Tag Archives: brooklyn

Educator Spotlight

Art21 Educator Spotlight: Jeannine Bardo

by Art21 | Aug 10, 2018

Educator Spotlight

Art21 Educator Spotlight: Jeannine Bardo

by Art21 | Aug 10, 2018

Meet Art21 Educator Jeannine Bardo, and learn how she’s creating a platform that amplifies the voices of fellow artists through her artist-run community initiative Stand4 Gallery.

Reading Critically: Alexandra Bell’s “Counternarratives”

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Dec 22, 2017

Reading Critically: Alexandra Bell’s “Counternarratives”

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Dec 22, 2017

Alexandra Bell’s “Counternarratives” series shows inscribed corrections of “New York Times” print articles, exposing editorial bias conveyed by ill-chosen images, poorly worded headlines, and textual masking of white crime.

Art21 New York Close Up

Close Up with Daniel Gordon & Ruby Sky Stiler: Screening + Q&A 2.15.17

by Art21 | Jan 23, 2017

Art21 New York Close Up

Close Up with Daniel Gordon & Ruby Sky Stiler: Screening + Q&A 2.15.17

by Art21 | Jan 23, 2017

Join Art21 on Wednesday, February 15 in Brooklyn for an evening of film and discussion with artists Daniel Gordon and Ruby Sky Stiler.

Dushko Petrovich’s The Daily Gentrifier

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Dec 16, 2016

Dushko Petrovich’s The Daily Gentrifier

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Dec 16, 2016

Jacquelyn Gleisner introduces “The Daily Gentrifier,” a forthcoming broadsheet publication by Chicago-based artist and writer Dushko Petrovich.

Art21 New York Close Up

Daniel Gordon Looks Back

by Nick Ravich | Aug 12, 2016

Art21 New York Close Up

Daniel Gordon Looks Back

by Nick Ravich | Aug 12, 2016

Photographer Daniel Gordon reflects on his decade-long commitment to intensive practice and artistic invention in a new film from the ART21 “New York Close Up” series.

All The Colorful Lights: Liz Nielsen, Carolina Wheat, and Elijah Wheat Showroom

by Erin Sweeny | Aug 2, 2016

All The Colorful Lights: Liz Nielsen, Carolina Wheat, and Elijah Wheat Showroom

by Erin Sweeny | Aug 2, 2016

A look inside the lives of Brooklyn-based artists, gallerists, and curators Liz Nielsen and Carolina Wheat, who founded Elijah Wheat Showroom in honor of the son they lost.

Staff Pick

Staff Picks: May 2016

by Art21 | May 27, 2016

Staff Pick

Staff Picks: May 2016

by Art21 | May 27, 2016

A selection of films and exhibitions, personally recommended by members of the ART21 staff.

Art21 New York Close Up

Marela Zacarías’s Great Expectations

by Nick Ravich | Mar 2, 2016

Art21 New York Close Up

Marela Zacarías’s Great Expectations

by Nick Ravich | Mar 2, 2016

Artist Marela Zacarías completes a large-scale project while anticipating the arrival of her first child in a new film from the ART21 “New York Close Up” series.

Art21 New York Close Up

Caroline Woolard Steps Up to the Mic

by Nick Ravich | Jul 31, 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Caroline Woolard Steps Up to the Mic

by Nick Ravich | Jul 31, 2015

Today’s New York Close Up premiere—our first film with artist Caroline Woolard—is a little different. And that has everything to do with Caroline. Her work involving affordable space in New …
Artist Jamian Juliano-Villani in her Bedford-Stuyvesant studio, Brooklyn, NY, 2015. Production still from the ART21 "New York Close Up" film "Jamian Juliano-Villani's Painting Compulsion". © ART21, Inc. 2015.

Art21 New York Close Up

Jamian Juliano-Villani’s Painting Compulsion

by Nick Ravich | Jul 1, 2015

Art21 New York Close Up

Jamian Juliano-Villani’s Painting Compulsion

by Nick Ravich | Jul 1, 2015

Filmed in her Bedford-Stuyvesant studio, artist Jamian Juliano-Villani uses a digital projector to create surreal paintings and discusses the graphic source material that inspires her.

Art21 Extended Play

Leonardo Drew and Piet Mondrian Meet on the Grid

by Ian Forster | May 15, 2015

Art21 Extended Play

Leonardo Drew and Piet Mondrian Meet on the Grid

by Ian Forster | May 15, 2015

“What can I say about Mondrian, he’s just the man. As far as the grid and composition, obviously I’m working off of him and standing on the shoulders of giants.” …

Season 7 Preview: Katharina Grosse

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 10, 2014

Season 7 Preview: Katharina Grosse

by Nicole J. Caruth | Sep 10, 2014

In this preview from the ART21 Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 7 episode, artist Katharina Grosse describes a “thought based” approach to creating work.

Art21 New York Close Up

Louise Despont Draws Deep

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 13, 2014

Art21 New York Close Up

Louise Despont Draws Deep

by Jonathan Munar | Jun 13, 2014

New in ART21 New York Close Up, artist Louise Despont uses architectural stencils to create intricate pencil-on-paper drawings in her home and studio in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.

Art21 Extended Play

The Making of Kara Walker’s Sugar Sphinx

by Ian Forster | May 23, 2014

Art21 Extended Play

The Making of Kara Walker’s Sugar Sphinx

by Ian Forster | May 23, 2014

An in-depth look at the creation of Kara Walker’s monumental public project, A Subtlety or the Marvelous Sugar Baby (2014), at the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, NY.

Art21 Extended Play

Janine Antoni Finds Healing in Art Making

by Ian Forster | Jan 24, 2014

Art21 Extended Play

Janine Antoni Finds Healing in Art Making

by Ian Forster | Jan 24, 2014

In today’s Exclusive video, filmed in 2013, Janine Antoni discusses her milagros-inspired sculptures.

Art21 New York Close Up

Behind the Scenes with Mika Tajima

by Jonathan Munar | Dec 6, 2013

Art21 New York Close Up

Behind the Scenes with Mika Tajima

by Jonathan Munar | Dec 6, 2013

At her Bushwick Brooklyn studio, artist Mika Tajima discusses the processes and ideas behind her two installational-performative works Today is Not a Dress Rehearsal (2009) and The Pedestrians (2011).

Art21 Extended Play

Ursula von Rydingsvard Finds Courage in Color

by Ian Forster | Nov 29, 2013

Art21 Extended Play

Ursula von Rydingsvard Finds Courage in Color

by Ian Forster | Nov 29, 2013

Ursula von Rydingsvard discusses her large-scale sculpture Ona, which is permanently installed outside of Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York.

Praxis Makes Perfect

Topography of Time

by Erin Sweeny | Jun 27, 2013

Praxis Makes Perfect

Topography of Time

by Erin Sweeny | Jun 27, 2013

As she settles into her new home in Brooklyn, columnist Erin Sweeny reflects on a year of wandering after graduate school.

New Kids on the Block

New Kids on the Block | Summer Wheat on Her Flight Away from “Cowboy Space Gangsters”

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Apr 8, 2013

New Kids on the Block

New Kids on the Block | Summer Wheat on Her Flight Away from “Cowboy Space Gangsters”

by Jacquelyn Gleisner | Apr 8, 2013

Columnist Jacquelyn Gleisner traces a painter’s evolution and movement from wholesome Oklahoma City to bohemian Brooklyn.

Art in the Aftermath: Unpacking the Flooded Art Party with Artists Charlotte Kidd and Z Behl

by Serena Qiu | Dec 6, 2012

Art in the Aftermath: Unpacking the Flooded Art Party with Artists Charlotte Kidd and Z Behl

by Serena Qiu | Dec 6, 2012

Guest blogger Serena Qiu attends a “flooded art party” at a gutted collective studio space in Red Hook.

Art21 New York Close Up

Eddie Martinez Is Ready For His New York Close Up

by Nick Ravich | Jun 16, 2012

Art21 New York Close Up

Eddie Martinez Is Ready For His New York Close Up

by Nick Ravich | Jun 16, 2012

Hot off the Mac Pro tower (well, hot off the Mac Pro tower yesterday), our latest film: “Eddie Martinez Whistles While He Works.” I have to admit–shooting the material that …