Video
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David Ireland at 500 Capp Street
Bay Area conceptual artist David Ireland is widely admired for installations and sculptures made with humble materials that he accumulated over time. His best known work of art is… |
September 2009 | ||
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Form, Growth, Behavior: The Making of P_Wall
Andrew Kudless discusses P_Wall, a 45-foot-long wall installation composed of undulating, bulbous forms. Kudless demonstrates the techniques used to create the work at his design… |
August 2009 |
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William Kentridge on his film Tide Table
Artist William Kentridge discusses Tide Table (2003), a short film that is part of 9 Drawings for Projection, a series that reveals a narrative of South Africa under apartheid and in… |
March 2009 | ||
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William Kentridge on his process
Artist William Kentridge speaks about his process of repeatedly erasing and reworking charcoal drawings to create his well-known stop-motion animated films, and discusses the… |
March 2009 | ||
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William Kentridge on his characters
Artist William Kentridge discusses Soho and Felix, two of the main characters from his films, and explains their relationships to common figures in Johannesburg, his… |
March 2009 | ||
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William Kentridge on AIDS and music in South Africa
Artist William Kentridge considers how seemingly simple creative choices, such as the music selected to accompany his films, can speak volumes about the subject matter. |
March 2009 | ||
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Kerry James Marshall on Completing the Picture of our Founding Fathers
Art in the Atrium artist Kerry James Marshall explains the stories and strategies behind his mural commission for SFMOMA's atrium. These works use games and puzzles to reveal… |
February 2009 | ||
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Kerry James Marshall on His Use of Games and Puzzles
Artist Kerry James Marshall discusses the ways the visual vocabulary of children's activity books influenced his murals for SFMOMA's atrium. |
February 2009 | ||
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Kerry James Marshall's Relationship to Art History
Artist Kerry James Marshall discusses his relationship to the Old Masters and considers his inspiration for developing a "rhetoric of blackness" in his painting series … |
February 2009 | ||
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Kerry James Marshall on Creating a Memento in Black and White
Artist Kerry James Marshall discusses his decision to paint his later Souvenir paintings in black and white instead of in color, and shares the art historical inspiration for this… |
February 2009 | ||
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Kerry James Marshall's "Requiem to the 1960s"
Artist Kerry James Marshall explains the background of his series Mementos. The paintings and lithographs were inspired by Marshall's memory of 1960s-era souvenirs commemorating… |
February 2009 | ||
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The deinstallation of Sol LeWitt's wall drawings for SFMOMA
Watch as Sol LeWitt's monumental wall drawings disappear from the museum's Haas atrium in this time-lapse video. The paintings (Wall Drawing #935: Color bands in four directions,… |
October 2008 | ||
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Whitney Chadwick on Lee Miller
Whitney Chadwick discusses the photographer Lee Miller and her involvement with Surrealism. |
July 2008 | ||
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SFMOMA installs Ann Hamilton's indigo blue
Time-lapse footage of the installation of Ann Hamilton's indigo blue at SFMOMA in Spring 2007. |
September 2007 | ||
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Ann Hamilton on the inspiration for indigo blue
Ann Hamilton talks about what inspired her installation indigo blue. |
September 2007 | ||
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Ann Hamilton on creating indigo blue
Ann Hamilton discusses the research, planning, and installation of indigo blue. |
September 2007 | ||
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Ann Hamilton discusses the meaning of indigo blue
Ann Hamilton considers the meaning and conceptual foundation of her installation indigo blue. |
September 2007 | ||
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Olafur Eliasson on engaging the viewer
Widely heralded as one of the most important artists of his generation, Olafur Eliasson nimbly merges art, science, and natural phenomena to create extraordinary multisensory… |
September 2007 | ||
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Behind-the-scenes in Olafur Eliasson's Studio
Eliasson's Studio Manager Sebastian Behmann speaks about the production and planning of the artist's works. |
September 2007 | ||
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Madeleine Grynsztejn on Olafur Eliasson's Model Room
Curator Madeleine Grynsztejn discusses Olafur Eliasson's Model Room (2003). |
September 2007 | ||
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Olafur Eliasson discusses his work
Olafur Eliasson explains the problems and themes that most interest him as an artist. |
September 2007 | ||
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Olafur Eliasson on making sense of the world
Widely heralded as one of the most important artists of his generation, Olafur Eliasson nimbly merges art, science, and natural phenomena to create extraordinary multisensory… |
September 2007 | ||
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Olafur Eliasson discusses his studio
Olafur Eliasson discusses the laboratory-like nature of his Berlin studio, where he works with a team of designers and engineers to develop the ideas and experiments that give rise… |
September 2007 | ||
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Olafur Eliasson on temporality
Olafur Eliasson discusses the ways his work addresses temporality. |
September 2007 | ||
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Will Shank on discovering a hidden Picasso
Paintings conservator Will Shank explains the process that led to the discovery of a hidden painting by Pablo Picasso. |
February 2007 | ||
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Why would Picasso hide a painting?
Paintings conservator Will Shank discusses the intentions behind Picasso's hidden painting. |
February 2007 | ||
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Brice Marden on Grove Group II
Brice Marden talks about the inspiration for his work Grove Group II (1972). |
February 2007 | ||
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Brice Marden on his inspiration and artistic process
Brice Marden explains the inspiration for his paintings, and discusses the techniques he uses to create them. |
February 2007 | ||
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Brice Marden on The Dylan Painting
Painter Brice Marden discusses his work The Dylan Painting (1966). |
February 2007 | ||
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Brice Marden: Looking at paintings
Artist Brice Marden discusses various ways of looking at paintings. |
February 2007 |
