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Art movies for holiday pleasures – Cave of Forgotten Dreams and Waste Land

If you missed them on the big screen like I did, you can still see these two recent art movies on DVD — from Netflix or from your library. Cave of Forgotten Dreams I heard the interview with Werner Herzog, director of Cave of Forgotten Dreams, on Fresh Air and it sounded like a fantastic documentary. The filmmaker and his crew get special access to the Chauvet Cave in Southern France, with wall drawings made some 32,000 years ago, that were just discovered in 1994. Herzog’s movie, shot in 3D, has lots of fantastic footage of the cave paintings and ... More » »

The Artist as Subject and Curator

Upcoming Art and Art Films at International House A piece from 2005 by Margaret Kilgallen, one of the artists to be featured in a film at I-House.International House has always been one of Philadelphia’s best venues for film (a hidden one, to judge from the small regular attendance) and they’ve been adding art, courtesy of InLiquid.com which has been presenting video work in I-House’s lobby space. They’ve also been showing ever more films about art and artists. I missed one I really wanted to see in November on L.A.’s Ferus Gallery but we’ll get chance this week to see a ... More » »

Report from Dublin: Museum Studies

Andrea Kirsh reports: [This is the first of two posts by Andrea from Dublin. Part 2 is here.] Dublin, Dec. 21-22, 2006 ‘Signage for a 35 floor social center’ outside IMMA’s New Galleries by Liam Gillick I was looking forward to my annual Christmas trip to Dublin because, in addition to seeing family, I was going to see two ambitious exhibitions of contemporary art. The Irish Museum of Modern Art (IMMA) announced an exhibition by 20 leading international artists based on the physical and conceptual processes involved in making and exhibiting art, including work by Doug Aitken, Douglas Gordon, Anri ... More » »