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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 ...
I Wanna Be With You Everywhere (IWBWYE) is a group of disabled artists, writers, and organizers collectively producing cross-disability community gatherings by and for disabled people. Since 2019, ...
ART21: What are your first thoughts about this piece here, at the Guggenheim? WALKER: Well, this piece is called Insurrection!Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On.I always wind up going back ...
Kimsooja’s videos and installations blur the boundaries between aesthetics and transcendent experience through their use of repetitive actions, meditative practices, and serial forms.In many pieces, ...
Artist Martin Puryear discusses his work’s connection to the history of abstraction and the inspiration for his 1996 installation piece, “Ladder for Booker T. Washington.” ART21: Your work is often ...
ART21: Can you clarify what you mean by [the word] chance, especially with the collages you’ve been photographing?. HERRERA: By chance, I mean (in the photo work) that I usually don’t compose the way ...
ART21: How did you decide on the text for the World Trade Center piece? HOLZER: I was invited to make something for the lobby at 7 World Trade Center. After much stewing, I came up with the idea of ...
ART21: Can you talk a little bit about Emoter, another piece that uses random signals?. HAWKINSON: It’s something that emotes, and it’s motorized.Emoter falls into the category of body ...
Art21: What did your first sculpture, Metal Jacket, look like—the one you made for your sculpture class? Suh: It looks like a kind of ancient Oriental armor. The first sculpture was covered with three ...
ART21: Where does the title come from?. PFEIFFER: Well, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is an art historical reference in that it refers back to the woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer, who in some ways ...
Rashid Johnson was born in 1977 in Chicago, Illinois, and lives and works in New York. Johnson, who got his start as a photographer, works across media—including video, sculpture, painting, and ...