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Consumption
Original Air Date: 2/7/02 |
Season 1, Episode 4
Date Added: 3/31/09
Artists address the idea of consumption by questioning commonly held assumptions about commerce, mass media, and consumer society.
Ecology
Original Air Date: 11/11/07 |
Season 4, Episode 3
Date Added: 3/31/09
Artists explore how our understanding of the natural world becomes deeply cultural.
Humor
Original Air Date: 10/1/03 |
Season 2, Episode 4
Date Added: 3/31/09
Artists use irony, goofiness, satire, and sarcasm in their work, being funny and critical at the same time.
Identity
Original Air Date: 1/31/02 |
Season 1, Episode 3
Date Added: 3/31/09
Artists address the idea of identity by questioning commonly held assumptions about stereotypes, self-awareness, portaiture, and what it means to be...
Loss & Desire
Original Air Date: 9/17/03 |
Season 2, Episode 2
Date Added: 3/31/09
Artists express longing, love, and human experience in contemporary work.
Memory
Original Air Date: 9/23/05 |
Season 3, Episode 2
Date Added: 3/31/09
Artists explore how memory functions and how to frame the past in their work.
Paradox
Original Air Date: 11/18/07 |
Season 4, Episode 4
Date Added: 3/31/09
Contemporary artists address contradiction, ambiguity, and truth.
Place
Original Air Date: 1/17/02 |
Season 1, Episode 1
Date Added: 3/31/09
Artists explore the idea of place by questioning commonly held assumptions about land, home and national identity.
Play
Original Air Date: 9/30/05 |
Season 3, Episode 3
Date Added: 3/31/09
Spontaneous and joyful, subversive or amusing, play can take many forms in daily life as well as in contemporary art.
Power
Original Air Date: 9/16/05 |
Season 3, Episode 1
Date Added: 3/31/09
From politics to mass media, the theme of power pervades daily life and is reflected in the ideas and concerns of contemporary artists.
Protest
Original Air Date: 11/4/07 |
Season 4, Episode 2
Date Added: 3/31/09
Artists engage politics, inequality, and the many conflicts that besiege the world today.
Romance
Original Air Date: 10/28/07 |
Season 4, Episode 1
Date Added: 3/31/09
Artists explore the roles that intuition, emotion, fantasy, and escapism play in contemporary art.
Spirituality
Original Air Date: 1/24/02 |
Season 1, Episode 2
Date Added: 3/31/09
Artists address the idea of spirituality by questioning commonly held assumptions about faith, belief, meditation, and religious symbols.
Stories
Original Air Date: 9/9/03 |
Season 2, Episode 1
Date Added: 3/31/09
Artists tell stories in their work, reveal narrative traditions, and record and describe the world around us.
Structures
Original Air Date: 10/7/05 |
Season 3, Episode 4
Date Added: 3/31/09
Artists explore how we organize life and the ways in which we capture knowledge and attempt greater understanding.
Time
Original Air Date: 9/10/03 |
Season 2, Episode 3
Date Added: 3/31/09
Artists evoke and transform time in their work, relating to art of the ancient past, to nature, and to the rhythms of the life.