Playlist: Artists at Work

Helen Frankenthaler Stains a Canvas

Journey through the soundscape of a boiler room with Bill Fontana

Imogen Cunningham: Why people like flowers

Jackson Pollock’s drip-painting process

Elizabeth Murray: Finding the artist inside the painting

Robert Bechtle's dabs of enlivening color

Doris Salcedo role-plays to shape her practice

Romare Bearden: Advocate, guru, nurturer

Imogen Cunningham on enjoying the tedious work in the darkroom

Sargent Johnson on surviving the Great Depression

Philip Guston at work in his studio

Diego Rivera: The gateway to Mexican culture and politics

Jenny Holzer’s public “clichés”

Andy Warhol makes a silkscreen

Ansel Adams visualizing the final print

Trains, snakes, and guitars: The collages of Romare Bearden

What is cheese? A reality lesson from René Magritte

An Assistant's Take on Making Murals with Rivera

Kill Your TV: How Bay Area Video Art Exploded in the 1970s

John Baldessari sings Sol LeWitt

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