Playlists
Watch each of the sixteen full segments from the latest season of Art21’s Peabody Award-winning Art in the Twenty-First Century series.
Watch each of the sixteen full segments from the latest season of Art21’s Peabody Award-winning Art in the Twenty-First Century series.
Season 8 artists are grouped by the unique and revealing relationships to the places where they live: Chicago, Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Vancouver. The artists share universal experiences through their life stories and creative works: resistance, pleasure, mortality, and the hope for a better tomorrow.
Season 8 showcases the geography, architecture, society, culture, and heritage of each location, highlighting aspects of contemporary life that viewers everywhere experience. The season features 16 artists, each of whom actively participate in global conversations about the pressing issues of our time: from terrorism to environmental crises to the struggle for civil rights.
The new season premiered September 16, 2016 on PBS.
Watch each of the twelve full segments from the tenth season of Art21’s Peabody Award-winning “Art in the Twenty-First Century” series.
Watch each of the twelve full segments from Art21’s Peabody Award-winning Art in the Twenty-First Century series.
The landmark tenth season of the Peabody Award-winning Art in the Twenty-First Century television series—the longest-running television series on contemporary art—features twelve artists and one collective, charting artmaking in London, Beijing, and regions around the United States-Mexico border.
Season 10 premiered September 18, 2020 on PBS.
For the artists in this playlist families can serve as motivation, a source of feedback, and even subjects for new work.
“My family is all I have; my family is everything to me,” says Alex Da Corte.
For artists, families can serve as inspiration, a source of feedback, and even subjects for new work. Whether drawing upon childhood experiences, creating work while simultaneously nurturing new family members, or investigating what home means to them, family and community play a vital role in the creation of contemporary art.
Family and collaboration are at the heart of The Way of Chopsticks, an ongoing project and series of exhibitions shared by Song Dong and his wife, artist Yin Xiuzhen. Nearing the 18th anniversary of The Way of the Chopsticks, Song and Yin invited their daughter to participate in the fourth iteration of the exhibition.
Bryan Zanisnik returns to his parents’ home in Springfield, New Jersey to dig up the long-forgotten home movies he made as an adolescent. LaToya Ruby Frazier collaborates with her mother and grandmother as fellow artists, giving them agency in depictions of themselves, their family, and the broader community.
Meriem Bennani incorporates family members into her films, “On one side, I almost feel emotionally like a monster who traps family members into this digital world. And then the other extreme is like fully loving and celebrating family.”
The artists in this playlist surround themselves with others to lend a uniquely intimate and collaborative character to their work because after all, no one creates anything alone.
All Playlists
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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 • 1:34:07 total runtime -
Teaching with the Power of Words
by Alex MendezAugust 26, 2020 9 videos • 1:43:09 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 • 1:55:03 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 • 1:54:14 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 • 1:25:34 total runtime -
Tools of the Trade
by Art21March 14, 2019 12 videos • 1:17:00 total runtime -
Essence of a History
by Art21February 14, 2019 16 videos • 1:57:21 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 • 1:49:11 total runtime -
Going Home
by Art21December 20, 2018 15 videos • 2:00:32 total runtime -
America Now
by Art21December 5, 2018 15 videos • 2:08:54 total runtime -
Season 9 of “Art in the Twenty-First Century”
by Art21September 29, 2018 12 videos • 2:33:01 total runtime -
Consumption Revisited
by Art21May 15, 2018 15 videos • 2:41:02 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 • 1:56:09 total runtime -
Boundary Crossing
by Art21January 31, 2018 15 videos • 2:00:19 total runtime -
Slow Unfolding Moments
by Art21December 20, 2017 15 videos • 2:18:58 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 • 1:37:56 total runtime -
Playing with Tension
by Marela ZacaríasSeptember 28, 2017 8 videos • 55:51 total runtime -
Site-Specific
by Art21September 13, 2017 12 videos • 1:50:54 total runtime -
California Girls
by Art21August 9, 2017 10 videos • 1:14:51 total runtime -
“Summer of Shorts”
by Art21August 7, 2017 10 videos • 57:00 total runtime -
En Route
by Art21July 26, 2017 14 videos • 1:49:15 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 • 1:27:53 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 • 1:59:28 total runtime -
Take Action
by Art21April 26, 2017 10 videos • 1:30:39 total runtime -
Working with Ugly
by Arlene ShechetMarch 8, 2017 7 videos • 1:01:50 total runtime -
Super Heroines
by Art21March 1, 2017 12 videos • 1:11:41 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 • 1:23:11 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 • 1:16:04 total runtime