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overview
The Series
 Welcome to Art:21 Online
Air Dates & Times
Season One
Season Two
Season Three
Season Four
Products
Credits
Praise
Press


The Artists
Artists A to Z
Featured Artists
Exhibitions
Videos
Slideshows
Interactive

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Robert Adams
Laylah Ali
Allora & Calzadilla
Laurie Anderson
Eleanor Antin
Janine Antoni
Ida Applebroog
Charles Atlas
Matthew Barney
Louise Bourgeois
Mark Bradford
Cai Guo-Qiang
Vija Celmins
Michael Ray Charles
Mel Chin
Mark Dion
John Feodorov
Walton Ford
Ellen Gallagher
Ann Hamilton
Trenton Doyle Hancock
Tim Hawkinson
Arturo Herrera
Oliver Herring
Jenny Holzer
Roni Horn
Hubbard/Birchler
Mike Kelley
Margaret Kilgallen
Beryl Korot
Barbara Kruger
Maya Lin
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle
Sally Mann
Kerry James Marshall
Josiah McElheny
Barry McGee
Elizabeth Murray
Bruce Nauman
Gabriel Orozco
Pepón Osorio
Raymond Pettibon
Judy Pfaff
Paul Pfeiffer
Lari Pittman
Martin Puryear
Matthew Ritchie
Susan Rothenberg
Robert Ryman
Collier Schorr
Richard Serra
Shahzia Sikander
Laurie Simmons
Kiki Smith
Nancy Spero
Jessica Stockholder
Hiroshi Sugimoto
Do-Ho Suh
Catherine Sullivan
James Turrell
Richard Tuttle
Ursula von Rydingsvard
Kara Walker
William Wegman
Fred Wilson
Krzysztof Wodiczko
Andrea Zittel


Education
The Online Lesson Library
Lesson Plans by Artist
Lesson Plans by Theme
Lesson Plans by Subject Area
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Abstraction & Realism
Home & Displacement
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The Natural World
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Technology & Systems
War & Conflict
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Student Art Projects
Teacher Training
Teaching Materials
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Welcome to Events
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Calendar


Discuss
Current Discussions
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the series

Welcome to Art:21 Online
Air Dates & Times

Season One
Season One Overview
Episode: “Place”
Episode: “Spirituality”
Episode: “Identity”
Episode: “Consumption”

Season Two
Season Two Overview
Episode: “Stories”
Episode: “Loss & Desire”
Episode: “Time”
Episode: “Humor”

Season Three
Season Three Overview
Episode: “Power”
Episode: “Memory”
Episode: “Structures”
Episode: “Play”

Season Four
Season Four Overview
Episode: “Romance”
Episode: “Protest”
Episode: “Ecology”
Episode: “Paradox”

Products
Product Overview
Season One (2001)
Season Two (2003)
Season Three (2005)
Season Four (2007)
Home Video (DVD)
Home Video (VHS)
Companion Books


Credits
Art:21 Staff
Season One Credits
Season Two Credits
Season Three Credits
Season Four Credits
Web Credits
Advisory Council
Funders

Praise
Overview

Press
Overview

the artists

Artists A to Z
Featured Artists
Exhibitions
Videos
Slideshows
Interactive
Robert Adams

About
Biography
Interview: “Turning Back”
Interview: Photography, Life & Beauty

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 4
Episode: “Ecology”

For Educators
Educator's Guide
Laylah Ali

About
Biography
Interview: Portraits, Performance & Violence
Interview: Meaning & Influences

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 3
Episode: “Power”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Allora & Calzadilla

About
Biography
Interview: “Clamor” & War Music
Interview: “Under Discussion” & Vieques

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 4
Episode: “Paradox”

For Educators
Educator's Guide
Laurie Anderson

About
Biography
Essay: “United States I-IV”
Essay: “Dal Vivo”
Clip: Opening for Program 1: Place

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 1
Episode: “Place”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Eleanor Antin

About
Biography
Interview: “The Last Days of Pompeii”
Interview: Humor, Personas, & Yiddish Theater

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 2
Episode: “Humor”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Janine Antoni

About
Biography
Interview: “Touch” & “Moor”
Interview: “Lick & Lather”

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 2
Episode: “Loss & Desire”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Ida Applebroog

About
Biography
Interview: Power, Feminism & Art
Interview: Process & Technology

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 3
Episode: “Power”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Charles Atlas

About
Biography
Clip: Opening with John Waters for Program “Sories”
Clip: Opening with Jane Alexander for episode “ Loss & Desire”
Clip: Opening with Merce Cunningham for episode “Time”
Clip: Opening with Margaret Cho for episode “Humor”

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 2
Episodes: “Sories”, “ Loss & Desire”, “Time”, and “Humor”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Matthew Barney

About
Biography
Essay: “CREMASTER 1”
Essay: “CREMASTER 2”
Interview: “CREMASTER 3”—at the Guggenheim Museum
Interview: “CREMASTER” 3—at the Saratoga, NY Racetrack

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 1
Episode: “Consumption”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Louise Bourgeois

About
Biography
Essay: “Cell (Glass Spheres and Hands)”
Essay: “Twosome”
Interview: Black Hands
Interview: “Cell II”

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 1
Episode: “Identity”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Mark Bradford

About
Biography
Interview: “Market > Place”
Interview: Politics, Process & Postmodernism

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 4
Episode: “Paradox”

For Educators
Educator's Guide
Cai Guo-Qiang

About
Biography
Interview: Spirituality, Chaos & “Inopportune”
Interview: “Reflection”

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 3
Episode: “Power”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Vija Celmins

About
Biography
Interview: Building Surfaces
Interview: Earliest Influences, Early Paintings

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 2
Episode: “Time”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Michael Ray Charles

About
Biography
Interview: Advertising & Art
Interview: Memorabilia
Essay: “Before Black (To See or Not to See)...”
Essay: “(Liberty Bros. Permanent Daily Circus) Blue Period”

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 1
Episode: “Consumption”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Mel Chin

About
Biography
Essay: Melrose Place/GALA Committee
Essay: “Home y Sew”
Interview: “KNOWMAD”
Interview: “Revival Field”

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 1
Episode: “Consumption”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Mark Dion

About
Biography
Interview: “Neukom Vivarium”
Interview: Science & Aesthetics

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 4
Episode: “Ecology”

For Educators
Educator's Guide
John Feodorov

About
Biography
Interview: “Office Deity”
Interview: “Forest at Night”

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 1
Episode: “Spirituality”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Walton Ford

About
Biography
Interview: Printmaking & Natural History Artists
Interview: Political Humor & Colonial Critique

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 2
Episode: “Humor”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Ellen Gallagher

About
Biography
Interview: “eXelento” & “DeLuxe”
Interview: Characters, Myths & Stories

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 3
Episode: “Structures”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Ann Hamilton

About
Biography
Interview: “ghost: a border act”
Interview: Pinhole Photography Essay: “untitled (body object series)”
Essay: “malediction”
Essay: “tropos”
Essay: “kaph”

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 1
Episode: “Spirituality”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Trenton Doyle Hancock

About
Biography
Interview: “It Came from Studio Floor”
Interview: Storytelling, Characters & Colors

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 2
Episode: “Stories”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Tim Hawkinson

About
Biography
Interview: “Drip”
Interview: “Überorgan”

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 2
Episode: “Stories”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Arturo Herrera

About
Biography
Interview: Abstraction, Chance & Collage
Interview: Music, Dance & Language

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 3
Episode: “Play”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Oliver Herring

About
Biography
Interview: Collaborating with Strangers
Interview: Anarchy, Games & Performance

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 3
Episode: “Play”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Jenny Holzer

About
Biography
Interview: “For 7 World Trade” & Redactions
Interview: Collaborating with Poet Henri Cole

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 4
Episode: “Protest”

For Educators
Educator's Guide
Roni Horn

About
Biography
Interview: Water
Interview: Words & Pictures

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 3
Episode: “Structures”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler

About
Biography
Interview: Place & Persona
Interview: Storytelling
Script: “Night Shift”

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 3
Episodes: “Power”, “Memory ”, “Structures ”, and “Play”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Pierre Huyghe

About
Biography
Interview: “Celebration Park”
Interview: “Streamside Day”

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 4
Episode: “Romance”

For Educators
Educator's Guide
Alfredo Jaar

About
Biography
Interview: “The Rwanda Project”
Interview: “The Gramsci Trilogy”

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 4
Episode: “Protest”

For Educators
Educator's Guide
Mike Kelley

About
Biography
Interview: “Day is Done”
Interview: Language & Psychology


Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 3
Episode: “Memory”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Margaret Kilgallen

About
Biography
Essay: “To Friend and Foe”
Essay: Hand-painted Trainyard Photos
Interview: Influences & Train Marking
Interview: Heroines

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 1
Episode: “Place”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Beryl Korot

About
Biography
Essay: “Dachau, 1974”
Essay: “Three Tales”
Clip: Opening with S. Epatha Merkerson for episode “Spirituality”

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 1
Episode: “Spirituality”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide

Barbara Kruger

About
Biography
Essay: Installation at Mary Boone Gallery
Clip: Opening with John McEnroe for episode “Consumption”

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 1
Episode: “Consumption”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide

Maya Lin

About
Biography
Interview: “Groundswell” & Studio Works
Interview: Grand Rapids Project
Essay: “Vietnam Veterans Memorial”
Essay: “Wave Field”
Essay: “Topographic Landscape”
Essay: “Avalanche”

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 2
Episode: “Identity”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle

About
Biography
Interview: Childhood and References
Interview: Climate

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 4
Episode: “Ecology”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Sally Mann

About
Biography
Interview: Dog Bone Prints
Interview: Collodion Process
Essay: “Deep South”
Essay: “Motherland”

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Interactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 1
Episode: “Place”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Kerry James Marshall

About
Biography
Interview: “Many Mansions”
Interview: “RYTHM MASTR”
Essay: “Souvenir IV”
Essay: “Watts 1963”
Essay: “Our Town”

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Inteactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 3
Episode: “Identity”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Josiah McElheny

About
Biography
Interview: Objects & Ideas
Interview: “Total Reflective Abstraction”

Multimedia
Videos
Slideshow: Artwork Survey
Slideshow: Artist at Work
Inteactive: Artist's Links

In The Series
Season 3
Episode: “Memory”

For Educators
Online Lesson Library
Educator's Guide
Barry McGee

About
Biography
Interview: Graffiti
Interview: Public & Private Space
Essay: “The Buddy System”
Essay: ̶