Season 9
3 episodes
56 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
Artists David Goldblatt, Nicholas Hlobo, Zanele Muholi, and Robin Rhode use their work in photography, painting, sculpture, and performance to empower marginalized communities, reexamine history, and pursue their visions for the future.
Artists Nathalie Djurberg and Hans Berg; Olafur Eliasson; Hiwa K; and Susan Philipsz demonstrate the diversity of practice and sensibilities in Berlin, expose its history of war and migration, and convey hopes to foster a better tomorrow.
Expressing their experience of the world, Katy Grannan, Lynn Hershman Leeson and Stephanie Syjuco work across photography, installation, and new media, and the Creative Growth Art Center spotlights artists with disabilities.
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.