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

ART21: I had no idea that the location has such meaning for you. ANTONI: It made sense for me to go back to this horizon, this ocean that I had looked at my whole life. Balance is an interesting thing ...

Mike Kelley was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1954. He received a BFA from the University of Michigan, and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Kelley’s work ranges from highly symbolic ...

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 ...

Artist Martin Puryear discusses his work’s connection to the history of abstraction and the inspiration for his 1996 installation piece, “Ladder for Booker T. Washington.” ART21: Your work is often ...

ART21: What are your first thoughts about this piece here, at the Guggenheim? WALKER: Well, this piece is called Insurrection!Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On.I always wind up going back ...

Art21: What did your first sculpture, Metal Jacket, look like—the one you made for your sculpture class? Suh: It looks like a kind of ancient Oriental armor. The first sculpture was covered with three ...

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 ...

Catherine Opie was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1961. Opie investigates the ways in which photographs both document and give voice to social phenomena in America today, registering people’s attitudes and ...

Brian Jungen was born in Fort St. John, British Columbia, Canada in 1970. He draws from his family’s ranching and hunting background, as well as his Dane-zaa heritage, when disassembling and ...

ART21: Can you clarify what you mean by [the word] chance, especially with the collages you’ve been photographing?. HERRERA: By chance, I mean (in the photo work) that I usually don’t compose the way ...