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Art21 is the world’s leading source to learn directly from the artists of our time. The mission of Art21 is to educate and ...

Njideka Akunyili Crosby was born in 1983 in Enugu, Nigeria, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. The artist received her BA from Swarthmore College in 2004 and her MFA from Yale ...

Ragnar Kjartansson was born in 1976 in Reykjavik, Iceland, where he lives and works. He studied at the Iceland Academy of the Arts, Reykjavík, Iceland, from 1997 to 2001, and spent a year studying at ...

Is there inherent value in the act of paying attention? What does it take to observe something closely? How does an object, person, or place change when attention is given to it? These questions are ...

Surrounded by jars of brushes, tubes of paint, and makeshift painting palettes, artist Amy Sherald holds her face inches from the canvas, reveling in the slow and meditative practice of painting. In ...

What’s your artistic practice? I cringe at the inevitable question that floats around whenever art teachers get together. Is it because I’m surprised? (Wait…I’m supposed to have two jobs?!) Is it from ...

When most of my students come to me, their understanding of art has been formed to fit a homogenized construct of how art manifests in the world. Often, they have yet to learn that art could look like ...

Donning futuristic regalia adorned with clanging bells and protective padding, artist Cannupa Hanska Luger prepares to shoot a video for his multimedia project Future Ancestral Technology ...

Joiri Minaya was born in 1990 in New York City, where she currently lives and works. She grew up in the Dominican Republic, earning Associate’s Degrees from La Escuela Nacional de Artes Visuales in ...

On a rare snowy day in Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico, artist Rose B. Simpson assembles a maquette for a new public sculpture. The three small figures are models for the 12 concrete sculptures that ...