Artists Making History

I was fortunate to view an episode last week of the award-winning presentation, Art in the 21^st Century.  This presentation is showing on a public broadcast station.  This episode featured artists Glenn Ligon, Mary Reid Kelly and Marina Abramovic.  I found this show very interesting as well as educational.  Art in the 21st Century is part of the History series and this presentation was the Season 6 episode.

The three artists featured in this one-hour show are shown working and discussing their ideas as well as work. The presentation allows the viewers to hear the artists describe their own work and to learn why they do what they do.


Mary Reid Kelly's videos were fascinating. Marina Abramovic, the pioneer of performance art, was excellent. I enjoyed most of all the presentation of Glenn Ligon who uses paintings and sculpture to examine cultural and social identity. He makes use of text of in unusual way in his work. Ligion includes work of some of his favorite writers to portray text- based images.



This series recently premiered on public television. I am looking forward to more of these insightful presentations. I hope you have an opportunity to view the new artists making history.



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