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Travel the world with Art21 to be inspired by the creative processes of today's most compelling artists in the ninth season of the Peabody Award-winning Art in the Twenty-First Century series. The series gives viewers unprecedented access to the leading creative minds of our time, drawing upon artists' relationships with the places in which they work. Season Nine charts art making in three urban centers across three continents, featuring twelve artists and one non-profit art center who respond to the forces that have shaped the places where they live and work, while pursuing their personal visions for a better future.

Since the dramatic fall of apartheid in 1994, Johannesburg has emerged as the artistic capital of sub-Saharan Africa. This episode tells the story of four artists from a diversity of South African ethnic backgrounds, identities and generations working across photography, painting, sculpture, and performance. Collectively, the artists in this hour use their work to empower marginalized communities, reexamine history, and pursue their visions for South Africa’s future.