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1) Waste land
Series
Arthouse films volume 019
Publisher
Arthouse Films
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Artist Vik Muniz travels to his native Brazil to the world's largest landfill where he invites the thousands of catadores, pickers who collect recyclable materials to be sold, to add refuse to his art, photographing the work from overhead.
2) Alice Neel
Series
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Explores the life and career of portrait painter Alice Neel.
Series
Arthouse films volume 018
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Examines the short career of artist Jean-Michel Basquiat through archival footage and interviews with those who knew or were influenced by him.
Series
Arthouse films volume 004
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Artists, critics, and patrons discuss post-war art in New York City against the backdrop of footage of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's exhibition "New York painting and sculpture, 1940-1970."
Series
Arthouse films volume 008
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Emily Kunstler and Sarah Kunstler examine the life of their late father, radical civil rights lawyer William Kunstler.
6) Chuck Close
Series
Arthouse films volume 017
Publisher
New Video
Pub. Date
2010
Language
English
Description
Examines the life and career of painter Chuck Close.
Series
Arthouse films volume 001
Publisher
New Video Group
Pub. Date
[2009]
Language
English
Description
Tells the extraordinary story of a postal clerk and a librarian who managed to build one of the most important contemporary art collections in history with very modest means.