By appropriating public buildings and monuments as backdrops for projections, Krzysztof Wodiczko focuses attention on ways in which architecture and monuments reflect collective memory and history.

Fred Wilson discusses his unusual approach to museum installations, and his experiences working in museums around the world. ART21: Your museum projects are an unusual kind of art practice. WILSON: I ...

Lucia Koch was born in Porto Alegre, Brazil, in 1966. She lives and works in São Paulo. Employing photographs, video, and architectural interventions and installations, her work brings attention to ...

Art21’s Extended Play (formerly known as Exclusive) digital series provides unmediated, behind-the-scenes access to today’s leading artists. Through process-revealing footage and intimate interviews, ...

Since the late 1960s, the British-born artist Phyllida Barlow has experimented with non-traditional, modest materials like cement, fabric, plaster, plywood, and metal to create colossal sculptures and ...

Can an artist induce trauma to fight trauma? With an ambitious exhibition and performance project at Pioneer Works in Brooklyn, artist Doreen Garner forces audiences to face the profound racism ...

An artist’s identity and experiences implicitly inform, and in some cases even drive, the work they create. In capturing the contemporary Black American experience through their work and practice, ...

Where does a painter find her subject matter? With a process that takes her from the streets of Harlem to her studio in DUMBO, Brooklyn, artist Jordan Casteel paints vibrant large scale portraits, ...

What makes a documentary radical? In this film, artist LaToya Ruby Frazier reveals the personal story behind a series of videos and photographs of her family in Braddock, Pennsylvania, a selection of ...

What happens when an artist follows his instincts? In this film, artist Rashid Johnson charts a decade-long aesthetic and professional development from his early portrait photographs to his later ...

In their Brooklyn studio, artist Tauba Auerbach uses craft traditions as research methods to deepen their understanding of mathematical and scientific theories. “It seems appropriate to me to work in ...

Stephanie Syjuco makes research-driven photographs, sculptures, and installations that explore the tension between the authentic and the counterfeit and challenge deep-seated assumptions about history ...