Chuck Close

Ulay is a conceptual artist whose photography pushed boundaries, and whose love affair with Marina Abramovic produced some of the best pieces of performance art. Diagnosed with cancer shortly after agreeing to film the documentary, Ulay's illness informs Project Cancer, which is part-retrospective, part-visual document of the year he believed could be the last of his extraordinary life.

A follow up to award winning documentary 'Herb & Dorothy', the film captures the ordinary couple's extraordinary gift of art to the nation as they close the door on their life as collectors. When Herb and Dorothy Vogel, a retired postal clerk and librarian, began collecting works of contemporary art in the 1960s, they never imagined it would outgrow their one bedroom Manhattan apartment and spread throughout America. 50 years later, the collection is nearly 5,000 pieces and worth millions. Refusing to sell, the couple launches an unprecedented gift project giving artworks to one museum in all 50 states. The film journeys around the country with the Vogels, meeting artists who are famous or unknown, often controversial, striking today's society with questions about art and its survival.

파파라치의 본질과 영향에 대해 고찰하는 론 갈레라의 작업과 삶을 담아낸 다큐멘터리.

Unlike any art movie you've ever seen, Making it in Manhattan is informed 'entertainment' about the people who make contemporary art. Artists, collectors, and dealers bring to life the art capital of the world, New York, as it plunges into the 21st Century. Presenting a cross-section of artists, the film discusses inspiration, aesthetics, and the meaning of success. With Louise Bourgeois, Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Neil Jenney, Elizabeth Murray, Ashley Bickerton, Gary Simmons, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Rirkrit Tiravanija, St. Clair Cemin, Ivan Karp, Jay Gorney, Matthew Marks, Jerry Saltz, Herb & Dorothy Vogel, and others. From abstraction to figuration, from installation to conceptual art, from the privacy of the doctor's office to the posh gallery opening, Making it in Manhattan captures the reality of a special world. Music by Tom Waits, Don Braden Ryuichi Sakamoto, George van Eps, Piero Umiliani with Chet Baker.

미술 거래상이며 뉴욕 5번가에 사는 키트리지 부부는 우연히 폴(Paul: 윌 스미스 분)을 알게 된다. 아이들의 대학 동기이며 유명한 배우 시드니 포이티어의 아들이라는 폴은 풍부한 경험을 가진 상류층 청년이었다. 뛰어난 재담꾼이자 일류요리사 빰치는 요리 실력을 지닌 폴에게 키트리지 부부는 금세 호감을 갖게 되고, 폴은 그들의 친구가 되어 그들 집에 머무르며 지낸다. 그러나 곧, 폴은 호모이자 사기꾼임이 밝혀진다. 더 놀라운건 폴에게 당한 사람들이 5번가에 더 있었다는 것이다. 그러자 어느 누구도 폴이 어디 사는 누구인지, 지금 어디 있는지 아무도 알 수 없었다. 사교 모임에서 키트리지 부부는 폴의 얘기를 하면서 인기가 높아지고 사업상 만나는 사람들도 그 얘기를 무척 재미있어 하지만 여전히 그의 정체는 수수께끼였는데...

The multiple means of making art after the end of illusionism led these artists to create performances, sculptures, earthworks, tableaux, furniture, shaped canvases, and more, using unusual materials. They explore the process of making forms and giving meanings to those forms. In this idea art, their focus is as often social and psychological as artistic. Some of their activities enlist engineering and construction techniques, others compose texts or scripts that are central to their art. Some cast the viewer in the role of a spectator, while the others demand active participation. The sources for their concepts and art works are equally diverse; the delicate proportions and balance of Early Renaissance painting, the exploration of the surface of the moon, the structure and inventions of vernacular architects, to name only a few.

Made with the help of Richard Landry, the camera scans in extreme closeup, the face of Bob Israel, which at no time is seen in its entirety.