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A fun, interactive, and award-winning, online kindergarten-readiness learning solution for children ages 3 to 6 years. With hundreds of lessons in math, science, social studies, language and literacy, art, and music, the curriculum increases in difficulty as the user progresses through the program.
42) Martha
Publisher
Utopia
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
Description
Three decades after publishing her debut book, Subway Art, New York photographer Martha Cooper discovers she’s become an unexpected icon of one of the biggest art movements in history.
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
Deutsch
Description
A visit to the studio of Ernst Wilhelm Nay, a remarkable, if somewhat solitary German artist, who had established his own position at age 30 among the many ‘isms’ of the time, just before the advent of the Nazi takeover. Soon his art was labeled “decadent” by the Hitler regime. His paintings were removed from museum collections, he could no longer show new work in galleries, or even purchase art supplies. Soon after the end of WWII, Nay returned...
Publisher
Felix Media
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Amy’s Instagram feed is made up of selfies which are designed to “repulse and intrigue” her followers. For Amy, the selfie is an accessible and empowering photographic form as it allows women, especially women of colour, to represent themselves in their own way.
45) Stoney Knows How
Publisher
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
1980.
Language
English
Description
A paraplegic dwarf, a carnival sword-swallower as a child and a tattoo artist since 1928, the late Leonard St. Clair, nicknamed Stoney, is an ebullient little man with the gift of the gab (spoken in the accents of Appalachia) and a fund of bizarre stories about tattooing and other unrelated matters.
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1978.
Language
English
Description
This film takes us around the world on a showcase of the artist’s grand environmental installations. With both critique and praise from members of the communities that have hosted Christo and his works, the film takes a deep look into the process and outcome of pieces such as Wrapped Coast, Running Fence, and Wrapped Walkways. Though his work may appear to be visually distracting from the landscapes he creates in, Christo’s aim is to bring attention...
50) Cecil Balmond
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
2009.
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,...
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1985.
Language
English
Description
In his London studio, British painter Francis Bacon discusses his work and approach with David Sylvester, a friend and close observer of his art since the late 1940s. Central to their conversation are Bacon’s controversial, horrifying subjects, and surprising style. His representations of the human figure in portraits and triptychs link him, in his view, to the distorted realism of Van Gogh and Picasso, who also portrayed the intensity of life that...
Publisher
Australian Broadcasting Corporation
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A fairytale story about the intriguing artist, Patricia Piccinini, this Artscape looks back at her impressive body of work, past and present and the ideas and influences driving it. It examines recent works exported abroad, which represent a change in direction for the artist as she explores a new theme - the nature of fecundity and fertility - a subject that culminates in her latest creation - a massive hot air balloon for Canberra's centenary this...
54) Tattoo Uprising
Publisher
First Run Features
Pub. Date
2020.
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
...55) That Summer
Publisher
IFC Films
Pub. Date
2022.
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.
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
Les Blank Films
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
Français
Description
Since 1946, Lucien Mouchet has been making small-scale reproductions of carousels and fairground scenes that existed in the past or are still in operation today. A machinist by trade, Mouchet retired nearly two decades ago, but his obsession with precision and detail has continued. To date, he has created 48 carousels; each is a functioning masterpiece that is constructed to be exactly 1/20 scale of the original. Mouchet works from photographs and...
Publisher
Neon
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Desperate for answers about the theft of her 2 paintings, a Czech artist seeks out and befriends the career criminal who stole them. After inviting her thief to sit for a portrait, the two form an improbable relationship and an inextricable bond that will forever link these lonely souls. Winner of the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Creative Storytelling at the Sundance Film Festival.
60) Monk
Publisher
Michael Blackwood Productions
Pub. Date
1968.
Language
English
Description
A portrait about the great Jazz composer and pianist, Thelonious Monk.
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