Art21 is an award-winning series of 24 programmes in which more than 90 contemporary artists talk about their creations, the way they work and their individual view of art. This episode features Glenn Ligon, Mary Reid Kelley, and Marina Abramovic. HISTORY is a theme woven throughout the work of these artists, who mine personal and collective narratives and play with historical events to explore and expose commonly held assumptions about historic “truth”, and reveal connections between past events and the lived present.