Art: 21
Date de parution : 10 janvier 2001
| Saison 1 - épisode 1 | Spirituality How does contemporary art address the idea of spirituality? How do artists working today reveal and question commonly held assumptions about faith,... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 2 | Place How does contemporary art address the idea of place? How do artists working today reveal and question commonly held assumptions about land, home,... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 3 | Identity How does contemporary art address the idea of identity? How do artists working today reveal and question commonly held assumptions about... | |
| Saison 1 - épisode 4 | Consumption How does contemporary art address the idea of consumption? How do artists question commonly held assumptions about commerce, mass media, and... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 1 | Stories How do artists tell stories in their work? How does contemporary art reflect and reveal narrative traditions? How does the art of today record and... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 2 | Time How do artists evoke and transform time in their work? Can a work of contemporary art be timeless? How does contemporary art relate to art of the... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 3 | Loss & Desire How do contemporary artworks embody emotion? How do artists express longing, love, and human experience in their work? The "Art in the Twenty-First... | |
| Saison 2 - épisode 4 | Humor How do artists use irony, goofiness, satire, and sarcasm in their work? Can an artwork be funny and critical at the same time? Do contemporary... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 1 | Power From politics to mass media, the theme of power pervades daily life and is reflected in the ideas and concerns of contemporary artists. The "Art in... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 2 | Memory How does memory function? What is history? How do contemporary artists frame the past in their work? The "Art in the Twenty-First Century"... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 3 | Structures How do we organize life? What are the ways in which we capture knowledge and attempt greater understanding? The "Art in the Twenty-First Century"... | |
| Saison 3 - épisode 4 | Play Spontaneous and joyful, subversive or amusing, play can take many forms in daily life as well as in contemporary art. The "Art in the Twenty-First... | |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 1 | Romance What role do intuition, emotion, fantasy, and escapism play in contemporary art? The Art in the Twenty-First Century documentary “Romance” explores... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 2 | Ecology How is our understanding of the natural world deeply cultural? The Art in the Twenty-First Century documentary “Ecology” explores these questions in... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 3 | Protest How do contemporary artists engage politics, inequality, and the many conflicts that besiege the world today? How do artists use their work to... |
 | Saison 4 - épisode 4 | Paradox How do contemporary artists address contradiction, ambiguity, and truth? The Art in the Twenty-First Century documentary “Paradox” explores these... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 1 | Compassion This episode features three artists — William Kentridge, Doris Salcedo, and Carrie Mae Weems — whose works explore conscience and the possibility of... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 2 | Fantasy This episode presents artists whose works defy convention and transport us to unreal worlds and altered states of consciousness. With works at times... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 3 | Transformation Whether observing and satirizing society or reinventing icons of literature, art history, and popular culture, these artists inhabit the characters... |
 | Saison 5 - épisode 4 | Systems Whether through acts of appropriation, repetition, or accumulation, the artists in this episode realize projects both vast in scope and beyond... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 1 | Change How do artists respond to a world in flux? In what ways do artists act as agents of change, and what kinds of aesthetic choices do they make to... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 2 | Boundaries Who and what limits our freedom of expression? In what ways do cultural differences affect our understanding of art and other forms of communication?... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 3 | History How do artists mine the past to explore the present? Why do some historical events shape the way we think today, and why have some been forgotten?... |
 | Saison 6 - épisode 4 | Balance In what ways can art convey equilibrium or disequilibrium? What is reality? How do artists perceive and express it? This episode features artists... |
| Saison 7 - épisode 1 | Investigation How do artists push beyond what they already know and readily see? Can acts of engagement and exploration be works of art in themselves? In this... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 2 | Secrets How do artists make the invisible visible? What hidden elements persist in their work? Is it the artist’s role to reveal them, or not? In this... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 3 | Legacy Why do we break with some traditions and perpetuate others? Artists in this episode use life experiences and family heritage to explore new... | |
| Saison 7 - épisode 4 | Fiction What makes a compelling story? How do artists disrupt everyday reality in the service of revealing subtler truths? This episode features artists who... |
