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If you teach about and with paper, don’t miss "Zarina: Paper Like Skin," on view through April 21 at the Guggenheim Museum in New York.

Episode #091: Shot in his Johannesburg studio in South Africa, William Kentridge reveals the process behind the video work "Breathe" — a component of the lar...

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Season 2 artist Kiki Smith has collaborated with Steuben Glass on a collection of engraved designs inspired by the idea of tattoos. Known for transforming the mundane into magic, Smith has over the years developed a fanciful bestiary of animals and objects of nature that serve as stand-ins for our physical, emotional, and spiritual experiences.

“In our day, [when] we came back from war,” said Seymour Hersh to Bill O’Reilly in 2004, “We would take our pictures and hide them behind the socks in the drawer and look at them once in a while.” But this generation is different, Hersh lamented, appearing on Fox just after his infamous Abu Ghraib expose debuted

In a recent interview in the New Yorker, artist-of-the-moment Urs Fischer said something about how art and memory work together. I can’t remember the exact quote. It was something about the experience of art not being confined to the present-tense experience of being in a gallery, looking at a thing. Part of art's test is

SUBSCRIBE TO EXCLUSIVE: RSS | ITUNES | YOUTUBE | ARTBABBLE Episode #138: Filmed in her Syracuse studio, artist Carrie Mae Weems discusses the impetus for her work "The Kitchen Table Series" (1990), a photographic investigation of a single domestic space in which the artist staged scenes of "the battle around the family" between women and

Guest blogger Emily Colucci talks to artist Kenny Scharf about painting, process, the B-52s, and the art of "fun."

ART21 Magazine's latest contributor reviews two concurrent exhibitions of work by Rodney McMillian on view in New York City.

In this rare interview accompanying a new Art21 film, Barbara Kruger shares her media diet, what she sees as art's role in contemporary society, and the inspiration behind two of her earliest works.

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Over the past few weeks, Jennifer Doyle has been reporting from her travels in India. Following is her final dispatch. — Ed. Masooma Syed makes small things, sometimes from materials gathered off the bodies of her friends, her family — a crown from her mother's hair, tiny chandeliers from her friends' fingernail clippings. An astonishing

“Most of life is invisible to the naked eye,” proclaims Invisible, a painting in Squeak Carnwath’s new exhibition at Peter Mendenhall Gallery in Los Angeles. At first glance, it appears that the statement is scrawled in pencil onto notebook paper, but upon closer inspection, we see that Carnwath has formed the picture with only oil

Jason Lahman ends his two week guest-blogging run with a consideration of Holly Lane's ornate architectural sculptures.

Wood Caket with 3D Trees on The Front (ART21) A wooden funeral urn with trees on the front is what is this cremation urn. Wooden body making it a sturdy casket

The decision of the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, G. Wayne Clough, to pull David Wojnarowicz’s video, The Fire in My Belly, from the Hide/Seek exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery, has been decried on many valid grounds. In both print and online publications, the controversy has already signified, variably, a looming return of the

These three Syrian artists left their homes behind, and their bodies of work have been forever changed by the war that's tearing their nation apart. In this extended interview we find answers to the question: What is life like as a refugee and artist?

This video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode "Compassion," premiering on Wednesday, October 7, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings). "Compass...