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

New York, New York—June 16, 2025—Art21 and JustFilms, Ford Foundation today announced the release of “Things Don’t Have to Be Like This: A Conversation About Digital Technology & Contemporary Art,” a ...

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 ...

Art21 today announced the release of “I Wanna Be With You Everywhere,” a new documentary film featuring the artist collective ...

Before coming on as the director of this film, I thought I understood Arthur Jafa’s practice. I had seen APEX and Love is the Message, the Message is Death, and saw AJ’s work as chronicling Black life ...

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What’s your artistic practice? I cringe at the inevitable question that floats around whenever art teachers get together. Is it because I’m surprised? (Wait…I’m supposed to have two jobs?!) Is it from ...

Steel and glass populate artist Hannah Levy’s 2023 exhibition Crutch at Casey Kaplan Gallery in New York City, taking familiar materials, forms, and structures and making them strange, even ...

The artists in “Friends & Strangers” are connectors, building upon and supporting the existing groups they participate in and searching for ways to create ever more inclusive forms of community.

Donning futuristic regalia adorned with clanging bells and protective padding, artist Cannupa Hanska Luger prepares to shoot a video for his multimedia project Future Ancestral Technology ...

Clad in all-black, their faces obscured by oversized gorilla masks, “Frida Kahlo” and “Käthe Kollwitz” take to the streets as Guerrilla Girls to engage the public in their decades-long battle against ...

In their Brooklyn studio, artist Tauba Auerbach uses craft traditions as research methods to deepen their understanding of mathematical and scientific theories. “It seems appropriate to me to work in ...