Checkerboard Films

08/15/2022

Checkerboard's film 'Julie Mehretu: Palimpsest' is now available to stream on Vimeo (https://vimeo.com/ondemand/mehretu)!

This film documents Julie Mehretu's mid-career retrospective, co-organized by Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art. Mehretu offers extensive commentary on her work, her process, and her career, and is also featured in conversation with a number of her art world friends and associates.

06/14/2021

The Whitney presents the World Premiere of 𝐉𝐮𝐥𝐢𝐞 𝐌𝐞𝐡𝐫𝐞𝐭𝐮: 𝐏𝐚𝐥𝐢𝐦𝐩𝐬𝐞𝐬𝐭, a new feature documentary by Checkerboard. ⁣
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The film follows the artist as she prepares for a mid-career survey, currently on view at the Whitney Museum of American Art (until August 8, 2021), co-organized with the LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
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The screening will be introduced by the Whitney's Rujeko Hockley, co-curator of the exhibition, and Checkerboard Film Foundation's President, Edgar Howard.⁣
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Advance registration is required to the free screening (🔗bit.ly/3gmuCtP). Registrants will receive an individual link via email to access the premiere screening on 𝐉𝐮𝐧𝐞 𝟏𝟕 𝐚𝐭 𝟖𝐏𝐌. The film will be available for registrants to stream on demand from June 18-20. ⁣

04/30/2020

In honor of Billy Collins and poetry month, we are pleased to offer ’s film 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐬: 𝐎𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 on Vimeo and Amazon for the month of May, for $1.
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Billy Collins was a two term U.S Poet Laureate (2001 - 2003). ⁣
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📸 Excerpt from 𝐁𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐥𝐢𝐧𝐬 𝐨𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐨𝐚𝐝 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐨𝐞𝐭 𝐋𝐚𝐮𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐞 (2003). ⁣

03/25/2020

Checkerboard’s film 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘱 is available to stream for $1 on Vimeo and Amazon. ⁣
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Barry Harris, 90 years young, offers weekly Jazz workshops in New York (244 W 54th St. 10th Floor) every Tuesday (6 pm - 12 am). Piano, Vocal and Improvisation classes are just $15 (weekly sessions) for non-members. ⁣
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🎥 Excerpt from 𝘉𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘺 𝘏𝘢𝘳𝘳𝘪𝘴: 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘚𝘱𝘪𝘳𝘪𝘵 𝘰𝘧 𝘉𝘦𝘣𝘰𝘱 (𝟷𝟿𝟿𝟿) ⁣
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03/25/2020

Remembering Jack Youngerman (1926 - 2020) on what would have been his 94th birthday.

Checkerboard filmed Jack on many occasions and will premiere the film 'Jack Youngerman: My Life in Art' later this year.

03/20/2020

Checkerboard's film ‘On the Wings of Brancusi’ is included in Festival International du Film sur l'Art's Carte Blanche to Rad Hourani during their online program.

For only $30, FIFA is providing access to several films included in its 38th edition until March 29 across Canada. For more information on the online program visit artfifa.com.

📸 © Succession Brancusi - All rights reserved (ARS) 2018

03/11/2020

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03/02/2020

’s film 'On the Wings of Brancusi' will be making its Dutch premiere on March 12 during the Ambacht in Beeld Festival in Amsterdam. The film screening will be followed by a talk with designer Aldo Bakker and furniture designer Rutger Graas.

The Checkerboard Collection is available to stream on Vimeo and Amazon.

📸 Ellsworth Kelly in Brancusi's studio at The Centre Pompidou in 2006

02/26/2020

02/24/2020

To conclude the five-part series 'Checkerboard Films on the American Arts: Recent Releases', the National Gallery of Art will be screening 'Jeff Koons: The Whitney Retrospective' on February 25. The film follows Koons and Whitney Chief Curator, Scott Rothkopf, through every gallery of the 2014 exhibition.

The Checkerboard Collection is available to stream on Vimeo and Amazon.

02/13/2020

's film 'Vincent Scully: An Art Historian Among Architects' (2010) is part of the season 7 lineup for the Architecture + Design Film Series in Vermont on February 19. Architect Dan Scully, Vincent Scully’s son, will be the special guest at the Brattleboro location.

Scully traces his background from New Haven and Yale University, where he taught for more than six decades, becoming one of its most popular professors.

'Vincent Scully: An Art Historian Among Architects' and the Checkerboard Collection is available to stream on Vimeo and Amazon.

📸 Vincent Scully, 2009

02/03/2020

National Gallery of Art will be screening two of Checkerboard’s films on Tuesday, February 4th (West Building Lecture Hall): 'Eric Fischl: The Process of Painting' (2012), which charts the course of the artist’s creative process, and 'Carrie Mae Weems: Speaking of Art' (2012), a 30-minute lecture in which Weems discusses over two decades of her work (1981-2004).

The films (Checkerboard Collection) are available for streaming on Vimeo and Amazon.

📸 In Production with Eric Fischl / The Considered © Carrie Mae Weems and Jack Shainman Gallery.

01/28/2020

Checkerboard is proud to announce that we are currently producing a 60-minute documentary on Julie Mehretu, set to be released in May 2020. The film will document the preparations, installation, and realization of her mid-career retrospective, co-produced by LACMA Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Whitney Museum of American Art. Mehretu offers extensive commentary on her work, her process, and the chronology of her career. Also interviewed are a number of art world friends and associates.

Currently playing on a loop in the LACMA retrospective, which opened in October 2019, is an 8 minute film produced by Checkerboard on the artist.

Check out our website for more details.

📸JULIE MEHRETU “MURAL” 80 by 23 feet, Goldman Sachs Lobby, NYC

01/17/2020

’s film 'On the Wings of Brancusi' (2018) will be screened at the National Gallery of Art on Tuesday, January 21 (West Building Lecture Hall). The film provides insights into Brancusi’s legacy and his influence on a generation of contemporary American artists, including: Carl Andre, Lynda Benglis, Ellsworth Kelly, Martin Puryear, Richard Serra, and Joel Shapiro.

The film and The Checkerboard Collection is available for streaming on Vimeo and Amazon.

📸 Sculptures by Constantin Brancusi (c) Succession Brancusi/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York at the National Gallery of Art (2020).

01/14/2020

’s film 'Diller Scofidio + Renfro: Reimagining Lincoln Center and the High Line' (2012) will be screened January 15 at FirstOntario Performing Arts Centre. The film offers insights into the firm’s history, previous completed projects, and their unique process of reimagining the public identities of two major New York urban spaces.

The Checkerboard Collection is available for streaming on Vimeo and Amazon.

01/13/2020

Continuing Checkerboard’s five-part series at The National Gallery of Art, 'Frank Stella Black Aluminum Copper' and 'The Architecture and Art of Cornell Tech' will be screened on January 14 (West Building Lecture Hall).

The Checkerboard Collection is available for streaming on Vimeo and Amazon.

📸 Cornell Tech on Roosevelt Island, taken by Checkerboard in 2018 / Frank Stella during filming at L&M Arts in 2012

01/07/2020

The National Gallery of Art will be screening ’s film 'James Rosenquist Up Close' on January 7 at 12:30 pm (West Building Lecture Hall). The film captures the artist sharing intimate stories from his life in art, as well as insightful interviews with family and curators.

Our film is available for streaming on Vimeo and Amazon.

12/20/2019

The National Gallery of Art will be screening ’s film John Richardson: The Art of Picasso (1927 - 1973) this Sunday, December 22 at 2 and 4:30 pm. The film captures Richardson as he is writing the fourth and final volume in his definitive biography of . Personal insights on Picasso are provided by Françoise Gilot, Claude Picasso, and Lucien Clergue.

If you cannot attend the screening, the film is available to stream on Vimeo and Amazon.

12/19/2019

’s production crew in Jack Youngerman’s studio on December 17th. The film ‘Jack Youngerman: My Life in Art’ will be released early next year.

📸 Photo by Laurie Lambrecht

12/16/2019

12/11/2019

RAY KAPPE (1927 - 2019)

KAPPE RESIDENCE

"At the time that I had finished the house, I felt that I had finally come to a place that felt the most comfortable that I had ever been, architecturally. Rudolph obviously was an influence. Lou Khan was an influence in this house. People see it in many, many ways. Some think it's Schindler-esque, some think it's Wrightian and some think that it had some Neutra aspects. But it has a lot of similarity, I think, to the kind of thing that Rudolph did. I think we both have somewhat similar sensibilities in terms of developing levels and floating pieces and that kind of a feeling."

Ray Kappe in Checkerboard's film "Ray Kappe: California Modern Master - Forty Years of Modular Evolution"

http://checkerboardfilms.org/films/show/n/ray-kappe

This documentary, available on DVD, follows Kappe's career from building his family's home in 1967 to becoming a leader in sustainable archicture, including founding the influential avant garde Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-ARC). He continues to be known as a pioneer in Architec...

11/20/2019

Tonight at 7pm, Violet Crown Charlottesville will be screening ’s films DUANE MICHALS (1939 - 1997) as well as ELLSWORTH KELLY: FRAGMENTS.

Both films can be streamed on Vimeo and Amazon Prime.

📸 Ellsworth Kelly with Edgar Howard, Director of the film, and David Leitner, Director of Photography. Artist's studio, 2006.

11/18/2019

Stream ’s 1978 film, Duane Michals (1939 - 1997), on AMAZON PRIME and VIMEO. ⁣
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Approaching his 88th birthday, the renowned photographer is currently being celebrated at two exhibitions in NYC. The Morgan Library & Museum has organized a major survey of his work coupled with photographs and other selections by artists from the Morgan’s extensive archive (until February 2, 2020). ⁣
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DC Moore Gallery is showing Michals’ new printed studio portraits of Hollywood actors, as well as earlier photographs and new self portraits (to December 21, 2019).⁣
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📸From the filming of Duane Michals (1939 - 1997)in

10/21/2019

“The entablatures, I think, came about through the Cubist backgrounds. They’re decorative and remind me of minimal art.” – Roy Lichtenstein in ’s film 'The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein', available to stream on Amazon Prime and Vimeo.

The current exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, Order and Ornament: Roy Lichtenstein’s Entablatures”, is on view through 2020. The exhibition presents a diverse array of works on paper related to Lichtenstein’s Entablatures series from the 1970s.

📸 Production photo from the filming of 'The Drawings of Roy Lichtenstein'

10/17/2019

“I kept looking at pictures taken from space and I was amazed at the variety of color up there, just amazing” – James Rosenquist in ’s film ‘James Rosenquist Up Close', available to stream on Vimeo and Amazon.

Kasmin Gallery's exhibition 'Two Paintings' is opening tonight and will be on view through November 16, 2019. The works exhibited reflect Rosenquist’s lifelong fascination with space.

📸 James Rosenquist, 2012 . Taken during the walkthrough of his 2012 Multiverse exhibition at Acquavella Galleries Inc.

10/11/2019

Architectural Record's October 2019 issue includes new projects by Peter Eisenman, Jean Nouvel, and Steven Holl Architects.

has done films on all three architects which are available on and : 'Peter Eisenman: University of Phoenix Stadium for the Arizona Cardinals', 'Jean Nouvel: Guthrie Theater’, and ’Steven Holl: The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art, Bloch Building’.

📸Architectural Record October 2019 cover

10/10/2019

“…Kiki’s studio is practically her body. If she’s in a taxicab, she’s carving something… If she’s at home, she’s sculpting something…” - Zachary Wollard from ’s film Kiki Smith: Squatting the Palace, available to stream on Amazon Prime and Vimeo.

The Modern Art Oxford exhibition “Kiki Smith: I am a Wanderer” is the artist's first solo exhibition in a public institution in 20 years. The exhibition is currently on view through January 19, 2020.

10/08/2019

Happy Anniversary to Duncan and Marjorie Phillips!

Checkerboard's film 'The Phillips Collection' is available to stream on Vimeo and Amazon Prime. The film includes historical footage of Marjorie, Laughlin Phillips, her son, and other members of the Phillips family.

Happy Anniversary to Duncan & Marjorie Phillips who were married 98 years ago!

Marjorie Phillips, Breakfast Room, ca. 1925, Oil on canvas 24 x 30 in., Gift of the artist, 1984.

10/08/2019

“…People talk about Jan’s work as painting because she does in photographs what people have traditionally expected paintings to do.” – John Szarkowski from ’s film 'Jan Groover: Titling at Space', available on Amazon Prime and Vimeo.

Now through January 5, 2020 at Musee de l’Elysee, 'Jan Groover: Laboratory of Forms' will be looking back at the life’s work of the artist for the first time. The exhibition is based on a selection of archives from her personal collections and will cover her years in New York and France.

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10/04/2019

“I am a reflection photographing other reflections within a reflection.” – from ’s film Duane Michals (1939-1997), available to stream on Amazon Prime and Vimeo.

‘Duane Michals: The Portraitist’ is currently exhibiting more than 125 portraits by Michals in Fenimore Art Museum's Clark Gallery through November 10, 2019.