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.
  Conceptual artist Hans Haacke’s two most notorious works took unsavory Manhattan real-estate dealing as their subject, which triggered the cancellation of his exhibition Real Time Social System at the Guggenheim Museum in 1971. With the...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: art criticism, consumer culture, interview, politics, visual art |
Robert Heineken uses technically sophisticated photographic methods to mingle erotic images with visuals from TV and advertising. In this interview, Heineken is framed in front of playback monitors, and the camera alternately zooms in on Heineken...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview |
Robert Irwin’s early art followed in the Abstract Expressionist tradition until he shifted his focus onto installation projects that play upon site-specific uses of light. Since the 1980s, he has created large-scale public space designs that use...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
Miyoko Ito was an “abstract surrealist” who worked in Chicago. Her paintings are landscape-based abstractions of very intense subtleties of structure and color. “People say my paintings are the act of creation, and they are. The paintings are...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
Yvonne Jacquette is a realist painter whose preoccupation has been with light-suffusing interiors and landscapes. Recently she has concentrated on aerial views of rural topology and the cityscape. Her works may seem nearly formalistic in...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview |
A historical interview originally recorded in 1979.
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview |
In 1952, Allan Kaprow wrote an article on Abstract Expressionism entitled The Legacy of Jackson Pollock in which he suggested the separation of the art-making activity from the art itself. Kaprow’s concept was most famously realized...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, performance, visual art |
Alex Katz has produced a remarkable and impressive body of work but is best known for his large-scale, flat, yet realistic portraits of friends and family notable for their relaxed attitudes and uncomplicated bearing. In this interview from 1977...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews Tags: interview, painting, visual art |
At 19 Kruger worked as a commercial artist designing for Conde Nast. The risky combination of contemporary art and social critique runs throughout Kruger’s photography, readings, poetry, collages, and conversation. Her works uses advertising both...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
