I wish I had seen this film before I made the trip to the Barnes Foundation. The documentary was made in 2009 when the fate of Dr. Albert Barnes’s collection had already been determined. It includes interviews with scholars in the art world, art critics, and former staff of the Foundation. The reason for moving [...]

Jean-Michel Basquiat, who tragically died at the age of 27, left behind over 1000 paintings and 1000 drawings. The film, The Radiant Child,  about his rise to stardom is based on footage his friend Tamra Davis had from interviews in 1983. Supplemented by interviews with his friends, peers and former dealers: Julian Schnabel, Fab Five [...]

Moffatt works in both film and photography. Before she became an artist she worked in television and directed music videos. This has helped her in her current work as a full time fine artist. For her photographs she creates a scene almost by building a film set. She picks locations and hires actors. When she [...]

This documentary introduces the viewer to the lives of Herb and Dorothy Vogel, two New Yorkers living on modest incomes who were able to amass one of the most important contemporary art collections in the United States. Herb, a postal worker, and Dorothy, a librarian, married and decided to live off of her salary and [...]