Fine art in the Twenty-First Century

The only series on television set in the U.Due south. to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists, Art in the 20-First Century is a Peabody Award-winning biennial plan that allows viewers to observe the artists at work, watch as they transform inspiration into art, and hear how they struggle with both the concrete and visual challenges of achieving their visions.

Art in the Twenty-First Century arrogance on PBS in the U.Southward. Lookout man full episodes on Art21.org and through PBS streaming apps.

Season x2020

The landmark tenth flavor of the Peabody Honor-winning Art in the Twenty-First Century tv set series—the longest-running television series on contemporary fine art—features twelve artists and one collective, charting artmaking in London, Beijing, and regions around the United States-Mexico border.

Included this season are Tanya Aguiñiga, John Akomfrah, Phyllida Barlow, Guan Xiao, Anish Kapoor, Liu Xiaodong, Rafael Lozano-Hemmer, Christian Marclay, Richard Misrach, Postcommodity, Song Dong, Xu Bing, and Yin Xiuzhen.

Flavour 10 premiered September 18, 2020 on PBS.

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Flavour ix2018

Season 9 of Art in the Twenty-First Century charts art-making in three urban centers across 3 continents: Berlin, Johannesburg, and the San Francisco Bay Expanse. From the postal service-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 middle highlighted in this flavour respond to the forces that accept shaped the places where they live and piece of work, while pursuing their personal visions for a better hereafter.

As each artist draws inspiration from their surrounding communities, they also travel to museums and public spaces internationally to share their work, reminding us of the increasingly global nature of the world we alive in. The artists in this season examine the complicated histories of colonization, war and migration, offer new perspectives on our interactions with technology and the environment, critique our conceptions of gender, sexuality, and race, and ultimately inspire us to meet our world in new ways.

Included this flavour are Creative Growth Art Center, Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg, Olafur Eliasson, David Goldblatt, Katy Grannan, Nicholas Hlobo, Hiwa M, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Zanele Muholi, Susan Philipsz, Robin Rhode, and Stephanie Syjuco.

Season ix premiered September 21, 2018 on PBS.

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Flavor 82016

For the first fourth dimension in the show's history, the artists in Season 8 are grouped by the unique and revealing relationships to the places where they live: Chicago, Los Angeles, United mexican states City, and Vancouver. The artists share universal experiences through their life stories and creative works: resistance, pleasure, mortality, and the promise for a amend tomorrow.

Flavour eight showcases the geography, architecture, lodge, culture, and heritage of each location, highlighting aspects of gimmicky life that viewers everywhere feel. The season features 16 artists, each of whom actively participate in global conversations nigh the pressing issues of our time: from terrorism to environmental crises to the struggle for ceremonious rights. Emmy Award-winning actress Claire Danes joins the series every bit host, introducing each of the four episodes, and the motivations and concerns most pressing for the artists in each city.

Included in the new season are Natalia Almada, Edgar Arceneaux, Nick Cavern, Minerva Cuevas, Stan Douglas, Theaster Gates, Brian Jungen, Barbara Kasten, Liz Larner, Tala Madani, Liz Magor, Damián Ortega, Pedro Reyes, Diana Thater, Jeff Wall, and Chris Ware.

Season 8 premiered in September 2016 on PBS.

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Season vii2014

Providing unique access to some of the most compelling artists of our fourth dimension, Season 7 features a dozen artists from the United States, Europe, and Latin America, transporting viewers to artistic projects across the land and around the globe. In locations as diverse as a Bronx public housing project, a military testing facility in the Nevada desert, a jazz festival in Sweden, and an activist neighborhood in Mexico, the artists reveal intimate and personal insights into their lives and creative processes. Season seven artists create socially and politically engaged art, describe upon the influence of family and youthful experiences, and experiment with both form and medium.

Included in the flavour are Tania Bruguera, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Leonardo Drew, Omer Fast, Katharina Grosse, Thomas Hirschhorn, Elliott Hundley, Graciela Iturbide, Joan Jonas, Wolfgang Laib, Trevor Paglen, and Arlene Shechet.

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Season 62012

Timely and timeless, global and local, beautiful and provocative, contemporary fine art challenges united states of america to wait at our globe in new ways. Contemporary artists grapple with the complex issues of our time, inquire tough questions, and make works that please, amaze and sometimes unsettle audiences worldwide.

Season six includes xiii profiles of artists from 5 continents. Spanning the globe from Nigeria to New York City, from Beijing to Brazil, the episodes reveal the artists at work and speaking in their own words as they demonstrate the power of art to change perception, challenge convention, and change how we meet the world around us.

Included in the flavor are artists Marina Abramović, Ai Weiwei, David Altmejd, El Anatsui, assume vivid astro focus, Lynda Benglis, Rackstraw Downes, Glenn Ligon, Robert Mangold, Catherine Opie, Mary Reid Kelley, Sarah Sze, and Tabaimo.

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Season five2009

Season five, the series' most international season to date, provides viewers with a unique look at the lives and piece of work of gimmicky artists, revealing the artists' perspectives and showcasing their working processes and studios. Art21 traveled around the world in Season 5, filming the creation of new art on every continent except Antarctica, and in museums, studios, galleries and homes in nine countries.

Fourteen internationally recognized artists, from painters and sculptors to photographers and filmmakers exploring the possibilities of new media, were filmed in their own environments and in their own words. The result is an exceptional opportunity for audiences to experience first-manus the circuitous artistic processes backside some of today'south most intriguing and thought-provoking art.

Included in the season are artists John Baldessari, Cao Fei, Mary Heilmann, William Kentridge, Kimsooja, Jeff Koons, Florian Maier-Aichen, Paul McCarthy, Allan McCollum, Julie Mehretu, Doris Salcedo, Cindy Sherman, Yinka Shonibare MBE (RA), and Carrie Mae Weems.

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Season iv2007

Season iv reveals the inspiration, vision and techniques behind the creative works of 17 gimmicky artists. Art21 travels across the country and abroad to film painters, sculptors, photographers, and filmmakers in their own spaces and in their own words. Viewers are invited behind-the-scenes to meet artists at work in their studios, homes, communities, and in sites as diverse as an old-growth wood most Seattle, a military base in California, a theater academy in Warsaw, and a film set, in addition to galleries and museums. The artists profiled speak directly to the audience, describing their passions, impulses and methods.

Included in the season are artists Robert Adams, Allora & Calzadilla, Mark Bradford, Mark Dion, Jenny Holzer, Pierre Huyghe, Alfredo Jaar, An-My Lê, Iñigo Manglano-Ovalle, Judy Pfaff, Lari Pittman, Robert Ryman, Laurie Simmons, Nancy Spero, Catherine Sullivan, and Ursula von Rydingsvard.

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Flavour 32005

What goes on inside the minds of today's most dynamic visual artists? How do they brand the leap between insight and finished object? What inspires artists to break through the barriers of convention to arrive at new ways of seeing? These and other intriguing questions are explored in Flavor 3.

Creating art is a complex process; sometimes deliberate, sometimes serendipitous, ever rigorous. This season, Art21 travels from São Paulo to Boston, from Berlin to Houston, to film 16 working artists and to open up up the intimate spaces where they flourish. For the first time in the testify'south history, Art21 deputed original video artwork from artist collaborators Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler to conclude each episode in Season three.

Included in the flavour are artists Laylah Ali, Ida Applebroog, Cai Guo-Qiang, Ellen Gallagher, Arturo Herrera, Oliver Herring, Roni Horn, Hubbard/Birchler, Mike Kelley, Josiah McElheny, Matthew Ritchie, Susan Rothenberg, Jessica Stockholder, Hiroshi Sugimoto, Richard Tuttle, Fred Wilson, and Krzysztof Wodiczko.

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Flavour 22003

Contemporary fine art breaks out of the confines of museums and art galleries in Season 2. Shattering the myth of the creative person as an isolated genius, this flavor introduces television audiences to sixteen artists working in America today. Season two uses the medium of film to provide an feel of the visual arts that goes far beyond a gallery visit. Intimate footage allows the viewer to find the artists at work, watch their procedure, and learn how they grapple with the challenges of achieving their artistic visions.

Included in the season are artists Eleanor Antin, Janine Antoni, Charles Atlas, Vija Celmins, Walton Ford, Trenton Doyle Hancock, Tim Hawkinson, Elizabeth Murray, Gabriel Orozco, Raymond Pettibon, Paul Pfeiffer, Martin Puryear, Collier Schorr, Kiki Smith, Practice Ho Suh, and Kara Walker.

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Season one2001

At the dawn of the 21st century, American artists are taking self-expression and the artistic procedure into uncharted territory. Today's artists are engaging the world and their audiences in vital and surprising new means. They utilise an enormous variety of media and draw on sources ranging from pop culture and politics to ethnic heritage, classical models, and securely personal life experiences. Flavour 1 features 21 artists that represent a cantankerous-department of contemporary art practices and philosophies, and hail from dissimilar regions of the United States.

Included in the season are artists Matthew Barney, Louise Bourgeois, Michael Ray Charles, Mel Mentum, John Feodorov, Ann Hamilton, Margaret Kilgallen, Beryl Korot, Barbara Kruger, Maya Lin, Sally Mann, Kerry James Marshall, Barry McGee, Bruce Nauman, Pepón Osorio, Richard Serra, Shahzia Sikander, James Turrell, William Wegman, and Andrea Zittel.

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