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Produced by Art21, "Art in the Twenty-First Century" is a Peabody Award-winning biennial program that follows artists at work and the only US television series to focus exclusively on contemporary art and artists.

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Episodes

1. Between Worlds

Showcasing an international group of painters, sculptors, bead workers and filmmakers whose acclaimed works reveal the complex relationships between their communities and the cultures they move between. Viewers travel from Arles, France, to Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, to the Gulf Coast of Louisiana with featured artists Sophie Calle, Dyani White Hawk, Lubaina Himid and Tuan Andrew Nguyen.

2. Realms of the Real

Showcasing an acclaimed group of painters, sculptors, musicians and video artists who push everyday materials and historical truths into the fantastical, absurd and sublime. From a banana plantation in Reykjavik, Iceland, to a former Agfa photographic film factory in Berlin to Argentina's "Lithium Triangle" with artists Njideka Akunyili Crosby, Ragnar Kjartansson, Candice Lin and Tomás Saraceno.

3. Human Nature

Featuring an international group of sculptors, photographers and video artists whose acclaimed artworks explore fundamental questions around what it means to be human. Travel from a former 15th-century monastery in Seville, Spain, to the countryside outside of Bogotá, Colombia, to a 3D photography studio in Brooklyn, New York, with artists Lenka Clayton, Josh Kline, Delcy Morelos and Sin Wai Kin.