welve artists and one collective are presented across three episodes.
Art21 announced today a new season of its Peabody Award-winning and Emmy-nominated television series, Art in the Twenty-First Century. Twelve artists and one collective are presented across three episodes, charting artmaking in London, Beijing, and regions around the United States-Mexico border. The landmark tenth season of the longest-running television series on contemporary art premieres Friday, September 18, at 10pm on PBS in the United States, and online at Art21.org.
Now entering its third decade on television, the globally-revered ART IN THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY series provides unprecedented access to the leading creative minds of our time. For the first time in the show's history, the filmmakers chronicle artists' responses to an entire bi-national region, the U.S.-Mexico border, where artists create platforms for an assembly of voices to speak. In London and Beijing, artists contemplate disruptions caused by the rapidly changing political and architectural landscapes of their cities.
"London"
September 18, 10pm
John Akomfrah
Phyllida Barlow
Anish Kapoor
Christian Marclay
"When we listen to artists, we gain insight into the state of our world," says Art21 executive director and chief curator, Tina Kukielski. "Artists are documentarians, activists, problem solvers, innovators, and foremost respondents to the issues of our times." Adds Kukielski, "The events of 2020 have only amplified the observations of artists in creative hotspots around the world."
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