"I still think the social function of art is that kind of negative aesthetic. Otherwise there’s no social function for it."
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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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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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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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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: 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: Allan McCollum in "Systems" | Allan McCollum’s segment begins with his uncle Jon Gnagy’s 1950s television program "Learn to Draw." Crediting his uncle's demonstrations as an early... | 0:00 | 10/28/2009 |
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