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In a new ART21-produced special feature, artist Kimsooja...

In a new ART21-produced special feature, artist Kimsooja collaborates with scientists and nanotechnologists at Cornell University to create an iridescent steel and polymer sculpture for the Cornell...

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“Abstraction, in its potential hopefulness for imagining a...

“Abstraction, in its potential hopefulness for imagining a different world—or imagining a world that’s not absolutely apparent—can tie us together.”—Josiah McElheny Featured in a recent episode from...

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“What’s so interesting about the creative act is...

“What’s so interesting about the creative act is that you can access something completely outside yourself. It’s a communication with awareness rather than consciousness.” —Louise Despont In the latest...

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“I would spend most of my time looking for images....

“I would spend most of my time looking for images. It’s nice to look back. It’s like bread crumbs. Reminds me of all the steps along the way.” —Louise Despont In the latest film from the ART21 New York...

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“I’m trying to understand this relationship of...

“I’m trying to understand this relationship of abstraction and the body.”—Josiah McElheny Josiah McElheny uses lost and abandoned Maya Deren footage to create Projection Painting 1 (2015) in the latest...

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“We have a distance from materials because we have so much...

“We have a distance from materials because we have so much time with images. You don’t know the authorship of an image when it gets to you. You can manipulate it and you can send it. It’s a kind of...

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“Grad school put me upside down. It pushed me to find out...

“Grad school put me upside down. It pushed me to find out what I really wanted to say and how I wanted to say it. Now I can say a lot more things through my own language.” —Marela ZacaríasArtist Marela...

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Sarah Sze measures time and space with her sculpture Measuring...

Sarah Sze measures time and space with her sculpture Measuring Stick (2015)—featured in the latest ART21 Exclusive series episode.“It has this quality of an experimental site,” says the artist in the...

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“My work has a potential for evolution—for change and...

“My work has a potential for evolution—for change and open-endedness—which to me feels resonant with what it is to live a life.”—Martin PuryearMartin Puryear’s monumental public sculpture, Big Bling...

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