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Adam Golfer—Neither one of us had ever worked on a film about a group of artists whose practices are all very different, but operate together as a collective, and come together for a unified purpose.

I Wanna Be With You Everywhere (IWBWYE) is a group of disabled artists, writers, and organizers collectively producing cross-disability community gatherings by and for disabled people. Since 2019, ...

ART21: What are your first thoughts about this piece here, at the Guggenheim? WALKER: Well, this piece is called Insurrection! Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On. I always wind up going ...

Kimsooja ’s videos and installations blur the boundaries between aesthetics and transcendent experience through their use of repetitive actions, meditative practices, and serial forms. In many pieces, ...

ART21: So, what do you think is the connection between what’s going on in the work and the title of the piece? PURYEAR: I mentioned about the perspective being really what the work is about. And the ...

ART21: Can you clarify what you mean by [the word] chance, especially with the collages you’ve been photographing? HERRERA: By chance, I mean (in the photo work) that I usually don’t compose the way I ...

ART21: How did you decide on the text for the World Trade Center piece? HOLZER: I was invited to make something for the lobby at 7 World Trade Center. After much stewing, I came up with the idea of ...

ART21: What is the inspiration behind Drip? What led you to creating that piece? HAWKINSON: Sometimes we do get rain in L.A. A lot of us aren’t really prepared. The studio has areas in the ceiling ...

Art21: What was the title of that first sculpture? Suh: The title of that work is Metal Jacket. I was almost going to use Full Metal Jacket, but I think that was too much. Art21: Are the dog tags ...

ART21: Where does the title come from? PFEIFFER: Well, the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse is an art historical reference in that it refers back to the woodcuts of Albrecht Dürer, who in some ways was ...

Rashid Johnson was born in 1977 in Chicago, Illinois, and lives and works in New York. Johnson, who got his start as a photographer, works across media—including video, sculpture, painting, and ...