"For us, the idea of having a work that has contradictions is very important—when, in affirming something, it includes itself and attacks itself. How can you put together all of these things that have nothing to do with each other? You use glue! Glue can be an idea, a word. You can use an ideological glue."
Julie Mehretu
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SHORT: Julie Mehretu: Painting Conservator Luca Bonetti | Luca Bonetti leads the installation of artist Julie Mehretu’s massive painting "Mural' (2009) at Goldman Sachs, coordinating a team of installers and... | 6:31 | 04/09/2010 |
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SHORT: Julie Mehretu: "Mural" | Julie Mehretu puts the finishing touches on her large-scale painting "Mural" at Goldman Sachs, adjusting shapes and colors in dialogue with the... | 5:13 | 05/14/2010 |
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TRAILER: Season 5 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2009) | Trailer for Season 5 of the Peabody Award-winning series, "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (premiered Fall 2009 on PBS). Featured artists... | 5:12 | 04/10/2009 |
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SHORT: Julie Mehretu: Studio Assistants | Filmed in her Berlin studio, a group of Julie Mehretu's assistants — Sarah Rentz, Damien Young, Erika Fortner and Harmony Murphy — discuss how they... | 4:51 | 03/12/2010 |
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SHORT: Julie Mehretu: Workday | Filmed in her Berlin studio, Julie Mehretu discusses the ups and downs of her daily studio practice. Mehretu is shown working on the painting "Middle... | 2:09 | 02/05/2010 |
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PREVIEW: Julie Mehretu in Season 5 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2009) | Mehretu's paintings and drawings refer to elements of mapping and architecture, achieving a calligraphic complexity that resembles turbulent... | 1:17 | 10/01/2009 |
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SEGMENT: Julie Mehretu in "Systems" | “Trying to figure out who I am and my work is trying to understand systems,” says Julie Mehretu, shown working with her assistants in Berlin on seven... | 0:00 | 10/28/2009 |
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EPISODE: "Systems" | Whether through acts of appropriation, repetition, or accumulation, the artists in this episode realize projects both vast in scope and beyond... | 0:00 | 10/28/2009 |
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