"Art making is a form of alchemy, in a way, because you are trying…to make gold from nothing. When it works very well is when you manage to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary."
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U.S. Department of State Honors Five Art21 Featured Artists | Beginning in November 2012, the U.S. Department of State celebrates the 50th anniversary of Art in Embassies (AIE), a program that facilitates the... | 5:54 | 11/29/2012 |
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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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SEGMENT: Yinka Shonibare MBE in "Transformation" | “My work, all along, has been a critique of Empire,” says Yinka Shonibare MBE, adopting the honorific title of Member of the Order of the British... | 0:00 | 10/21/2009 |
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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 |
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SEGMENT: Paul McCarthy in "Transformation" | “My work seems to be about tearing down and opening up conventions,” says Paul McCarthy, who bristles when asked what his responsibility is to the... | 0:00 | 10/21/2009 |
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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 |
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SEGMENT: Kimsooja in "Systems" | Kimsooja’s segment opens with a series of videotaped performances of the artist in crowded cities, her form acting as an unmoving axis on the horizon. | 0:00 | 10/28/2009 |
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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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SEGMENT: John Baldessari in "Systems" | “I’m always interested in things that we don’t call art, and I say why not?” asks John Baldessari. Filmed in his California studio, the artist... | 0:00 | 10/28/2009 |
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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 |
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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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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 |
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