Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century
Art21: Art In The Twenty-First Century
“Art:21–Art in the Twenty-First Century” is the only series on television to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists ...
Paradox (Full Episode) Season 4, Episode 4
Contemporary artists address contradiction, ambiguity, and truth.
Ecology (Full Episode) Season 4, Episode 3
Artists explore how our understanding of the natural world becomes deeply cultural.
Protest (Full Episode) Season 4, Episode 2
Artists engage politics, inequality, and the many conflicts that besiege the world today.
Romance (Full Episode) Season 4, Episode 1
Artists explore the roles that intuition, emotion, fantasy, and escapism play in contemporary art.
Play (Full Episode) Season 3, Episode 4
Spontaneous and joyful, subversive or amusing, play can take many forms in daily life as well as in contemporary art.
Structures (Full Episode) Season 3, Episode 3
Artists explore how we organize life and the ways in which we capture knowledge and attempt greater understanding.
Memory (Full Episode) Season 3, Episode 2
Artists explore how memory functions and how to frame the past in their work.
Power (Full Episode) Season 3, Episode 1
From politics to mass media, the theme of power pervades daily life and is reflected in the ideas and concerns of contemporary artists.
Humor (Full Episode) Season 2, Episode 4
Artists use irony, goofiness, satire, and sarcasm in their work, being funny and critical at the same time.
Loss & Desire (Full Episode) Season 2, Episode 2
Artists express longing, love, and human experience in contemporary work.
Time (Full Episode) Season 2, Episode 3
Artists evoke and transform time in their work, relating to art of the ancient past, to nature, and to the rhythms of the life.
Stories (Full Episode) Season 2, Episode 1
Artists tell stories in their work, reveal narrative traditions, and record and describe the world around us.
Consumption (Full Episode) Season 1, Episode 4
Artists address the idea of consumption by questioning commonly held assumptions about commerce, mass media, and consumer society.