takes the form of historical fictions. Part of McElheny’s fascination with storytelling is that glassmaking is part of an oral tradition handed down generation to generation, artisan to artisan. Sculptural models of Modernist ideals, these totally reflective environments are both elegant seductions as well as parables of the vices of utopian aspirations.Learn more about Josiah McElheny at: http://www.art21.org/artists/josiah-mcelhenyVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera & Sound: Kurt Branstetter, Joel Shapiro, and Tom Bergin. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Josiah McElheny. Special Thanks: Donald Young Gallery, Chicago. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JosiahMcElhenyBeautySeduction658-901.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #062: Artist Josiah McElheny discusses the intentionally problematic nature of beauty and seduction in his "Total Reflective Abstraction" (2004) installation, on view at Donald Young Gallery in Chicago, as well as works by fellow artists and architectural masterpieces such as Renaissance palaces.Josiah McElheny creates finely crafted, handmade glass objects that he combines with photographs, text, and museological displays to evoke notions of meaning and memory. McElheny’s work takes as its subject the object, idea, and social nexus of glass. Influenced by the writings of Jorge Luis Borges, McElheny’s work often takes the form of historical fictions. Part of McElheny’s fascination with storytelling is that glassmaking is part of an oral tradition handed down generation to generation, artisan to artisan. Sculptural models of Modernist ideals, these totally reflective environments are both elegant seductions as well as parables of the vices of utopian aspirations.Learn more about Josiah McElheny at: http://www.art21.org/artists/josiah-mcelhenyVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera & Sound: Kurt Branstetter, Joel Shapiro, and Tom Bergin. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Josiah McElheny. Special Thanks: Donald Young Gallery, Chicago. 209 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2299736 http://blip.tv/file/2286037 Art Thu, 25 Jun 2009 22:12:51 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-JosiahMcElhenyBeautySeduction658.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBjK88Ag.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBjK88Ag" style="display:none"></embed> Josiah McElheny: Beauty & Seduction 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 F62D77A0-5C32-11DE-B4BE-A4EBA66ED45E http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/arturo-herrera-powerful-images-2269885 Arturo Herrera: Powerful Images art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2269885 2257904 file no 0.0 2009-06-18T18:08:01Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 165 6lOBisYhAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBisYhAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2269885&skin=rss Art21-ArturoHerreraPowerfulImages140.jpg Episode #061: In his Berlin studio, Arturo Herrera discusses his relationship to creating abstract collages and images. Herrera takes the process of abstraction a step further by photographing fragments of his collages, such as in the work "Untitled" (2005), a series of 80 black and white photographs. He submerges the undeveloped film in hot and cold water, coffee, and tea, creating unpredictable results when printed. Editing the photos into a grid of images, Herrera creates a work that‘s greater than it‘s individual parts.For Arturo Herrera, abstraction is a language rooted in the practice of assembling and composing fragments. Herrera collects illustrated books, comics, and paint-by-number paintings, cutting and splicing them into new forms. He also creates his own source material by fragmenting drawings, watercolors, and shapes made by applying paint directly from the tube. Herrera collages all of these elements together, pasting them together to create a new whole.Learn more about Arturo Herrera at: http://www.art21.org/artists/arturo-herreraVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera & Sound: Terry Doe and Leigh Crisp. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Arturo Herrera. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-ArturoHerreraPowerfulImages140-366.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #061: In his Berlin studio, Arturo Herrera discusses his relationship to creating abstract collages and images. Herrera takes the process of abstraction a step further by photographing fragments of his collages, such as in the work "Untitled" (2005), a series of 80 black and white photographs. He submerges the undeveloped film in hot and cold water, coffee, and tea, creating unpredictable results when printed. Editing the photos into a grid of images, Herrera creates a work that‘s greater than it‘s individual parts.For Arturo Herrera, abstraction is a language rooted in the practice of assembling and composing fragments. Herrera collects illustrated books, comics, and paint-by-number paintings, cutting and splicing them into new forms. He also creates his own source material by fragmenting drawings, watercolors, and shapes made by applying paint directly from the tube. Herrera collages all of these elements together, pasting them together to create a new whole.Learn more about Arturo Herrera at: http://www.art21.org/artists/arturo-herreraVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller and Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Sollins. Camera & Sound: Terry Doe and Leigh Crisp. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Arturo Herrera. 165 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2269885 http://blip.tv/file/2257904 Art Thu, 18 Jun 2009 18:08:01 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-ArturoHerreraPowerfulImages140.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBisYhAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBisYhAg" style="display:none"></embed> Arturo Herrera: Powerful Images 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 AEB37944-569A-11DE-8CB3-DC0CE95F4C01 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/laylah-ali-designer-nicole-parente-2239754 Laylah Ali: Designer Nicole Parente art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2239754 2228798 file no 0.0 2009-06-11T15:15:22Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 123 6lOBiNpuAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBiNpuAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2239754&skin=rss Art21-LaylahAliDesignerNicoleParente803.jpg Episode #060: Artist Laylah Ali and graphic designer Nicole Parente work together in the designer's home office in Cambridge, MA. The artist's hand-drawn notes are transformed into precise digital illustrations otherwise impossible without a computer.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. In style, her paintings resemble comic-book serials, but they also contain stylistic references to hieroglyphics and American folk-art traditions.Learn more about Laylah Ali at: http://www.art21.org/artists/laylah-aliVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Dowling. Camera & Sound: Ken Willinger and Bob Freeman. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Laylah Ali. Special Thanks: Nicole Parente. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-LaylahAliDesignerNicoleParente803-34.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #060: Artist Laylah Ali and graphic designer Nicole Parente work together in the designer's home office in Cambridge, MA. The artist's hand-drawn notes are transformed into precise digital illustrations otherwise impossible without a computer.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. In style, her paintings resemble comic-book serials, but they also contain stylistic references to hieroglyphics and American folk-art traditions.Learn more about Laylah Ali at: http://www.art21.org/artists/laylah-aliVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Susan Dowling. Camera & Sound: Ken Willinger and Bob Freeman. Editor: Jenny Chiurco. Artwork Courtesy: Laylah Ali. Special Thanks: Nicole Parente. 123 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2239754 http://blip.tv/file/2228798 Art Thu, 11 Jun 2009 15:15:22 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-LaylahAliDesignerNicoleParente803.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBiNpuAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBiNpuAg" style="display:none"></embed> Laylah Ali: Designer Nicole Parente 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516 8388C35A-5131-11DE-BD56-98ECCCEEE69D http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive/ellen-gallagher-master-printer-craig-zammiello-2211264 Ellen Gallagher: Master Printer Craig Zammiello art21 156497 art21 art21-exclusive Art21 http://blip.tv/art21-exclusive http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-picture225.jpg 2211264 2200396 file no 0.0 2009-06-04T17:59:56Z English Art/Performance (about) 0 0 1 8 Learning Learning 1 2 175 6lOBhvwkAg http://blip.tv/play/6lOBhvwkAg http://blip.tv/comments/?attached_to=post2211264&skin=rss Art21-EllenGallagherMasterPrinterCraigZammiello328-746.jpg Episode #059: Master Printer Craig Zammiello and artist Ellen Gallagher discuss their working relationship during the process of creating "DeLuxe" (2004-05), a suite of 60 individual works employing both traditional and non-traditional printmaking techniques.Repetition and revision are central to Ellen Gallagher’s treatment of advertisements appropriated from popular magazines. Initially, Gallagher was drawn to the wig advertisements because of their grid-like structure. Later she realized that it was the accompanying language that attracted her, and she began to bring these ‘narratives’ into her paintings—making them function through the characters of the advertisements as a kind of chart of lost worlds. Upon closer inspection, googly eyes, reconfigured wigs, tongues, and lips of minstrel caricatures multiply in detail. Although her work has often been interpreted as an examination of race, Gallagher also suggests a more formal reading- from afar the work appears abstract and minimal, and employs grids as both structure and metaphors for experience.Learn more about Ellen Gallagher at: http://www.art21.org/artists/ellen-gallagherVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Catherine Tatge. Camera & Sound: Mead Hunt and Mark Mandler. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Ellen Gallagher. Special Thanks: Craig Zammiello of Two Palms Press, New York. http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-EllenGallagherMasterPrinterCraigZammiello328-746-119.jpg No license (All rights reserved) arts&culture Episode #059: Master Printer Craig Zammiello and artist Ellen Gallagher discuss their working relationship during the process of creating "DeLuxe" (2004-05), a suite of 60 individual works employing both traditional and non-traditional printmaking techniques.Repetition and revision are central to Ellen Gallagher’s treatment of advertisements appropriated from popular magazines. Initially, Gallagher was drawn to the wig advertisements because of their grid-like structure. Later she realized that it was the accompanying language that attracted her, and she began to bring these ‘narratives’ into her paintings—making them function through the characters of the advertisements as a kind of chart of lost worlds. Upon closer inspection, googly eyes, reconfigured wigs, tongues, and lips of minstrel caricatures multiply in detail. Although her work has often been interpreted as an examination of race, Gallagher also suggests a more formal reading- from afar the work appears abstract and minimal, and employs grids as both structure and metaphors for experience.Learn more about Ellen Gallagher at: http://www.art21.org/artists/ellen-gallagherVIDEO | Producer: Wesley Miller & Nick Ravich. Interview: Catherine Tatge. Camera & Sound: Mead Hunt and Mark Mandler. Editor: Mary Ann Toman. Artwork Courtesy: Ellen Gallagher. Special Thanks: Craig Zammiello of Two Palms Press, New York. 175 YahooPartnerVideoID Blip post id 2211264 http://blip.tv/file/2200396 Art Thu, 04 Jun 2009 17:59:56 +0000 http://a.images.blip.tv/Art21-EllenGallagherMasterPrinterCraigZammiello328-746.jpg <iframe src="http://blip.tv/play/6lOBhvwkAg.html?p=1" width="480" height="300" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://a.blip.tv/api.swf#6lOBhvwkAg" style="display:none"></embed> Ellen Gallagher: Master Printer Craig Zammiello 40.725746464314504 -74.00699615478516