On Art and Artists
The majority of the On Art and Artists collection represents almost 40 years of producing and acquiring interviews with contemporary artists, architects, theorists, and critics. The collection features interviews made by the Video Data Bank and co-founders Lyn Blumenthal & Kate Horsfield, as well as by other individual producers and producing organizations such as Artists Television Network, Long Beach Museum of Art, and the University of Colorado visiting artist program. In addition, the collection includes a number of titles relating to the artists' process, including experimental documentaries and profiles.
  tryphon: three sounds is a candid portrait of the artist Thomas H. Kapsalis (b.
Collection: New Releases, On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: art history, artist spaces, blu-ray, chicago art, documentary, interview, portrait, visual art |
A poet of the New York School in the early- and mid-’60s, Vito Acconci moved toward performance, sound, and video work at the end of the decade. His work moved in a different direction in...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: architecture, conceptual art, installation, interview, performance, poetry |
Chantal Akerman gained international recognition with her three and a half hour masterpiece, Jeanne Dielman, 23 Quai du Commerce, 1080 Bruxelles (1975), which portrays a housewife’s dull existence and eventual violent action. She has...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: european film/video, feminism, film or videomaking, film theory, interview |
Laurie Anderson began as a downtown gallery artist, specializing in photography. She soon moved from creative to critical work as a writer for Art News and Art in America. She returned to the art world, making groundbreaking...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: art criticism, conceptual art, interview, music |
Through her performances and videotapes, Eleanor Antin creates characters (King, Ballerina, Black Movie Star, and Nurse) while spinning tales that blur fiction and history. She avoids good...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: conceptual art, feminism, interview, visual art |
During her graduate studies at Hunter College, Alice Aycock began to forge links between personal and more inclusive subject matter and form. In her quest for contemporary monuments, Aycock wrote her Master’s thesis on U.S. highway systems....
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: architecture, installation, interview, sculpture, visual art |
From his photo-text canvases in the 1960s to his video works in the 1970s to his installations in the 1980s, John Baldessari’s varied work has been seminal in the field of conceptual art...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, photography, visual art |
Jennifer Bartlett is a writer and painter who makes large paintings with enamels on fabricated panels. She uses an overall grid structure on which she repeats images in a variety of styles ranging from lyric abstraction to childlike...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews |
Joseph Beuys was born in Kleve, Germany in 1921. After serving as a volunteer in the German military, Beuys attended the Dusseldorf Academy of Art to study sculpture, where in 1959 he became a professor. Much of his artwork reflects his attempt...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, visual art |
