I did not expect to like Michael Heizer’s work Levitated Mass as much as I did. There was something about a 340 ton rock perched precariously over one’s head that brings out the inner child (in complete and utter awe of the magnitude of it all) in me. Conceived in 1969, [...]
Steve McQueen’s work is primarily moving images–video and films. Born in London in 1969, the artist attended Goldsmiths’ College and Tisch School of the Arts in NYC. He won the Turner Prize in 1999 and has had many solo shows all over the world. He currently resides in Amsterdam. While the majority of his work [...]
I have been wanting to see this movie since I first heard about it. Always having had an interest in Ai Weiwei as an artist and hearing about him as an activist, I didn’t really know specifics about what he has done to rile the Chinese government enough to detain him. My interest in China [...]
I wish I had seen this film before I made the trip to the Barnes Foundation. The documentary was made in 2009 when the fate of Dr. Albert Barnes’s collection had already been determined. It includes interviews with scholars in the art world, art critics, and former staff of the Foundation. The reason for moving [...]
Jean-Michel Basquiat, who tragically died at the age of 27, left behind over 1000 paintings and 1000 drawings. The film, The Radiant Child, about his rise to stardom is based on footage his friend Tamra Davis had from interviews in 1983. Supplemented by interviews with his friends, peers and former dealers: Julian Schnabel, Fab Five [...]
Moffatt works in both film and photography. Before she became an artist she worked in television and directed music videos. This has helped her in her current work as a full time fine artist. For her photographs she creates a scene almost by building a film set. She picks locations and hires actors. When she [...]
This documentary introduces the viewer to the lives of Herb and Dorothy Vogel, two New Yorkers living on modest incomes who were able to amass one of the most important contemporary art collections in the United States. Herb, a postal worker, and Dorothy, a librarian, married and decided to live off of her salary and [...]