FrameWorks 2017: Art on Film
Apr. 28–May 7, 2017
A curated series of films and conversation about artists and their work and conversations, with artist Tom Sachs, about his A Space Program installation, and director Kristi Zea on the subject of her film, painter Elizabeth Murray.
In conjunction with the FrameWorks program a selection of video artworks by Purchase College students will play upstairs in the Jane Peck Gallery beginning April 17.
The FrameWorks series is programmed by Kathy Bonomi.
SERIES TRAILER
Eva Hesse
May 7, 2017
“Lively, intelligent, and moving.” (Artforum) Many interested filmgoers missed this fascinating film about one of America’s foremost postwar artists the…
Two by Robert Frank
May 6, 2017
“Jagged and elliptical . . . [Frank’s films] subvert precepts of genre, story, and technique.” (New Yorker) Frank pushed the…
Don't Blink - Robert Frank
May 5, 2017
“Illuminating biopic of the game-changing photographer/filmmaker made . . . with the full cooperation and enjoyment of its irascible subject.”…
An Art That Nature Makes: The Work of Photographer Rosamond Purcell
May 4, 2017
“Winning dive into hidden, off-kilter beauty.” (Los Angeles Times) “Purcell has captured the history of objects . . . in…
A Space Program
May 2, 2017
Q&A artist Tom Sachs with artist and professor Matt Bollinger
“A disarmingly delightful out-of-this-world trip.” (Seattle Times) For his immersive Space Program: Mars installation at the Park Avenue Armory in…
Missing People
May 1, 2017
“A tangled tale of mortality, obsession, creativity and acquisition” (Variety) In the quest for answers in her brother’s long-unsolved murder,…
Everybody Knows...Elizabeth Murray
Apr. 30, 2017
Q&A filmmaker Kristi Zea with Elizabeth Rooklidge
“Fascinating portrait of the artist” (New York Times) What Elizabeth Murray knew is that she could have it all: create…
Revolution—New Art for a New World
Apr. 29, 2017
“Radical, visual feast” (The Times, London) A spectacular survey of the Russian avant-garde, which flourished, if only for a short…
Goya: Visions of Flesh and Blood
Apr. 28, 2017
“An enjoyable, lucid profile of the celebrated Spanish artist.” (The Guardian) The genius of Spanish master Francisco Goya—in all its…
The Impressionists and the Man Who Made Them
Mar. 8, 2017
FROM THE MUSÉE DU LUXEMBOURG & MUSÉE D’ORSAY PARIS, NATIONAL GALLERY LONDON AND PHILADELPHIA MUSEUM OF ART AND FROM EXHIBITION…
Hieronymus Bosch, Touched by the Devil
Sep. 8, 2016
In 2016, the Noordbrabants Museum in the Dutch city of Den Bosch held a special exhibition devoted to the work…
The Silence of Mark Rothko
May 4, 2016
“The people who weep before my pictures,” said Rothko, “are having the same religious experience I had when I painted…
Beltracchi: The Art of Forgery
May 3, 2016
On the eve of serving jail time, unrepentant master forger Wolfgang Beltracchi shows us just how it’s done, from the…
Troublemakers: The Story of Land Art
May 2, 2016
Spiral Jetty (Robert Smithson), Lightning Field (Walter de Maria), Sun Tunnels (Nancy Holt), Double Negative (Michael Heizer)—these are works by artists who, beginning in the late 60s,…
Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict
Apr. 29–July 21, 2016
Final Encore!
This film has become a mini-phenomenon here at the Burns, selling out nearly every time we play it! The big,…
Motion Pictures
Apr. 28, 2016
*Run time is approximate* Painter Julian Kreimer, a professor of studio art and criticism at Purchase College, takes us on…
