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.
Artist Documentaries
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Andy Goldsworthy’s Ephemeral Art and Laborious Process, in a New Documentary
In the documentary Leaning into the Wind, the celebrated sculptor and environmental artist muses on the impermanence of his art.
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A Yayoi Kusama Documentary Tracks a Life in Polka Dots
Kusama – Infinity spotlights both the artist’s radically successful career and how art can be a method of healing.
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Finally, a Joseph Beuys Documentary
A new trailer shared exclusively with Hyperallergic gives a glimpse of Beuys, a new documentary about the legendary conceptual artist.
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How Eva Hesse Embraced Absurdity in Life and Art
In this exclusive clip from the documentary Eva Hesse, Lucy Lippard, Nancy Holt, and others reflect on the intimate character of Hesse’s sculptures.
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In a New Documentary, Errol Morris Turns His Camera on a Polaroid Portraitist
Errol Morris’s film about the photographer Elsa Dorfman touches on big questions about cycles of life and obsolescence, but remains doggedly cheerful.
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The Rise and Fall of a 1980s Street Art Star
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.
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Maurizio Cattelan’s Latest Prank Is a Documentary About His Life and Work
Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back makes an unconventional yet compelling case for the profundity of the artist’s elaborate sculptural jokes.
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A Cinematic Portrait of David Lynch’s Life and Art Before Film
The new documentary David Lynch: The Art Life is an engrossing account of the artist’s early life, from childhood to film school.
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A Documentary on Tony Conrad’s Shape-Shifting Legacy
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.
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A Psychological Portrait of Eva Hesse
Telling the story of Eva Hesse’s life and work presents one major challenge: as a narrative arc, it is necessarily truncated.
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A Documentary Tribute to Chris Burden’s Extreme Oeuvre
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.