Artist Documentary Maker Art21 Launches Searchable Archive of Unseen Footage

When curator and filmmaker Susan Sollins founded the nonprofit Art21 in the late 1990s, her goal was to introduce contemporary artists to a wider audience by bringing documentaries about them to television and, later, to the internet. Reviewing Art21’s first series, Art21: Art in the 21st Century, which aired on PBS in 2001, Kay Larson, writing in the New York Times, praised the show for “getting rid of narrators and allowing artists to tell us in their own words how they work and wh