Art. 21 Art in the 21st Century Seasons One & Two

Customer Reviews

love It!

2008-03-04
I love watching Art 21 while I make my jewelry. It gives me lots of inspiration and keeps me up to date with the art world.

Interviews current artists about their own work. Valuable Resource.

2008-02-20
I found this series really useful while studying art history in college. They interview each artist who is featured about their own work and the process that they go through to create it. It helped me to appreciate their artwork in a way I wouldn't have been able to on my own. I came out of it with some new favorite artists.

It's really inspiring and current. A great resource for anyone who wants to learn more about artists creating work in the 21st century.

Good tool to know from contemporary artists

2007-11-16
I saw the programme on Tv in i just find it atractive, i needed to have this like a book to read again and again, The artist shown in this 2 seasons are quite excellent and the development of every programme is carefully and critically released on every artist exposed.
There's no such art programme in my country but if one day will be i would like it to be like this Art:21.

Too Pretentious And Too Myopic To Give A Clear View

2007-08-28
The artists that are interviewed in these videos give a very myopic view of what modern artists are doing these days and what is on their minds. The focus is entirely on art stars who basically run in the same circles of galleries and therefore have a very similar sense of aesthetics regardless of medium, with very few exceptions.

There are times that a few of the artists included say some interesting things but often times enough, it's hard to see what they are saying has to do with the actual art that they are showing. Richard Sierra (1st season) and Elizabeth Murray(2nd season) are the high points of this series as I see it. They both give honest looks into their thought processes as artists, and without the pretensions of self-importance that most of the artists portray.

It's unfortunate that the producers couldn't find at least a few artists off the beaten path who are doing interesting things that aren't so main-stream for the art world. Perhaps that's too high-minded, but I think it would have made for a way more fascinating view into what is really happening in art in the 21 century!

Came Quick

2006-11-11
AIT21C is a great series but i already new that before i bought it i got it to watch it over and over again. Because i want to be the best artist in the world!

Two stars and two thumbs down.

2006-03-15
This release contains the first and second season of PBS' acclaimed documentary which takes a look into the future at how art will be changing people's lives in the 21st Century. Artists of many fields and levels of establishment are caught in the act of creation and discuss their work what it means and what the they are striving for. Hosted by a variety of celebrities this special look at the state of art at the dawn of a new century focuses on all things artistic. System Requirements:Running Time: 240 MinFormat: DVD MOVIE Genre: DOCUMENTARIES/MISC. Rating: NR UPC: 841887000512 Manufacturer No: ARTF600

Contemporary Art for Anybody

2002-01-22
As a new century dawns the international public is confronted by an ever more complex artistic culture. Never content to cover old ground, today's artists are experimenting with increasingly diverse media, engaging a wider variety of issues and flooding their work with more ambiguity then ever before. We exit museums, galleries and public spaces questioning the nature of the new and unfamiliar objects we encounter, daunted by the challenge of understanding how they relate to the society in which we live.

Art in the Twenty-First Century brings us closer to the understanding we're looking for. The series shows us today's top artists (e.g. Richard Serra, Matthew Barney and others) discussing their own work, giving us the opportunity to begin to comprehend their art as the outcome of their personal experiences and interaction with the world at large. We witness the artists in their studios, on site, AS WELL AS in their homes and with their families, leading lives not disimilar from our own - extracting fodder for their artistic visions from everyday observations and occurences.

Set in four epsiodes, the series groups the artists loosely according to themes (i.e. Place, Spirituality, Identity and Consumption). In such a way, we are offered a point of departure for considering a given artist's priorities and concerns, as well as a method for realizing relationships which may exist between two or more artists working in vastly different styles.

After watching Art in the Twenty-First Century you will feel equipped to embrace the ambiguity of contemporary art, to assess the integrity and thoughtfulness of work you may not even like, and to appreciate the wide array of perspectives and processes by which today's artists dissect and reassemble the modern world.