Tag Archive "art-21"

I laughed I cried–mini-documentaries from Art 21

Blah blah blah went the promospeak from Art21. So I skipped to the videos–brief (6 mins. or so) documentary clips on artists early in their careers.

Sophie’s Choice–Dubin vs. Kentridge

OK, maybe you won’t see that this as a win-win or lose-lose choice. It all depends on your outlook. But you can watch William Kentridge on WHYY (12) at 5 p.m. (i.e. in 40 mins.) Or you can listen to Murray Dubin and Dan Biddle interviewed by Guy Raz on NPR’s All Things Considered at 5:40 p.m. They will talk about their book about Octavius Catto and the battle for equality in Civil War America. However, here’s some good news if you’re sitting on the fence. Rob Matthews has cut the Gordion Knot! Vis a vis Kentridge, Rob writes: You ... More » »

William Kentridge countdown

It’s 16 days to the premiere of Art 21′s new film about William Kentridge. It ain’t perfect but Kentridge himself is. The film William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible takes place Oct. 21 at 10:00 p.m. on PBS (check local listings it says; not a good sign). I am going to remind you every once in a while that it’s coming soon. I’m a total fan!!!

artblog focus group

(left to right) Roberta, Nadia, Anita, Andrew (behind column), Leah, Juliana (behind Leah), Josh, and Roxana artblog loves Art 21 so we invited artists from Vox Populi to screen some of Art 21′s episodes with us–a sort of focus group for the newest iteration of the show, which is scheduled to air on PBS beginning Oct. 28. We–Roxana Perez-Mendez, Andrew Suggs, Julianna Foster, Anita Allyn, Nadia Hironaka, Leah Bailis, Josh Rickards plus the artblog duo Roberta and Libby–looked at five episodes out of the 16 , which will be spread over four programs. We laughed, we groaned and we kvetched. ... More » »

Lists and who’s in: Art 21′s new season on PBS

I was talking with Bay, Ava, Nancy and Andrea the other night about Karen Kilimnik‘s work (on view now at ICA and at the Powel House — we’ve written lots, just use the blog search function at the top of the page…it didn’t used to work but now seems to work great –if I have time I’ll put in links later). We were puzzling over why the artist seems to be all over the place right now (in addition to her Philadelphia show, she had shows in Paris and London recently — and that’s just what we know about, there ... More » »