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starring: Ashley Bickerton, Louise Bourgeois, Richmond Burton, Loren Calaway, St. Clair Cemindirected by: Chris Maybach
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9786304276976
Format: Color, NTSC
ISBN: 6304276974
Label: Twelve Films
Manufacturer: Twelve Films
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Twelve Films
Release Date: October 24, 1996
Running Time: 58 minutes
Sales Rank: 49961
Studio: Twelve Films
Theatrical Release Date: 1996
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Description:
Unlike any art movie you've ever seen, Making it in Manhattan is informed 'entertainment’ about the people who make contemporary art. Artists, collectors, and dealers bring to life the art capital of the world, New York, as it plunges into the 21st Century. Presenting a cross-section of artists, the film discusses inspiration, aesthetics, and the meaning of success. With Louise Bourgeois, Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Neil Jenney, Elizabeth Murray, Ashley Bickerton, Gary Simmons, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Rirkrit Tiravanija, St. Clair Cemin, Ivan Karp, Jay Gorney, Matthew Marks, Jerry Saltz, Herb & Dorothy Vogel, and others. From abstraction to figuration, from installation to conceptual art, from the privacy of the doctor's office to the posh gallery opening, Making it in Manhattan captures the reality of a special world. Music by Tom Waits, Don Braden Ryuichi Sakamoto, George van Eps, Piero Umiliani with Chet Baker.
Amazon.com:
Art City: Making It in Manhattan is an art tour of New York City, entering galleries and studios and the homes of collectors. Interviewing critics, collectors, and artists--among them Louis Bourgeois, Chuck Close, Elizabeth Murray, and Gary Simmons--director Chris Maybach looks at the contemporary art scene of the 1990s. Although the video bills itself as an exploration of the New York art community, it is really more a survey of the artists--location has little to do with the end product, it seems. Yet, despite the missed opportunity to exploit the city's influence on the creations, this documentary does succeed in illuminating the artists' struggles and inspirations. Covering collectors, studio visits, the 1980s, finances, daily routines, and success, the film is dynamic, interspersing images of the work with the creators themselves, and avoiding talking heads. For a broad view of a seemingly cloistered artistic community, Art City provides insight into and explanation of the fascinating and varied lives of artists. --Jenny Brown
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - plunged into the art pool
Frequently in New York, I'm lucky that there's plenty of art to see. It's out there, which is good because TV still doesn't know how to present contemporary artists. Most art films are listless and painfully routine, however I fould these DVDs full of detail and never dull. It doesn't make any difference in what order they're screened, there is always something interesting to look at, or a personal moment that's shared. Several dozen artists are profiled and although all might not always be of interest ... Read More
Rating: - An impeccable and unique addition to a superb series
Chris Maybach documents art and artist in the actual and intellectual worlds they inhabit. His films are not tricky, not sycophantic, not celebrity worshipping; they are reportage of a unique kind. There is a certain aura around a commercially and/or critically successful artist, and that cannot be avoided. It should not be avoided; it is the working reality of the artist. But the subjects' prominence might obscure Maybach's straightforward working method, one that makes his films sought after by educators ... Read More
Rating: - Very thoughtful and entertaining!!
The most revealing films about artists I've ever seen. If you want to meet artists who have been making the news and get to see what they are REALLY like, in their private moments as well as at gallery openings, these films are for you. Incredibly intimate. I mean that look on Amy Adler's face when she tears up her paintings... Wow.
I saw one of these films in Paris a few years ago on a double bill with Andy Goldsworthy: Rivers & Tides - another favorite of mine. Since then, I have seen all ... Read More
Rating:  - painful
You know, if I see one more stuffy, poorly directed/edited/produced art dvd....I'm going to scream. No wonder people who aren't artists want to slit their wrists when their new boyfriend/girlfriend suggests they "get cultured" and watch this DVD on artists' and their lives. The artists seem bored in the video (overall) and the questions are the same top 10 questions you always hear. Save the money and buy some nice whiskey.
Rating: - so-so
This is edited totally in weirdo, director-wants-to-be-best-friends-with-the-subject fashion! For example, one of the discs becomes "The Richard Tuttle Show"...we are introduced briefly to a couple artists and then we never see them again, however, most of the 53 or so minutes are spent watching Tuttle wander around his house with bizarrrrrro country-esque musak in the background (well, mostly foreground). What happened to all the other great artists we saw for a minute? I want to show these pieces to my BFA ... Read More
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