Screening Guides

Screening Guides are designed to help plan a public event, and include tips on getting started, episode synopses, artist biographies, discussion questions, and group activities.

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Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 11 "Friends & Strangers"

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Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 11 "Bodies of Knowledge"

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Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 11 "Everyday Icons"

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Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 9

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Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 6

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Art in the Twenty-First Century Season Six includes 13 profiles of artists from five continents gathered into four, one-hour thematic episodes: Change, Balance, History and Boundaries.

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Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 5

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In its most international season to date, Art21’s four-part series reveals artists’ perspectives on current affairs, politics, economics, history and popular culture, as well as showcases the artists’ working processes and their studios.

Themes: Systems, Compassion, Fantasy, Transformation

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Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 4

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Art21 travels across the country and abroad to film painters, sculptors, photographers, and filmmakers in their own spaces and in their own words.

Themes: Romance, Ecology, Protest, Paradox

Included in the season are artists Robert Adams, Allora & Calzadilla, Mark Bradford, Mark Dion, Jenny Holzer, Pierre Huyghe, Alfredo Jaar, An-My Lê, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Judy Pfaff, Lari Pittman, Robert Ryman, Laurie Simmons, Nancy Spero, Catherine Sullivan, and Ursula von Rydingsvard.

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Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 3

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What goes on inside the minds of today’s most dynamic visual artists? How do they make the leap between insight and finished object? What inspires artists to break through the barriers of convention to arrive at new ways of seeing? These and other intriguing questions are explored in Season 3.

Included in the season are artists Laylah Ali, Ida Applebroog, Cai Guo-Qiang, Ellen Gallagher, Arturo Herrera, Oliver Herring, Roni Horn, Hubbard/Birchler, Mike Kelley, Josiah McElheny, Matthew Ritchie, Susan Rothenberg, Jessica Stockholder, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Richard Tuttle, Fred Wilson, and Krzysztof Wodiczko.

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Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 2

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 Contemporary art breaks out of the confines of museums and art galleries in Season 2. Shattering the myth of the artist as an isolated genius, this season introduces television audiences to 16 artists working in America today.

Themes: Time, Humor, Stories, Loss & Desire

Included in the season are artists Eleanor Antin, Janine Antoni, Charles Atlas, Vija Celmins, Walton Ford, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Tim Hawkinson, Elizabeth Murray, Gabriel Orozco, Raymond Pettibon, Paul Pfeiffer, Martin Puryear, Collier Schorr, Kiki Smith, Do Ho Suh, and Kara Walker.

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