April Gornik paints evocative landscapes with roots in minimalism as well as the conceptual avant garde of the 70's. Her haunted imagery is based on photographs that she manipulates to make highly personal work filled with sensual, sexual and metaphorical overtones. (read more)

This documentary looks at the life and work of Robert Mapplethorpe, a world renowned and controversial photographer, who died of AIDS in 1989. It explores his photography, his relationship to the downtown New York art world, and the gay S&M club scene prevalent in the eighties. (read more)

Eril Fischl is a painter of American disillusionments. Raised in suburbia, Fischl paints provocative vignettes and portraits of middle class lives. His paintings, a combination of David Lynch and Edward Hopper, are fraught with psychological insight and emotional ennui. (read more)

Hailed by the art press as one of the most innovative artists of our time, TONY OURSLER is at the forefront of a second generation of video artists. Oursler creates eerily beautiful video installations as well as arresting video projections on objects in galleries and in public spaces. (read more)

CINDY SHERMAN creates innovative work that explores the place of women in society. With photographs she takes of herself in which she impersonates various fictitious characters, she shows us the numerous roles women play in our world. She depicts woman as house wife, sex symbol, lover, seductress, victim, monster and more; and makes us wonder about our perceptions. (read more)

Laurie Anderson is best known as a performance artist who uses music, technology, handmade instruments, words, film, actors and props to tell her tales. Although Anderson describes herself as a “story-teller,” her performances are rich in visual imagery and have often been presented in art galleries and museums. (read more)

Nam June Paik is the founding father of video art. For more than four decades, he has explored and eploited television technology and used it as an artist's medium. Paik confesses that he has become "prisoner of the cathode ray." (read more)

Mary Frank is best known for her ceramic sculpture and work in printmaking. However, in the past 10 years or so, she has turned to painting, creating an impressive body of work that is rich in evocative imagery (read more)

On this program we look at the extraordinary career of Chuck Close, an artist who, for thirty years, has had a passionate interest in making portraits of his friends and family. Working from photographs, Close has made an astonishing body of work. Using a multiplicity of innovative styles and techniques, he has revolutionized the time honored portrait. (read more)

This program features Nan Goldin’s celebrated 1996 mid-career photography retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Goldin’s exhibition filled an entire floor at the Whitney Museum with pictures that chronicle her involvement and fascination with the alternative, “downtown” culture of New York City, Boston, Berlin, Tokyo, etc. (read more)

Barbara Kruger is one of the most highly successful, yet controversial, artists working today. Her art blends the pragmatic world of advertising and graphic design, a highly developed aesthetic sense and a razor sharp political viewpoint that touches on such themes as patriarchy and our consumer culture. (read more)

MINIMALISM is a uniquely American phenomenon. This movement, with its emphasis on basic shapes, reduced forms and colors, seems deceptively simple. Yet its theoretical ideas and formal constructs have made Minimalism a major force in art of the latter part of the 20th century. (read more)

This program covers the art of one of the most innovative and unusual artists working today. Seen are Kiki Smith’s 1992 and 1993 shows at the Fawbush Gallery in New York City in which she exhibits her visceral, powerful and thought provoking work. Included is an interview with Kiki Smith. (read more)

On this program we meet LEO CASTELLI and ILEANA SONNABEND, art dealers who have played a significant role in championing and promoting Pop Art, Minimal Art and Conceptual Art. (read more)

In our media age, video has become the conduit for "cutting edge" art. Mary Lucier, a pioneer in this new medium, talks about her evocative, lyrical imagery and sculptural installations. On this program, ART/new York covers "Wilderness" a video installation exhibited widely, and seen most recently, at the Greenberg/Wilson Gallery in New York City. (read more)

This is a rare and extensive glimpse at an enormous talent who occupied the New York art scene for many decades. This program includes two exhibitions of Alice Neel's work at the Robert Miller gallery during the 1980's as well as an in-depth interview... (read more)

Koons’ polished polychromed wood and porcelain figurines draw on our popular culture and “kitchy” imagery in order to confound, confuse and ultimately seduce the general populace as well as the intellectual art world. (read more)

On this program we see a rare interview with the mercurial painter, Jean-Michel Basquiat, conducted in 1981 in his studio on Crosby Street, in SOHO. Basquiat, an internationally renowed as well as the enfant terrible of the 1980's art scene, died tragically in 1988 at the age of 28. (read more)

Elizabeth Murray’s distinctive and unusual paintings make her one of the foremost artists working in New York today. Her work includes sophisticated formal elements, such as complex coloration and inventive shapes that jut out and protrude from the wall. She uses everyday objects that allude to primal imagery as well as a highly individualized sense of personal drama. (read more)

On this program you’ll see the sensual and provocative work of LOUISE BOURGEOIS. Bourgeois, a member of the New York art world since the early 1950s, produces sculpture which is highly charged in content as well as eerily beautiful in form. (read more)

This tape covers the "CELEBRATION OF WOMEN ARTISTS" exhibition at the Sidney Janis Gallery, an exhibition by MARISOL at the Janis Gallery and an exhibition by NANCY GRAVES at the Knoedler Gallery. (read more)

GRAFFITI/POST GRAFFITI is a testament to the street graffiti entering the hallowed grounds of major art galleries and institutions. In this documentary of the early 80s movement, we see the movers and shakers of this genre and listen to the minds behind one of the most innovative, imaginative trends of this decade. (read more)

On this program we see JULIAN SCHNABEL'S first major one man show at the Leo Castelli and Mary Boone Galleries, an exhibition by LEE KRASNER at the Robert Miller Gallery and an exhibition by MALCOM MORLEY at the Xavier-Fourcade Gallery. (read more)

Seen on this program is the first major retrospective exhibition by Nam June Paik, widely considered the father of video art, at The Whitney Museum of American Art. Also seen are video pieces by Ernest Gusella and David Byrne at MoMA's "New Imagery and Performance Video" exhibition. (read more)

This seminal show, organized by DIEGO CORTEZ, features the work of many artists who shaped the direction of art that was to follow. Included is the work of ROBERT MAPPLETHORPE, KEITH HARING, JEAN-MICHEL BASQUIAT, PUNK Magazine and GRAFFITI artists among others.
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