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 ...

Maya Lin was born in 1959 in Athens, Ohio, and currently lives and works in New York City. She attended Yale University, where she received her bachelor’s degree in 1981 in art and architecture and ...

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Brian Jungen was born in Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada in 1970. He draws from his family’s ranching and hunting background, as well as his Dane-zaa heritage, when disassembling and ...

Look for the plus icon next to videos throughout the site to add them here. Save videos to watch later, or make a selection to play back-to-back using the autoplay feature. Julie Mehretu discusses her ...

Robert Mangold was born in North Tonawanda, New York in 1937. With classical restraint, Mangold translates the most basic of formal elements—shape, line, and color—into paintings, prints, and drawings ...

Art21 for Everyone is a fundraising campaign to expand the organization’s operations and services, and ensure leading access to contemporary art and the artists of our time. This is the first time in ...

Artists who document, expose, and make sense of conflict in its many forms.

Through introspection, concealment, and revelation, these artists examine possibilities for representation in everyday life.

Smuggling pop culture into high culture, high culture into low culture, and in general muddying taste, these artists borrow from the mainstream to engage with audiences.

Have you ever wanted a Photoshop tutorial from an artist? Filmed in his Greenpoint studio, artist Lucas Blalock creates uncanny pictures using simple tools in Photoshop. Blalock demonstrates how he ...