Sneak Preview Art:21—Season Five:

Can a work of art help us to understand past events? What can art teach us about tolerance and empathy? These questions and more will be tackled in a special preview of the new season of the acclaimed PBS television series Art:21—Art in the Twenty-First Century.

We'll be screening the episode titled "Compassion," which features artists William Kentridge (whose work was shown at the Wexner Center in 2006), Doris Salcedo, and Carrie Mae Weems. After the show, teens from local arts organization Transit Arts will lead discussions that will explore compassion in our community and across generations. You'll come away inspired about how the arts can create social change and newly empowered to foster a deeper level of empathy in young people and in the community.

This event is part of Art21 Access '09, a celebration of contemporary art and Season 5 of Art:21-Art in the Twenty-First Century sponsored by Art21. Art21 Access 09 is held at over 300 museums, schools, libraries, art spaces, and community centers and is organized in collaboration with Americans for the Arts' National Arts and Humanities Month. Visit art21.org for more information.



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Carrie Mae Weems
Mourning, 2008
Archival pigment print
61 x 51 in.
© Carrie Mae Weems
Courtesy the artist and Jack Shainman Gallery, New York

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William Kentridge
Drawing for WEIGHING…and WANTING, 1997
Charcoal, poster paint, and pastel on paper
47 1/4 x 63 in.
© William Kentridge
Courtesy the artist

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Doris Salcedo
Untitled, 1998
Wood, concrete, and metal
75 x 44 x 21 in.
Collection of Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, NY
Photo: David Heald
© Doris Salcedo
Courtesy the artist and Alexander and Bonin, New York

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Production stills © Art21, Inc. 2009