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September 21, 2011
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Make a gift to Art21 today  | | Welcome back! September is here, which means that there is plenty back in session. The school year. The Fall exhibition season. The Fall television season. About that last one...
Among the questions that often come our way is, "When is the next season Art in the Twenty-First Century coming?" The answer: Soon! 2012 soon, in fact. With a bulk of the filming completed and with post-production underway, the sixth season of Art21's flagship series is on track for the new year.
Read on for more information about the return of the series, as well as for highlights from our latest online offerings, which includes new videos from both the Exclusive and New York Close Up online series, and much more!
 In this issue:
New Season of Art in the Twenty-First Century Coming in 2012 Welcome Back, Educators! New Videos: Mika Tajima, Keltie Ferris, and Cindy Sherman Highlights from the Art21 Blog Support Art21 Shop Art21 |
Banner: Alfredo Jaar stands in his installation Infinite Cell (2004), 2004. Production still from the series Exclusive, Episode #026: Alfredo Jaar: Gramsci & Pasolini. � Art21, Inc. 2008. Left: Paul Pfeiffer installing Dutch Interior (2001), 2003. Production still from the series Art in the Twenty-First Century, Season 2, Episode: Time. � Art21, Inc. 2003. |
| New Season of Art in the Twenty-First Century Coming in 2012 |
Over the last ten years, the Art in the Twenty-First Century series has become a biennial staple of the PBS Fall Arts programming. However, things are changing up a bit for the next season of the Peabody Award-winning series.
Art in the Twenty-First Century will return to PBS in 2012, featuring fourteen artists over four brand new episodes.
As with previous broadcasts, we will be encouraging individuals and institutions to host preview events in anticipation of the series premiere.
More information will be included in future issues of Art21 News closer to the projected air date. Stay tuned!
IMAGE: Camera test in Upstate New York, 2011. Photo by Ian Forster.
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| Welcome Back, Educators! |
The third year of the Art21 Educators program is in full swing and our sixteen new teachers have developed some amazing projects that they will implement in classrooms from Spanish Fork, UT to Pittsburgh, PA. For teachers who are interested in participating, an announcement about the application process for 2012-2013 will be made this winter.
In addition, we are busy brewing up some exciting collaborations with artists for the National Art Education Association annual conference to be held March 1-4, 2012 in New York City. We are working with School Arts Magazine, Art Education 2.0, and artist Oliver Herring to create a conference-wide TASK event on March 3rd. Check out the TASK Party website and join the conversation on Art Education 2.0.
IMAGE: Art21 Educator Derek DeHaan at the Museum of Art and Design, New York, 2011. Photo by Sue Carris.
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| New Videos: Mika Tajima, Keltie Ferris, and Cindy Sherman |
| | Mika Tajima Versus the Cubicle
New York Close Up Episode #013: How does design shape society? In this film, artist Mika Tajima traces the legacy of the influential Action Office furniture line-developed by Herman Miller-and how it serves as the inspiration for her own work. |
| | Keltie Ferris Spray Paints in Solitude
New York Close Up Episode #014: How does an artist connect to the world while working alone? In this film, artist Keltie Ferris begins a new series of abstract paintings in her Bushwick, Brooklyn studio.
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| | Cindy Sherman: Fashion
Exclusive Episode #143: Commissioned by French Vogue to create a fashion editorial featuring clothes from the Spanish design house Balenciaga, artist Cindy Sherman discusses the first time she used a digital camera to make pictures, ultimately creating different versions of images for the magazine and for herself.
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Highlights from the Art21 Blog
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| | New Column: Praxis Makes Perfect
Open Enrollment alums Jacquelyn Gleisner and Jeffrey Augustine Songco introduce a new, twice-monthly column exploring the highs and lows of life after grad school, from balancing an art practice with day jobs and teaching gigs to getting grants and entering juried art competitions. Column launches on Thursday, September 22. |
| | From Our Columns
Gastro-Vision's Nicole Caruth takes a look at 19 Pictures, 22 Recipes, Paola Ferrario's cookbook-cum-artist's project; Looking at Los Angeles columnist Catherine Wagley assesses the impact of Ed Kienholz's 1969-72 installation Five Car Stud (on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art); and Ben Street's latest Letter from London unpacks Thomas Struth's monumental 1995 photograph San Zaccaria. |
Want to write for the Art21 Blog? Email interest and writing samples to blog [at] art21 [dot] org.
IMAGES (from top): Praxis Makes Perfect co-columnist Jeffrey Augustine Songco. Ed Kienholz and his team installing "Five Car Stud" in the parking lot of Gemini G.E.L. in Los Angeles, �Kienholz, photographs by John Romeyn, Bob Bucknam, Malcolm Lublinder, and Adam Avila, 1971. Thomas Struth, "San Zaccaria," 1995. Image courtesy the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Purchase, The Howard Gilman Foundation Gift, 1996 (1996.297), � Thomas Struth. Guest Blogger Chris Cuellar.
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| Support Art21 |
Every Art21 project--from the PBS television series Art in the Twenty-First Century to the short-format video series New York Close Up to Art21's free workshops for educators--depends on the generosity of individuals like you. Your donation directly supports the costs of:
- Presenting free screening events in close to 2,000 community centers, museums, and schools across the U.S. and in 27 countries
- Producing free Educators' Guides, distributed online to over 193,000 individuals
- Hosting free professional development workshops for over 3,800 teachers
- Providing audiences worldwide with unprecedented access to artists working in countries from China to Nigeria, England to Brazil
We hope that you will consider making a donation to Art21 today. Thank you for your support!
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| Shop Art21 |
William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible
Art21's Peabody Award-winning feature film provides an in-depth portrait of South African artist William Kentridge as he creates a series of new works, including a staging of Shostakovich's The Nose at The Metropolitan Opera in New York City. William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible is available on DVD from ShopPBS and other retailers.
Art in the Twenty-First Century
Miss a season? Looking for a particular artist's segment? All five seasons of Art in the Twenty-First Century are available on DVD and digital download, giving you first-hand access to today's most compelling artists and thought-provoking themes. (Season 5 is also available in high-definition Blu-ray.)
Companion books
Spanning all five seasons, the Art in the Twenty-First Century companion books feature in-depth interviews with all 86 series-featured artists, high-quality images, and essays from Art21 Executive Director Susan Sollins.
Visit ShopPBS.org to view all available products from Art21.
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