The body as a matrix: Matthew Barney's cremaster cycle
With the five-part Cremaster Cycle of films, multi-award-winning artist Matthew Barney invented a densely layered and interconnected sculptural world that surreally combines sports, biology, sexuality, history, and mythology as it organically evolve...
William Kentridge: art from the ashes
In this program, artist, filmmaker, and dramatist William Kentridge demonstrates his remarkable filmmaking technique - stop-action animation using photos of charcoal drawings in which he has erased and redrawn scenes in different arrangements - as h...
The Couple in the Cage: Guatianaui Odyssey
Performance artists Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco travel and appear before the public in four different countries as two "Guatinaui Indians", members of a fictional "newly discovered" tribe who had agreed to be displayed at malls and museu...
Expressing the inexpressible: Shirin Neshat
An acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, and video artist, Iranian-born Shirin Neshat addresses the complex forces shaping the identity of Muslim women throughout the world and explores the social, political, and psychological dimensions of women's exp...