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Videos on this Web site are excerpted from feature length documentaries from the Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century television series.

To learn more about the complete Art:21 documentaries, explore Season One, Season Two, Season Three, and Season Four of the Art:21 series, or the individual one-hour programs of “Place”, “Spirituality”, “Identity”, “Consumption”, “Stories”, “Loss & Desire”, “Time”, “Humor”, “Power”, “Memory”, “Play”, “Play”, “Romance”, “Protest”, “Ecology”, “Paradox”.

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Robert Adams
Robert Adams | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Photographing Trees
 VIDEO:  “Turning Back”
 VIDEO:  “The New West”
 VIDEO:  Seascapes
Laylah Ali
Laylah Ali | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Newspaper Clippings
 VIDEO:  Reading, Writing & Drawing
 VIDEO:  Characters & Color
 VIDEO:  “Figures on a Field” Dance
Allora & Calzadilla
Allora & Calzadilla | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Clamor”
 VIDEO:  “Chalk”
 VIDEO:  “Under Discussion”
 VIDEO:  “Returning a Sound”
Laurie Anderson
Laurie Anderson | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Place” introduction with host Laurie Anderson
Eleanor Antin
Eleanor Antin | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Last Days of Pompeii”
 VIDEO:  “The Angel of Mercy”
 VIDEO:  “Love's Shadow”
 VIDEO:  “100 Boots”
Janine Antoni
Janine Antoni | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Touch” Tightrope Video
 VIDEO:  “Lick and Lather”
 VIDEO:  “Moor” Rope Sculpture
 VIDEO:  “Saddle” Rawhide Body
Ida Applebroog
Ida Applebroog | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Drawings
 VIDEO:  Clay Sculptures
 VIDEO:  Digital Photography
 VIDEO:  Paintings & Installations
Charles Atlas
Charles Atlas | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Stories” introduction with host John Waters
 VIDEO:  “Loss & Desire” intro with host Jane Alexander
 VIDEO:  “Time” introduction with host Merce Cunningham
 VIDEO:  “Humor” introduction with host Margaret Cho
Matthew Barney
Matthew Barney | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Filming“CREMASTER 3” at the Saratoga Races
 VIDEO:  Horse Costumes in “CREMASTER 3”
 VIDEO:  Filming “CREMASTER 3” at the Guggenheim, NYC
 VIDEO:  “CREMASTER 5” Film
Louise Bourgeois
Louise Bourgeois | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Touch of Jane Addams”
 VIDEO:  Women and Craft
 VIDEO:  “Cell II”
 VIDEO:  “Cell (Glass Spheres...)”
Mark Bradford
Mark Bradford | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Market > Place”
 VIDEO:  “Practice”
 VIDEO:  “Ridin’ Dirty” in the Studio
 VIDEO:  “Ridin’ Dirty” at São Paulo Bienal
Cai Guo-Qiang
Cai Guo-Qiang | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Drawing with Gunpowder
 VIDEO:  “Inopportune: Stage One”
 VIDEO:  “Inopportune: Stage Two”
 VIDEO:  “Reflection”
Vija Celmins
Vija Celmins | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Night Skies
 VIDEO:  Ocean Waves
 VIDEO:  Early Paintings
 VIDEO:  “To Fix the Image in Memory” Painted Stones
Michael Ray Charles
Michael Ray Charles | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  NYC Gallery Opening
 VIDEO:  Memorabilia Collection
 VIDEO:  Painting in the Studio
 VIDEO:  Penny as Signature
Mel Chin
Mel Chin | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “KNOWMAD” video game
 VIDEO:  “S.P.A.W.N.” in Detroit
 VIDEO:  “Revival Field” project
 VIDEO:  “Revival Field” cartoon
 VIDEO:  “S.O.S.”
Mark Dion
Mark Dion | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Installing “Neukom Vivarium”
 VIDEO:  Inside “Neukom Vivarium”
 VIDEO:  Rats & Tar
 VIDEO:  Collecting Scientific Samples
John Feodorov
John Feodorov | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Forest at Night”
 VIDEO:  “Totem Teddies”
 VIDEO:  “Office Deity”
 VIDEO:  “Office Shaman”;
Walton Ford
Walton Ford | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Compromised” Print
 VIDEO:  “A Sensorium” Painting
 VIDEO:  On John James Audubon
 VIDEO:  “Falling Bough” Painting
Ellen Gallagher
Ellen Gallagher | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “DeLuxe”; Prints
 VIDEO:  Plasticine Grid Paintings
 VIDEO:  “Murmur” Films
 VIDEO:  “Watery Ecstatic” Drawings
Ann Hamilton
Ann Hamilton | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “face to face” photos
 VIDEO:  “ghost: a border act”
 VIDEO:  “myein” installation
 VIDEO:  “reserve,” “abc,” & “lineament”
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Trenton Doyle Hancock | BIO
 VIDEO:  “Studio Floor...”
 VIDEO:  The Story of the Mounds
 VIDEO:  Language and Words
 VIDEO:  Painting in the Studio
Tim Hawkinson
Tim Hawkinson | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Überorgan” installation
 VIDEO:  “Emotor” sculpture
 VIDEO:  “Drip” in the Studio
 VIDEO:  Drawings & Sculptures
Ellen Gallagher
Arturo Herrera | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Collage
 VIDEO:  Photographic Abstractions
 VIDEO:  Wall Paintings
 VIDEO:  Santiago Exhibition
Oliver Herring
Oliver Herring | BIO
 VIDEO:  Knitting Mylar Sculptures
 VIDEO:  “Exit” Video
 VIDEO:  Spitting Photographs
 VIDEO:  "GLORIA" Sculpture
Jenny Holzer
Jenny Holzer | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “For 7 World Trade”
 VIDEO:  Redaction Silkscreen Prints
 VIDEO:  Xenon Projections
 VIDEO:  “For Neue Nationalgalerie”
Roni Horn
Roni Horn | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Some Thames”
 VIDEO:  “You Are the Weather”
 VIDEO:  “This Is Me, This Is You”
 VIDEO:  “Doubt by Water”
Teresa Hubbard & Alexander Birchler
Hubbard/Birchler | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Night Shift: Perfect”
 VIDEO:  “Night Shift: Gone”
 VIDEO:  “Night Shift: Asleep”
 VIDEO:  “Night Shift: Loop”
Pierre Huyghe
Pierre Huyghe | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Celebration Park”
 VIDEO:  “A Journey That Wasn't”
 VIDEO:  “Streamside Day”
 VIDEO:  “This Is Not a Time for Dreaming”
Mike Kelley
Mike Kelley | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Recording Music
 VIDEO:  Stuffed Animal Sculptures
 VIDEO:  “Missing Time” Paintings
 VIDEO:  “Day is Done” Video
Margaret Kilgallen
Margaret Kilgallen | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Painting at UCLA
 VIDEO:  Hand-made Signs
 VIDEO:  Folk Art & Typography
 VIDEO:  Writing on Trains
Beryl Korot
Beryl Korot | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Spirituality” introduction with host S. Epatha Merkerson
Barbara Kruger
Barbara Kruger | BIO
 VIDEO:  “Consumption” introduction with host John McEnroe
An-My Lę
An-My Lê | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Viêt Nam” Ice Rink
 VIDEO:  “Trap Rock”
 VIDEO:  “Small Wars”
 VIDEO:  Photographing the Military
Maya Lin
Maya Lin | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Ecliptic” Ice Rink
 VIDEO:  “Avalanche” Sculpture
 VIDEO:  Making Atlas Sculptures
 VIDEO:  Architecture & Memorials
Ińigo Manglano-Ovalle
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle | BIO
 VIDEO:  “Le Baiser/The Kiss” Ice Rink
 VIDEO:  “Bulletproof Umbrella”
 VIDEO:  “Random Sky”
 VIDEO:  “La Tormenta/The Storm”
Sally Mann
Sally Mann | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Collodion Photography
 VIDEO:  Dog Bone Photographs
 VIDEO:  Large Format Camera
 VIDEO:  Growing Up Mann
Kerry James Marshall
Kerry James Marshall | BIO
 VIDEO:  “Many Mansions”
 VIDEO:  “RYTHM MASTR” comic
 VIDEO:  Family Greeting Cards
 VIDEO:  “Portrait of the Artist...”
Josiah McElheny
Josiah McElheny | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  "Fashion" installation
 VIDEO:  Blowing Glass
 VIDEO:  White Glass Works
 VIDEO:  Mirrored Glass Works
Barry McGee
Barry McGee | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Spray Painting Graffiti
 VIDEO:  Writing on Trains
 VIDEO:  Painting at UCLA
 VIDEO:  Painting in the Studio
Elizabeth Murray
Elizabeth Murray | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Painting "Bop"
 VIDEO:  Installing work in NYC
 VIDEO:  Drawings & Sketches
 VIDEO:  Family Critiques Work
Bruce Nauman
Bruce Nauman | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Model for “Stairway”
 VIDEO:  “Setting a Good Corner”
 VIDEO:  “Read/Reap” & “Hanging Carousel (George Skins a Fox)”
 VIDEO:  “Mapping the Studio (Fat Chance John Cage)”
Gabriel Orozco
Gabriel Orozco | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Game-based Sculptures
 VIDEO:  Clay Sculptures in France
 VIDEO:  “La D.S.” Car Sculpture
 VIDEO:  Supermarket Photos
Pepón OSorio
Pepón Osorio | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Home Visits”
 VIDEO:  “Scene of the Crime”
 VIDEO:  “No Crying...Barbershop”
 VIDEO:  “Badge of Honor”
Raymond Pettibon
Raymond Pettibon | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Baseball Drawings
 VIDEO:  Drawing Survey
 VIDEO:  Gumby & Vavoom
 VIDEO:  “Citizen Tania” video
Judy Pfaff
Judy Pfaff | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Installing “Buckets of Rain”
 VIDEO:  Inside “Buckets of Rain”
 VIDEO:  Welders & Painters
 VIDEO:  Drawing & Using Tools
Paul Pfeiffer
Paul Pfeiffer | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Dutch Interior”
 VIDEO:  Digitally Erased Videos
 VIDEO:  “Caryatid”
 VIDEO:  “Morning After the Deluge”
Lari Pittman
Lari Pittman | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Painting & California
 VIDEO:  Retablos & “Attendant”
 VIDEO:  Decoration
 VIDEO:  The Cactus Garden & Mortality
Martin Puryear
Martin Puryear | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Woodworking Studio
 VIDEO:  “Ladder for Booker T...”
 VIDEO:  Carving Stone in China
 VIDEO:  Stone Architectural Folly
Matthew Ritchie
Matthew Ritchie | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Proposition Player” Game
 VIDEO:  “Universal Cell”
 VIDEO:  Abstraction & Figuration
 VIDEO:  Drawing
Susan Rothenberg
Susan Rothenberg | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Vantage Point
 VIDEO:  Green Paintings
 VIDEO:  Horse Paintings
 VIDEO:  Working in Series
Robert Ryman
Robert Ryman | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Installing “Philadelphia Prototype”
 VIDEO:  ““Philadelphia Prototype”
 VIDEO:  Abstraction & Reality
 VIDEO:  Squares
Collier Schorr
Collier Schorr | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  German Soldier Photos
 VIDEO:  Aryan Myths & Nazis
 VIDEO:  Blair Wrestling Team
 VIDEO:  “Jens F./Helga” Project
Richard Serra
Richard Serra | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  New York City Studio
 VIDEO:  “Torqued Ellipses”
 VIDEO:  Making “Charlie Brown”
 VIDEO:  “Charlie Brown”
Shahzia Sikander
Shahzia Sikander | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Painting Miniatures
 VIDEO:  “Chaman” Installation
 VIDEO:  “Riding the Written”
 VIDEO:  Hinduism, Islam, & Veils
Laurie Simmons
Laurie Simmons | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Photography as a Tool
 VIDEO:  “The Music of Regret”-Act 1
 VIDEO:  “The Music of Regret”-Act 2
 VIDEO:  “The Music of Regret”-Act 3
Kiki Smith
Kiki Smith | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Prints & Sculptures
 VIDEO:  St. Genevieve Sculptures
 VIDEO:  “Realms׆ installation
 VIDEO:  Dead Animals

Kiki Smith
Nancy Spero | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Lincoln Center Subway Station
 VIDEO:  Leon Golub & “Gigantomachy II”
 VIDEO:  “Maypole: Take No Prisoners”
 VIDEO:  “The War Series”
Jessica Stockholder
Jessica Stockholder | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Making Paper
 VIDEO:  “Sam Ran Over Sand...”
 VIDEO:  Sculptures & Plastic
 VIDEO:  Pleasure & Play
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Hiroshi Sugimoto | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Tradition
 VIDEO:  “Architecture”
 VIDEO:  “Seascapes”
 VIDEO:  “Conceptual Forms”
Do-Ho Suh
Do-Ho Suh | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Seoul Home/L.A. Home”
 VIDEO:  “Some/One”
 VIDEO:  “Floor” Installation
 VIDEO:  “Who Am We?”
Catherine Sullivan
Catherine Sullivan | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “The Chittendens” Installed
 VIDEO:  “The Chittendens” Choreography
 VIDEO:  “Ice Floes of Franz Joseph Land”
 VIDEO:  Working with Actors
James Turrell
James Turrell | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Outside “Roden Crater”
 VIDEO:  Inside “Roden Crater”
 VIDEO:  “Friends Meeting House”
 VIDEO:  “The Light Inside”
Richard Tuttle
Richard Tuttle | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Octagons
 VIDEO:  Yellow Works
 VIDEO:  “;Village I”
 VIDEO:  “Village III”
Ursula von Rydingsvard
Ursula von Rydingsvard | BIO
 VIDEO:  “Damski Czepek”
 VIDEO:  “berwici pici pa”
 VIDEO:  Building Sculptures
 VIDEO:  War, Work & Wood
Kara Walker
Kara Walker | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Light Projections
 VIDEO:  Silhouettes & Drawings
 VIDEO:  “Freedom: A Fable”
 VIDEO:  “Slavery! Slavery!...”
William Wegman
William Wegman | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “Identity” introduction with host Steve Martin
Fred Wilson
Fred Wilson | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Tchotckies
 VIDEO:  Printmaking
 VIDEO:  Venice Biennale
 VIDEO:  “Site Unseen” Installation
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Krzysztof Wodiczko | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  Sketching
 VIDEO:  Bunker Hill, Boston
 VIDEO:  Hiroshima, Japan
 VIDEO:  Tijuana, Mexico
Andrea Zittel
Andrea Zittel | BIOGRAPHY
 VIDEO:  “A-Z Bathroom"
 VIDEO:  “A-Z Pocket Property"
 VIDEO:  “A-Z Seasonal Uniforms”
 VIDEO:  “A-Z Living Unit”
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