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.
  Public Discourse is an in-depth study of illegal installation art. The primary focus is on the painting of street signs, advertising manipulation, metal welding, postering and guerrilla art, all performed illegally. Public...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: architecture, art criticism, crime or violence, culture jamming, documentary, environment, graffiti, installation, media analysis |
Milton Resnick was born in Bratslav, Russia in 1917, and immigrated to the United States in 1922. Resnick was one of the few survivors of the second generation Abstract Expressionists and is known for his large, thickly painted abstract canvases...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
Rachel Rosenthal is a performance artist and director of the Rachel Rosenthal Company. Her ensemble produces text, voice, and movement-based work rooted in the spectacular of theater. Her work addresses subversion of the natural order through...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, performance |
Interviewed in concert with a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, Ryman discusses seeing his work displayed chronologically for the first time. A historical interview originally recorded in 1993.
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview |
Joe Sacco is a cartoonist who has contributed to a wide range of comic magazines including Drawn and Quarterly, Prime Cuts, Real Stuff, Buzzard, and R. Crumb’s Weirdo; he continues to illustrate the semi-regular Painfully...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
Juan Sanchez explores his Puerto Rican heritage and the issue of Puerto Rican independence through his work as an artist and writer. Combining painting, photography, collage, and printmaking techniques, Sanchez’s art joins images of contemporary...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, latino/chicano, painting, photography, visual art |
Dan Sandin designed the Image Processor that, partly because of his decision to give away his plans, has effected an energetic and aesthetic investigation of the technological structures of...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: film or videomaking, interview, television, video history |
Painter Peter Saul’s iconoclastic paintings parody various aspects of contemporary American life, from politics to sex to violence. He has been an inspiration to several generations of American painters and is retired from the Department of Fine...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
Flesh meets robotics in this early video documentation of Survival Research Laboratory’s spectacular exhibitions of collective invention, anti-corporate technology, and satirical mass destruction. In the performances documented here, various...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: documentation, interview, performance, technology |
