A New Approach to Artist Videos

Get the inside scoop (and watch the results!) of SFMOMA's new initiative to seek out the most interesting artists of our time and capture them, documentary style, in the studios where they create their work.

Sculptor Tony Cragg in his office, gesturing as he discusses his work

Tony Cragg, radical materialist

Sculptor Petah Coyne in her studio, with her materials, bunches of artificial flowers, visible behind her

Petah Coyne: “Materials are a language”

Painter Ellsworth Kelly in his studio, a pastel color-block painting on his left, and a paint-splattered workspace on his right

Ellsworth Kelly on Abstraction

Artist Paul Kos in the Sierra Nevadas mountains, gesturing towards a view of the valley below

Paul Kos in the Sierras

Tony Cragg’s utilitarian materials

A man with a microphone in front of a graphic yellow painting, with raised arms in the foreground

A New Approach to Artist Videos