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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 ...

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 ...

How can boundaries be perceived as opportunities rather than limitations? In testing ideas of spatial borders, artists challenge constructs of space by experimenting with the concept as both subject ...

New York, New York—October 13, 2026—Art21 announced the premiere of “An-My Lê: Photographing the Night Sky,” a new ...

The first series on television in the U.S. to focus exclusively on contemporary visual art and artists, Art in the Twenty-First Century is a Peabody Award-winning biennial program that allows viewers ...

“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 ...

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 ...