The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros
The Sensual Nature of Sound portrays four New York based composers and performers in terms of their musical lives and artistic passion. Though...
See moreA Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera
This documentary by Michael Blackwood looks at the development and production of Glass' opera Akhnaten. The film follows two productions by the...
See moreAndy Warhol
With a rambling, unstructured style that echoes Andy Warhol’s own approach to filmmaking, this documentary profiles his career, showing him to be a...
See moreDeconstructivist Architects
By the end of the 1980's a new architectural sensibility challenged the prevailing post-Modern attitude and brought forth new and daring designs...
See moreRobert Rauschenberg: Retrospective
This film includes important examples of the Robert Rauschenberg's diverse and extraordinary accomplishments, tracing his development from his...
See moreEngineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering
Accentuating the effects of space, light and structure, glass has become an architectural staple that encourages transparency and visibility...
See morePeter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial
This documentary explores the creation of the Holocaust Memorial in Berlin as designed by architect Peter Eisenman. Reaction of the German public...
See moreEd Ruscha: 4 Decades
Ed Ruscha made his very first art in his native Oklahoma, but soon became attracted to Los Angeles . Curator Margit Rowell has examined his...
See moreLebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture
Architects Lebbeus Woods and Steven Holl have been friends for many years, brought together by their creativity, philosophy and visionary...
See moreSpeaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language
At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...
See moreRoy Lichtenstein
In conversation with Roy Lichtenstein, critic Lawrence Alloway places Pop Art on a continuum of twentieth-century art that includes collage, Dada...
See moreArata Isozaki II: International Projects
Through a blend of Japanese history and Western influence, Arata Isozaki has built a career around his boldly distinctive architectural style...
See moreAlvaro Siza: Transforming Reality
In Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality Portugal's renowned architect reviews his work with architectural historian, Kenneth Frampton. While touring...
See moreChristo: Works in Progress
“Christo: Works in Progress” takes us around the world on a showcase of the artist’s grand environmental installations. With both critique and...
See moreKenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice
Critic Kenneth Frampton is a masterful commentator on the architecture of our time. At the start of his long-spanning career Frampton worked as an...
See moreFrank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy
"Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy" illustrates the unique intertwining of art and architecture throughout Gehry's spectacularly eclectic career....
See moreDavid Chipperfield: Form Matters
When the Tuscan city of Pisa commissioned David Chipperfield to create a master plan that would bring new vitality to this historic spot on the...
See moreMusical Outsiders: An American Legacy
American composers have long struggled against the momentum of the Western European classical tradition and the prestige it has held in America's...
See moreThe Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes
The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes presents a conversation with the artist as he reminisces about his career, influences and artistic...
See moreThe Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY
A visit to the studio of Ernst Wilhelm Nay, a remarkable, if somewhat solitary German artist, who established his status at age 30, just before the...
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