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 expand access to contemporary art through the production of documentary films ...

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

A weekly digest of things to watch, read, and hear from the comforts of your home, selected by Art21-featured artists and Art21 staff. Four new films are featured in Art21’s winter 2021 programming ...

Four new films are featured in Art21’s spring 2021 programming season, starting with a new release available to watch today. New films will premiere weekly on Wednesdays through May 5. A weekly digest ...

Executive director and chief curator Tina Kukielski delivers a dispatch of Art21’s latest on-goings. Art21 is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization; all donations are tax deductible to the fullest extent ...

A weekly digest of things to watch, read, and hear from the comforts of your home, selected by Art21-featured artists and Art21 staff.

Julie Mehretu was born in 1970 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. She studied at University Cheikh Anta Diop, Dakar (1990–91), earned a BA from Kalamazoo College, Michigan (1992), and an MFA from Rhode Island ...

Martin Puryear was born in Washington, DC, in 1941. In his youth, he studied crafts and learned how to build guitars, furniture, and canoes through practical training and instruction. After earning ...

Nick Cave was born in Fulton, Missouri in 1959. He creates “Soundsuits”—surreally majestic objects blending fashion and sculpture—that originated as metaphorical suits of armor in response to the ...