Politics and Dignity in Graciela Iturbide’s Photographs
Graciela Iturbide taking a photograph. Production still from the series ART21 Exclusive. © ART21, Inc. 2015. Photograph Courtesy: Pedro Meyer. “Politics are already implied when I’m working in Mexico....
View ArticleTen (More) Artists on Radicalism and Resistance
Production still from the ART21 Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 4 episode, Protest, 2007. © ART21, Inc. 2007. In last year’s November/December issue we investigated ideas of unrest and...
View ArticleLetter from the Editor: Unending Revolution
Detail of Glenn Ligon’s Hands, 1996. Silkscreen ink and gesso on unstretched canvas; 82 x 144 inches. Production still from ART21 Exclusive film, Glenn Ligon: Layers of Meaning © Art21, Inc. 2014 “All...
View ArticleDismantling History: An Interview with Titus Kaphar
Titus Kaphar. Sacrifice (Diptych), 2011. Oil on canvas, 73 x 52 x 2 1/2 inches. Courtesy of the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York ©Titus Kaphar. A canvas curtain slips from its place of...
View Article“The Revolution Will Be Painted” Revisited
Last year, as part of ART21 Magazine’s “Revolution” issue, feminist new genre painter Anne Sherwood Pundyk rewrote the lyrics to Gil Scott-Heron’s “The Revolution Will Not Be Televised” to create “The...
View ArticleStill Reading by the Fire
Allora & Calzadilla. Hope Hippo, 2005. Mud, whistle, daily newspaper, and live person, approximately 16 x 6 x 5 feet. Installation view: 51st Venice Biennale. Courtesy of the artists. Most of this...
View ArticleClassroom Catalysts: Enabling Personal Revolutions Through Art
Laylah Ali. Untitled, 2004Gouache on paper, 28 3/16 x 20 1/6 inches. Courtesy 303 Gallery, New York. “What is art but a way of seeing?” —Thomas Berger Sometimes the most significant revolutions make no...
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