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 ...

Mary Mattingly was born in 1978 in Rockville, Connecticut, and lives and works in New York. Combining a visual-art practice with environmental activism and education, Mattingly wrote a manifesto that ...

Lynn Hershman Leeson is at once a pointed critic and a sly practical jokester, as she explores the roles that technology, media, and artifice play in society.

This film is intended for mature audiences. Viewer discretion is advised. What makes an image funny? In this film, artist Mariah Robertson works with Bill — a male nude model she met online — taking ...

From her early memories of London’s war-ravaged East End to the unrelenting expansion and construction of the city in the twenty-first century, Phyllida Barlow is inspired by the industrial urban ...

What is the responsibility of an artist to her community? In this film, artist and activist LaToya Ruby Frazier discusses the economic and environmental decline of her hometown—Braddock, ...

Heidi Lau channels personal history, colonial culture, and the spiritual world through her hands and into her otherworldly clay works. Delighting in chance and improvisation, Lau shapes all her clay ...

Fascinated by the lives of people she describes as “anonymous,” the Berkeley-based photographer and filmmaker Katy Grannan develops long-term relationships with the residents of western American ...

Stephanie Syjuco makes research-driven photographs, sculptures, and installations that explore the tension between the authentic and the counterfeit and challenge deep-seated assumptions about history ...

Cannupa Hanska Luger uses his role as an artist to try to effect change and chart a path to a future where Indigenous people and their rights are respected, we live in greater harmony with our planet, ...

With the support of his interdisciplinary studio, Olafur Eliasson produces epic, technically sophisticated sculptures and installations, using natural elements like light, water, and air to alter ...