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.
  Fred Tomaselli’s mosaics and collages compose patterns and images that suggest ancient global influences. His materials, however, are products of modern consumption, addiction, bodily abuse, and pleasure: pills, nicotine patches, bandages, and...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: health, interview, mixed media, visual art |
Modeled after NBC’s long-running science program Watch Mr. Wizard, this tape features Torreano as Mr. Wizard instructing a skeptical boy on how to build a diamond out of pieces of wood. The boy remains unimpressed until Torreano uses a “...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: humor, sculpture, television |
The artwork on trial is Richard Serra's public sculpture, Tilted Arc, commissioned and installed by the U.S. government in 1981. Four years later, a public hearing was held to...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: architecture, interview, politics, visual art |
Originally trained as a musical composer, receiving her MFA and Ph.D. from the University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Trinh T. Minh-ha is a world-renowned documentary feminist filmmaker and expert on avant-garde and third world post-colonial...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: asian-american, interview, post-colonialism |
A short portrait of artist Anne Truitt (1921-2004). The film consists of an interview and 16mm footage made in and around her studio at the Yaddo artist colony, as well as footage from her home studio in Washington D.C. Rather than an...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: documentary, experimental film, portrait, visual art |
Since 1977 Mierle Laderman Ukeles has been a volunteer artist-in-residence at the New York City Department of Sanitation, allowing her to introduce radical art into a public system. Since she wrote the Manifesto for Main-tenance Art (...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, performance |
Carole S. Vance is an anthropologist and writer and Associate Research Scientist of Public Health and Director of the Program for the Study of Sexuality, Gender, Health and Human Rights at Columbia University. She has written extensively on...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
This tape was produced in connection with Icono Negro, a three-artist show at Long Beach Museum of Art exploring the dynamics and distinctions of black video art. Three works featured in the show—including...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: african-american, art criticism, interview, race |
