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On This Spot NYC
Приєднався 9 січ 2024
On This Spot NYC is a nonprofit digital mapping project. We tell the stories of a diverse group of women artists’ lives through short-form documentary videos.
On This Spot - Women of Fluxus
80 Wooster Street, An Irreverent, Playful Approach to Art
Fluxus was a radical, chaotic 1960s SoHo collective, inspired by Dadaism and famous for breaking rules and boundaries. Leading member Yoko Ono produced conceptual art pieces such as "Painting to be Stepped On" and "Bottoms" which reflect pure Fluxus philosophy, demanding audience participation, embracing chance, and breaking new ground in experimental art. The many women of Fluxus produced work that was multi-sensory, interdisciplinary and often playful. Anti-art became a force for change and shock value meant empowerment.
Fluxus was a radical, chaotic 1960s SoHo collective, inspired by Dadaism and famous for breaking rules and boundaries. Leading member Yoko Ono produced conceptual art pieces such as "Painting to be Stepped On" and "Bottoms" which reflect pure Fluxus philosophy, demanding audience participation, embracing chance, and breaking new ground in experimental art. The many women of Fluxus produced work that was multi-sensory, interdisciplinary and often playful. Anti-art became a force for change and shock value meant empowerment.
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On This Spot - Pat Steir
Переглядів 137Місяць тому
81 Wooster Street, Art that’s Large but Delicate Pat Steir works large - landscape size not window size. The acclaimed painter is known for her waterfall paintings in which she allows thinned oil paint to flow down the canvas - in black and white or in sumptuous color. With a background in publishing, Steir helped launch the artist publisher and bookstore Printed Matter in 1976. She began her w...
On This Spot - Laurie Simmons
Переглядів 115Місяць тому
547 Broadway A Dolls-Eye View of Consumerism, Conformity Laurie Simmons’ photographs, sculpture and film use staged set-ups with dolls and props to challenge conventional concepts of gender roles and critique American consumerism. In her dollhouse world, she creates familiar suburban scenes - a woman peering into an open refrigerator, a woman with a lipstick as big as she is. Simmons’ Kaleidosc...
On This Spot - Hannah Wilke
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62 Greene Street, Work of and Ahead of its Time Hannah Wilke, a 1970s performance and video artist, created sculptures and photographic self-portraits confronting the objectification of women’s beauty. She was the first woman to use vaginal imagery to address feminist issues. Among her materials was masticated chewing gum which she said was an apt metaphor for the American woman. “Chew her up, ...
On This Spot - Cindy Sherman
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Invention Through Reinvention Cindy Sherman became one of the most influential members of contemporary art through photographing her role playing. She uses herself as subject matter, assuming multiple personas through costume, prosthetics, makeup and backdrops to comment on contemporary culture. She adopts the look of B-movie characters; seductive, mysterious centerfolds; and comic, surreal hor...
On This Spot - FOOD
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FOOD as Art, Art as Life The restaurant FOOD set the table for the early Soho art scene. In 1971, artists Carol Goodden and Gordon Matta-Clark opened FOOD to be an artwork in itself, and it became a collective creative project that helped define Soho as an artists’ district. The whole restaurant was like a stage, brightly illuminated. Artists worked as guest chefs and invented dishes and themed...
On This Spot - A.I.R. Gallery
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97 Wooster Street, Co-op Gallery for Women’s Art In 1972, 20 women opened A.I.R. Gallery to exhibit women’s art at a time when the preponderance of art in galleries was by white men. No one single person would run this gallery. Disagreement among members became part of the discourse. Together they turned a squalid storefront into a proper gallery. On Monday nights, when other galleries were clo...
On This Spot - Dorothea Rockburne
Переглядів 2562 місяці тому
138 Grand Street A Mathematician, not a Minimalist Dorothea Rockburne is known for her radical geometric paintings, often inspired by The Golden Section, and her large-scale wall drawings. Her work is influenced by her deep interests in mathematics, astronomy, dance movement, Egyptian and Classical art. A native Canadian, Rockburne came to New York in 1954 and supported herself and her daughter...
On This Spot - Alice Aycock
Переглядів 2752 місяці тому
A Principal of the Land Art Movement Alice Aycock’s 1972 work “Maze” - tall stockade fencing in concentric circles on farmland was an icon of the Land Art movement. She became renowned for her later monumental public sculptures, combining art and architecture, and built on a childhood love of narrative literature. Her works contain psychological ambiguity. Towering, swirling white metal ribbon ...
On This Spot - Lynda Benglis
Переглядів 1382 місяці тому
140 Baxter Street Lynda Benglis revolutionized the medium of painting. She turned abstraction into a physical, sensual sculptural reality by pouring electric-colored latex directly onto the floor where it pooled into large organic shapes. Her work was called anti-form. She also began a series of what she called “sexual mockeries” and scandalized the artworld with a nude ad in Artforum magazine....
On This Spot - Louise Nevelson
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Louise Nevelson reigned supreme as the icon of a famous New York working woman artist. She created a powerful persona by assembling an idiosyncratic layering of dramatic clothing along with chunky jewelry she designed herself. Her visual spirituality transcended religious barriers. She designed a chapel in midtown Manhattan - “Nevelson’s Chapel” and the “Louise Nevelson Plaza” downtown as well ...
On This Spot - Joan Jonas
Переглядів 1162 місяці тому
66 Grand Street, Ground-Breaking Performance Artist Joan Jonas moved to SoHo in the mid-1960s where she practiced an art that combined video and dance. Sculptural objects, masks, costumes and mirrors were often part of her phantasmagoric productions. She performed in vacant lots by the abandoned West Side Highway while the audience watched from a nearby rooftop. On a 1970 trip to Japan, Jonas s...
On This Spot - Heresies
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225 Lafayette Street, A Radical Voice that Defined an Era Heresies was a feminist publication on arts and politics run by artists and writers in SoHo. Twenty-seven issues were published between 1977 and 1993, each devoted to a single topic such as: Lesbian Art and Artists; Third-World Women; Feminism and the Environment. All the women donated their time, loft space, and professional expertise. ...
On This Spot - The Streets of Soho
Переглядів 912 місяці тому
All the Streets a Stage In the early days of SoHo, a new generation of women artists took counterculture and rebellion to the streets. They questioned notions of high art with monumental drawings on sidewalks, public performances suspended above the streets, living sculpture, huge blobs of candy-colored plastic foam oozing from windows. During a city sanitation strike, they put up rat patrol po...
On This Spot - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha
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247 Elizabeth Street, Multimedia Story of the Immigrant Experience Theresa Hak Kyung Cha moved to New York City in 1980 to join the conceptual artist movement. However, the underground scene had ended before she got there, so she forged her own path. Through video, performance and language fragments - printed words on paper, tiny bowls full of tiny text - her works described a life of serial di...
On This Spot - Westbeth Artist Community
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On This Spot - Westbeth Artist Community
On This Spot - Helen Frankenthaler
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On This Spot - Helen Frankenthaler
I’d like to be a fly on the wall. Except I could not handle the cigarette smoke.
these people were pretentious jerks. they were going to reinvent western culture -- by pulling it out of their ass.
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I love this series. Thank you for making it. Is it possible to make the videos slightly longer? Maybe five minutes? As Tiny Tim said, “can I have more, please?”
Went to many shows there.
We need this today!
She was a good painter, but not great.
happy to say that i was the first one to watch all three new postings.i love this channel so much.
Closeted Lesbian
I enjoy Yoko Ono's work and admire her creativity. The photos are wonderful. Unfortunately, the voice on the soundtrack was muffled and garbled. I suppose I shall have to watch this video again with closed captions, which are not often accurate. Can you clean up the sound track?
subjective....
Awesome
The screaming put me off her. If that is art, I am sure Van Gogh is sorrry he didnt cut off both ears and blind himself.
Her song, "Stairway to Heaven" was an impeccable work of art! Kudos to you, Yoko Ono!
They made me watch an ad for "Abex, the tummy tuck alternative" before I could watch this.
GAG ME WITH A SPOON...
As Warhol said, "Art is anything you can get away with". Ono is another "performance artist " that is proof. I can imagine how hard they laugh behind closed doors.
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One of the very best abstract painters.
Helen Frankenthaler put down Howardena Pindell when she was a student at Yale. Imagine, a Black woman artist. One of the only black persons at Yale at the time. And she dissed her. How cruel. Howardena got back when she was a curator at MoMA.
A VERY COOL AND INFORMAIVE SERIES WHICH I RECENTLY STUMBLED INTO. I'VE ENJOYED A FEW AND THOUGHT, WHILE WATCHING, "THESE ARE REALLY WELL DONE". THIS ONE WAS ESPECIALLY FINE. MILLIE GRAZIE
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Thank you for your the upload.
Amazing archival images, stunningly good presentation. This was fabulous. Go Yoko.
The Kennedy portrait ( pictured unfinished, I hope) looks dreadful.
Fascinating.
Love this! too short , wish there was a decent Doc on the De Kooning's or even a film. but have not seen some of these pics before. Awesome!
How does this computer sometimes know exactly what I'm thinking about?
Eyes in the sky.
This is a bizarre coincidence, but In the past day or so I was thinking about De Kooning's wife and thinking again how she must have only been married to him for financial reasons because what did she want with such a known woman hater ( famous "monster" woman paintings) however when she first got together with him they were both young and very poor (financially speaking).Maybe she KNEW all along that de Kooning would be famous in his lifetime but it would have been easier to just get knocked up by some Park Ave.millionaire and have his kid so he would be stuck with her.
The woman paintings are beautiful. They may not be flattering from your perspective, but beautiful nonetheless. Perhaps it is you who hate women.
Wow, ignorant sexist comment!
i just found your channel and as the husband of a fantastic artist and a lover of NYC i'm loving the photos and information .thank you !
What a beautiful story, thank you.
Unnecessary comments are annoying. As are some people. Maybe I am one.
Thank you for these wonderful videos.
Don’t worry both were sh*tty artists. The only different was he was senile..
Great idea!!
Bad ass lady no fear no gain 😀😍
Riding on the back of Willem de Kooning
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Some could conceivably argue it was the other way around, though I don't think either characterization would be fair.
@@sodapopbrosky GFY. ON A SPIKE
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These succinct videos are interesting and informative. Thank you for celebrating female artists!
amazing story - thank you!
An icon!!💗
Fascinating, fun and beautifully informative. Frankenthaler has been a hero of mine for decades. It is lovely to see your video. Nicely done.
Great stuff - thank you