Watch Art in the Twenty-First Century Season 2 Episode 1 - Stories - Search Results
Go Back To Watch Art in the Twenty-First Century First Aired: 2003-09-09
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Kara Walker, Kiki Smith, Do-Ho Suh and Trenton Doyle Hancock. Walker explores her African-American heritage in silhouettes that are at once genteel and macabre. Smith, a sculptor, often deals with death. “We were like the Addams family,†she says of her childhood. So-Ho Suh, a native of Korea, is concerned with space, individual and collective. One project is a “house†he made of transportable fabric. “I want to carry my home with me all the time---just like a snail,†he says. And painter Trenton Doyle Hancock looks to combine “comic-book narratives with the history of abstraction†in his mythical creatures. Filmmaker John Waters introduces the film.
