Modern Art Videos

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In this archival video clip, Bay Area conceptual artist David Ireland discusses his philosophy on art materials and leads a camera crew on a tour of his best-known work of art - his home at 500 Capp Street.

A truly mind-blowing confection of some of Europe s most awesome architecture, the City of Arts and Science in Valencia is fast becoming one of Spain s top tourist attractions. This futuristic city within a city must surely rank as one of the world s most exciting and imaginative millennium projects. The entire complex, designed to celebrate the arrival of the 21 st century, looks as though it might have been beamed down to earth from another planet. Valencia s City of Arts and Science from afar at night And it s a down to earth approach which really defines this space age cultural complex because it s all about firing the masses with enthusiasm for the arts and science. The breathtaking structures are enough in themselves to lure visitors in their millions. You don t have to be an opera buff or science boffin to enjoy a day out here - in fact if you re on a tight budget you can just wander round this incredible city without even buying an entrance ticket. Santiago Calatrava, who master-minded most of the complex, says I am proud of the fact that people can walk through and around the main buildings without paying. It is a city to be discovered by promenading. You can promenade for more than seven kilometres around the complex thanks to the vision of this internationally acclaimed architect, artist and engineer who allowed his imagination free rein when it came to designing one of the most ambitious projects ever undertaken by his native city. Many Valencians admit to having visited the arts and science city scores of times without ever having bought an entrance ticket to any of its four star turns: the Hemesferic , Planetarium, the Principe Felipe Science Museum, the Oceanarium and the Reina Sofia Arts Palace. Formats available: Quicktime (.mov), Flash Video (.flv)Tags: modern art, park, buildings, valencia, sightseeing, spain, architecture, science

Golden Hill based art collector and historian Dave Hampton talks about how a group of mid-century San Diego artists changed his life.

video profile on abstract artist Claude Tousignant

video profile on abstract artist Claude Tousignant

Picturing America: Photorealism in the 1970s at Deutsche Guggenheim in Berlin, the first major showing of Photorealism in Germany in nearly thirty years, features thirty-one paintings, a number of them the most iconic works of the period, by fourteen artists: Robert Bechtle, Charles Bell, Tom Blackwell, Chuck Close, Robert Cottingham, Don Eddy, Richard Estes, Audrey Flack, Ralph Goings, Ron Kleeman, Richard McLean, Malcolm Morley, John Salt, and Ben Schonzeit. More info.

Preview of Olafur Eliasson's exhibition at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, Germany: "Your mobile expectations: BMW H2R project". More info.

For the Gallery Weekend Berlin, Johnen Gallery Berlin presents two videos of the Belgian artist David Claerbout. The first one, entitled "The Algier's section of a happy moment" shows a small football pitch on a roof top of the Kasbah of Algier. This moment was caught from numerous perspectives in hundreds of photographs. More info.

The CaixaForum Madrid is a new cultural center in the historical center of Madrid, near the renowned Prado, Reina Sofia and Thyssen-Bornemisza museums, designed by Swiss architects Herzog & de Meuron, the 2001 Pritzker Architecture Prize winners. More info.

A Faithful Eye: Modern and Contemporary Art from The Netherlands, The ABN AMRO Collection includes thirty-five paintings, many of monumental scale, from the art collection of ABN AMRO based in Amsterdam. The exhibition explores important themes and contradictory issues in modern and contemporary Dutch art, from subjects that recall the Dutch painting traditions of portraiture and landscape to works of pure abstraction, both rational and expressive. Twenty-seven artists are represented from Karel Appel (1921-2006), a leading member of the CoBRA avant-garde movement of the late 1940s and early 1950s to Thomas Raat (b. 1979), the youngest artist in the exhibition, who has twice won the Royal Dutch Prize for Painting. Expressive portraits and figure paintings by Marlene Dumas (b. 1953) and the conceptual photographic compositions of Jan Dibbets (b. 1941) have gained international attention in the past twenty years. Well established in The Netherlands and Europe and somewhat new to U.S. audiences are works by Ger van Elk (b. 1941), Ren Dani ls (b. 1939), and Toon Verhoef (b. 1946) who served as artist-in- residence at Dartmouth College in 2004 and University of Washington in 2006. The exhibition also includes artists never before shown in the United States. A Faithful Eye: Modern and Contemporary Art from The Netherlands, The ABN AMRO Collection is sponsored by: ABN AMRO Brooks Family - Holland, MI Best Packaging Netherlands Consulate - West Michigan

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