Playlists
How do we bridge the time and distance between some of the places beyond our own immediate region—beyond our own knowledge, lives, and experiences?
How do we bridge the time and distance between some of the places beyond our own immediate region—beyond our own knowledge, lives, and experiences? How can we find connections to the urban toxicity, the pollution of rivers and streams, and the stories of community resilience?
This playlist shapes the contours of a range of questions about the world and ‘International Community-ism.’ It comes from my interest in connecting the global with the local, and I can use these videos to introduce global studies content in my classroom. These videos offer a range of possibilities for unpacking intersections of aesthetics and ecologies in multiple localities.
Read about how Amiko Matsuo teaches with global/local connections in her classroom.
Watch each of the twelve full segments from Season 7 of Art21’s Peabody Award-winning Art in the Twenty-First Century series.
Watch each of the twelve full segments from Season 7 of Art21’s Peabody Award-winning Art in the Twenty-First Century series.
Providing unique access to some of the most compelling artists of our time, Season 7 features a dozen artists from the United States, Europe, and Latin America, transporting viewers to artistic projects across the country and around the world. In locations as diverse as a Bronx public housing project, a military testing facility in the Nevada desert, a jazz festival in Sweden, and an activist neighborhood in Mexico, the artists reveal intimate and personal insights into their lives and creative processes. Season 7 artists create socially and politically engaged art, draw upon the influence of family and youthful experiences, and experiment with both form and medium.
Season 7 premiered in October 2014 on PBS.
Shahzia Sikander’s most recent project, Havah…to breathe, air, life (2023), reimagines the monument as a marker of boundary-breaking, feminine spirit, and collective visibility. “I like to think of my practice as an anti-monument,” says Sikander, “because it engages the past without glorifying it.”
Rafael Lozano-Hemmer’s participatory anti-monumental approach in A Crack in the Hourglass (2021) gives communities the space to mourn, remember, and feel connected again to those lost to COVID-19. “I think that the monuments that are most interesting are the monuments that either disappear, question themselves, that complicate some of these stories that we tell ourselves,” says the artist.
In a recreated monument, KING COBRA (documented as Doreen Lynette Garner) forces audiences to face the profound racism underlying the life and work of Dr. J. Marion Sims, long considered the “father of modern gynecology,” who performed torturous procedures on enslaved Black women for the purposes of experimentation and research.
Monuments carry special significance for Krzysztof Wodiczko as sites for public gatherings and protests, witnesses and recorders of history, and blank canvases upon which new narratives can be painted.
In our latest playlist, artists reimagine the idea of the monument and reconsider how we acknowledge the past.
All Playlists
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Listen to This! (Films to Listen To… Before You Watch)
by Joe FusaroMay 8, 2023 10 videos • 1:13:05 total runtime -
Look at This! (Films to Watch with the Sound Off)
by Joe FusaroApril 10, 2023 9 videos • 1:12:01 total runtime -
Season 8 of “Art in the Twenty-First Century”
by Art21March 21, 2023 16 videos • 3:02:18 total runtime -
Season 10 of “Art in the Twenty-First Century”
by Art21February 22, 2023 12 videos • 2:55:24 total runtime -
Family
by Art21October 26, 2022 13 videos • 2:00:54 total runtime -
Teaching with Collaboration
by Andrea MancusoOctober 21, 2022 11 videos • 2:43:36 total runtime -
Translations
by Art21September 21, 2022 11 videos • 1:24:20 total runtime -
Teaching with Maps
by Emily RelfSeptember 6, 2022 11 videos • 1:44:18 total runtime -
Teaching with Three Dimensions
by Dennis GreenwellJune 22, 2021 15 videos • 2:23:57 total runtime -
Teaching with Possibilities
by Catherine KarpMay 19, 2021 10 videos • 1:09:35 total runtime -
From Head to Toe
by Art21March 22, 2021 17 videos • 2:35:21 total runtime -
Plan Your Vote
by Art21November 2, 2020 8 videos • 1:34:52 total runtime -
Teaching with the Power of Words
by Alex MendezAugust 26, 2020 9 videos • 1:43:54 total runtime -
Teaching with the Great Outdoors
by Joe FusaroMay 27, 2020 7 videos • 1:34:00 total runtime -
Teaching with Improvisation and Spontaneity
by Erica RichardApril 30, 2020 8 videos • 1:00:58 total runtime -
Teaching with Love and Loss
by Ty TalbotFebruary 12, 2020 10 videos • 1:34:30 total runtime -
Teaching with Community
by Miranda BestJanuary 15, 2020 10 videos • 2:11:43 total runtime -
Taking a Stand
by Art21January 9, 2020 14 videos • 2:02:55 total runtime -
Which Latin America?
by Diego del Valle RíosOctober 9, 2019 12 videos • 1:55:35 total runtime -
Human Touch
by Art21September 20, 2019 14 videos • 1:51:35 total runtime -
Must-See Contemporary
by Art21July 22, 2019 16 videos • 1:49:57 total runtime -
Pride Unveiled
by Art21June 11, 2019 10 videos • 1:37:43 total runtime -
The World Is Yours
by Art21April 22, 2019 12 videos • 1:26:17 total runtime -
Tools of the Trade
by Art21March 14, 2019 12 videos • 1:31:40 total runtime -
Essence of a History
by Art21February 14, 2019 16 videos • 2:13:14 total runtime -
Don’t Sweat The Technique
by Art21January 23, 2019 12 videos • 1:27:47 total runtime -
Under the Influence
by Art21January 9, 2019 16 videos • 1:34:28 total runtime -
Going Home
by Art21December 20, 2018 15 videos • 2:00:32 total runtime -
America Now
by Art21December 5, 2018 15 videos • 2:09:42 total runtime -
Season 9 of “Art in the Twenty-First Century”
by Art21September 29, 2018 12 videos • 2:47:41 total runtime -
Consumption Revisited
by Art21May 15, 2018 15 videos • 2:41:45 total runtime -
Then & Now
by Art21April 11, 2018 21 videos • 2:31:43 total runtime -
The Future Is Female
by Art21March 14, 2018 12 videos • 1:25:51 total runtime -
Portraying the Black American Experience
by Art21February 14, 2018 15 videos • 2:12:02 total runtime -
Boundary Crossing
by Art21January 31, 2018 15 videos • 2:00:19 total runtime -
Slow Unfolding Moments
by Art21December 20, 2017 15 videos • 2:19:29 total runtime -
Starting from Sketches
by Art21November 13, 2017 12 videos • 1:25:57 total runtime -
Sacred Grounds
by Art21October 25, 2017 12 videos • 1:12:37 total runtime -
Call & Response
by Art21October 11, 2017 12 videos • 1:38:27 total runtime -
Playing with Tension
by Marela ZacaríasSeptember 28, 2017 8 videos • 55:51 total runtime -
Site-Specific
by Art21September 13, 2017 12 videos • 1:51:24 total runtime -
California Girls
by Art21August 9, 2017 10 videos • 1:15:36 total runtime -
“Summer of Shorts”
by Art21August 7, 2017 10 videos • 57:00 total runtime -
En Route
by Art21July 26, 2017 14 videos • 1:50:00 total runtime -
Blockbusters
by Art21July 12, 2017 12 videos • 1:00:42 total runtime -
The Music Lovers
by Mac McCaughanJune 28, 2017 12 videos • 1:48:15 total runtime -
Deterioration and Decay
by Art21June 21, 2017 10 videos • 1:32:07 total runtime -
Summer of Biennials
by Art21June 14, 2017 10 videos • 2:00:30 total runtime -
The Anarchic Potential of Color
by Art21May 24, 2017 16 videos • 1:59:59 total runtime -
Take Action
by Art21April 26, 2017 10 videos • 1:19:43 total runtime -
Working with Ugly
by Arlene ShechetMarch 8, 2017 7 videos • 1:02:20 total runtime -
Super Heroines
by Art21March 1, 2017 12 videos • 1:26:21 total runtime -
Origin Stories
by Art21March 1, 2017 14 videos • 1:07:19 total runtime -
Beating Writer’s Block
by Art21March 1, 2017 10 videos • 33:53 total runtime -
History Reimagined
by Art21March 1, 2017 12 videos • 1:22:50 total runtime -
Artists and Pets
by Art21March 1, 2017 6 videos • 40:15 total runtime -
Declassified: The Untold Stories
by Art21March 1, 2017 9 videos • 1:17:24 total runtime