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Artist Josiah McElheny talks about the objects in his exhibition Total Reflective Abstraction (2007) at Donald Young Gallery in Chicago. ART21: What role does beauty play in your work? MCELHENY: The ...

Look for the plus icon next to videos throughout the site to add them here. Save videos to watch later, or make a selection to play back-to-back using the autoplay feature. Paul Pfeiffer discusses his ...

Artists and collaborators Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla discuss their 2006 installation Clamor. ART21: Can you talk about your installation, Clamor? CALZADILLA: We made an archive of war ...

Catherine Opie was born in Sandusky, Ohio in 1961. Opie investigates the ways in which photographs both document and give voice to social phenomena in America today, registering people’s attitudes and ...

Raúl de Nieves was born in 1983 in Michoacán, Mexico and lives and works in New York. De Nieves, who works in sculpture and performance, attributes his art practice to his childhood education in ...

James Turrell discusses his 2001 design for a Quaker meetinghouse in Houston. ART21: How did you come to design the Quaker meetinghouse in Houston? Was that your idea, or did the Friends there contact ...

Look for the plus icon next to videos throughout the site to add them here. Save videos to watch later, or make a selection to play back-to-back using the autoplay feature. MURRAY: Well, it has some ...

Matthew Ritchie discusses the influence of John Milton’s 1667 epic poem Paradise Lost in his 2008 exhibition The Morning Line. RITCHIE: Paradise Lost is one of the great books that nobody’s ever read.

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Ernesto Neto was born in 1964 in Rio de Janeiro. He lives and works in Brazil. With formal and conceptual concerns considered in equal measure, Neto’s large-scale immersive sculptures are ...

Art21You’re well known for collage, photography, and film, but this is a show of paintings. Did your process vary at all in creating this body of work? Lorna Simpson In some ways, but these mediums do ...