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Sung Hwan Kim and Joan Jonas In Conversation
2011, 14:25
Sung Hwan Kim and Joan Jonas discuss the ways in which they insert themselves within their work at the Queens Museum of Art. The discussion was moderated by Queens Museum curator Larissa Harris.
Pipilotti Rist talks about her working methods
SF MOMA
2011, 1:57
Video artist Pipilotti Rist discusses her artistic process and working methods.
Jean Paul Gaultier on his Retrospective Exhibition at the Dallas Museum
Dallas Museum of Art
2011 0:13
The first exhibition devoted to Jean Paul Gaultier will be on view at the Dallas Museum of Art from November 13, 2011 until February 12, 2012. The retrospective highlights Gaultier’s eclectic and vibrant sources of inspiration through a selection of 140 haute couture dresses and ready-to-wear pieces made between the early 1970s and 2010. Dallas is the first of only two U.S. cities on the international tour.
Sophie Fiennes, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, 2010 (Trailer)
Sophie Fiennes
2010, 2:18
Sophie Fiennes’ latest film, Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow, documents Anselm Kiefer working in La Ribaute, a dilapidated silk factory in Barjac, France, which Kiefer bought in 1993 and transformed into a massive artistic center. Fiennes’ films include The Late Michael Clark (2000), Hoover Street Revival (2002), and The Pervert’s Guide to Cinema (2006). She is currently working on a second film with Slavoj Zizek as well as a film about Grace Jones. Read Fiennes’ 500 Words here.
Andrew Haigh, Weekend (2011) (Trailer)
2011, 2:19
Trailer for Andrew Haigh's Weekend featuring Tom Cullen and Chris New. For Haight's 500 Words click here.
Todd Haynes, Poison, 1991, excerpt from "Homo" segment.
2:49
Excerpt from the "Homo" segment of Todd Haynes's Poison (1991).
Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev at CCA's Graduate Studies Lecture Series
2009, 1:16:46
Among her many involvements, curator and writer Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev is the director of Documenta 13.
Sturtevant in conversation with Peter Eleey
Walker Art Center
2009, 58:56
"During this rare appearance, the artist discusses the philosophical base of her radical and influential work and the discourse on the imposition of our cybernetic world and its dangerous potent power."
Paulina Olowska at CCA's Graduate Studies Lecture Series
2011, 1:29:55
Paulina Olowska was CCA's fall 2010 Capp Street Project artist in residence and one of seven featured artists in the Wattis Institute's program "The Magnificent Seven."
Robert Rauschenberg on Automobile Tire Print, 1953
SF MOMA
2011, 3:23
Robert Rauschenberg describes the process of creating Automobile Tire Print, 1953, with John Cage.
David McDermott, Time Travel, 2008
2008, 2:34
Anachronistic dandy, David McDermott, discusses time travel in a vignette directed by Barbara Politsch.
Sarah Michelson and Philip Bither in Conversation
Walker Art Center
2011, 47:09
Choreographer Sarah Michelson joins Walker Performing Arts Senior Curator Philip Bither for a discussion about her collaboration with Richard Maxwell for the Walker-commissioned piece Devotion.
Vernissage TV at Art Basel 2011
2011, 6:03
From Vernissage TV:

“This year's edition of Art Basel's Art Unlimited section presents large scale installations, sculptures and videos by artists such as Erik van Lieshout, Daniel Buren, Etienne Chambaud, Anish Kapoor, Vera Lutter, Waltercio Caldas, Cerith Wyn Evans, Jorinde Voigt, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Carl Andre, Fred Sandback, Allen Ruppersberg, Mona Hatoum, Kendell Geers, Sudarshan Shetty, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Christian Andersson, Daniel Robert Hunziker, Lun Tuchnowski, David Zink Yi, Jason Rhoades, and Jennifer Allora Guillermo Calzadilla.”
Gloria at 2011 Venice Biennale
2011, 2:01
Guillermo Calzadilla and Jennifer Allora designed the 2011 US Pavilion, Gloria, at the Venice Biennale, which features Olympic athletes performing as part of the installation.
Allan deSouza installs and discusses “The World Series”
Phillips Art Museum
2011, 3:04
In his project “The World Series,” Allan deSouza responds to Jacob Lawrence’s “The Migration Series,” 1940−41, with thirty photographs taken on his travels around the world that capture the condition of people on the move. The show is on view through September 17, 2011 as part of Intersections Arts Projects at the Phillips, which invites artists to explore intriguing intersections between old and new traditions, modern and contemporary art practices, and museum spaces and artistic interventions.
Judy Chicago Discusses Feminist Art
SF MOMA
2010, 3:08
Judy Chicago recounts the experience of being a woman artist in the 1960s and 1970s, when the art world was dominated by men.
"Mind Over Matter" at the Whitney Museum, 1991
Michael Blackwood Productions
2011, 4:40
"Artists Ashley Bickerton, Ronald Jones, Nayland Blake, Liz Larner, Tishan Hsu, Annette Lemieux, exhibition curator Richard Armstrong, and critic Bruce Ferguson return to the Whitney, on a day when the museum is closed, to look at and discuss the exhibition. Over lunch, they talk about the aims of the exhibition, and in what ways their art shares common ground."
Lucinda Childs and Philip Bither in Conversation
Walker Art Center
2011, 40:14
Choreographic innovator Lucinda Childs joins Philip Bither, McGuire Senior Performing Arts Curator, for a candid discussion of her artistic collaborations and legacy, including her work for Einstein on the Beach by Philip Glass. Childs' compositions are known for their minimalistic movements and complex transitions.
Installing Will Ryman’s The Roses: 58th Street, 2011.
Phillips Art Museum
2011, 2:24
The previously vacant front lawn of the Phillips was transformed early this August when artist Will Ryman installed 58th Street, 2011, one of the colossal rose sculptures from his series “The Roses,” displayed along New York’s Park Avenue earlier this year. Will Ryman’s Roses: 58th Street is on view through January 5, 2012, marking the Phillips’ ninetieth anniversary year.
Catherine Opie on “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape”
LACMA
2009, 4:57
Catherine Opie discusses the influence of LA-based photographers on “New Topographics: Photographs of a Man-Altered Landscape,” an exhibition first seen in 1975 at the George Eastman House of Rochester, New York, and restaged at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in 2009. She also touches on her own work, explaining how she employs the artistic conventions of artists like Lewis Baltz and Bernd and Hilla Becher to explore queer identity.
Mark Manders and Betsy Carpenter in Conversation
Walker Art Center
2011, 28:43
Acclaimed Dutch artist Mark Manders is known for his enigmatic and evocative sculptural objects and tableaux. During his visit to the Walker Art Center for the first North American tour of the exhibition “Mark Manders: Parallel Occurrences/Documented Assignments,” Manders talks with curator Betsy Carpenter about his work in the Walker collection, Life-size Scene with Revealed Figure, 2009.
Invitation to John Waters’ Exhibition “Absentee Landlord”
Walker Art Center
2011, 0:49
For his devious curatorial intervention “Absentee Landlord,” pop culture provocateur John Waters imagines the galleries as rental apartments where nearly eighty “roommate” artworks strike up new relationships. In exploring the tensions and connections among disparate works in the Walker’s wide-ranging collection, Waters imbues his new role as curator with his trademark blend of subversion and insight. Featuring the works by Mike Kelley, Carolee Schneeman, Robert Gober, Richard Artshwager, Jack Pierson, Willem de Kooning, Cindy Sherman, Wolfgang Tillmans, Cameron Jamie, Sturtevant, and John Currin, coexisting with several pieces by Waters himself. The exhibit is on view through July 29, 2012.
A Look at Sarah Michelson / Richard Maxwell’s Devotion, 2011
Walker Art Center
4:21
A quick look at a performance of Devotion, a Walker Art Center commission from Sarah Michelson and playwright Richard Maxwell, performed in February 2011. Collaborating for the first time, the pair brings their seemingly divergent visions to a story ballet written by Maxwell, which inspired Michelson to create this new work for her company of dancers and Maxwell’s veteran actor/performers. Featuring a brief interview with Michelson by Senior Performing Arts Curator Philip Bither.
Trailer for Commercial Break for the 54th Venice Biennale
Garage Center for Contemporary Culture
2011, 3:28
From Youtube:

“Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, presents the mobile installation Commercial Break as part of the opening week of the 54th Venice Biennale.

On a giant video billboard navigating the heart of Venice, over eighty artists engage with the relationship between advertising and culture in a city where advertising is virtually banned. The short digital works by globally recognized and emerging artists from around the world bring the form and language of advertising to Venice. The project is curated by Neville Wakefield and powered by POST magazine.”
Trailer for Aurora, 2010
Cristi Puiu
2010, 1:00
Trailer for Cristi Puiu’s film Aurora, 2010. For more information, see Amy Taubin’s review, “Until the Day Dawn,” in Artforum’s Summer 2011 issue.
Hassan Khan, The Big One, 2009 (excerpt)
Queens Museum of Art
2011, 10:31
Hassan Khan performs his music set The Big One, 2009, at the Queens Museum of Art. The forty-five minute piece includes oscillating juxtapositions of heavy synth-based New Wave Shaabi music aside delicately wrought tonal compositions. Khan's show is on view until August 14, 2011.
DJ Spooky Discusses Mixing as Social Sculpture
European Graduate School
2007, 9:40
DJ Spooky/Paul D. Miller discusses the functions of the DJ as artist and sampling as applied to cinema at the European Graduate School [EGS]. The open video-lecture took place in January of 2006 at the Media and Communications department at EGS.
Michelle Grabner discusses her work
Walker Art Center
2011, 1:33:16
"Known for her silverpoint-inscribed black gesso tondos, or circle paintings, Michelle Grabner’s meditative works can be seen as re-readings of the abstractionists’ grid."
Michael Clark, The Shivering Man, 2006
2006, 3:55
Conceived by Angela Conway, The Shivering Man is performed by Michael Clark, Julie Hood, and Ian Longmuir with music by the Wire's Bruce Gilbert.
Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July Discuss Learning to Love You More
SF Moma
2011, 2:27
Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July discuss the accepting nature of Learning to Love You More, an open call website project the two artists created in 2002. Participants complete a given assignment and see their work posted on-line. Learning to Love You More has become an ever changing piece of art spanning the physical, digital, and emotional ranges of everyday people.

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