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New York, New York—October 13, 2026—Art21 announced the premiere of “An-My Lê: Photographing the Night Sky,” a new ...
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 ...
For the first time in the show’s history, the artists in Season 8 are grouped by the unique and revealing relationships to the places where they live: Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Vancouver.
Robert Adams discusses his personal motivations for art-making, as well as his own understanding of beauty and the purpose of art. Art21What would you say making art is about, for you? Adams: Recently ...
Stan Douglas was born in Vancouver in 1960. He reenacts historical moments of tension that connect local histories to broader social movements of struggle and utopian aspiration. In the artist’s ...
Mike Kelley was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1954. He received a BFA from the University of Michigan, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Kelley’s work ranges from highly symbolic ...
Mika Rottenberg was born in 1976 in Buenos Aires, Argentina, was raised in Tel Aviv, Israel, and now lives and works in upstate New York. Working in video, installation, and sculpture, Rottenberg is ...
In 2008, twenty of Cindy Sherman’s History Portraits (1989–1990) were exhibited at Skarstedt Gallery in New York City. In the following interview, Sherman walks Art21 through the exhibition and ...
Allan McCollum was born in Los Angeles in 1944. In his twenties, McCollum briefly considered a career in theater and then attended trade school to study restaurant management and industrial kitchen ...
Wael Shawky was born in 1971 in Alexandria, Egypt, where he lives and works. With a multimedia practice that encompasses works on paper, film, and performance, Shawky reconsiders historical narratives ...