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Photographing the Night Sky.” Directed by Emmy Award-winning filmmaker and visual artist Sue Ding, the film follows Lê as she mounts her first-ever outdoor installation in Andrea Zittel’s High Desert ...

Mark Bradford was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1961. He received a BFA (1995) and MFA (1997) from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. Bradford transforms materials scavenged from ...

An artist’s identity and experiences implicitly inform, and in some cases even drive, the work they create. In capturing the contemporary Black American experience through their work and practice, ...

Does the past have a sound? Celebrated for his material-oriented practice, Kevin Beasley juxtaposes sound, silence, and sculpture to examine the legacy of cotton in the American South. Set to the beat ...

Strolling the boardwalks of Coney Island, artist Trey Abdella gets inspiration from the camp, craft, and engineering hidden within the rides and attractions, discovering surprising new strategies for ...

(NEW YORK — July 7, 2021) — Art21 introduced today a group of four new films comprising its third season of programming for 2021. Across four consecutive Wednesdays, Art21 will deliver four stories of ...

“I’m not interested in finding the truth,” says artist Jordan Strafer, “I’m trying to find the spaces around truth.” An improbable combination of surrealist humor, cultural homage, and critical ...

The sound of striking keys echoes as artist Lenka Clayton improvises a drawing of a vase on a typewriter. This practice exemplifies her uniquely playful approach that runs through her video, sculpture ...

Populating the galleries of the Whitney Museum of American Art with 3D printed sculptures of office workers wrapped in plastic and neon-orange temporary housing tents filled with emergency supplies, ...

Surrounded by jars of brushes, tubes of paint, and makeshift painting palettes, artist Amy Sherald holds her face inches from the canvas, reveling in the slow and meditative practice of painting. In ...

At once deeply sincere and totally kidding, artist Hadi Falapishi isn’t afraid to play the clown in his paintings, performances, and sculptures if it gives him permission to share universal truths.