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Ilana Harris-Babou’s Guide to Health & Happiness

September 4, 2024

Ilana Harris-Babou subverts the affirming messages and shiny surfaces of our aspirational culture in her video and sculptural work.

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Martin Puryear in "Time"

September 17, 2003

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Slow Unfolding Moments
Louise Despont According to the Universe New York Close Up
"Second Meeting" Extended Play
Everyone Should Have a Studio Extended Play
Liu Xiaodong in "Beijing" Art in the Twenty-First Century
Close Encounters with Josephine Halvorson New York Close Up
Wolfgang Laib in "Legacy" Art in the Twenty-First Century
"Rubbing / Loving" Extended Play
Susan Philipsz in "Berlin" Art in the Twenty-First Century
Making & Feeling Extended Play
Mika Rottenberg & Jon Kessler Wanna Make You Sweat New York Close Up
Vija Celmins in "Time" Art in the Twenty-First Century
Erin Shirreff Takes Her Time New York Close Up
Rackstraw Downes in "Balance" Art in the Twenty-First Century
Water Extended Play
Marina Abramović in "History" Art in the Twenty-First Century

Slow Unfolding Moments

While some artists fill their studios with noise and action, others require a certain quiet—an intimacy facilitated through stillness. The artists in this playlist find serenity in silence and ask us to press pause so we can find it too.

Slow Unfolding Moments
by Art21December 20, 2017 15 videos • 2:22:26 total runtime

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