"From early on, very early on, I understood that art is not about what you say. It’s about these other things that you don’t say."
—Cai Guo-Qiang
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EPISODE: "Systems" | Whether through acts of appropriation, repetition, or accumulation, the artists in this episode realize projects both vast in scope and beyond... | 0:00 | 10/28/2009 |
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SEGMENT: Julie Mehretu in "Systems" | “Trying to figure out who I am and my work is trying to understand systems,” says Julie Mehretu, shown working with her assistants in Berlin on seven... | 0:00 | 10/28/2009 |
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SEGMENT: John Baldessari in "Systems" | “I’m always interested in things that we don’t call art, and I say why not?” asks John Baldessari. Filmed in his California studio, the artist... | 0:00 | 10/28/2009 |
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SEGMENT: Kimsooja in "Systems" | Kimsooja’s segment opens with a series of videotaped performances of the artist in crowded cities, her form acting as an unmoving axis on the horizon. | 0:00 | 10/28/2009 |
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SEGMENT: Allan McCollum in "Systems" | Allan McCollum’s segment begins with his uncle Jon Gnagy’s 1950s television program "Learn to Draw." Crediting his uncle's demonstrations as an early... | 0:00 | 10/28/2009 |
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EPISODE: "Transformation" | Whether observing and satirizing society or reinventing icons of literature, art history, and popular culture, these artists inhabit the characters... | 0:00 | 10/21/2009 |
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SEGMENT: Yinka Shonibare MBE in "Transformation" | “My work, all along, has been a critique of Empire,” says Yinka Shonibare MBE, adopting the honorific title of Member of the Order of the British... | 0:00 | 10/21/2009 |
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SEGMENT: Cindy Sherman in "Transformation" | “I didn’t want to make what looked like art,” Cindy Sherman says about her earliest works, explaining that “film has always kind of been more... | 0:00 | 10/21/2009 |
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SEGMENT: Paul McCarthy in "Transformation" | “My work seems to be about tearing down and opening up conventions,” says Paul McCarthy, who bristles when asked what his responsibility is to the... | 0:00 | 10/21/2009 |
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EPISODE: "Fantasy" | This episode presents artists whose works defy convention and transport us to unreal worlds and altered states of consciousness. With works at times... | 0:00 | 10/14/2009 |
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SEGMENT: Jeff Koons in "Fantasy" | “Art should be something really powerful,” says Jeff Koons, “but at the same time, there’s morality that comes along with that.” The segment begins... | 0:00 | 10/14/2009 |
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SEGMENT: Mary Heilmann in "Fantasy" | “Every piece of abstract art that I make has a back story,” says Mary Heilmann, who relays youthful fantasies of wanting to be a Catholic martyr, her... | 0:00 | 10/14/2009 |
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