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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 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.

  • Artist Amy Sherald's Painting Process: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Artist Amy Sherald's Painting Process

    S11 E1 - 2m 4s

    Artist Amy Sherald invites two models into her studio in Jersey City, NJ, to help her visualize her painting, "For love, and for country." Sherald has the models imitating the pose in Alfred Eisenstaedt's famous black-and-white photo "V-J Day in Times Square." The artist explains that taking photographs of models serves as her sketchbook, where she figures out what she wants in her painting.

  • Artist Alex Da Corte Transforms Into Characters: asset-mezzanine-16x9

    Artist Alex Da Corte Transforms Into Characters

    S11 E1 - 1m 40s

    Artist Alex Da Corte is in his studio in Philadelphia, PA, transforming into characters for a video shoot with the help of his team. In Da Corte's video artworks, he performs while dressed as a wide variety of cultural icons. By spending time with these characters, he hopes to make his mind freer than it is and give depth to icons that are often rendered as flat symbols.

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