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Cloud and its Projection (1966)

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Marina Abramović
Marina Abramović was born in Belgrade, Yugoslavia in 1946. A pioneer of performance as a visual art form, Abramović has used her body as both subject and medium of her performances to test her physical, mental... continue reading
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SHORT: Robert Adams: Light
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Robert Adams
Robert Adams was born in Orange, New Jersey, in 1937. His refined black-and-white photographs document scenes of the American West of the past four decades, revealing the impact of human activity on the last... continue reading
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Ai Weiwei
Ai Weiwei was born in Beijing, China in 1957. An outspoken human rights activist, Ai was arrested by Chinese authorities in April 2011 and held incommunicado for three months. Upon his release, he was... continue reading
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SHORT: Laylah Ali: Choreographer Dean Moss

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Laylah Ali
Laylah Ali was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1968, and lives and works in Williamstown, Massachusetts. She received a BA from Williams College and an MFA from Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri. The... continue reading
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SHORT: Allora & Calzadilla: Form
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"Clamor" (2006)

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Allora & Calzadilla
Jennifer Allora was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1974. Guillermo Calzadilla was born in 1971 in Havana, Cuba. Allora received a BA from the University of Richmond in Virginia (1996) and an MS from... continue reading
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David Altmejd
David Altmejd was born in Montreal, Canada in 1974. With an almost childlike fascination for objects that grow, transform, and reshape themselves, Altmejd creates sculptures, suffused with ornament, that blur... continue reading
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El Anatsui
El Anatsui was born in Anyanko, Ghana in 1944. Many of Anatsui’s sculptures are mutable in form, conceived to be so free and flexible that they can be shaped in any way and altered in appearance for each... continue reading
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Introduction to "Place" by Laurie Anderson
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"Walking Solo for Tape Bow Violin" (1979)
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Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson was born in Chicago in 1947. One of eight children, she studied the violin and played in the Chicago Youth Symphony. She graduated in 1969 from Barnard College in New York, and went on to... continue reading
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Eleanor Antin
Eleanor Antin was born in New York City in 1935. An influential performance artist, filmmaker, and installation artist, Antin delves into history—whether of ancient Rome, the Crimean War, the salons of... continue reading
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Janine Antoni: "Touch" and "Moor"
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Janine Antoni: "Lick and Lather"
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Janine Antoni
Janine Antoni was born in Freeport, Bahamas, in 1964. She received her BA from Sarah Lawrence College in New York, and earned her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1989. Antoni’s work blurs the... continue reading
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Ida Applebroog: Process and Technology
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Ida Applebroog: Power, Feminism, and Art
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SHORT: Ida Applebroog: Inspiration

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Ida Applebroog
Ida Applebroog was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1929, and lives and works in New York. She attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and received an honorary doctorate from New School University/... continue reading
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assume vivid astro focus
The collective assume vivid astro focus (avaf) was formed in New York City in 2001. Its principal members are Eli Sudbrack (born in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in 1968) and Christophe Hamaide-Pierson (born in Paris... continue reading
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Opening to "Humor" by Charles Atlas with Margaret Cho
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Opening to "Loss & Desire" by Charles Atlas with Jane Alexander
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Opening to "Stories" by Charles Atlas with John Waters

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Charles Atlas
Charles Atlas was born in St. Louis, Missouri, in 1958. Atlas is a filmmaker and video artist who has created numerous works for stage, screen, museum, and television. Atlas is a pioneer in the development of... continue reading
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SHORT: John Baldessari: Recycling Images
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John Baldessari
John Baldessari was born in National City, California, in 1931. He received a BA (1953) and MA (1957) from San Diego State College, continuing his studies at Otis Art Institute (1957–59) and Chouinard Art... continue reading
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"CREMASTER 4" (1994)

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Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney was born in San Francisco in 1967; at age six, he moved to Idaho with his family. After his parents divorced, Barney continued to live with his father in Idaho, playing football on his high... continue reading
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Untitled (Wax Piece) (1966)

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Lynda Benglis
Lynda Benglis was born in Lake Charles, Louisiana in 1941. A pioneer of a form of abstraction in which each work is the result of materials in action—poured latex and foam, cinched metal, dripped wax... continue reading
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Lucas Blalock
Lucas Blalock (b. 1978, Asheville, North Carolina, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a BA from Bard College (2002), attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2011), and is... continue reading
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"One and Others" (1955)

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Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois was born in Paris in 1911. She studied art at various schools there, including the Ecole du Louvre, Académie des Beaux-Arts, Académie Julian, and Atelier Fernand Léger. In 1938, she immigrated... continue reading
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SHORT: Mark Bradford: Paper
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Mark Bradford
Mark Bradford was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1961. He received a BFA (1995) and MFA (1997) from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. Bradford transforms materials scavenged from the... continue reading
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Cai Guo-Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang was born in 1957 in Quanzhou City, Fujian Province, China, and lives and works in New York. He studied stage design at the Shanghai Drama Institute from 1981 to 1985 and attended the Institute... continue reading
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Cao Fei
Cao Fei was born in Guangzhou, China, in 1978. She earned a BFA from Guangzhou Academy of Fine Arts in Guangzhou, China (2001). Cao Fei’s work reflects the fluidity of a world in which cultures have mixed and... continue reading
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"Heater" (1964)

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Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins was born in Riga, Latvia, in 1938. Celmins immigrated to the United States with her family when she was ten years old, settling in Indiana. She received a BFA from the John Herron Institute in... continue reading
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"(Forever Free) ‘Servin with a smile’" (1994)

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Michael Ray Charles
Michael Ray Charles was born in 1967 in Lafayette, Louisiana, and graduated from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, in 1985. In college, he studied advertising design and illustration,... continue reading
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SHORT: Mel Chin: "Paydirt"
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Mel Chin
Mel Chin was born in Houston to Chinese parents in 1951, the first of his family born in the United States, and was reared in a predominantly African-American and Latino neighborhood. He worked in his family’s... continue reading
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Martha Colburn & the Musicians, LIVE!
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Martha Colburn Cuts the Boring Parts Out
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Martha Colburn Brings the War Home

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Martha Colburn
Martha Colburn (b. 1971, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, USA) lives and works in Queens, New York and Amsterdam, The Netherlands. She earned a BA from the Maryland Institute College of Art (1994) and attended the... continue reading
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SHORT: Mark Dion: Methodology
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SHORT: Mark Dion: "Herbarium Perrine (Marine Algae)"
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Mark Dion
Mark Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1961. He received a BFA (1986) and an honorary doctorate (2003) from the University of Hartford, School of Art, Connecticut. Dion’s work examines the ways... continue reading
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Dunham’s Farm Pond (1972)

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Rackstraw Downes
Rackstraw Downes was born in Kent, England in 1939. Often described as a realist painter, Downes prefers not to use that term. He views the act of seeing and the art of representation as culturally taught,... continue reading
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John Feodorov
John Feodorov was born in 1960 in Los Angeles, of mixed Native-American and Euro-American descent. Brought up both in the suburbs of Los Angeles and on a Navajo reservation in New Mexico, Feodorov early... continue reading
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Keltie Ferris
Keltie Ferris (b. 1977, Louisville, Kentucky, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a BFA from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (2004) and an MFA from Yale University (2006). Awards... continue reading
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"Avatars- The Birds of India" (1996)

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Walton Ford
Walton Ford was born in 1960 in Larchmont, New York. Ford graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design with the intention of becoming a filmmaker, but later adapted his talents as a storyteller to his... continue reading
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LaToya Ruby Frazier Takes on Levi's
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LaToya Ruby Frazier
LaToya Ruby Frazier (b. 1982, Braddock, Pennsylvania, USA) lives and works in New Brunswick, New Jersey and New York, New York. She earned a BFA from Edinboro University (2004), an MFA from Syracuse University... continue reading
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SHORT: Ellen Gallagher: Master Printer Craig Zammiello
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Ellen Gallagher
Ellen Gallagher was born in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1965, and lives and works in New York and Rotterdam, Holland. She attended Oberlin College and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Repetition... continue reading
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Ann Hamilton
Ann Hamilton was born in 1956 in Lima, Ohio. She trained in textile design at the University of Kansas, and later received an MFA from Yale University. While her degree is in sculpture, textiles and fabric... continue reading
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"Ferroneous & the Monk" (1999)

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Trenton Doyle Hancock
Trenton Doyle Hancock was born in 1974 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Raised in Paris, Texas, Hancock earned his BFA from Texas A&M University, Commerce, and his MFA from the Tyler School of Art at Temple... continue reading
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Tommy Hartung's Underground Movies
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Tommy Hartung
Tommy Hartung (b. 1979, Akron, Ohio, USA) lives and works in Queens, New York. He earned a BFA from Purchase College, State University of New York (2004) and an MFA from Columbia University (2006). continue reading
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Installation view at Ace Gallery (1995)

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Tim Hawkinson
Tim Hawkinson was born in San Francisco, California, in 1960. A graduate of San Jose State University, he later earned his MFA at the University of California, Los Angeles, in 1989. Hawkinson is renowned for... continue reading
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SHORT: Mary Heilmann: Abstract Painting
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Mary Heilmann
Mary Heilmann was born in 1940 in San Francisco, California. She earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Barbara (1962), and an MA from the University of California, Berkeley (1967). For every... continue reading
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SHORT: Arturo Herrera: Assistant Jeff Bechtel
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Arturo Herrera
Arturo Herrera was born in Caracas, Venezuela in 1959, and lives and works in New York and Berlin, Germany. He received a BA from the University of Tulsa, Oklahoma, and an MFA from the University of Illinois... continue reading
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SHORT: Oliver Herring: Participant Davide Borella
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Oliver Herring
Oliver Herring was born in Heidelberg, Germany, in 1964, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He received a BFA from the University of Oxford, Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art, Oxford, England, and... continue reading
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Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer was born in Gallipolis, Ohio, in 1950. She received a BA from Ohio University in Athens (1972); an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence (1977); and honorary doctorates from the... continue reading
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Roni Horn
Roni Horn was born in New York in 1955, and lives and works in New York. She received a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and an MFA from Yale University. Horn explores the mutable nature of art... continue reading
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Hubbard/Birchler
Teresa Hubbard was born in Dublin, Ireland, in 1965; Alexander Birchler was born in Baden, Switzerland, in 1962. Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler live and work in Austin, Texas, as life partners and... continue reading
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SHORT: Pierre Huyghe: "Anlee"
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Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe was born in 1962 in Paris, France. He attended the École Nationale Supérieure des Arts Décoratifs, Paris (1982–85). Employing folly, leisure, adventure, and celebration in creating art, Huyghe’s... continue reading
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SHORT: Alfredo Jaar: Gramsci & Pasolini
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Alfredo Jaar
Alfredo Jaar was born in Santiago, Chile, in 1956. He attended Instituto Chileno-Norteamericano de Cultura, Santiago (1979), and Universidad de Chile, Santiago (1981). In installations, photographs, films, and... continue reading
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Rashid Johnson Makes Things to Put Things On
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Rashid Johnson
Rashid Johnson (b. 1977, Chicago, Illinois, USA) lives and works in New York and Brooklyn, New York. He earned a BA from Columbia College, Chicago (2000) and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute,... continue reading
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SHORT: Mike Kelley: "Day Is Done"
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"Painting with Hawaiian Mask, Ballerina, and De Stijl Painting" (1976)

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Mike Kelley
Mike Kelley was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1954. He received a BFA from the University of Michigan, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Kelley’s work ranges from highly symbolic and... continue reading
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SHORT: William Kentridge: Collaboration
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William Kentridge
William Kentridge was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1955. He attended the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1973–76), Johannesburg Art Foundation (1976–78), and studied mime and theater... continue reading
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"To Friend and Foe" (1999)

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Margaret Kilgallen
Margaret Kilgallen was born in 1967 in Washington, DC, and received her BA in printmaking from Colorado College in 1989. Early experiences as a librarian and bookbinder contributed to her encyclopedic... continue reading
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SHORT: Kimsooja: Art & Everyday Life
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Kimsooja
Kimsooja was born in 1957 in Taegu, South Korea. She earned a BFA (1980) and MA (1984) from Hong-Ik University, Seoul. Kimsooja’s videos and installations blur the boundaries between aesthetics and... continue reading
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Jeff Koons
Jeff Koons was born in 1955 in York, Pennsylvania. He studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, and received a BFA from the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore (1976), and honorary doctorates from the... continue reading
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SHORT: Beryl Korot: "Babel: the 7 minute scroll"
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Beryl Korot
Beryl Korot was born in 1945 in New York, where she continues to live and work. An early video-art pioneer and an internationally exhibited artist, her multiple-channel (and multiple-monitor) video-... continue reading
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Introduction to "Consumption" by Barbara Kruger with John McEnroe
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"Untitled (When I hear the world culture, I take out my checkbook)" (1985)

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Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger was born in Newark, New Jersey, in 1945. After attending Syracuse University, the School of Visual Arts, and studying art and design with Diane Arbus at Parson’s School of Design in New York,... continue reading
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SHORT: An-My Lê: "29 Palms"
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An-My Lê
An-My Lê was born in Saigon, Vietnam, in 1960. Lê fled Vietnam with her family as a teenager in 1975, the final year of the war, eventually settling in the United States as a political refugee. Lê received BAS... continue reading
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Production still from "History" (2012)

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Glenn Ligon
Glenn Ligon was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1960. Ligon’s paintings and sculptures examine cultural and social identity through found sources—literature, Afrocentric coloring books, photographs... continue reading
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"Vietnam Veterans Memorial" (1982)

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Maya Lin
Born in 1959 in Athens, Ohio, Maya Lin catapulted into the public eye when, as a senior at Yale University, she submitted the winning design in a national competition for a Vietnam Veterans Memorial to be... continue reading
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Kalup Linzy Makes His Way Through the Art World

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Kalup Linzy
Kalup Linzy (b. 1977, Clermont, Florida, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a BFA and an MFA from the University of South Florida (2000, 2003) and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting... continue reading
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Florian Maier-Aichen
Florian Maier-Aichen was born in 1973 in Stuttgart, Germany. He studied at Högskolan för Fotografi och Film, Göteborg, Sweden; the University of Essen, Germany; and earned an MFA from the University of... continue reading
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SEGMENT: Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle in "Ecology"
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Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle was born in Madrid, Spain, in 1961, and was raised in Bogotá, Colombia, and Chicago, Illinois. He earned a BA in art and art history, and a BA in Latin American and Spanish literature,... continue reading
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Robert Mangold
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... continue reading
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SEGMENT: Sally Mann in "Place"
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"The Last Time Emmett Modeled Nude" (1987)

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Sally Mann
Sally Mann was born in 1951 in Lexington, Virginia, where she continues to live and work. She received a BA from Hollins College in 1974, and an MA in writing from the same school in 1975. continue reading
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SHORT: Kerry James Marshall: Being an Artist
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SEGMENT: Kerry James Marshall in "Identity"

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Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall was born in 1955 in Birmingham, Alabama, and was educated at the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, from which he received a BFA, and an honorary doctorate (1999). The subject matter of... continue reading
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SHORT: Paul McCarthy: Art & Entertainment
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Paul McCarthy
Paul McCarthy was born in 1945 in Salt Lake City. He studied at the University of Utah, Salt Lake City (1968–69); earned a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute (1969) and an MFA from the University of... continue reading
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"Drawings Templates and written protocols" (1988)
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"The Shapes Project" (2005/06)
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SHORT: Allan McCollum: "Over Ten Thousand Individual Works"

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Allan McCollum
Allan McCollum was born in Los Angeles in 1944. In his twenties, McCollum briefly considered a career in theater and then attended trade school to study restaurant management and industrial kitchen work. In... continue reading
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SHORT: Josiah McElheny: "The Alpine Cathedral and the City-Crown"
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SHORT: Josiah McElheny: "Conceptual Drawings for a Chandelier, 1965"
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Josiah McElheny
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 glassblowers Ronald... continue reading
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SEGMENT: Barry McGee & Margaret Kilgallen in "Place"
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"The Buddy System," detail (1999)

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Barry McGee
A lauded and much-respected cult figure in a bi-coastal subculture that comprises skaters, graffiti artists, and West Coast surfers, Barry McGee was born in 1966 in California, where he continues to live and... continue reading
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SHORT: Julie Mehretu: "Mural"
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Julie Mehretu
Julie Mehretu was born in 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She studied at University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar (1990–91), earned a BA from Kalamazoo College, Michigan (1992), and an MFA from Rhode Island School of... continue reading
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Shana Moulton's Portable Performance

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Shana Moulton
Shana Moulton (b. 1976, Oakhurst, California, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a BFA from University of California, Berkeley (1999), an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University (2004) and... continue reading
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SEGMENT: Elizabeth Murray in "Humor"
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"Open Drawer" (1998)

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Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray was born in Chicago in 1940. She earned a BFA at the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California. A pioneer in painting, Murray’s distinctively shaped... continue reading
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SEGMENT: Bruce Nauman in "Identity"
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"Violins Violence Silence" (1981-1982)

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Bruce Nauman
Born in 1941 in Fort Wayne, Indiana, Bruce Nauman has been recognized since the early 1970s as one of the most innovative and provocative of America’s contemporary artists. Nauman finds inspiration in the... continue reading
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PREVIEW: Catherine Opie in Season 6 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century"
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TRAILER: Season 6 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2012)
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Artwork Survey: 1990s

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Catherine Opie
Catherine Opie was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1961. Opie investigates the ways in which photographs both document and give voice to social phenomena in America today, registering people’s attitudes and... continue reading
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SHORT: Gabriel Orozco: "Samurai Tree"
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SHORT: Gabriel Orozco: "Obit"
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Gabriel Orozco
Gabriel Orozco was born in Jalapa, Veracruz, Mexico, in 1962 and studied at the Escuela Nacional de Arte Plasticas in Mexico City, and at the Circulo de Bellas Artes in Madrid, Spain. An avid traveler, Gabriel... continue reading
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SEGMENT: Pepon Osorio in "Place"
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"La Bicicleta (The Bicycle)" (1985)

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Pepón Osorio
Pepón Osorio, best known for large-scale installations, was born in Santurce, Puerto Rico, in 1955. He was educated at the Universidad Inter-Americana in Puerto Rico and Herbert H. Lehman College in New York,... continue reading
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SEGMENT: Raymond Pettibon in "Humor"
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"No title (Sex with Nancy)" (1985)

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Raymond Pettibon
Raymond Pettibon was born in Tucson, Arizona, in 1957. The fourth of five children, Pettibon earned a degree in economics from the University of California, Los Angeles. After graduating from college, Pettibon... continue reading
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SHORT: Judy Pfaff: Assistant Rob van Erve
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Judy Pfaff
Judy Pfaff was born in London, England, in 1946. She received a BFA from Washington University, Saint Louis (1971), and an MFA from Yale University (1973). Balancing intense planning with improvisational... continue reading
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SEGMENT: Paul Pfeiffer in "Time"
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"Corner Piece" (2002)

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Paul Pfeiffer
Paul Pfeiffer was born in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1966 but spent most of his childhood in the Philippines. Pfeiffer relocated to New York in 1990, where he attended Hunter College and the Whitney Independent... continue reading
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Lari Pittman
Lari Pittman was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1952. Pittman received both a BFA (1974) and an MFA (1976) from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia. Inspired by commercial advertising, folk art,... continue reading
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SEGMENT: Martin Puryear in "Time"
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"Untitled" (1993-1994)

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Martin Puryear
Martin Puryear was born in Washington, DC, in 1941. In his youth, he studied crafts and learned how to build guitars, furniture, and canoes through practical training and instruction. After earning his BA from... continue reading
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TRAILER: Season 6 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2012)
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Artwork Survey: 2000s
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Camel Toe (video still) (2008)

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Mary Reid Kelley
Mary Reid Kelley was born in Greenville, South Carolina in 1979. In videos and drawings filled with punning wordplay, Reid Kelley presents her take on the clash between utopian ideologies and the realities of... continue reading
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SHORT: Matthew Ritchie: Apocalypse
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Matthew Ritchie
Matthew Ritchie was born in London, England, in 1964, and lives and works in New York. He received a BFA from Camberwell School of Art, London, and attended Boston University. His artistic mission has been no... continue reading
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Mariah Robertson Wears a Yellow Suit to Work
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A Naked Guy Walks into a Mariah Robertson Photo

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Mariah Robertson
Mariah Robertson (b. 1975, Indianapolis, IN, USA) grew up in Sacramento, California, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a BA from University of California, Berkeley (1997) and an MFA from... continue reading
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Susan Rothenberg
Susan Rothenberg was born in Buffalo, New York, in 1945. She received a BFA from Cornell University. Her early work—large acrylic, figurative paintings—came to prominence in the 1970s New York art world, a... continue reading
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SHORT: Robert Ryman: Possibilities
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Artwork Survey: 1950s

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Robert Ryman
Robert Ryman was born in Nashville, Tennessee, in 1930. Ryman studied at the Tennessee Polytechnic Institute and the George Peabody College for Teachers, Nashville, before serving in the United States Army (... continue reading
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Doris Salcedo
Doris Salcedo was born in 1958 in Bogotá, Colombia. Salcedo earned a BFA at Universidad de Bogotá Jorge Tadeo Lozano (1980) and an MA from New York University (1984). Salcedo’s understated sculptures and... continue reading
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SEGMENT: Collier Schorr in "Loss & Desire"
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Collier Schorr
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 photographic... continue reading
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SEGMENT: Richard Serra in "Place"
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Artwork Survey: 1960s
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"One Ton Prop (House of Cards)" (1969)

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Richard Serra
Richard Serra was born in San Francisco in 1939. After studying at the University of California at Berkeley and at Santa Barbara, he graduated in 1961 with a BA in English literature. During this time, he... continue reading
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Production still from "Transformation" (2009)
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Production still from "Transformation" (2009)
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Production still from "Transformation" (2009)

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Cindy Sherman
Cindy Sherman was born in 1954 in Glen Ridge, New Jersey. Sherman earned a BA from Buffalo State College, State University of New York (1976). In self-reflexive photographs and films, Cindy Sherman invents... continue reading
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SHORT: Yinka Shonibare MBE: "Nelson's Ship in a Bottle"

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Yinka Shonibare MBE
Yinka Shonibare MBE was born in 1962 in London, England. After growing up in Lagos, Nigeria, Shonibare studied at Byam Shaw School of Art, London (1984–89) and earned an MA from Goldsmiths College, London... continue reading
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SEGMENT: Shahzia Sikander in "Spirituality"
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"The Scroll," detail (1991-1992)

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Shahzia Sikander
Shahzia Sikander was born in 1969 in Lahore, Pakistan. Educated as an undergraduate at the National College of Arts in Lahore, she received her MFA in 1995 from the Rhode Island School of Design. Sikander... continue reading
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SEGMENT: Laurie Simmons in "Romance"

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Laurie Simmons
Laurie Simmons was born on Long Island, New York, in 1949. She received a BFA from the Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia (1971). Simmons stages photographs and films with paper dolls, finger puppets,... continue reading
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SEGMENT: Kiki Smith in "Stories"
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"My Blue Lake" (1994)

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Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith was born in 1954 in Nuremberg, Germany. The daughter of American sculptor Tony Smith, Kiki Smith grew up in New Jersey. As a young girl, one of Smith’s first experiences with art was helping her... continue reading
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SHORT: Nancy Spero: Leon Golub's "Gigantomachy II"
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Artwork Survey: 1960s
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"Kill Commies / Maypole" (1967)

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Nancy Spero
Nancy Spero was born in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1926. She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1949), and honorary doctorates from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (1991) and... continue reading
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SHORT: Jessica Stockholder: Form
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SHORT: Jessica Stockholder: Master Papermaker Paul Wong
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SHORT: Jessica Stockholder: Beauty & Politics

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Jessica Stockholder
Jessica Stockholder was born in Seattle, Washington, in 1959. She studied painting at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, and received an MFA from Yale University. Stockholder is a pioneer of... continue reading
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SEGMENT: Hiroshi Sugimoto in "Memory"
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Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto was born in Tokyo, Japan, in 1948, and lives and works in New York and Tokyo. His interest in art began early. His reading of André Breton’s writings led to his discovery of Surrealism and... continue reading
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ARTWORK: "Some/One" by Do-Ho Suh
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Do-Ho Suh
Do-Ho Suh was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1962. After earning his BFA and MFA in Oriental Painting from Seoul National University, and fulfilling his term of mandatory service in the South Korean military, Suh... continue reading
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SHORT: Catherine Sullivan: Empathy
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Catherine Sullivan
Catherine Sullivan was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1968. She earned a BFA from the California Institute of Arts, Valencia (1992), and an MFA from the Art Center College of Design, Pasadena (1997).... continue reading
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Artist at Work
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Sarah Sze
Sarah Sze was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1969. Sze builds her installations and intricate sculptures from the minutiae of everyday life, imbuing mundane materials, marks, and processes with surprising... continue reading
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Japanese Kitchen (1999)

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Tabaimo
Tabaimo was born in Hyogo, Japan in 1975. Tabaimo’s drawings and video installations probe the unsettling themes of isolation, contagion, and instability that seem to lurk beneath daily existence in... continue reading
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Mika Tajima Wants to Hire Contortionists
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Mika Tajima Versus the Cubicle

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Mika Tajima
Mika Tajima (b. 1975, Los Angeles, California, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. She earned a BA from Bryn Mawr College (1997), an MFA from Columbia University (2003), and attended The Fabric... continue reading
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SEGMENT: James Turrell in "Spirituality"
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"Atlan" (1995)

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James Turrell
James Turrell was born in Los Angeles in 1943. His undergraduate studies at Pomona College focused on psychology and mathematics; only later, in graduate school, did he pursue art, receiving an MFA from the... continue reading
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SHORT: Richard Tuttle: Art & Life
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SHORT: Richard Tuttle: Reality & Illusion
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SEGMENT: Richard Tuttle in "Structures"

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Richard Tuttle
Richard Tuttle was born in Rahway, New Jersey, in 1941, and lives and works in New Mexico and New York. He received a BA from Trinity College, Hartford. Although most of Tuttle’s prolific artistic output since... continue reading
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SHORT: Ursula von Rydingsvard: Giotto
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EPISODE: "Ecology"
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SEGMENT: Ursula von Rydingsvard in "Ecology"

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Ursula von Rydingsvard
Ursula von Rydingsvard was born in Deensen, Germany, in 1942. She received a BA and an MA from the University of Miami, Coral Gables (1965), an MFA from Columbia University (1975), and an honorary doctorate... continue reading
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SEGMENT: Kara Walker in "Stories"
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"Negress Notes" (1996)

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Kara Walker
Kara Walker was born in Stockton, California, in 1969. She received a BFA from the Atlanta College of Art in 1991, and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1994. The artist is best known for... continue reading
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SHORT: Carrie Mae Weems: "Roaming"
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Carrie Mae Weems & David Alan Grier: In Conversation
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SEGMENT: Carrie Mae Weems in "Compassion"

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Carrie Mae Weems
Carrie Mae Weems was born in Portland, Oregon, in 1953. Weems earned a BFA from the California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (1981), and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego (1984), continuing... continue reading
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Introduction to "Identity" by William Wegman with Steve Martin
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Artwork Survey: 1990s
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"Stepmother" (1992)

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William Wegman
William Wegman was born in Holyoke, Massachusetts, in 1943. He graduated from the Massachusetts College of Art in 1965 with a BFA in painting, then enrolled in the graduate painting and printmaking program at... continue reading
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SEGMENT: Fred Wilson in "Structures"
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"Untitled" (1992)

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Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson was born in the Bronx, New York, in 1954, and lives and works in New York. He received a BFA from Purchase College, State University of New York. continue reading
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SHORT: Krzysztof Wodiczko: Peace
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EPISODE: "Power"

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Krzysztof Wodiczko
Krzysztof Wodiczko was born in 1943 in Warsaw, Poland, and lives and works in New York and Cambridge, Massachusetts. Since 1980, he has created more than seventy large-scale slide and video projections of... continue reading
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SEGMENT: Andrea Zittel in "Consumption"
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"Various A-Z Six Month Seasonal Uniforms" (1992-1995)

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Andrea Zittel
Andrea Zittel was born in Escondido, California, in 1965. She received a BFA in painting and sculpture in 1988 from San Diego State University, and an MFA in sculpture in 1990 from the Rhode Island School of... continue reading
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