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“I want to carry my home with me all the time, like a snail,” mused Do Ho Suh in the second season of our Art in the Twenty-First Century series. The idea of home can be translated in a variety of ways: from a literal representation found in built structures and hometowns, to the feeling of acceptance discovered by a new place and community.
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William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible gives viewers an intimate look into the mind and creative process of William Kentridge, the South African artist whose acclaimed charcoal drawings, animations, video installations, shadow plays, mechanical puppets, tapestries, sculptures, live performance pieces, and operas have made him one of the most dynamic and exciting contemporary artists working ...
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Nov 22, 2023 · Season 9 of Art in the Twenty-First Century charts art-making in three urban centers across three continents: Berlin, Johannesburg, and the San Francisco Bay Area. From the post-Cold War cultural and economic rebirth in Berlin, to the dramatic fall of apartheid in South Africa and the technological boom in the Bay Area, the twelve artists and one non-profit art center highlighted in this ...
Ai Weiwei in “Change” (SEGMENT) - Art21
Apr 14, 2012 · An outspoken human rights activist, Ai Weiwei infuses his sculptures, photographs, and public artworks with political conviction and personal poetry, often making use of recognizable and historic Chinese art forms in critical examinations of a host of contemporary Chinese political and social issues. In his sculptural works he often uses reclaimed materials—ancient pottery and …
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Visit our Awards page for this film’s honors and recognition. William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible gives viewers an intimate look into the mind and creative process of William Kentridge, the South African artist whose acclaimed charcoal drawings, animations, video installations, shadow plays, mechanical puppets, tapestries, sculptures, live performance pieces, and operas have made him one ...
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Material Renewal: Four Artists Turning Trash into Art
Mar 18, 2016 · 1. Tom Deininger. Tom Deininger uses what others throw away to build sculptural collages out of old toys, plastic cutlery, cigarettes, and colored pieces of plastic that have long been separated from the game or device they belonged to. He has made mandalas out of bottle caps and built a rabbit out of cigarette filters.He even recreated Monet’s painting, The Japanese Footbridge, from old ...
Guerrilla Girls in "Bodies of Knowledge" - Art21
Jun 23, 2023 · Guerrilla Girls are an anonymous collective of women artist-activists who began working together in 1985. Working across various media, the collective challenges the systems and individuals perpetuating discrimination and inequality in the art world by publicly sharing data and statistics about the representation of women and artists of color in commercial and institutional art spaces.