This video is excerpted from the Season 5 episode "Transformation" premiering on Wednesday, October 21, 2009 at 10pm (ET) on PBS (check local listings).
Whether satirizing society or reinventing icons of literature, art history, and popular culture, the artists in Transformation—Paul McCarthy, Cindy Sherman, and Yinka Shonibare MBE—inhabit the characters they create and capture the sensibilities of our age.
In self-reflexive photographs and films, Cindy Sherman invents myriad guises, metamorphosing from Hollywood starlet to clown to society matron. Often with the simplest of means—a camera, a wig, makeup, an outfit—Sherman fashions ambiguous but memorable characters that suggest complex lives lived out of frame.
Learn more about Cindy Sherman: http://www.art21.org/artists/cindy-sherman
Where can we watch the full epsiode? Video interviews with Cindy are so rare online!
DAN13L15 5 months ago
wow art:21 are going all out this season - really big names this time around. They have always had highly popular well known artists but this season just seems .. more ... up market - more recognisable faces. just proves that this program is a very poignant entity in todays art sector
slk741 2 years ago
lol demention of clowns!
PlaydateProductions 2 years ago
cant wait!!!! love Cindy Sherman's work....
tiburon0406 2 years ago 2