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.
  Thomas Lawson is a painter, critic, and founding editor of REAL LIFE magazine. His paintings are tied to the particularities of the present, and he is especially critical of the current art world’s infatuation with ego and creativity....
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview |
Lee Krasner was born in 1908 in New York. She attended Cooper Union, the National Academy of Design, and the Hofmann School to study painting. Married to Jackson Pollack, Krasner was largely overlooked by the art world for far too long. She is...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Single Titles Tags: interview |
Although Sol Lewitt began working primarily in painting, he has also worked in sculpture and photography. Best known for his cubes, he used the grid as a foundation for many artworks. Seeing himself in the role of architect or composer, Lewitt...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
One of the most influential and up-to-the-moment art critics, Lucy Lippard was among the first writers to recognize the de-materialization at work in conceptual art and was an early champion of feminist art. She has written numerous influential...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: feminism, interview, visual art |
In this interview with Kate Horsfield, Lippard, author of From the Center: Feminist Essays on Womens’ Art (1976), discusses the journal Heresies: A Feminist Publication on Art and Politics and her novel, I See/You Mean...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: art criticism, art history, feminism, interview, visual art |
Nathan Lyons has contributed to the field of photography as a critic, author, curator, educator, and photographer. He has published several books and catalogs, including Photographers on Photography (1966), Photography in the 20th...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: art criticism, interview, photography |
An historical interview with the reclusive minimalist painter originally recorded in 1974 in Cuba, New Mexico and re-edited in 2003.
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, painting, visual art |
Agnes Martin ruminates on painting from an almost Zen point of view. Martin's art has benn called classical, minimal, or romantic, depending on who's looking at it. There is no question that she has influenced a generation of younger artists....
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, painting, visual art |
From her earlier sculptural work, Mary Miss has moved into concerns with illusion, distance, and perception. The work has grown to environmental scale and frequently uses both ancient and modern architecture as references. “A lot of things I do...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: installation, interview, sculpture, visual art |
