This playlist is meant to bridge the gaps between past and present. The essential questions explored over the course of the AP Art History curriculum are standard, but the expectation is for students ...

Look for the plus icon next to videos throughout the site to add them here. Save videos to watch later, or make a selection to play back-to-back using the autoplay feature. Drawing upon the aesthetics ...

As an art history educator, I have enjoyed finding ways to make personal connections with artists from the past with artists of the present. When starting a new school year, I continuously ask myself, ...

New York, New York – Art21 is proud to announce the release of a new film: “Ilana Harris-Babou’s Guide to Health & Happiness” premiering Wednesday, September 4th at 12:00 p.m. ET on Art21.org and ...

New York, New York – Art21 is proud to announce the release of a new film: “Ilana Harris-Babou’s Guide to Health & Happiness” premiering Wednesday, September 4th at 12:00 p.m. ET on Art21.org and ...

Mark Dion was born in New Bedford, Massachusetts, in 1961. He received a BFA (1986) and an honorary doctorate (2003) from the University of Hartford, School of Art, Connecticut. Dion’s work examines ...

Stan Douglas was born in Vancouver in 1960. He reenacts historical moments of tension that connect local histories to broader social movements of struggle and utopian aspiration. In the artist’s ...

Kara Walker discusses her 2002 exhibition at the Guggenheim Museum, Insurrection! (Our Tools Were Rudimentary, Yet We Pressed On). ART21: What are your first thoughts about this piece here, at the ...

Mary Mattingly was born in 1978 in Rockville, Connecticut, and lives and works in New York. Combining a visual-art practice with environmental activism and education, Mattingly wrote a manifesto that ...

Tania Bruguera was born in 1968 in Havana, Cuba. Bruguera, a politically motivated performance artist, explores the relationship between art, activism, and social change in works that examine the ...

Mark Bradford was born in Los Angeles, California, in 1961. He received a BFA (1995) and MFA (1997) from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia. Bradford transforms materials scavenged from ...