Art21 is the world’s leading source to learn directly from the artists of our time. The mission of Art21 is to educate and ...

Art21 is the world’s leading source to learn directly from the artists of our time. The mission of Art21 is to educate and ...

Season 12 of Art in the Twenty-First Century features twelve of today’s most acclaimed contemporary artists as they use art ...

Jurrell Lewis—A good starting place for the conversation might just be to ask you what exactly is New Red Order? Zack Khalil—New Red Order is a public secret society dedicated to expanding Indigenous ...

From Manhattan’s Park Avenue Armory, artist Ann Hamilton discusses her installation, "the event of a thread" (2012), which occupied the Armory’s cavernous drill hall.

Julie Mehretu discusses her process of layering and erasing and the different references embodied in any one of her large-scale paintings. This interview was conducted in October 2008, when Mehretu ...

Kiki Smith talks about the roles that her family, domesticity, and death play in her work. ART21: What is it that you like about domestic objects? SMITH: [All the things] we use in our daily lives are ...

Art21 is the world’s leading source to learn directly from the artists of our time. The mission of Art21 is to educate and expand access to contemporary art through the production of documentary films ...

In 2008, twenty of Cindy Sherman’s History Portraits (1989–1990) were exhibited at Skarstedt Gallery in New York City. In the following interview, Sherman walks Art21 through the exhibition and ...

Artist Mike Kelley discusses psychological theories, beauty, and the sublime.

“In the last couple of years, I’ve been exploring the idea of how to move drawing into the environment,” Matthew Ritchie explains before describing the inspiration for his hybrid sculpture, The ...