Edgar Howard

Diller Scofidio + Renfro has long been at the forefront of design with provocative exhibitions that blurred the boundaries between art and architec...

11 de nov. de 2013

This 54-minute documentary traces the writer James Salter's lifelong love affair with France, unforgettably expressed in his 1967 masterpiece, A Sp...

01 de mai. de 2011

The Whitney Museum of American Art presented the landmark exhibition Jeff Koons: A Retrospective from June 27 to October 19, 2014. It was the large...

27 de jun. de 2014

In this enlightening visit, Holl takes us through the galleries where contemporary art is displayed beneath curving vaults admitting daylight, a to...

01 de jan. de 2008

French architect Jean Nouvel has long been known in Europe for his bold, shimmering glass museums, concert halls, and high-rise towers. Now the mu...

10 de set. de 2008

Ground has been broken on Roosevelt Island for New York City's newest academic campus - the sustainable, high tech home of Cornell Tech, a radical ...

16 de jun. de 2015

Cameras record artist Ellsworth Kelly as he creates sculptures for the US Embassy in Beijing. With all his equipment around him, Ellsworth undertak...

31 de dez. de 2007

Constantin Brancusi (1876-1957), the most important sculptor of the first half of the 20th century, has been a fascinating and enduring influence o...

31 de dez. de 2018

We are in the midst of production on a one-hour film on seminal art historian John Richardson, and his work on the fourth and final volume of his b...

The film traces Ethiopian abstract artist Julie Mehretu’s preparations for her 20 year career retrospective, leading up to the installation and rea...

In 2004 Checkerboard had the privilege of filming Carrie Mae Weems discussing her body of work, comprised of 17 projects spanning more than two dec...

01 de jan. de 2012

A look at photographer Duane Michal's sequential photo narratives, with voiceover by Michals himself.

30 de set. de 1978

The Pritzker-prize winning architect Thom Mayne has been identified with muscular, bold, steel-and-glass design since the founding of his firm, Mor...

This hour-long film explores the phenomenon of Vincent Scully, tracing his connection to New Haven & to Yale. It follows the arc of his interests i...

The life and work of conceptual artist Sol LeWitt.

15 de nov. de 2010

James Rosenquist was one of the leading figures in the pivotal Pop Art movement. The film follows the trajectory of the artist's career from his 19...

31 de mai. de 2019

A detailed look at a remarkable artist who died in 1999 at age 85. Aspects of Burckhardt's work in photography, film, and painting are examined in...

01 de jan. de 2003

Seminal theoretician and influential architect, Peter Eisenman is also an irrepressible sports fanatic. In this revealing look into his design for ...

After a few seconds of footage from 1968 of the artist working, this powerful film moves into 1976, providing an intimate look at the enigmatic abs...