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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 ...

There is always a connection between issues of race and gender and class. They don’t ever exist separately, and people who feel that they live them separately are really not understanding the multiple ...

Aki Sasamoto was born in 1980 in Kanagawa, Japan, and now lives and works in New York. An installation and performance artist, Sasamoto works in various media, finding material inspiration in response ...

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 ...

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 ...

ART21: Could you take us through some of the steps of your photographic process, especially the collodion process? MANN: I learned this process from Mark and France Osterman, who are masters. They ...

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 ...

ART21: How did you come to design the Quaker meetinghouse in Houston? Was that your idea, or did the Friends there contact you? TURRELL: First of all, the meetinghouse in Houston really was, in the ...

Elizabeth Murray was born in Chicago in 1940. She earned a BFA at the Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from Mills College in Oakland, California. A pioneer in painting, Murray’s distinctively ...

Sarah Sze was born in Boston, Massachusetts in 1969. Sze builds her installations and intricate sculptures from the minutiae of everyday life, imbuing mundane materials, marks, and processes with ...