A well-produced mini-documentary about the work of the artist, Isa Gengken, accompanying her career retrospective at MoMA, New York.
HOW NOT TO BE BORING, The School Of Life, 6 minutes
Another wonderful tutorial from The School Of Life, attempting to answer one of Life’s more encompassing yet overlooked questions.
CHARLINE VON HEYL
Charline von Heyl (born 1960) is a German artist best known for her abstract painting. She also works with drawing, printmaking, and collage. She lives and works in New York and Marfa, Texas, together with her husband and fellow painter Christopher Wool.
MAN RAY :: Rayograph (The Kiss), 1922
A photogram is a picture made on photographic paper without the aid of a camera. To make this one, Man Ray exposed the paper to light at least three times. Each time a different set of objects acted as a stencil: a pair of hands, a pair of heads kissing (his and his lover, Kiki de Montparnasse), and two darkroom trays, which seem almost to kiss each other with their corner spouts. With each exposure, the paper darkened where it was not masked. Continue reading MAN RAY :: Rayograph (The Kiss), 1922
A NOISELESS PATIENT SPIDER, by Walt Whitman
A Noiseless Patient Spider
By Walt Whitman
A noiseless patient spider,
I mark’d where on a little promontory it stood isolated,
Mark’d how to explore the vacant vast surrounding,
It launch’d forth filament, filament, filament, out of itself,
Ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them.
And you O my soul where you stand,
Surrounded, detached, in measureless oceans of space,
Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,
Till the bridge you will need be form’d, till the ductile anchor hold,
Till the gossamer thread you fling catch somewhere, O my soul.
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“EVA HESSE 1965”, lecture & panel discussion, Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art, 3.13.2013, 126 min.
Taking inspiration from the exhibition Eva Hesse 1965, currently on view at Hauser & Wirth, in London, this panel reexamines Hesse’s legacy by focusing on her artistic experimentation during 1965, a pivotal period when she rethought her approach to color, materials, and two-dimensional work, and formed the foundation for her sculptural practice. Elisabeth Sussman, Sondra Gilman Curator of Photography at the Whitney Museum of American Art, moderates a conversation among writer William S. Wilson and contributors to the exhibition catalogue Todd Alden, Susan Fisher Sterling, and Kirsten Swenson.
This event took place at the Elizabeth A. Sackler Center for Feminist Art on March 16, 2013. Video courtesy Elizabeth A. Sackler Foundation.
THE YOGIS OF TIBET, documentary, 2003, 76 min.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFSjxc2Vg14
The Yogis Of Tibet is a look at the esoteric world of the Tibetan yogi, and includes interviews with some outstanding practitioners in the modern era. Comprised of rare interviews and never before seen demonstrations, it offers a unique glimpse into the work of Tibetan Buddhism’s holiest sect.
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HOW TO REMAIN CALM WITH PEOPLE, The School of Life, 5 min.
Yet another wry and clever reduction of one of life’s conundrums from the folks at The School of Life.
ANNE WALDMAN & TED BERRIGAN :: “MEMORIAL DAY”, 1973
This reading of Waldman and Berrigan’s poem “Memorial Day” was performed as part of a reading series at 98 Greene Street Loft curated by the poet Ted Greenwald. The video was shot by Sandy Hirsch on the only video format that existed at the time, 1/2 inch open reel video, often referred to as Portapak, and like any video shot in this format from the late 1960s to early 1970s, it is now a very fragile historical document.
1/2 in. video reel : sd., b&w ; Holly Solomon Gallery records, circa 1948-2003. Archives of American Art.
Kerry James Marshall, The Ecstasy of Communion, 1990
The Incubator 