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Preview the Documentary About the Ongoing Saga to Open the Barragán Archives

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel April 23, 2019

Here’s your exclusive look at a feature-length documentary about conceptual artist Jill Magid’s unusual project in the archives of famed Mexican architect Luis Barragán.

Andy Goldsworthy in Leaning into the Wind, a Magnolia Pictures release (photo courtesy of Magnolia Pictures; © Thomas Riedelsheime, all rights reserved)
Posted inFilm

Andy Goldsworthy’s Ephemeral Art and Laborious Process, in a New Documentary

by Bedatri D. Choudhury March 9, 2018

In the documentary Leaning into the Wind, the celebrated sculptor and environmental artist muses on the impermanence of his art.

Posted inFilm

A Yayoi Kusama Documentary Tracks a Life in Polka Dots

by Stephen Zacks February 2, 2018January 28, 2019

Kusama – Infinity spotlights both the artist’s radically successful career and how art can be a method of healing.

Posted inArt

Finally, a Joseph Beuys Documentary

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton November 21, 2017April 29, 2019

A new trailer shared exclusively with Hyperallergic gives a glimpse of Beuys, a new documentary about the legendary conceptual artist.

Posted inArt

How Eva Hesse Embraced Absurdity in Life and Art

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton August 25, 2017September 1, 2017

In this exclusive clip from the documentary Eva Hesse, Lucy Lippard, Nancy Holt, and others reflect on the intimate character of Hesse’s sculptures.

Still from The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman's Portrait Photography (2016) (courtesy NEON)
Posted inFilm

In a New Documentary, Errol Morris Turns His Camera on a Polaroid Portraitist

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton July 6, 2017July 5, 2017

Errol Morris’s film about the photographer Elsa Dorfman touches on big questions about cycles of life and obsolescence, but remains doggedly cheerful.

Richard Hambleton "Standing Man" (photo by Hank O'Neal, all photos courtesy Storyville Films)
Posted inFilm

The Rise and Fall of a 1980s Street Art Star

by Jon Hogan April 21, 2017April 21, 2017

Artist Richard Hambleton’s career took off in the 1980s, but the following decade he was wracked by addiction and destitute. A new documentary tracks his dramatic trajectory.

Posted inFilm

Maurizio Cattelan’s Latest Prank Is a Documentary About His Life and Work

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton April 13, 2017

Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back makes an unconventional yet compelling case for the profundity of the artist’s elaborate sculptural jokes.

Posted inFilm

A Cinematic Portrait of David Lynch’s Life and Art Before Film

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton April 7, 2017

The new documentary David Lynch: The Art Life is an engrossing account of the artist’s early life, from childhood to film school.

Still from Tony Conrad: Completely in the Present
Posted inFilm

A Documentary on Tony Conrad’s Shape-Shifting Legacy

by Craig Hubert March 31, 2017

A new documentary about the experimental musician, filmmaker, and artist, details his many influential projects while illuminating countless others we know very little about — for now.

Posted inFilm

A Psychological Portrait of Eva Hesse

Avatar photo by Benjamin Sutton May 4, 2016May 7, 2016

Telling the story of Eva Hesse’s life and work presents one major challenge: as a narrative arc, it is necessarily truncated.

Posted inFilm

A Documentary Tribute to Chris Burden’s Extreme Oeuvre

by Alina Cohen April 18, 2016April 18, 2016

Perhaps most surprising about the new film Burden, directed by Timothy Marrinan and Richard Dewey and screening at the Tribeca Film Festival, is its depiction of artist Chris Burden’s dramatic transformation from a rabble-rousing student in the 1970s to a mild-mannered landowner in 2014.

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