The Sensual Nature of Sound: 4 Composers Laurie Anderson, Tania Leon, Meredith Monk, Pauline Oliveros

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...

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A Composer’s Notes: Philip Glass and the Making of an Opera

A 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...

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Andy Warhol

Andy 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...

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Deconstructivist Architects

Deconstructivist 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...

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Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective

Robert Rauschenberg: Retrospective

This film includes important examples of the Robert Rauschenberg's diverse and extraordinary accomplishments, tracing his development from his...

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Engineered Transparency: Glass in Architecture and Structural Engineering

Engineered 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...

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Peter Eisenman: Building Germany's Holocaust Memorial

Peter 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...

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Ed Ruscha: 4 Decades

Ed 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...

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Lebbeus Woods + Steven Holl: The Practice of Architecture

Lebbeus 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...

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Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

Speaking of Abstraction: A Universal Language

At the beginning of the twenty-first century, abstraction - that most quintessentially modernist innovation - maintains a peculiarly contradictory...

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Roy Lichtenstein

Roy Lichtenstein

In conversation with Roy Lichtenstein, critic Lawrence Alloway places Pop Art on a continuum of twentieth-century art that includes collage, Dada...

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Arata Isozaki II: International Projects

Arata 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...

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Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality

Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality

In Alvaro Siza: Transforming Reality Portugal's renowned architect reviews his work with architectural historian, Kenneth Frampton. While touring...

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Christo: Works in Progress

Christo: 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...

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Kenneth Frampton: A Critical Voice

Kenneth 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...

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Frank Gehry: An Architecture of Joy

Frank 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....

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David Chipperfield: Form Matters

David 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...

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Musical Outsiders: An American Legacy

Musical 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...

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The Imaginary Solutions of Thomas Chimes

The 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...

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The Artist's Studio: E.W. NAY

The 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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