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Lamia Joreige describes life in Beirut, Lebanon
To create Beirut, Autopsy of a City artist Lamia Joreige researched the sieges, relics, occupations, and natural disasters of Beirut, Lebanon, beginning in 1200 BC and ending in AD |
September 2012 |
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Yto Barrada on life in Tangier, home to "a population that wants to leave"
Artist Yto Barrada discusses life in Tangier, a city poised on the northern coast of Morocco along the Strait of Gibraltar, the waterway separating Africa and Europe. Her series A |
September 2012 | ||
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Adrian Ghenie on his artistic schooling in Cluj, "the San Francisco of Transylvania"
Artist Adrian Ghenie talks about the curriculum at the Universitatea de Artă și Design Cluj-Napoca (Cluj-Napoca Art and Design University), which many artists in the city attended, |
September 2012 | ||
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Adrian Ghenie on painting Nicolae Ceausescu
Nicolae Ceausescu, the last Communist leader in Romania, was in power from 1967 to 1989. Artist Adrian Ghenie discusses the challenges of painting a dictator and considers his work |
September 2012 | ||
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Adrian Ghenie on gallery Plan B and what to do when things fall apart
Artist Adrian Ghenie discusses the origins of Plan B, the art gallery based in Cluj and Berlin that he cofounded with fellow artist Mihai Pop in 2005. This video is part of Story |
September 2012 | ||
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Oscar Muñoz on the art scene in Cali, Colombia
Artist Oscar Muñoz discusses the artistic climate in Cali, Colombia. In 2005 he cofounded Cali's Lugar a Dudas (A Place to Doubt), an experimental art space and research |
September 2012 | ||
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Oscar Muñoz on memory and disappearance
Artist Oscar Muñoz's work explores the relationship between images and memory. Often using materials that are ephemeral in nature — such as charcoal powder and water |
September 2012 | ||
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Tuan Andrew Nguyen on returning to Vietnam and cofounding an art space
Artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen discusses the origins of Sàn Art, the independent art space that he cofounded in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. Established by four "Viet |
September 2012 | ||
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Tuan Andrew Nguyen on Viet Nam The World Tour
The Propeller Group is the artist collective responsible for Viet Nam The World Tour, a project that is challenging the global mindset toward Vietnam. Artist Tuan Andrew Nguyen |
September 2012 | ||
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Akram Zaatari on the Arab Image Foundation
Artist Akram Zaatari considers the work of the Arab Image Foundation (AIF), an organization he cofounded in 1997 to collect, display, and preserve photographs from Arab countries. |
September 2012 | ||
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Yto Barrada on the ways the Strait of Gibraltar shapes life in Tangier
Artist Yto Barrada discusses the complex realities of life in Tangier, a city poised on the northern coast of Morocco, along the Strait of Gibraltar. Barrada has visually explored |
September 2012 | ||
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Richard T. Walker: the speed and eagerness of meaning (longer longing version)
Walker's meditative works combine spoken language, original music compositions, video, and photography to focus on the relationships among humans, language, and the environment. |
September 2012 | ||
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D-L Alvarez and Kevin Killian: The Visitor Owl
This collaboration between writer Killian, visual artist Alvarez, and the San Francisco Poets Theater features hyperbolic reenactments of two seminal Sidney Poitier films about |
August 2012 | ||
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My Barbarian: Broke People's Baroque Peoples' Theater
My Barbarian animates theatrical styles from Baroque spectacle to camp drag to riff on the absurdities of the American financial crisis. In a performance of wastefulness, |
August 2012 | ||
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Cliff Hengst: Maybe
Hengst is a San Francisco-based painter and performance artist. Here he presents a series of new and revisited solo works, including Stink Bomb, I Am a Tree, and Elvis. Hengst's |
August 2012 | ||
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Anne McGuire: Music Again
Drawing on her earlier video work I Am Crazy and You're Not Wrong (1997), Bay Area artist McGuire develops an in-gallery television special where live, simulcast, and recorded |
August 2012 | ||
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Margaret Tedesco: Cameo. Nights, and night
Tedesco works across performance, installation, and photography. In her weekend appearances she draws on and restages her 2005 work Cameo, in which a woman translates |
July 2012 | ||
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Shana Moulton and Nick Hallett: Whispering Pines 10
Moulton's alternate persona, Cynthia, moves between domestic spaces, technology, and mental (if colorful) breakdown in her ongoing video series. In Whispering Pines 10, she inhabits |
July 2012 | ||
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Robert Longo on Untitled Film Still #25, 1978
Robert Longo is an American painter and sculptor who studied art at Buffalo State College in the early 1970s, when Sherman was also a student there. He is one of various artists, |
July 2012 | ||
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Douglas Crimp on Untitled Film Still #60, 1980
Douglas Crimp is an art critic and professor of art history at the University of Rochester. He is one of various artists, writers, and scholars who were invited by The Museum of |
July 2012 | ||
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Helene Winer on Untitled #474, 2008
Helene Winer is one of the owners and founders of Metro Pictures Gallery, which has represented Cindy Sherman and shown her work since the gallery's first show in 1980. She is one |
July 2012 | ||
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Glenn D. Lowry on Untitled #263, 1992
Art historian Glenn D. Lowry is the director of The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York. He is one of various artists, writers, and scholars who were invited by MoMA to comment |
July 2012 | ||
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Eva Respini on Untitled #466, 2008
Eva Respini is an associate curator at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York, and the curator of the exhibition Cindy Sherman. She is one of various artists, writers, and |
July 2012 | ||
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Johanna Burton on Untitled #299, 1994
Johanna Burton is an art historian and critic and the director of the graduate program at the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College. She is one of various artists, writers, |
July 2012 | ||
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Ingrid Sischy on Untitled #479, 1975
Ingrid Sischy is a writer and contributing editor for Vanity Fair and editor of Vanity Fair International. She is one of various artists, writers, and scholars who were invited by |
July 2012 | ||
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Dodie Kazanjian on Untitled Film Still #48, 1979
Dodie Kazanjian is a contributing editor for Vogue magazine who has been covering the art world for the past two decades. She is one of various artists, writers, and scholars who |
July 2012 | ||
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Marilyn Minter on Untitled #351, 2000
Marilyn Minter is a painter, photographer, and video artist whose painting Strut is a part of SFMOMA's permanent collection. She is one of various artists, writers, and scholars |
July 2012 | ||
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Marina Abramović on Untitled #90, 1981
Marina Abramović is a performance artist who began her career in the early 1970s and has been referred to as "the grandmother of performance art." She is one of various |
July 2012 | ||
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Cindy Sherman goes shopping
Photographer Cindy Sherman is known for transforming herself for the camera. In this clip, Sherman goes shopping at a used clothing store for items that will help her create new |
July 2012 | ||
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Cindy Sherman's workshop
Photographer Cindy Sherman's studio is filled with costumes for the many characters portrayed in her work. In this clip Sherman gives us a tour of the storage space that houses |
July 2012 |