Art21 is the world’s leading source to learn directly from the artists of our time. The mission of Art21 is to educate and ...

Art21 is the world’s leading source to learn directly from the artists of our time. The mission of Art21 is to educate and expand access to contemporary art through the production of documentary films ...

Six new films are featured in Art21’s third and final wave of 2019 film programming, starting with two new releases available to watch today. New films will premiere bi-weekly on Wednesdays through ...

Seed funding from Bloomberg Philanthropies and The Hearthland Foundation provides access to two decades of interviews with artists including Kerry James Marshall, Bruce Nauman, and Julie Mehretu. NEW ...

Although the work has often been interpreted strictly as an examination of race, Gallagher also suggests a more formal reading with respect to materials, processes, and insistences. From afar, the ...

Use themes and big ideas driven by essential questions to frame your investigation. Integrating contemporary art and themes into teaching requires a shift from predominantly technique-driven ...

Nancy Spero discusses her reasons for creating politically-motivated works. ART21: When did your attention turn to political subject matter? SPERO: I think my political instincts came by having a ...

Elle Pérez was born in 1989 in Bronx, New York and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Since receiving their MFA from Yale School of Art in 2015, Pérez has worked primarily in photography, ...

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 ...

Collier Schorr was born in New York City in 1963 and attended the School of the Visual Arts, New York. Best known for her portraits of adolescent men and women, Schorr’s pictures often blend ...