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81) Tom of Finland
Publisher
Kino Lorber
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (117 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The proudly erotic drawings of artist Touko Laaksonen, known to the world as Tom of Finland, shaped the fantasies of a generation of gay men, influencing art and fashion before crossing over into the wider cultural consciousness. But who was the man behind the leather? Dome Karukoski's stirring biopic follows his life from the trenches of WWII and repressive Finnish society of the 1950s through his struggle to get his work published in California,...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 60 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Zaha Hadid discusses her current work while taking the camera through her retrospective exhibition "Zaha Hadid has arrived" at Vienna's MAK, a museum for design and contemporary art. The centerpiece is a sculptural work entitled "Ice Storm" especially created for the exhibition. "Zaha Hadid has arrived" is a brilliant review of her progress through the last decade and includes: her museums of contemporary art in Rome and Cincinnati, the BMW plant...
Publisher
Oscilloscope Laboratories
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (94 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Mitchell Kezin delves into the minds of some of the world s most legendary Christmas music fanatics and hits the road to hang with his holiday heroes including hip hop legend Joseph Rev Run Simmons of RUN-D.M.C., The Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne, filmmaker John Waters, bebopper Bob Dorough, L.A. DJ and musicologist Dr. Demento, and Calypso legend The Mighty Sparrow. In his search for the twelve best, underappreciated Christmas songs ever recorded,...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
119 pages : color illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Everyone needs things to look forward to-big things and small things, on good days and on bad days; things that will buoy our spirits and make us laugh and help us feel alive. In these pages, beloved author and illustrator Sophie Blackall has gathered a collection of joyful things for all of us: things that are always there if we look for them, like the sun coming up; things we can do if the sun is behind a cloud, like baking for other people or...
Author
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Appears on list
Description
"Feyi Adekola wants to learn how to be alive again.
It’s been five years since the accident that killed the love of her life and she’s almost a new person now—an artist with her own studio and sharing a brownstone apartment with her ride-or-die best friend, Joy, who insists it’s time for Feyi to ease back into the dating scene. Feyi isn’t ready for anything serious, but a steamy encounter at a rooftop party cascades into a whirlwind summer...
89) Cecil Balmond
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2009.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (58 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A documentary film about a unique thinker and practitioner at the height of his career. In conversations with the architecture critic Sanford Kwinter, Cecil Balmond reveals his vision and multifaceted talents in a retrospective exhibition of his accomplishments at the Graham Foundation Gallery in Chicago. Since the early 1980s Balmond has collaborated with such important contemporary architects and artists working today as Toyo Ito, Anish Kapoor,...
90) That Summer
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (80 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Welcome to GREY GARDENS...as you've never seen it before. Discover the long-lost film featuring Big and Little Edie before they were cultural icons. With Andy Warhol.
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1999.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This film documents an intimate visit to the couple’s famous art collection in their New York City home. The Ganz’s describe how they began to collect art in the 1940’s, citing Picasso as their first passion. The couple soon became infatuated with more contemporary artists such as Jasper Johns, Robert Rauschenberg, and Frank Stella. On a serendipitous Saturday afternoon in 1968, Victor Ganz came upon the work of Eva Hesse in New York’s Fischbach...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (90 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
The illustrious career of the renowned photographer who has taken some of the most vibrant and intimate portraits of The Beatles, Muhammad Ali, Michael Jackson, Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Winston Churchill and many more.
93) Tattoo Uprising
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (75 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
From antiquity to the present, TATTOO UPRISING reveals the artistic and historical roots of today’s tattoo explosion. This sweeping overview explores how tattoos were used in early Christian practices, how they were discovered halfway around the world during the voyages of Captain James Cook, and how they exploded in popularity in America beginning with artists like Ed Hardy.
Tattoo Uprising features some of the most extraordinary people of the
...Publisher
Felix Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (5 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Lexi is a self-described “queer freak from outer space”. With her mane of mermaid green hair and “cyberfemme” aesthetic, she has created a space on Instragram in which she can celebrate her “freakiness” and encourage others to feel comfortable in their skin and their choices.
Publisher
PBS
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (112 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
After centuries of percolating in America’s immigrant and racial mix, particularly in the American South, what was first called “hillbilly music” begins reaching more people through the new technologies of phonographs and radio.
96) Greg Lynn
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (63 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Greg Lynn, one of the leading figures in computer-aided architectural design, is the curator of an exhibition series initiated by the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA.) The exhibitions, which will travel to the Yale School of Architecture Gallery, are to explore the role of digital technologies in the design process since the early days. For the first exhibition “Archaeology of the Digital” Lynn selected four individuals who are the pioneers...
97) Turn It Around
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2017.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (157 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
This documentary spans over 30 years of the California Bay Area’s punk music history with a central focus on the emergence of the inspiring 924 Gilman Street collective. This diverse group of artists, writers, organizers and musicians created a do-it-yourself petri dish that changed the punk scene... and the world at large. Narrated by Iggy Pop. Featuring interviews from Billie Joe Armstrong, Tim Armstrong, Miranda July, Kathleen Hanna, Brett Gurewitz,...
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
1990.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (26 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
An intimate and humorous look at the life and career of the legendary blues pianist Alex Moore, the first Black Texan to receive a National Heritage Fellowship. Moore taught himself to play the piano by watching others and practicing whenever he got a chance. Because he had no formal training Moore developed a distinctive improvisatory piano style that included elements of blues, ragtime, barrelhouse, stride and boogie-woogie. He combined steady left...
Publisher
All Channel Films
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (89 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
Married singer-songwriters Chantal Kreviazuk and Raine Maida struggle to find their way back to each other while writing an album together on a remote but romantic French island in the dead of winter.
100) Monk
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1968.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (116 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Language
English
Description
A portrait about the great Jazz composer and pianist, Thelonious Monk.
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