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Documentary. Peggy Guggenheim was an heiress to her family fortune who became a central figure in the modern art movement. As she moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century, she collected not...
Documentary celebrating the artwork that captured a nation’s imagination: the exhibition of Carl Andre’s Equivalent VIII, a minimalist sculpture consisting of 120 fire bricks laid out on the floor of the...
What role do intuition, emotion, fantasy and escapism play in contemporary art? ROMANCE explores these questions in the work of the artists Pierre Huyghy, Judy Pfaff, Lari Pittmann and Laurie Simmons. Art...
How do contemporary artworks embody emotion? How do artists express longing, love, and human experience in their work? Art21 documentary Loss & Desire explores these questions through the work of Charles...
How do artists use irony, goofiness, satire, and sarcasm in their work? Can an artwork be funny and critical at the same time? Do contemporary artists always take themselves seriously? The documentary HUMOR...
This four disc set looks at the life of art collector George Costakis and three of his favourite artists.The first film is about Costakis, one of the 20th century’s most prominent art collectors, who...
Costumes and masks, makeup and style, dolls and mannequins, stage and cinema: what strategies do we use to refashion identity? Do we seek out excess and extremes in order to see ourselves more clearly? The...
How do we organise life? What are the ways in which we capture knowledge and attempt greater understanding? The Art21 documentary Structures explores these questions in the work of the artists Roni Horn,...
How does contemporary art address the idea of spirituality? How do artists working today reveal and question commonly held assumptions about faith, belief, meditation, and religious symbols? SPIRITUALITY...
From Hopper to Wyeth, authors trace back the growing tendency to Realism in American art that emerged after the First World War. In stark contrast to European Modernists, US artists made their nation the...
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