24:T4b3,â€œThe belief in the opera, and in the preparedness to spend the number of months and years on it that I have, has to do strongly with the belief that the absurd, with its rupture of rationalityâ€”of conventional ways of seeing the worldâ€”is in fact an accurate and a productive way of understanding the world.â€ â€”William Kentridge In our Peabody Award-winning 2010 film, William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible, current 100 Artists featured artist William Kentridge is seen at work on his production of the Dmitri Shostakovich opera The Nose for its inaugural run at The Metropolitan Opera in 2010. Friends in the New York City area: William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible will rebroadcast on Thirteen tomorrow, August 9 at 10:00 p.m. Kentridgeâ€™s production of The Nose returns to The Metropolitan Opera in the fall. Tickets go on sale this Sunday, August 11 at noon. Watch the full film and explore related resources and videos on Art21.org. IMAGES: William Kentridgeâ€™s production of The Nose at The Metropolitan Opera, New York, 2010. Production stills from the film William Kentridge: Anything Is Possible. Â© Art21, Inc. and The Metropolitan Opera, 2010.25:T738,

"I tried to maintain some freshness by shifting what it is I’m looking at in order to create a different process of looking at something that would give me a new kind of interpretation."
—Tim Hawkinson

Artist Tim Hawkinson, our current 100 Artists featured artist, explores several themes consisting of music, sounds, expression, and even his own body. As shown here, Hawkinson combines his face and facial expressions in a mechanized sculpture, Emoter (2002), which was included in the Whitney Biennial in 2002. “It’s something that emotes and it’s motorized and it is an emoter.”

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