I often think of making an Art21 film as finding the right balance between three main components: an interview with the ...

ART21: I had no idea that the location has such meaning for you. ANTONI: It made sense for me to go back to this horizon, this ocean that I had looked at my whole life. Balance is an interesting thing ...

ART21: What are your first thoughts about this piece here, at the Guggenheim? WALKER: Well, this piece is called Insurrection!Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On.I always wind up going back ...

Artist Martin Puryear discusses his work’s connection to the history of abstraction and the inspiration for his 1996 installation piece, “Ladder for Booker T. Washington.” ART21: Your work is often ...

ART21: Can you clarify what you mean by [the word] chance, especially with the collages you’ve been photographing?. HERRERA: By chance, I mean (in the photo work) that I usually don’t compose the way ...

ART21: Can you talk a little bit about Emoter, another piece that uses random signals?. HAWKINSON: It’s something that emotes, and it’s motorized.Emoter falls into the category of body ...

Theaster Gates was born in Chicago in 1973. He first encountered creativity in the music of Black churches on his journey to becoming an urban planner, potter, and artist. Gates creates sculptures ...

Kimsooja’s videos and installations blur the boundaries between aesthetics and transcendent experience through their use of repetitive actions, meditative practices, and serial forms.In many pieces, ...

ART21: Where does the title come from?. PFEIFFER: Well, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is an art historical reference in that it refers back to the woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer, who in some ways ...

Art21: What did your first sculpture, Metal Jacket, look like—the one you made for your sculpture class? Suh: It looks like a kind of ancient Oriental armor. The first sculpture was covered with three ...

Rashid Johnson was born in 1977 in Chicago, Illinois, and lives and works in New York. Johnson, who got his start as a photographer, works across media—including video, sculpture, painting, and ...

Catherine Opie was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1961. Opie investigates the ways in which photographs both document and give voice to social phenomena in America today, registering people’s attitudes and ...