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Watch this film with ASL. Whether in the virtual space of a Zoom call or the in-person space of an art museum, the members of the cross-disability collective I Wanna Be With You Everywhere (IWBWYE) ...

Featuring the artist collective I Wanna Be With You Everywhere and directed by Andrea Chung and Adam Golfer, New Documentary Short to Premiere on June 25, 2025 Watch the trailer. New York, New ...

This episode provides an in-depth look at the creation of Kara Walker’s monumental public project, A Subtlety, or the Marvelous Sugar Baby (2014), at the Domino Sugar Factory in Brooklyn, NY. Seated ...

ART21: Afterwards, you made a second version of the whale titled Dark Wave (2006). Was the process for creating that piece similar to Mobile Matrix? OROZCO: It was actually very different. Somehow I ...

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 ...

Beryl Korot discusses a recent work— Babel: the 7 minute scroll (2007)—which takes the form as both a large-scale print and an animated digital video. With pictographs that reference ancient Egypt and ...

Elle Pérez was born in 1989 in Bronx, New York and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Since receiving their MFA from Yale School of Art in 2015, Pérez has worked primarily in photography, ...

Theaster Gates was born in Chicago in 1973. He first encountered creativity in the music of Black churches on his journey to becoming an urban planner, potter, and artist. Gates creates sculptures ...