Online Video on Demand
focusing on American representational art, streamed free to viewers
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z
To locate videos by artist name, please click here.
Viewers can locate videos by theme by browsing through TFAO's Topics in American Representational Art
Palmer
Museum of Art partnered with the WGBH Forum Network for:
PBS provides a variety of streaming video
sources for American art:
PBS's two-season television series Art-21,
Art in the Twenty-First Century welcome page explains that the series
is "the only series on television to focus exclusively on contemporary
visual art and artists in the United States, and it uses the medium of television
to provide an experience of the visual arts that goes far beyond a gallery
visit. Fascinating and intimate footage allows the viewer to observe the
artists at work, watch their process as they transform inspiration into
art, and hear their thoughts as they grapple with 
the
physical and visual challenges of achieving their artistic visions."
The Art-21 web site contains video clips relating to each of the
many featured artists including Laurie
Anderson, Margaret
Kilgallen, Sally
Mann, Bruce Nauman,
Raymond Pettibon,
Martin Puryear,
Collier Schorr,
Kiki Smith,
William Wegman
and Fred Wilson.
The Art:21 series and its companion materials answer the following questions: who are today's artists?; what are they thinking about?; how do they describe their work? and why do they do what they do? The Season One and Two home videos are two sets with four hours each. Viewers meet "a diverse group of contemporary artists through revealing profiles that take viewers behind the scenes-into artists' studios, homes, and communities -- to provide an intimate view of their lives, work, sources of inspiration, and creative processes." Representational as well as abstract artists are featured in the videos. The Emmy nominated Season One video set features 21 artists and is divided into four general themes spanning four hours on two separate tapes. Season Two of the series features 16 engaging artists and is divided into four general themes spanning four hours on two tapes.
The PBS American Masters series includes a documentary concerning Alfred Stieglitz. PBS's web site offers a page that includes eight video clips from four to nine minutes in length not found in the original documentary. Stieglitz-experts in the clips include Historian Thomas Bender; Alan Trachtenberg, Professor of American Studies at Yale; Richard Whelan, Stieglitz Biographer; Elizabeth Hutton Turner, Curator at Philips Gallery; Sarah Greenough, Curator of Photographs, National Gallery of Art; Joanna Steichen, Author, and widow of Edward Steichen; Sue Davidson-Lowe, author and grand-niece of Stieglitz; and Wanda Corn, art historian at Stanford.
More from American Masters:
PBS maintains an online archive of individual segments from NewsHour with Jim Lehrer. Several segments covering the visual arts are available by video search in the Arts & Entertainment category by keyword "Jeffrey Brown". Arts correspondent Jeffrey Brown reports:
"In Memorium: Chuck Jones" is a 4-minute February 25, 2002 NewsHour segment remembering Chuck Jones, the master of movie animation
PBS previously broadcast Egg: The Arts Show. A segment presents Manhattan's annual Outsider Art Fair features 32 galleries and hundreds of artists from around the world. For the past 8 years, the Puck Building in Manhattan's chic Soho neighborhood has opened its doors to city folk seeking out the most unique and creative works of Outsider Art.
I Hear America Singing by Thomas Hampson is a section of the PBS web site where viewers can find biographies of the key composers, poets and writers, artists, and artistic and cultural movements including
Some pages include Quicktime video clips.
The Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA produced
an online presentation titled Indian
Market: New Directions in Southwestern Native American Pottery to
accompany a 2002 exhibition. The "Indian Market" segment describes
the annual event in a video interview with Sicangu Lakota artist and psychiatrist
Thomas Haukass.
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