Recommended  Art  Viewing  &  Reading 

ISS & Alex Powers

 

MAGAZINES  AND  NEWSPAPERS:

1.   Art in America monthly magazine; 800-925-8059; no website; $39.95/yr.

2.   Dave Hickey; Art in America magazine; monthly Revision series; no website

3.   New York Times; Fri. & Sun. issues art sections; home delivery of

Sun.-only entitles you to all-week issues at www.NewYorkTimes.com.

4.   Art Forum; monthly; $39.95/yr.; www.ArtForum.com. 

 

ON  THE  WEB:

5.   Art critics to Google:

a)   Dave Hickey

b)   Peter Plagens

c)   Christopher Knight, L.A. Times

d)   Deborah Solomon

e)   Arthur Danto

6.   http://www.guggenheim.org/,  http://www.moma.org/  and your favorite  museums, galleries, etc.

 

TELEVISION:

7.   Art in the 21st Century; the artists, not the critics, do the narration;

4 episodes every other year since 2001; all 20 available:

a)    www.pbs.org/art21

b)   Netflix.

8.   Ovation TV cable channel; arts programming; lots of reruns but still worth checking occasionally.

 

DVD  AND  VIDEO:

9.   Hockney at the Tate; 1988; DVD; David Hockney talking interestingly and humorously in front of his paintings; Netflix.

10.       The Cool School;   DVD; contemporary Los Angeles painters during the Abstract Expressionist era;  Netflix.

11.       Painters Painting; DVD; 2 hrs.; interviews with Abstract Expressionist painters; Netflix.

12.       Goya: Crazy Like a Genius; DVD; Robert Hughes on the life of Spanish painter Francisco Goya; 1 hr. 15 min.; Netflix.

13.       Behind the Scenes; DVD; David Hockney; PBS with Penn & Teller; Creativity; Netflix.

14.       Who Gets to Call It Art?; DVD; Henry Geldzahler's recollections and interviews with David Hockney, James Rosenquist and Frank Stella; Netflix.

15.       David Hockney: The Colors of Music; DVD; landscape; melded his hearing loss and artistic gifts to make opera a visual experience; Netflix.

16.       Robert Irwin; The Beauty of Questions, video; not in Netflix; 1 hr.

 

BOOKS:

17.       The Art of Richard Diebenkorn; large paperback book; $39.95, Whitney Museum of Art.

18.       Robert Rauschenberg; large book; $45 paperback, Guggenheim Museum of Art.

19.       Robert Irwin; Forgetting the Name of the Thing That One Sees; small paperback book.

20.       Varieties of Visual Experience; Edmund Burke Feldman.

21.       A Fine Disregard; Kirk Varnadoe.

22.       Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollack; Kirk Varnadoe.