Behind-the-scenes look at the making of “An-My Lê: 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 Test Sites.

Art21 Producer Andrea Yu-Chieh Chung sits down with Associate Curator Jurrell Lewis to discuss the Art21 New York Close Up film “Jordan Strafer’s True Stories.”

Precious’s work is so vast. They have the ability to express themselves through so many different mediums, and I love that their work communicates a level of freedom. At a glance, it can feel like the various mediums are in their own worlds, but I see them as layers that have a throughline. In sections […]

When my colleague and I first met José during our initial studio visit before production for this film began, he told us that things were about to ‘get weird’ in the studio. He had just come out of his first solo show in New York and was pondering what was next. It was a great privilege to work with José in this time of transition and transformation, as he experimented with new materials and found new ways to ground himself in the studio.

Camille is in perpetual motion, and a lot of the film was trying to learn her rhythms: in the studio, in the editing room, in the foundry. Her interests are wide-ranging, but her ‘hand,’ and her particular way of looking at the world held things together no matter what she was working on.

The first idea Trey and I had for this film was to conduct an interview on the Spook-a-Rama ride at Coney Island. It felt like the perfect way to get inside his mind—surrounded by a cacophony of laughter, screaming, and illusion.

When we first started filming with Anne around her performance Doom: House of Hope at the Park Avenue Armory, it really struck me how collaborative the production was. She brought together artists from different disciplines, such as ballet dancers, bone breakers, skateboarders, punk rock bands, and vocalists, and opened up the creative process to incorporate […]

Adam Golfer—Neither one of us had ever worked on a film about a group of artists whose practices are all very different, but operate together as a collective, and come together for a unified purpose. After meeting with the collective I Wanna Be With You Everywhere (IWBWYE) for the first time, it became clear that […]

Before coming on as the director of this film, I thought I understood Arthur Jafa’s practice. I had seen APEX and Love is the Message, the Message is Death, and saw AJ’s work as chronicling Black life in America, both the good and the bad. I still think that’s true—his films do offer a nuanced […]

When I was first introduced to Hyeree, I fell in love with her work immediately. Given our shared background—we’re both East Asians living in the US, existing between two languages and two places—it’s perhaps not surprising that I resonated with Hyeree’s musings around language and the idea that when you’re speaking one language, you’re one […]