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ART21

Art21 produces features focusing exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists throughout the world, including the Peabody Award-winning biennial series "Art in the Twenty-First Century." Intimate footage allows the viewer to observe the artists at work and watch their process as they transform inspiration into art.

Friends and Strangers

55m 11s

Four contemporary artists look inside and outside their immediate circles to find emotional connections and build community. This film showcases playful and poignant sculptures, performances, and more. Includes celebrated filmmaker Miranda July.

Episodes

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    Friends and Strangers

    S11 E3 - 55m 11s

    Four contemporary artists look inside and outside their immediate circles to find emotional connections and build community. This film showcases playful and poignant sculptures, performances, and more. Includes celebrated filmmaker Miranda July.

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    Bodies of Knowledge

    S11 E2 - 55m 12s

    Finding inspiration outside the studio, a group of acclaimed contemporary artists use history, science, and politics as the raw material to create potent sculptures, paintings, drawings, and public works.

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    Everyday Icons

    S11 E1 - 55m 14s

    Four contemporary artists breathe new life into some of humanity's oldest artforms, icons and monuments, creating paintings, sculptures, and films out of everyday objects and popular culture. Featuring Michelle Obama portrait painter Amy Sherald.

Extras + Features

  • How Daniel Lind-Ramos Sources Materials for His Sculptures: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    How Daniel Lind-Ramos Sources Materials for His Sculptures

    S11 E1 - 53s

    In his studio in Loíza, Puerto Rico, artist Daniel Lind-Ramos uses found materials to create his sculpture, "María Guabancex," inspired by the artist's experience with Hurricane Maria. Lind-Ramos explains that he often finds materials related to the narrative he's trying to organize and lets the materials activate his imagination.

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    Extended Preview

    S11 E1 - 3m 32s

    Twelve of America's most innovative artists rise to the challenge of our current moment, creating new paintings, sculptures, films, and performances that inspire and heal. Featuring Michelle Obama portraitist Amy Sherald.

  • How Artist Rose B. Simpson Brings Her Sculptures to Life: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    How Artist Rose B. Simpson Brings Her Sculptures to Life

    S11 E1 - 1m 12s

    Artist Rose B. Simpson is working on sculptures in her studio in Santa Clara Pueblo, NM. She explains that by using clay that's really thin, she has to be present with the process and finish it the day she starts it. She likes using clay in different colors together in the same piece, not only for the aesthetics but also to pay homage to the fact that we are all made up of many different things.

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