Willem de Kooning: A Retrospective at MoMA Part I

[@rrrrrufus]

Great to start it off and end it with John Coltrane's "My One and Only Love" by those street performers.

[@satoshibitcoinsaki6532]

Thank you for posting this. You have culturally enriched my life. I'm too poor to travel more than 30 miles from where I live.

[@lucygodwinart5961]

LOVE LOVE LOVE your videos and commentaries. Thanks so much for posting.

[@alexloweh1]

Watching this again 12 years later

[@annakhodorkovskaya3585]

Dear James. I am an artists based in Vienna currently. Watching your videos with great pleasure. Thanks for your job) Anna

[@jameskalm]

+Anna Khodorkovskaya Thanks for responding, Enjoy and stay tuned...

[@shanwij970]

Thank you James. I watch your videos all the way in Sri Lanka.

[@jameskalm]

I'm wishing you a beautiful spring in Sri Lanka, and stay tuned...

[@chezceleste]

Thank you Kate. I am so moved by De Kooning's work...it makes me shudder...jnto a new dimension.

[@salvadorandrade3350]

This is amazing 🤩
Thank you

[@sbachem]

as always, a joy to get a mail stating ' jameskalm hat soeben ein video heruntergeladen'. that means a mug of coffee and 10 minutes joining you in ny and having a seriously good look at art. thank you so much james.
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[@Badahwood]

Thank youthankyouthankyouthankyou!!! I just moved. Internet was down. Just fixed it. And you give me this!!! Life is Good!!!!

[@reenavarma4836]

How wonderful to be able to see these beautiful paintings from the comfort of my home in India !

[@pramodbabu007]

Thank you

[@morganhanam9522]

Thank you for posting these. I probably would never have seen many of these otherwise. De Kooning is wonderful.

[@444ltr]

He did a series of Woman" portrait series that were absolutely breathtaking. My favorite is "Woman" 1 .

[@slipton6493]

Thank you James! I appreciate all that you do to bring these videos to us!

[@frodenorge]

Stunning. Especially to see all those black and whites. Doesn't get better than this.

[@MrGlasdu]

ONE OF MY FAVORITE ARTISTS, JK thanks for letting us enjoy from a distance.
Regards from Colombia.

[@stavrospapaisidorou8103]

His name is pronounced De Coaning, he was born 5 minutes from where I live. We still see him as a great Dutch painter, who was greatly influenced by Vermeer and Mondriaan. A great Rotterdammer.

[@marygem]

Love Rotterdam.

[@shanafzal3646]

He hated Mondrian 😂

[@camilopalomino8319]

Maravilloso. Muchas gracias por compartir.

[@jameskalm]

@ChrisHayesArt This was recorded during the official press preview, and they're glad to have me giving them extended exposure online.

[@chezceleste]

Thanks Kate. I love these videos.

[@cezartb]

Thank you so much

[@lisengel2498]

Its a wonderfull video - and so good that you share it and make it possible to see, when it is not possible to be there in the moment of the show. De Kooning is a wonderfull artist - and this ads to my knowledge of what he has done

[@lakshmanankomathmanalath]

Thank you James.

[@CDtopographics]

Love the freewheelin' informative style! How you managed to not only frame the paintings but talk about them - and show that you enjoyed them - beats me!

[@wiseguy69696]

Subbed after you saw Jerry Saltz and just announced it to the whole gallery xD

[@jameskalm]

That's what Jerry pays me for...JK

[@SuperWindhover]

thank you so much, it's a fantastic show.

[@Whatever3114]

Thanks James for the video, i was lucky .... I was in New York last week and saw the show, took my time 1.5 hours there, I saw his 1960/75 paintings the Gotham News abstracts, quite incredible and the sculptures too. A must see show a true visual understanding afterwards. Thanks

[@RhondaSuhrie]

Thanks for posting this! I haven't seen some of these de Kooning works before.

[@TheSkittishWhippet]

So wonderful! Thanks James!

[@carlosmirandaosuna6478]

Hi james thanks for your work !!

[@stephenjohn0]

Wow! this is the best yet. The oldies are the goodies. Thank you James for bringing us this. I would just love to see this show, maybe they'll give it an airing in London.

[@kummonyeomso6912]

Hyman Bloom was lightyears beyond him , yet very little love.

[@jahha3473]

Nice showing of a great artist works...

[@Billart]

Your de Kooning Part 1 MoMA video 2011 so totally nailed this with a wide array of early de Kooning sequenced in very meaningful ways. Can't tell you how much I enjoyed seeing these earlier work close up & quite steady & in a nice rhythm. Your comments were also very helpful opening things up. The ones one usually see of his early work in NYC are otherwise the same very few & thereby so much icons it's hard to break through to see the creativity. You've broken through here… GREAT!

[@jessieknight2473]

wow, this is heavenly

[@foxtrapper1972]

looking forward to the next installment!

[@ColdHeartedMan1979]

Damn, de Kooning could do it all! Amazing! Thanks so much for posting this!

[@IETCHX69]

Pink Angel ? Break my heart !!

[@Paintlater]

Thank you so much for this and MOMA for letting you. I know there are books and images on line but to see them all hanging together is wonderful for scale and comparison. Can't wait to see the other parts now. Cheers

[@MuskPumpkin]

Awesome! Thank you do much!! I tried to get back in time to catch this but couldn't make it. SO MUCH APPRECIATED! You do a very admireable job. Cheers!

[@fullofcolourart]

Great stuff James!! De Kooning is a massive influence on my work as an artist, so this is great to see and helps.

[@MrChubbington1]

Fabulous commentary and video James. When my bro ( whatever ) & myself saw the show a week ago ..already. I actually mentioned jokingly about you and your bike , this is James Kalm from the Moma etc. Small world we live in today.
What a show ! i've waited so long to see this type of show. It's a once in a lifetime show. Amazing.

[@bnastali]

His color choices remained remarkably consistent through his long career.

[@inrainbowman]

wow. really great!

[@mattsimmons1]

amazing person, amazing artist

[@RonSchira]

Nice, really nice!

[@craignunnallypurcell]

Nice videos and good crit.

[@willsi]

Is this not another half-ass production?! Haha. Thanks so much, James. This is so great.

[@rosmia2]

Actually de Kooning disembarked at Newport News, Virginia as a stowaway. He did live in Hoboken, NJ early on and painted houses there for a living.

[@paulm74]

Great Stuff!

[@PicassoStar1]

This certainly made me hungry for more...on to part 2?

[@SandlwdnSunflwrs7]

i like de kooning. he has very nice works.

[@jameskalm]

@wuz352 Stay tuned for what I expect will be a trilogy of great art. Keep your eyes peeled for the next two days, thanks JK

[@lisengel2498]

The Black and White with a little bit of colour in the corner was very much like jazz Music -

[@marioriospinot]

Nice.

[@lucianoa1552]

The colors in this video are faithful to the original paintings? On my kooning book a diference between colors are enormous!! At the painting "the cow jumps over the moon" the green color appears blue ??!! This painting show green or blue???

[@hermes99093]

Artista che mi piace.

[@dustyrustymusty3577]

He landed in Newport News, Virginia. He did not land in New York.

[@guzzopinc1646]

that drawing looks more like John Currin than it does Ingres...

[@DeleteChris]

are you allowed to just film in the middle of the gallery? :D

[@AX1A]

Turn off youtube and paint AF -- That's what Dekooning's work does

[@JeffersonDinedAlone]

Are you the guy who drags around town on a bicycle, attending galleries and trying to describe the obscenity of mediocrity?

[@billykobilca6321]

Yucky. ...museums look so sickly clinical still... atrocious.

[@marcusaurelius1477]

Pretty horrible stuff...smh