John Lennon, Yoko Ono; Interview

John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono were guests on the Dick Cavett show on 11th September 1971. This was Lennon's first interview after the Beatles had split. The Lennon's discuss their artistic collaboration, with reference to Yoko's work. It contains some footage of their film work and previews the release of Imagine. There's some warm up chit chat at the beginning that may be skipped.

John described Yoko as "the world's most famous unknown artist: everybody knows her name, but nobody knows what she does."

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7kXCnKfdGOY

The first interview continues here



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ6WFtdceCU


second interview

The Lennons appear at approximately 27 mins into the video.



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=31qVGN1gKOE


more info
http://www.allmusic.com/album/the-dick-cavett-show-john-yoko-collection-mw0001054126

Yoko Ono on Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yoko_Ono

Painters Painting: Documentary

".... the documentary is about American painting from the end of World War II through the 1960s. Specifically it was tied to a Metropolitan Museum of Art show titled “New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970″ and comes with the sub-title “A Candid History of the New York Art Scene, 1940-1970″ and supplemented with a similarly titled book. "

"One thing it is not, however, is a look at painters painting. A better title is “Painters Talking” or even “Filmmaker Filming,” given that de Antonio appears in many interview scenes along with his crew, or sometimes there is at least a microphone extended into the frame. The director, who was a prominent part of the New York art scene (as promoter rather than artist) before becoming a filmmaker at the age of 43, took on this subject in part at the suggestion of his wife at the time, Terry Brook.

It was also, while familiar ground, nothing short of a challenge for de Antonio, who was conflicted about the art. He liked the paintings and their creators were his friends, but as a Marxist social critic he saw them as “essentially manifestations of a very conservative aspect of America … part of a machine which runs this country,” because they’re bought by the wealthy and corporate and the artists then too become wealthy and occasionally even corporate. He was also critical of abstract paintings being too uninvolved, socially and politically. Of the work of his close friend Frank Stella, he would say, “Tell me the politics of a stripe…”*"

full article
http://documentarychannel.com/documentary-classics-emile-de-antonios-painters-painting-is-mistitled-and-undervalued/

From Wiki
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Painters_Painting

"Artists appearing in the film include Willem de Kooning, Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Robert Rauschenberg, Helen Frankenthaler, Frank Stella, Barnett Newman, Hans Hofmann, Jules Olitski, Philip Pavia, Larry Poons, Robert Motherwell, and Kenneth Noland."



from Youtube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRG-QFeYg8I

Lecture: William Kentridge

Hosted by College of Fine Arts School of Visual Arts on February 28, 2011

Best known for animated films based on charcoal drawings, William Kentridge's works have propelled him into the realm of South Africa's top artists. His animations, focused on time and change, are often autobiographical, as an individual (Kentridge includes his self-portrait in many of his pieces) and as a South African (many of his works concern social and political issues). Kentridge speaks about time pre- and post-Einstein's theory of relativity and how it relates to art as part of the Seventh Annual Tim Hamill Visiting Artist Lecture series.

3D printed reproduction

" a recent installation at the Andy Warhol Museum in Pittsburgh (PA), in collaboration with Materialise, adds to the question of what it looks like when you mix 3D printing with work intended to question the value of the multiple."

http://blog.maketank.it/2013/07/dadaist-warhol-3d-printing