Season 5
4 episodes
57 min. per episode
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Visionary artists confront personal demons and societal issues, revealing the transformative power of creativity in a fractured world.
Episodes
This episode features artists whose works explore conscience and the possibility of understanding and reconciling past and present, while exposing injustice and expressing tolerance for others.
This episode presents artists whose works defy convention and transport us to unreal worlds and altered states of consciousness.
Whether observing and satirizing society or reinventing icons of literature, art history, and popular culture, these artists inhabit the characters they create and capture the sensibilities of our age.
This episode features artists who realize complex projects, whether through acts of appropriation, accumulation, or creating projects so vast in scope as to elude comprehension.
The only series on television in the US to focus exclusively on contemporary art and artists, "Art in the Twenty-First Century" is a Peabody Award-winning biennial program following artists at work as they transform inspiration into art.