Julia Main

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Watch Episode 1, in which Met image archivist Stephanie Post time travels through the archives of The Met's photographic history, educator and former-Project Runway host Tim Gunn sees fashion history in art at The Met, and New York City Ballet dancer Silas Farley uses art as inspiration for dance.

A billion dollar industry, but the players pay the price. From producers Maverick Carter and Steve Stoute and executive producer LeBron James, HBO Sports presents Student Athlete, a documentary revealing the exploitative world of high-revenue college sports. Premiering October 2 at 10 PM on HBO.

What does it take to disrupt the status quo and alter the course of history? In Fundamental, we meet activists in five countries who are fighting for gender ...

2016 ABOG Fellow Frances Whitehead is creating Fruit Futures Initiative Gary, an experimental community orchard project in Gary, Indiana, that fosters the development of foodshed resilience, grows civic pride, and collectively evolves new creative foodways for the local community.

What happens when an artist gives up control? Mirroring its subject's own playful and absurdist sensibility, this portrait of sculptor and performance artist Aki Sasamoto is a fluid hybrid of fiction and documentary—at once a magical realist world of spinning objects and a psychological exploration of fundamental questions about artistic creativity. Drinking and bar culture has long served as a source of inspiration for the artist. With a real-world Brooklyn bar as the main stage for her deadpan performance style, a bartender acts as a sympathetic ear for Sasamoto's ruminations on past projects and recent motherhood. Embellished by CGI-style effects, the artist toggles between impromptu conversations and scripted performances, blurring the line between observable fact and subjective vision. From firing whiskey glasses at Urban Glass in Brooklyn to installing her exhibition, "Past in a future tense," at Bortolami Gallery in Manhattan, Sasamoto grapples with the tension between control and chaos—between her mastery over materials and their own will. "Whatever I thought I had control over, whatever I thought I was," explains Sasamoto, "will change in front of me and that to me is exciting, in life and in sculpture." Aki Sasamoto (b. 1980, Kanagawa, Japan) lives and works in New York. Learn more about the artist at: https://art21.org/artist/aki-sasamoto/ CREDITS | Featuring: Aki Sasamoto, Ray Ekwurtzel-Sasamoto, Pau Atela, Romina Gonzales, and Anna Peterson. "New York Close Up" Series Producer: Nick Ravich. Directors: Rafael Salazar and Ava Wiland. Producer: Ava Wiland. Editor: Rafael Salazar. Cinematography: Jon Nelson and Rafael Salazar. Digital Compositor: Luis M. Pla. Associate Producer: Julia Main. Location Sound: Nikola Chapelle. Gaffer: Jacob Mallin. Production Services: RAVA Films: Color Correction: Jerome Thelia. Sound Design & Mix: Adam Boese. Design & Graphics: Chips. Music: Matt Bauder. Artwork Courtesy: Aki Sasamoto. Thanks: Jason Bauer, Bortolami Gallery, James Corporan, Cut + Measure, Sam Ekwurtzel, Eugene & Company, Gilberto Gil, Romina Gonzales, Ben Hagari, Anna Peterson, UrbanGlass, and Russell Yaffe. © Art21, Inc. 2019. All rights reserved. "New York Close Up" is supported by The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts; and, in part, by public funds from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs in partnership with the City Council, and by individual contributors. #AkiSasamoto #Art21 #Art21NewYorkCloseUp

Conversations with Artivists (2019) Produced by RAVA Films dirs. Rafael Salazar & Ava Wiland 3-channel digital video installation This three-channel video installation brings into conversation artivists from six different global regions whose work is housed at the exhibition 'Artivism: The Gonice Prevention Pavilion.' Together, these artivists explore the role art can play in responding to mass atrocity violence and transforming post-atrocity societies. Artists featured: Rebin Chalak (Iraq) Mariana Corral, Grupo de Arte Callejero (Argentina) Madonsela Christine Mabatho (South Africa) Elisabeth Ida Mulyani (Indonesia/Belgium) Puleng Segalo (South Africa) Aida Šehović (Bosnia and Herzegovina/USA) Linda Young (Canada) Film Credits: Directors - Ava Wiland & Rafael Salazar Producer - Ava Wiland Cinematographer / Editor - Rafael Salazar Production Company - RAVA Films Associate Producer - Julia Main Composer - Joel Pickard Sound Mixer/Designer - Gisela Fullà Silvestre Sound Recordist - Mathias Pico Assistant Editor - Russell Yaffe Fixer & Gaffer - Stijn Blancke Kurdish Translation - Ridwan Zebari & Kawa Nemir Produced by the Auschwitz Institute for Peace and Reconciliation for Artivism: The Atrocity Prevention Pavilion Curated by Luca Berta, Francesca Giubilei & Kerry Whigham Venice, Italy 2019 with the support of White & Case LLP and the Government of Flanders