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

I Wanna Be With You Everywhere (IWBWYE) is a group of disabled artists, writers, and organizers collectively producing cross-disability community gatherings by and for disabled people. Since 2019, ...

Watch this film with ASL. Whether in the virtual space of a Zoom call or the in-person space of an art museum, the members of the cross-disability collective I Wanna Be With You Everywhere (IWBWYE) ...

Featuring the artist collective I Wanna Be With You Everywhere and directed by Andrea Chung and Adam Golfer, New Documentary Short to Premiere on June 25, 2025 Watch the trailer. New York, New ...

William Kentridge was born in Johannesburg, South Africa, in 1955. He attended the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg (1973–76), Johannesburg Art Foundation (1976–78), and studied mime and ...

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 ...

ART21: So, what do you think is the connection between what’s going on in the work and the title of the piece? PURYEAR: I mentioned about the perspective being really what the work is about. And the ...

ART21: Can you talk about Poltergeist? It’s one of the few sculptural pieces you’ve produced. PFEIFFER: Well, one thing about Poltergeist is that, although it seems most obviously sculptural, in terms ...

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 ...