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I often think of making an Art21 film as finding the right balance between three main components: an interview with the ...

Watch this film with ASL. Whether in the virtual space of a Zoom call or the in-person space of an art museum, the members of the cross-disability collective I Wanna Be With You Everywhere (IWBWYE) ...

Featuring the artist collective I Wanna Be With You Everywhere and directed by Andrea Chung and Adam Golfer, New Documentary Short to Premiere on June 25, 2025 Watch the trailer. New York, New ...

Beryl Korot discusses a recent work— Babel: the 7 minute scroll (2007)—which takes the form as both a large-scale print and an animated digital video. With pictographs that reference ancient Egypt and ...

This episode provides an in-depth look at the creation of Kara Walker’s monumental public project, A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby (2014), at the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, NY. Seated ...

Abigail DeVille was born in 1981 in New York, where she lives and works. Maintaining a long-standing interest in marginalized people and places, DeVille creates site-specific immersive installations ...

Susan Philipsz was born in Glasgow, Scotland, in 1965. Philipsz’s work explores the psychological and sculptural dimensions of sound, with recordings of her voice and a variety of reworked musical ...

Shahzia Sikander specializes in Indian and Persian manuscript painting, a traditional, technique-driven style that Sikander imbued with a personal context and history, blending the Eastern focus on ...

Josiah McElheny was born in Boston, Massachusetts, in 1966, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, and apprenticed with master ...