Pbs Series Art21 Ã¢ââ€œ Art in the 21st Century

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American tv series

Art:21 - Art in the 21st Century is a PBS series, educational resource, archive, and history of contemporary fine art. It premiered in 2001, and is now broadcast in over 50 countries worldwide. Premiering a new flavour every ii years, Art:21 is the just serial on U.s. telly to focus exclusively on gimmicky visual art and artists. It is a nonprofit organization founded in 1997 to make contemporary art more attainable to the public, and to document 21st-century art and artists from the artists' own perspectives. Their overall goal is to raise the profile of major players in the world of contemporary art and to encourage inventiveness. The main office is located in New York City.

Sponsors include: Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Corporation for Public Broadcasting, New York State Council on the Arts, Bloomberg, National Endowment for the Arts, The Weinstein Visitor, The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, Ford Foundation, The Coca-Cola Company, Fox Searchlight Pictures, The Rockefeller Foundation, and Rosalind P. Walter.

Projects [edit]

The Art21 organization's current projects include their PBS idiot box series, didactics, public programs & outreach, online resource (including Art21 Weblog), and the publishing of books.

Art21 Blog is written by writers and contributors and since 2008, has featured posts written by guest writers.

Season synopsis [edit]

Each season is separated into episodes by themes. Each theme showcases artists that fit into that niche in some style.

Season one (2001):

Place – Introduction by artist Laurie Anderson. Featured artists are Richard Serra, Emerge Mann, Margaret Kilgallen, Barry McGee, and Pepon Osorio.
Spirituality – Introduction by Beryl Korot and S. Epatha Merkerson. Featured artists are Ann Hamilton, John Feodorov, Shahzia Sikander, and James Turrell.
Identity – Introduction past comedian Steve Martin, and artist, William Wegman. Featured artists are Bruce Nauman, Kerry James Marshall, Maya Lin, and Louise Bourgeois.
Consumption – Introduction by creative person Barbara Kruger, and former professional person lawn tennis player John McEnroe. Featured artists are Michael Ray Charles, Matthew Barney, Andrea Zittel, and Mel Chin.

Flavour two (2003):

Stories – Introduction past filmmaker John Waters (directed past Charles Atlas). Featured artists are Kara Walker, Kiki Smith, Practise-Ho Suh, and Trenton Doyle Hancock.
Loss and Desire – Introduction by four-fourth dimension Oscar-nominated extra Jane Anderson (directed by Charles Atlas). Featured artists are Collier Schorr, Gabriel Orozco, and Janine Antoni.
Humour – Introduction by comedian Margaret Cho. (directed by Charles Atlas) Featured artists are Eleanor Antin, Raymond Pettibon, Elizabeth Murray, and Walton Ford.
Time – Introduction by dancer/choreographer Merce Cunningham. (directed past Charles Atlas) Featured artists are Martin Puryear, Paul Pfeiffer, Vija Celmins, and Tim Hawkinson.

Flavour 3 (2005):

Ability – Introduction by actor David Alan Grier. Featured artists are Cai Guo-Qiang, Laylah Ali, Krzysztof Wodiczko, Ida Applebroog, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler.
Memory – Introduction by extra Isabella Rossellini. Featured artists are Susan Rothenberg, Mike Kelley, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Josiah McElheny, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler.
Play – Introduction by basketball histrion Grant Hill. Featured artists are Jessica Stockholder, Oliver Herring, Arturo Herrera, Ellen Gallagher, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler.
Structures – Introduction past actor Sam Waterston. Featured artists are Matthew Ritchie, Fred Wilson, Richard Tuttle, Roni Horn, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler.

Season four (2007):

Romance – Featured artists are Laurie Simmons, Lari Pittman, Judy Pfaff, and Pierre Huyghe.
Protest – Featured artists are Nancy Spero, An-My Lê, Alfredo Jaar, and Jenny Holzer.
Ecology – Featured artists are Ursula von Rydingsvard, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Robert Adams, and Marking Dion.
Paradox – Featured artists are Marking Bradford, Catherine Sullivan, Robert Ryman, Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla.

Season five (2009):

Pity – Featured artists are William Kentridge, Doris Salcedo and Carrie Mae Weems.
Fantasy – Featured artists are Cao Fei, Mary Heilmann, Jeff Koons, and Florian Maier-Aichen.
Transformation – Featured artists are Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, Yinka Shonibare.
Systems – Featured artists are Julie Mehretu, John Baldessari, Kimsooja, and Allan McCollum.

Flavor six (2012):

Change – Featured artists are Ai Weiwei, Catherine Opie, and El Anatsui.
Boundaries – Featured artists are assume vivid astro focus, David Altmejd, Lynda Benglis, and Tabaimo.
History – Featured artists are Glenn Ligon, Marina Abramović, and Mary Reid Kelley.
Remainder – Featured artists are Rackstraw Downes, Robert Mangold, and Sarah Sze.

Season vii (2014):

Investigation (10/24) – Featured artists are Thomas Hirschhorn, Graciela Iturbide, Leonardo Drew.
Secrets (10/31) – Featured artists are Elliott Hundley, Arlene Shechet, Trevor Paglen.
Legacy (11/7) – Featured artists are Tania Bruguera, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Wolfgang Laib.
Fiction (11/14) – Featured artists are Katharina Grosse, Joan Jonas, Omer Fast.

Season 8 (2016):

In May 2016 the schedule for an eighth season was announced, air dates to showtime in September of that year. Actress Claire Danes hosts each episode of the eighth season, each focusing on one of four N American cities: Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico Urban center, and Vancouver.^[1]
Chicago (9/16) – Featured artists are Nick Cave (functioning artist), Theaster Gates, Barbara Kasten, Chris Ware.
Mexico City (9/sixteen) – Featured artists are Natalia Almada, Minerva Cuevas, Damián Ortega, Pedro Reyes.
Los Angeles (nine/23) – Featured artists are Ed Arceneaux, Liz Larner, Tala Madani, Diana Thater.
Vancouver (9/23) – Featured artists are Stan Douglas, Brian Jungen, Liz Magor, Jeff Wall.

Season nine (2018):

Johannesburg – Featured artists are Robin Rhode, David Goldblatt, Zanele Muholi, Nicholas Hlobo.
Berlin – Featured artists are Olafur Eliasson, Nathalie Djurberg & Hans Berg, Susan Philipsz, Hiwa 1000.
San Francisco Bay Expanse – Featured artists are Stephanie Syjuco, Katy Grannan, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Creative Growth Art Center.

Season ten (2020):

London – Featured artists are John Akomfrah, Phyllida Barlow, Anish Kapoor, and Christian Marclay.
Beijing – Featured artists are Guan Xiao, Liu Xiaodong, Vocal Dong & Yin Xiuzhen, and Xu Bing.
The Borderlands – Featured artists are Tanya Aguiñiga, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Richard Misrach, and Postcommodity.

Printing [edit]

Susan Sollins and the crew of Art-21-Art in the Twenty-Kickoff Century at the 67th Annual Peabody Awards

Awards:

George Foster Peabody Honor
Platinum Best in Show from the Aurora Awards
Golden Remi from the 41st WorldFest Contained Movie Festival
Silvery Hugo from the 44th Hugo Goggle box Awards
Silver Screen from the 41st U.Southward. International Film and Video Festival
Emmy Nomination for Outstanding Artistic and Cultural Programming
Gold Hugo Honor from the Chicago International Television set Competition
Cine Golden Eagle Award
Gold Laurels from Aurora Film Festival
Statuary Remi Laurels from Earth Fest Houston International Film Festival

Festivals:

Festival International du Film Sur Fifty'Fine art (FIFA)
Arte Cinema: Festival Internationale di Film sull' Arte Contemporanea

Conferences:

National Arts Education Association (NAEA) Almanac Convention: 2011 keynote presentation with Janine Antoni and Oliver Herring; 2009 keynote presentation with Mark Bradford; 2007 presentation of the Youth Engagement initiative; 2006 keynote spoken language by creative person Krzysztof Wodiczko, all-day screening salon, and super session panel presentation showcasing Art21 in the classroom; 2005 screening event in collaboration with The Plant of Contemporary Fine art/Boston.
National Middle for Outreach (NCO) Conference: Annual PBS Pipeline presentation: 2004 console session explored using the arts to accost community bug.
Grant-makers in the Fine art Annual Briefing: Armchair discussion with artists and educators nearly Art21, education, and new media.
Arts Education Partnership(AEP) Professional Development Forum: Workshop presented Art21 and opportunities to support professional evolution in arts education.

Boosted conferences: New York City Art Teachers Association/United Federation of Teachers (NYCATA/UFT) Annual Conference Colorado Art Education Association (CAEA) Annual Conference Art Educators of New Jersey (AENJ) Annual Conference New Jersey Instruction Association (NJEA) National Education Telecommunication Association

Advisory councils [edit]

Art21 has iv advisory councils that specialize in dissimilar aspects, but who all piece of work to further the aspirations of the system.

The Curatorial Council A nationally based group that helps to set the ground for each of the Art:21 - Art in the 21st Century seasons.
Education Advisory Council A grouping of nationally recognized educators in K-12, higher education and museum teaching that contribute insight in strategic planning to support Art21's core education mission.
The Humanities Informational Council A group of Humanities scholars who aim to aid establish a relationship between visual art and humanities disciplines.
The International Council An international group of scholars, arts professionals, museum directors, critics and curators that supports Art21's global commitment to educational activity and access.