The Dave Project celebrates the legacy of Dave the Potter, a slave potter and poet from Edgefield, South Carolina. Dave is best known for inscribing couplets onto his pots. The Dave Project took Dave's story on the road. In collaboration with Chicago poet, Orron Kenyetta, clay expert Jeremy Stepien, and the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Chipstone Foundation developed a 2-hour program that was brought to different communities around the city.

Aziz + Cucher: Some People features a new body of work by the New York-based collaborative of Anthony Aziz and Sammy Cucher. Working together since 1992, Aziz + Cucher are widely recognized as pioneers in the field of digital imaging. Through the use of digital animation, performance, video, and sound, Some People situates recent and current conflicts into a never-ending narrative that exists outside of a specific place and time. The outbreak of war between Israel and Lebanon in 2006 profoundly affected the artists, who have cultural and familial ties to the area.

In this preview from the "Art in the Twenty-First Century" Season 6 episode, "Change," artist Ai Weiwei discusses his 2006 work, "Surveillance Camera."

"Change" premieres Friday, April 13, 2012 at 9:00 p.m. ET on PBS (check local listings).

For more information on Ai Weiwei, please visit:
http://www.art21.org/artists/ai-weiwei

Erin Hogan, director of public affairs, and Jill Bugajski, research associate, walk through and discuss the origins and themes of Windows on the War, an exhibition of Soviet TASS posters from World War II, which ran from July 31 to October 23, 2011. An extensive online archive of TASS posters and the exhibition can be found at www.artic.edu/aic/collections/exhibitions/TASS

In this video, Viyé Diba discusses the relationship between space and political conflict, and how issues of globalization and density have influenced his work.

Diba’s installation Nous sommes nombreux, et nos problémes avec… [We are numerous, and our problems with that…] combines local, raw, and recycled materials with painting, sculpture, and photography to address Africa’s consumer economy as well as the physical and psychological effects of spatial density.

In this video, Marco Castillo, one part of the duo Los Carpinteros (Spanish for “the Carpenters”), discusses how everyday life in Havana informs their artwork.

We were invited behind-the-scenes at the shoot for Yoshua Okon's latest video Octopus. The piece, shot on location at a Los Angeles Home Depot store, explores the relationships among Guatemalan day laborers who at home fought on opposite sides of the Guatemalan civil war, yet here in the U.S. are working side-by-side in their efforts to find employment. The work was produced during Okon's residency with the Hammer. He explains more about the work in this video. (Run time: 8 minutes)

In this video, Viyé Diba talks about his installation Nous sommes nombreux, et nos problémes avec… [We are numerous, and our problems with that…] and the effects that mass distribution and mass consumption have on our lives.