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.
  Antonio Muntadas was born in 1942, in Barcelona, Spain. He went to the University of Barcelona for undergraduate work, then received his MA from the Escuela Tecnica Superior Ingenieros...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: conceptual art, installation, interview, politics, visual art |
In 1973 Joan Nestle co-founded the Lesbian Herstory Archives, an essential collection of documents, writings, and artifacts of lesbian cultural history. In 1979 she began writing erotic stories and has published two collections of writings: ...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
In 1988 the World Financial Center in lower Manhattan asked artists and architects to produce installations that centered on “the rapid development of the modern city and its enormous impact on how people live and work” for the New Urban...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: installation |
Kori Newkirk is currently gaining recognition for his mixed-media paintings and sculpture installations. Many of his paintings are urban landscapes in the form of beaded curtains made with plastic pony beads (typically used as hair ornaments)...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, painting, race, sculpture, visual art |
A historical interview originally recorded in 1983.
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, performance |
Dennis Oppenheim was a prominent figure in various art developments throughout the ’70s. Oppenheim moved through body/performance art and related video work to earthworks to his current large-scale “factories.” In all of his work, the...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: art history, conceptual art, installation, interview, visual art |
French performance artist Orlan uses her own body as a sculptural medium. Since 1990, she has worked on La Reincarnation de Sainte-Orlan, a process of plastic surgeries that she “performs,”...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: gender, interview, performance, sculpture |
Ulrike Ottinger is a prolific German filmmaker whose work includes Madame X (1977), Ticket of No Return (1979), Freak Orlando (1981), Johanna D'Arc of Mongolia (1989), Countdown (1989), and Exile...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: film or videomaking, interview |
In this episode of The Live! Show, hosted by Jaime Davidovich, Eric Bogosian brings seven characters to life in seven minutes, Michael Smith plays the best driver in the world, Mitchell Kriegman offers a helping hand during the show’s...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: interview, performance |
