Category Archives: Movies about artists/art

Sunday Art Video | Sleeping At Last

Sundays are such days of leisure. A great day for flopping and watching. This Sunday we have an art video that hits your eyes and your ears.
It was created by Javan Iveny using paper cutouts for stop animation to go along with the song Green Screens by the band Sleeping at Last.
Enjoy:

Green Screens by [...]

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Who Does She Think She Is? | A Film That Looks At Women Artists

 
Let me start off this post with a few statistics:
- The number of professionally trained artists and art historians in the U.S. – Males 52%, Females 48%
- Percentage of artists at major institutions:
- National Gallery of Art — 98% male, 99.9% white
- National Portrait Gallery — 93% male, 99% white
- Hirshhorn Museum – modern and [...]

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Art21: Art in the Twenty-First Century Is Now On Hulu

You may have heard about Hulu, an evil plot by aliens to destroy the world through free television on the internet. Because after all tv rots the brain and tv on the internet really softens it up. (Don’t take my word for it.) And it seems that even high brow television is a weapon in [...]

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Artist Documentary: Garbage Warrior

Architecture is a creative profession. An architect can bring creativity and function together to create works of art in the form of buildings. Frank Lloyd Wright is probably the most well known architect due to his forward thinking with designs that were unique for their time. Gio Ponti and Daniel Libeskind also come to mind. [...]

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New Brow | The Rise Of Underground Art

I know I know, I have not been the blog posting fiend I once was. Don’t hate me and hang in there. (all 4 of you)
I came across this movie while I was reading Juxtapoz’s RSS feeds and I had to drop everything and help spread the word. Because the subject of said film [...]

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Bomb It! A Graffiti Movie

Graffiti.
What do you think?
Is it art?
Is it crime?
Personally I think yes and sometimes. And I must admit the quality of said graffiti can have an effect on my opinion. When I am painting over bad graffiti on the side of the building I manage I can be pretty grumpy. But when the train passes [...]

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