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.
  Sculptor Jackie Winsor creates large-scale constructions in wood, fiber, twine, and wire. Recent works are subjected to explosions and fire. Winsor lives and works in New York City. Interview by Kay Miller and Albert Alhadeff.
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, sculpture, visual art |
This is a three-part tape shot in 1975, ’76, and ’78 as Winsor was working on three pieces: 50/50, Copper Piece, and Burnt Piece. The rhythms and rituals of her working process as well as her comments on the work are documented...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: interview, sculpture, visual art |
Born in 1943 in Poland, Wodiczko lives and works in New York and Cambridge, MA, where he has been professor at MIT since 1991. Wodiczko is best known for his large-scale slide and video projections, which amplify political issues locally to their...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview |
Woman as Protagonist: The Art of Nancy Spero is an invigorating look at the 40-year career of acclaimed feminist artist Nancy Spero, who, in her own works, is concerned with “rewriting the imaging of women through historical time.” With...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: documentary, feminism, interview, politics |
Women with a Past brings together four 20th century artists—Yvonne Rainer, Christine Choy, Martha Rosler, and Nancy Spero—in videotaped interviews, shaped and edited by Lyn Blumenthal to examine the art of documentary. In a skillfully...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: asian-american, performance, politics, visual art |
The Writers Series is a series of video portraits of writers whose work I love. -- Cecilia Dougherty
Collection: New Releases, On Art and Artists, Single Artist Compilations Tags: aids/hiv, city, documentary, feminism, interview, language, lgbt, literature, poetry, portrait |
In this tape made shortly after fiber and sculpture artist Claire Zeisler’s death, art critic Dennis Adrian discusses her influence and aesthetic strategies. Adrian’s commentary is intercut with images of her work and archival footage of an...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: chicago art, documentation, sculpture |
Fiber artist Claire Zeisler discusses her techniques, ideas on art, and training; the conversation is inter-cut with images from her 1979 retrospective at the Art Institute of Chicago. “I... realized I cannot change my techniques too often. I...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: chicago art, interview, sculpture |
