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.
  Yvonne Rainer trained as a modern dancer in New York and began to choreograph her own work in 1960. When Rainer made her first feature-length film in 1972, she had already influenced the...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: film or videomaking, interview, performance |
Arlene Raven is a feminist historian, theoretician, poet, and art historian who has published numerous books on contemporary art and written criticism for The Village Voice and a variety of other newspapers, art magazines, exhibition...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: feminism, interview, visual art |
Martha Rosler was born in Brooklyn, New York. She received her BA from Brooklyn College in 1965 and her MFA from the University of California, San Diego in 1974. Rosler has produced...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: film or videomaking, interview, marxism, performance |
Susan Rothenberg’s poetic images—from her well-known early horse paintings to her more recent paintings of athletes and dancers—have always been subservient to the flatness and objectivity of her gesturally dense surfaces. Ultimately, though,...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
Robert Ryman first moved to New York City with the intention of becoming a jazz musician. After working for several years as a gallery attendant at the Museum of Modern Art and a brief assignment in the Art Division of the Public Library...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
Miriam Schapiro was one of the great forces behind the feminist art movement in Los Angeles. Originally painting in an Abstract Expressionist manner, she developed a new, more personal style of assemblage she called “femmage” as she became more...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles |
Peter Schjeldahl began writing his “poetical criticism” for Tom Hess at ArtNews in the mid 1960s. He has since written for both popular and specialized publications including The New York Times, Art in America, and The...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: art criticism, interview, poetry |
Joel Shapiro came to prominence in the early 1970s with his representational miniatures of everyday objects like chairs and houses. Since then he has become one of the most exhibited American sculptors. Shapiro’s vocabulary consists largely of...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: interview, sculpture, visual art |
Chicago-based painter Hollis Sigler discusses the influences and development of her work, from her early huge paintings of underwater swimmers to the wild, explosive, scratchy, dramatic autobiographical paintings of interiors for which she is...
Collection: On Art and Artists, Interviews, Single Titles Tags: chicago art, interview, painting, visual art |
