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Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler
Conversations with Artists - April 09, 2015 13:00 - 2 daysApril 9, 2015 Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler have been working collaboratively in video, photography, and sculpture since 1990. Their work invites suggestive, open-ended reflections on memory, place, and cinema. Both are graduate faculty members at the Milton Avery Graduate School of the...
Johan Grimonprez
Conversations with Artists - February 26, 2015 23:30 - 1 hourFebruary 26, 2015 Johan Grimonprez is a Belgian multimedia artist, filmmaker, and curator whose works critique mass produced contemporary and historical imagery. He achieved international acclaim with his film essay Dial H-I-S-T-O-R-Y (1997). Grimonprez divides his time between Brussels and New...
Paul Pfeiffer
Conversations with Artists - February 18, 2015 23:30 - 1 hourFebruary 18, 2015 Winner of the Whitney Museum’s first Bucksbaum Award in 2000, Paul Pfeiffer creates groundbreaking video, sculpture, and photography that reflect on collective psychological states related to the history of image production. In conversation with Alexander Dumbadze, Associate P...
Jesper Just
Conversations with Artists - December 11, 2014 23:30 - 37 minutesDecember 11, 2014 The Danish-born, Brooklyn-based artist known for his immersive cinematography and emotionally-pitched soundtracks reflects on notions of space, memory, and cultural displacement. In Conversation with Klaus Ottmann, Director for the Center of the Study of Modern Art and Curator...
Dinh Q. Lê
Conversations with Artists - October 30, 2014 13:00 - 2 daysOctober 30, 2014 Conceptual artist Dinh Q. Lê uses documentary video, animation, and photography to explore the history and people of his native Vietnam, usually set against impressions and representations from the United States, where he lived in his youth. He returned to live and work in Ho C...
Peter Hutton
Conversations with Artists - October 16, 2014 22:30 - 45 minutesOctober 16, 2014 Peter Hutton’s cinematic portraits of cities and landscapes evoke early films and traditions of painting and still photography. In 2008, the Bard College professor’s work was the subject of a retrospective at the Museum of Modern Art, New York. In conversation with Alexander Du...
Zarina Bhimji
Conversations with Artists - April 24, 2014 23:00 - 1 hourApril 24, 2014 Ugandan-born London-based multimedia artist Zarina Bhimji uses photography, film, and sound installations to explore topics like history and memory, particularly as it relates to post-colonial Africa and Europe. Her work features hauntingly sparse landscapes and ethereal soundtra...
Zoё Charlton
Conversations with Artists - April 10, 2014 23:00 - 1 hourApril 10, 2014 Zoё Charlton creates drawings, videos, and sculptures that examine issues of gender and race. She is best known for her large-scale drawings of sexualized bodies of black women or nude white male figures that explore the ironies of contemporary social and racial politics. Charlto...
Katrín Sigurđardóttir
Conversations with Artists - March 27, 2014 23:00 - 1 hourMarch 27, 2014 The work of Icelandic sculptor Katrín Sigurđardóttir examines the embodiment of distance and memory in architecture, cartography, and traditional landscapes. Her works cross the boundary between perceived and physical space, forcing viewers to create new spatial relationships. In...
Hassan Khan
Conversations with Artists - February 21, 2014 00:00 - 1 hourFebruary 20, 2014 The work of British-born Egyptian multimedia artist, musician, and writer Hassan Khan is informed by history and culture. Khan interprets personal and communal experiences through experimental video, digital animation, sculpture, text, photography, and sound. In conversation w...
Catherine Sullivan
Conversations with Artists - January 24, 2014 00:00 - 50 minutesJanuary 23, 2014 Originally trained as an actress, Catherine Sullivan stages elaborate filmed and live performances that use historical references to address societal structures. In conversation with Klaus Ottmann, Director of the Center for the Study of Modern Art and Curator at Large. In coll...
A Closer Look: Van Gogh the Artist
Videos from the Phillips - December 12, 2013 20:00 - 2 minutes - VideoArt Historian Cornelia Homburg explains the myth of van Gogh as “mad genius”
A Closer Look: Van Gogh and Gauguin
Videos from the Phillips - December 12, 2013 20:00 - 3 minutes - VideoArt Historian Cornelia Homburg discusses the artists’ friendship and rivalry
Wade Guyton
Conversations with Artists - November 22, 2013 00:00 - 1 hourNovember 21, 2013 New York-based painter Wade Guyton uses everyday digital technologies such as desktop computers, scanners, and inkjet printers to explore traditional forms of art. In conversation with Klaus Ottmann, Director of the Center for the Study of Modern Art and Curator at Large. In c...
Points, Lines, and Colors in Succession by John F. Simon Jr. / Intersections Art Projects
Videos from the Phillips - November 15, 2013 22:00 - 1 minute - VideoIntersections artist John F. Simon Jr. discusses his installation at the Phillips, Points, Lines, and Colors in Succession, on view October 17, 2013 through February 9, 2014. Inspired by the progression of movement in the natural world, Simon's four-part installation in the Phillips house stair...
Points, Lines, and Colors in Succession by John F. Simon Jr.
Intersections Contemporary Art Projects - November 15, 2013 22:00 - 1 minute - VideoIntersections artist John F. Simon Jr. discusses his installation at the Phillips, Points, Lines, and Colors in Succession, on view October 17, 2013 through February 9, 2014. Inspired by the progression of movement in the natural world, Simon's four-part installation in the Phillips house stair...
Van Gogh Repetitions / Exhibition Videos
Videos from the Phillips - October 30, 2013 13:00 - 3 minutes - VideoExhibition curator Eliza Rathbone gives an introduction to Van Gogh Repetitions. In the first Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) exhibition in DC in 15 years, the Phillips brings together 35 of his celebrated portraits and landscapes from some of the world’s most renowned collections. It features res...
Van Gogh Repetitions
Exhibition Videos - October 30, 2013 13:00 - 3 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsExhibition curator Eliza Rathbone gives an introduction to Van Gogh Repetitions. In the first Vincent van Gogh (1853–1890) exhibition in DC in 15 years, the Phillips brings together 35 of his celebrated portraits and landscapes from some of the world’s most renowned collections. It features res...
Pakistani Voices: In Conversation with The Migration Series
Exhibition Videos - October 24, 2013 13:00 - 2 minutes - Video ★★★★★ - 3 ratingsIn April 2013, the Phillips partnered with the US Department of State to conduct a series of workshops in Pakistan focusing on art and social change. Using Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series (1940–41) as a catalyst for conversation about the power of storytelling through art, emerging artists,...
Pakistani Voices: In Conversation with The Migration Series / Exhibition Videos
Videos from the Phillips - October 24, 2013 13:00 - 2 minutes - VideoIn April 2013, the Phillips partnered with the US Department of State to conduct a series of workshops in Pakistan focusing on art and social change. Using Jacob Lawrence’s The Migration Series (1940–41) as a catalyst for conversation about the power of storytelling through art, emerging artists,...
The Large Plane Trees (Road Menders at Saint-Rémy) (1889)
Van Gogh Repetitions Audio Tour - October 03, 2013 13:00 - 2 minutes ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsStop 1 Curator Eliza Rathbone discusses the differences and variations in The Road Menders and The Large Plane Trees.
Portrait of Camille Roulin (1888)
Van Gogh Repetitions Audio Tour - October 03, 2013 13:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsStop 4 Head of Conservation Elizabeth Steele discusses both of van Goghís portraits of Camille Roulin.
Lullaby: Madame Augustine Rouline Rocking a Cradle (La Berceuse) (1889)
Van Gogh Repetitions Audio Tour - October 03, 2013 13:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsStop 5 Eliza Rathbone discusses van Gogh's La Berceuse series.
Portrait of the Postman Joseph Roulin (1888)
Van Gogh Repetitions Audio Tour - October 03, 2013 13:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsStop 2 Eliza Rathbone discusses van Gogh's The Postman Joseph Roulin, in the collection of the Kunstmuseum Winterthur.
The Bedroom in Arles (1889)
Van Gogh Repetitions Audio Tour - October 03, 2013 13:00 - 1 minute ★★★★★ - 2 ratingsStop 3 Eliza Rathbone discusses van Gogh's bedroom at Arles, and the artist's depictions of it.
Yve-Alain Bois
Duncan Phillips Lectures - September 19, 2013 23:00 - 46 minutesSep 19, 2013 Yve-Alain Bois, the author of Kelly’s catalogue raisonné, discusses Kelly’s works. Bois, a prominent scholar of 20th-century European and American art, is professor at the Institute for Advanced Study at Princeton University.
A Closer Look: The Washstand (1944)
Videos from the Phillips - August 01, 2013 13:00 - 3 minutes - VideoIn this video, the painting The Washstand (1944) is examined in specular light, a form of raking light viewed from an angle.
A Closer Look: The Round Table (1929)
Videos from the Phillips - August 01, 2013 13:00 - 2 minutes - VideoIn this video, the painting The Round Table (1929) is examined in visible, raking, and ultraviolet light.
A Closer Look: Introduction
Videos from the Phillips - August 01, 2013 13:00 - 1 minute - VideoMost examinations began with a careful inspection in good overall lighting to get a general sense of the painting. Other techniques exploit different types of electromagnetic radiation, such as ultraviolet, infrared, and x-rays. This collection of videos focuses on the study of four paintings by ...
A Closer Look: Pewter Pot and Plate of Fruit (1944)
Videos from the Phillips - August 01, 2013 13:00 - VideoIn this video, the paint surface of Pewter Pot and Plate of Fruit (1944) is examined with the stereomicroscope.
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