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Dec 4, 2018 · Courtesy of Tokyo Lee Productions, Inc. India Stoughton. Dec 04, 2018. Listen In English. Listen in Arabic. Powered by automated translation. ike Vincent van Gogh, Yayoi Kusama struggled to gain recognition as an artist for years as she battled with mental health problems.
Artist Yayoi Kusama drawing in Kusama – Infinity, directed by Heather Lenz (© Tokyo Lee Productions, Inc. courtesy Magnolia Pictures) The film portrays the young Kusama, a daughter of wealthy ...
- Kusama - Infinity
- The Andy Warhol Diaries
- Faces Places
- All The Beauty and The Bloodshed
- Boom For Real: The Late Teenage Years of Jean-Michel Basquiat
- Mapplethorpe: Look at The Pictures
- Marina Abramović — The Artist Is Present
- Brillo Box
- Ai Weiwei: Never Sorry
- David Lynch: The Art Life
One of the world’s most instantly recognisable, influential, and successful artists — and the top-selling living female artist in the world — Yayoi Kusama has not had an easy road to fame. The Japanese artist known for her extraordinary Infinity Mirror Rooms, installations covered in polka dots, and her obsessive, repetitive pattern-work, Kusama sh...
Six hours doesn’t seem enough to cover the life and impact of the most influential artist of the 20th century, but director Andrew Rossi (Page One: Inside the New York Times) makes every minute (or should we say every "15 minutes") count. And this only really covers Andy Warhol’s final decade of life! Don’t look for too much on The Factory here. Fo...
An unlikely friendship between two artists forms the core of Faces Places, with truly beautiful results for everyone. Nominated for an Academy Award for best documentary, Faces Places follows a large-scale project rolled out in small villages across rural France formulated by the late and great director Agnès Varda and muralist/photographer JR. The...
Filmmaker Laura Poitras (Citizenfour) delivered one of the most vital artist documentaries of our age in 2022 with All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, focused on photographer and professional shit-stirrer Nan Goldin — and it’s only apt too, given what a vital presence Goldin remains to this day. Creating a triple portrait of Goldin’s professional, pe...
Before you watch the exceptional, life-spanning Jean-Michel Basquiat documentary,The Radiant Child, take a look at the New York artist's younger, formative years in director Sara Driver's illuminating documentary, Boom for Real. Rather than looking at the New York artist's sadly brief and wildly famous years, the documentary looks squarely at the i...
Infamous '80s provocateur Robert Mapplethorpe managed to turn even the stems of flowers into something libidinous and perverse, and director Randy Barbato and Fenton Bailey’s 2016 doc on his photography is the best way to see how he managed it. Certainly no other biopic has reached the core of the artist's style like this, even if this is formally ...
Take a seat in front of the self-described "grandmother of performance art" for an hour or so — Marina Abramović did this exact thing for hours in her iconic performance at New York’s Museum of Modern Art. Lending its name to the documentary film too, The Artist Is Present is the work that usually sets off furious debates, but is nonetheless one th...
If you still haven’t gotten enough Warhol, this 2016 documentary from director Lisanne Skyler is highly recommended, taking as it does an entirely different tact at approaching the icon. Skylar follows a single piece of Warhol’s iconic pop-art sculpture (the so-called “Brillo Box” on the title) across the decades, looking at the people who own it e...
Filmmaker and journalist Alison Klayman's exceptional 2012 documentary about prolific dissident artist Ai Weiwei is one of the best you'll watch. Featuring interviews with Ai and those closest to him,Never Sorry is an intimate, as-it-happens portrait of the political artist and activist who quite literally flips the bird to power, censorship, polic...
What is "The Art Life", according to the director David Lynch? "You drink coffee, you smoke cigarettes, and you paint, and that’s it." Of course, Lynch has done a load of other things with his own "art life" — like direct movies, the thing that he’s best known for. But he’s also a talented painter and sculptor who channels his dream-world onto a st...
- Infinity Nets (1979) The “Infinity Nets,” a series that, though far limited ornate in its form, expressed on related themes of her work. The paintings seem to imply the move toward Minimalism and, later, Post-Minimalism during the ’60s and ’70s.
- Accumulations (1962) The 1960s “Accumulations” works helped Kusama’s recurring art forms achieve their highest expression. They often featured canvases and objects that were cluttered with recurring optical motifs.
- Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli’s Field (1965) Kusama established the first of her now-famous captivative environments. In 1965, Infinity Mirror Room – Phalli’s Field (Floor Show) combined her interests in reoccurring forms, sexual exploration, psychology, and perception.
- Narcissus Garden (1966) At the 33rd Venice Biennale in 1966, 1,500 shimmering balls formed an infinite reflective field in which the artist’s, visitors’, architecture, and landscape images were repeated, distorted, and projected by convex mirror surfaces that created virtual images that appeared closer and smaller than reality.
Aug 10, 2021 · Tokyo Lee Productions, Inc. The motif of the pumpkin is a crucial and recognisable part of the artist’s practice, stemming from a childhood fascination with the vegetable. Pumpkin from 1994 marks the beginning of Kusama’s public installations that were also displayed in Europe and the US.
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Nov 15, 2019 · A Bittersweet Contemporary Fairy-tale of a Woman's Struggle in the Art World Artist Yayoi Kusama drawing. Courtesy of Tokyo Lee Productions, Inc. Like Vincent van Gogh, Yayoi Kusama struggled to gain recognition as an artist for years as she battled with mental health problems. Unlike Van
Sep 6, 2018 · Production companies: Magnolia Pictures, Tokyo Lee Productions Inc., Submarine Entertainment, Dogwoof, Parco, Dakota Group LTD. Distributor: Magnolia Pictures. Director-screenwriter:...
