Five new films open Art21’s 2019 programming season, starting with a new film available to watch today. Over fifteen new films from each of Art21’s digital series, Extended Play and New York Close Up, will premiere throughout 2019.

In a new film from our “New York Close Up” digital series, Kevin Beasley juxtaposes sound, silence, and sculpture to examine the legacy of cotton in the American South.

In a new film from our “Extended Play” digital series, Alex Da Corte films a series of fifty-seven videos for his installation for the 57th edition of the Carnegie International in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

In a new film from our “Extended Play” digital series, Marcel Dzama discusses the evolution of his drawings, from his time growing up in his native Winnipeg, to his move to New York in 2004, to his more recent responses to U.S. politics and media.

Introducing a series of three new films to close out the year,  featuring Kara Walker, Jason Moran, Marcel Dzama, and Alex Da Corte.

In a new film from our “Extended Play” digital series, Kara Walker and composer/musician Jason Moran—in a candid one-on-one conversation—discuss their collaboration for the Prospect.4 triennial in New Orleans, “Katastwóf Karavan” (2018).

All three episodes from the latest season of Art21’s “Art in the Twenty-First Century” series are now streaming in full from Art21.org and through PBS streaming apps.

The third and final episode from the latest season of Art21’s Peabody Award-winning “Art in the Twenty-First Century” series—”San Francisco Bay Area”—airs this Friday, September 28, at 9:00 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).

A new season of the Peabody Award-winning “Art in the Twenty-First Century” series arrives this Friday with back-to-back premiere episodes—”Johannesburg” and “Berlin”—starting at 9:00 p.m. on PBS (check local listings).

Zanele Muholi shares motivations for documenting South Africa’s LGBTI community in this preview of the upcoming “Johannesburg” episode from Season 9 of the “Art in the Twenty-First Century” television series.