Meriem Bennani's Exploded Visions
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Jordan Casteel Paints Her Community
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CollectingTheaster Gates
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Avery Singer’s Next Painting
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Stay inspired this summer with Summer of Shorts, featuring ten new films premiering across ten consecutive Fridays throughout the summer.
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Art21 News Roundup: Jordan Casteel Challenges Preconceptions Through Portraiture
See what Art21 was up to in June, including four new “Summer of Shorts” films and the selection of ten new Art21 Educators for the program’s seventh year.
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Art21 Educators Year 7: Meet Alina, LaRosa, Alex, Grace, and Marie
Introducing the first half of the new cohort of Art21 Educators, each bringing a passion for contemporary art in the classroom to Year 7 of the program, which kicks off next week with the Summer Institute.
Theaster Gates
“That’s what my work is about…seeing the facets of happiness and sadness all in one place.”
Raúl de Nieves
“The most toxic combination in the world is…the certainty of being right and a monopoly of power.”
William Kentridge
“The most important part is the process. It is the actual living and doing and making.”
Barbara Kasten
“Art isn’t a material, it’s not a medium—it’s not a certain product. It is the choices I’ve been able to make.”
Liz Magor
“Drawing is like practicing the piano, because the first ones that I do often don’t come out so I have to practice.”
Joan Jonas
“Beauty is just kind of an accident. Beauty is just a happenstance. Beauty is the remainders of being a painter.”
Kara Walker
“The studio is a sacred place that you come to do some bigger reflection and thinking.”
El Anatsui
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