Painting and Sculpture – Checkerboard Film Foundation

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Has total 21 videos

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Vija Celmins: To Fix the Image in Memory

2022

For more than six decades, Vija Celmins has been creating exquisitely detailed paintings, sculptures, drawings, and prints depicting natural imagery, including...

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Vladimir Kagan: A Life of Design

2021

This portrait of Vladimir Kagan–noted furniture designer, sculptor, and writer, documents his creative process, from initial drawings and design ideas...

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Julie Mehretu: Palimpsest

2021

Julie Mehretu has been an internationally acclaimed artist for the past two decades. Her work is featured in museums around...

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James Rosenquist: Up Close

2019

James Rosenquist was one of the leading figures in the pivotal Pop Art movement. Together with such legendary artists as...

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Jeff Koons: The Whitney Retrospective

2016

The Whitney Museum of American Art presented the landmark exhibition Jeff Koons: A Retrospective from June 27 to October 19,...

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Eric Fischl: The Process of Painting

2012

Developed as an adjunct to the exhibition Dive Deep: Eric Fischl and the Process of Painting, this 35-minute film is...

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Ellsworth Kelly & Jack Shear: Kindred Aesthetics, Mt. Lebanon Shaker Village

2011

The Shaker movement in America was founded by Ann Lee, a member of a religious sect near Manchester, England, that...

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Sol LeWitt: Wall Drawings

2010

During the four decades of his career, Sol LeWitt produced more than 1200 wall drawings using a deliberately limited repertoire...

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Picasso and Braque: Pioneering Cubism

2007

In 1989, William S. Rubin, then Director Emeritus of the Museum of Modern Art's Department of Painting and Sculpture, organized...

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Kiki Smith: Squatting the Palace

2006

This film takes a circular approach to an artist who works in overlapping spirals of creative energy. Smith works in...

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