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.
  Richard Schechner is Professor of Performance Studies at New York University, author of numerous books including Performance Theory (1988) and The Future of Ritual (1993), and editor of The Drama Review. This interview...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, performance |
Andres Serrano was born and raised in New York. At fifteen he dropped out of high school. A few years later he attended the Brooklyn Museum School and studied painting and sculpture. After two years, Serrano decided that neither of these art...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: art criticism, interview, latino/chicano, photography, politics, visual art |
Cindy Sherman received an MFA from the State University of New York at Buffalo in 1976, where she studied photography. During this time she was also involved with HallWalls, an alternative gallery space in Buffalo. She is best known for her black...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, photography |
This tape profiles mother and daughter artists Betye and Alison Saar. Both artists work with sculpture and installation, frequently using found objects, wood, and sheet metal to evoke sacred African-American rituals and images. Similar...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: african-american, installation, interview, sculpture |
Laurie Simmons’s photographs are brought to life in Laurie Simmons: A Teaser, MICA-TV’s portrait of the acclaimed photographer. In the early 1980s, Simmons focused on underwater photographs of women, which suggested the stylized tableaux...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: photography |
Ingrid Sischy was editor of Artforum in the 1980s and has been editor-in-chief of Interview magazine since the 1990s. In this interview with Robin White, Sischy discusses Artforum’s priorities, purpose, and goals. “It’s...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: art criticism, interview |
For the past 20 years Alexis Smith's mixed media work has explored primal American myths: the open road, the bad/good guy/gal, the quest for romance, and the search for paradise. This portrait of the artist explores the roots of her thought and...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: art criticism, history, interview, mixed media, myth, painting, politics, visual art |
Washington, D.C.-based African-American artist Sylvia Snowden paints what she calls “figural or structural abstract expressionist” works. Three years after this tape was produced, her son was shot to death, and she spent the next three years...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, mixed media, painting |
Bob Snyder is a Chicago-based composer, video artist, and author who has been experimenting with sound and video synthesis since the ’60s. As a musician, his interest has always been in the...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: chicago art, film or videomaking, music |
