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Video Name	Description	Duration	Release date
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
PREVIEW: Doris Salcedo in Season 5 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2009)	This video is excerpted from the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 5 episode, "Compassion" (2009). Doris Salcedo's...	1:16	07/16/2009
PREVIEW: Mary Heilmann in Season 5 of "Art in the Twenty-First Century" (2009)	For every piece of Mary Heilmann's work—abstract paintings, ceramics, and furniture—there is a backstory. Imbued with recollections,...	1:23	07/23/2009
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
EPISODE: "Compassion"	This episode features three artists — William Kentridge, Doris Salcedo, and Carrie Mae Weems — whose works explore conscience and the possibility of...	0:00	10/07/2009
SEGMENT: William Kentridge in "Compassion"	William Kentridge asks “how does one find a way of not necessarily illustrating the society that one lives in, but allowing what happens there to be...	0:00	10/07/2009
SEGMENT: Carrie Mae Weems in "Compassion"	“Narrative and storytelling is in the blood,” declares Carrie Mae Weems.	0:00	10/07/2009
SEGMENT: Doris Salcedo in "Compassion"	“I am a Third World artist,” says Doris Salcedo, “from that perspective—from the perspective of the victim, from the perspective of the defeated...	0:00	10/07/2009
EPISODE: "Fantasy"	This episode presents artists whose works defy convention and transport us to unreal worlds and altered states of consciousness. With works at times...	0:00	10/14/2009
SEGMENT: Jeff Koons in "Fantasy"	“Art should be something really powerful,” says Jeff Koons, “but at the same time, there’s morality that comes along with that.” The segment begins...	0:00	10/14/2009
SEGMENT: Mary Heilmann in "Fantasy"	“Every piece of abstract art that I make has a back story,” says Mary Heilmann, who relays youthful fantasies of wanting to be a Catholic martyr, her...	0:00	10/14/2009
SEGMENT: Florian Maier-Aichen in "Fantasy"	“Photography used to be like alchemy back in the nineteenth century,” says Florian Maier-Aichen, who uses the computer to introduce imperfections and...	0:00	10/14/2009

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