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 ...

Artist Arturo Herrera discusses chance, fragmentation, narrative, and motivation in relation to his artistic practice. ART21: Can you clarify what you mean by [the word] chance, especially with the ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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In this interview from 2008, conducted at the artist’s Los Angeles studio, Florian Maier-Aichen discusses his beginnings as an artist, the evolution of his hybrid practice, and his respect for ...

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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 ...

Abigail DeVille was born in 1981 in New York, where she lives and works. Maintaining a long-standing interest in marginalized people and places, DeVille creates site-specific immersive installations ...

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 ...