Film – ArtTable

Virtual | NoCal Film Night – “Everybody Knows…Elizabeth Murray”

8:30pm ET | 7:30pm CT | 5:30pm PT

Join ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter for a virtual film night to view and discuss Everybody Knows…Elizabeth Murray — The Life of a Great Contemporary Painter. You can also view the film in advance and join us for the discussion afterwards. We are delighted that after the viewing, we will be joined Daisy Murray Holman, daughter of the late artist. We look forward to a moving documentary and discussion of an inspiring artist.

This program is free for ArtTable Members only. Not a member? Join today!

How to take part:

Click here to Register for this event.
Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link.
Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
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How to view the film in advance:

Members can watch the film at their leisure through their own public library Kanopy accounts.

Kanopy – San Francisco Public Library
Kanopy – Berkeley Public Library – California
PBS (only available to KQED Passport Members)

About Daisy Murray Holman

Daisy Murray Holman is Head of Archives for the Richard Diebenkorn Foundation and manages the estate of her mother, Elizabeth Murray.

Thank you to Jan Wurm for organizing this program.

Virtual | AT Local: NoCal Film Night – Art21’s Art in the Twenty-First Century: Borderlands

8:30pm ET | 7:30pm CT | 5:30pm PT

Join ArtTable’s Northern California Chapter for a virtual film night to watch and discuss Art21’s Borderlands, an episode in the 10th season of their Art in the Twenty-First Century series. Following the film, we’ll be joined by Lolita Fierro, Associate Director, Major Gifts & Special Events at Art21 to discuss the episode.

The film screening will take place from 5:30 – 6:30 PT (7:30-8:30pm CT, 8:30-9:30pm ET), and the discussion from 6:30 – 7:15 PT (8:30-9:15 CT, 9:30-10:15pm ET). Members are welcome to join for just the discussion if they would prefer to view the film on their own time.

This program is free for ArtTable Members only. Not a member? Join today!

How to take part:

Click here to Register for this event.
Following registration you will receive call-in information in the form of a ZOOM link.
Before joining a Zoom meeting on a computer or mobile device, you can download the Zoom app from the Download Center and select the “Zoom Client for Meetings” option. Alternatively, you will be prompted to download and install Zoom when you click a join link.
For further instruction on how to use Zoom, see here.

Click here to see who’s already registered!

About the Episode

A vast geography encompassing open deserts and densely populated metropolises, the borderland between the United States and Mexico has long been a site of political conflict, social struggle, and intense creative ferment. Taking a new curatorial and filmmaking approach, Art21 connects and juxtaposes a group of acclaimed artists as they work along the U.S.-Mexico border, interweaving their stories to chronicle the creative responses to one of the most divisive moments in the history of this area. From an epic interactive searchlight installation along the El Paso–Juárez divide to a deeply personal performance at the Tijuana border wall, these artists consider the border as an open wound, a theatrical stage, a political podium, a studio, and a contradictory landscape that features both ugliness and beauty.

This episode explores how contemporary art can reveal the new and unexpected. It asks viewers to question their preconceived notions of a place seemingly made familiar by mass media. Ultimately, the artists featured in this hour challenge themselves and audiences to embrace a more empathetic view of one of the most contested areas in North America.

This event is presented in collaboration with Art21, a nonprofit global leader in art education. Art21 produces preeminent films about today’s leading visual artists and education programs that inspire creativity worldwide.

Thank you to Lucy Lydon, Director of Luce Productions and member of ArtTable NoCal’s Executive Committee for making this program possible.

Image: Tanya Aguiñiga at her Los Angeles studio. Production still from the Art21 television series “Art in the Twenty-First Century,” Season 10, 2020. © Art21, Inc. 2020

Weekend Film Streaming: Driven to Abstraction

ArtTable weekend film streaming is back this weekend! This weekend members will have the opportunity to access and watch, Driven to Abstraction, a film by Daria Price.

Are you an ArtTable member? If so, here’s how to take part!

Registration will open on Friday, May 29 at 10 AM EST and close on Sunday, May 31 at 10 PM EST.
Login and register here to receive the link for this streaming
The link to the film will be located in the summary section of your registration confirmation email
Use the link to access the film- enjoy!
Let us know what you think! Tag us on Instagram @arttableinc and use the #ATstreaming

DRIVEN TO ABSTRACTION unravels a mutating tale of self-delusion, greed, and fraud — the $80 million forgery scandal that rocked the art world and brought down Knoedler, New York City’s oldest and most venerable gallery. Was the gallery’s esteemed director the victim of a con artist who showed up with an endless treasure trove of previously unseen abstract expressionist masterpieces? Or did she eventually suspect they were fakes? Whatever the truth, two women from very different worlds crossed paths in what would become the greatest hoax ever of Modern American Art.

About the Filmmaker
Daria Price works in both documentary and narrative film. Making DRIVEN TO ABSTRACTION, she spent years following an art forgery hoax and the New York trial that exposed the scandalous habits of the art trade. New York State Council on the Arts and New York Women in Film & TV awarded the documentary completion grants, and Raindance Film Festival nominated it for “Best Documentary Feature.” Daria’s first feature OUT ON A LIMB won “Best Documentary” at the Boston International Film Festival and was broadcast throughout the USA and world. She wrote, directed, and edited the award-winning short SURVIVAL OF THE FITTEST, a satirical mystery that lampoons America’s obsession with youth and beauty. A screenwriter and script supervisor for many years, she is a member of Writers Guild of America East and IATSE. For info: www.driventoabstractiondocumentary.com

Driven to abstraction is distributed by Grasshopper Film. Available on Streaming Platforms August 2020

Available now: Educational Public Performance & DSL

Thank you to Daria Price for making this possible, Hope Davis for assistance, and Ingrid Dinter for organizing.

Weekend Film Streaming: TALKING HOUSE Eileen Gray & Jean Badovici

Introducing ArtTable weekend film streamings! This weekend members will have the opportunity to access and watch TALKING HOUSE Eileen Gray & Jean Badovici, a film by Elizabeth Lennard.

Are you an ArtTable member? If so, here’s how to take part!

Registration will open on Friday, May 15 at 10 AM: Login and register here to receive the link for this streaming
The link to the film will be located in the summary section of your registration confirmation email
Use the link to access the film- enjoy!
Let us know what you think! Tag us on Instagram @arttableinc and use the #ATstreaming

“Talking House: Eileen Gray & Jean Badovici” is a 40-minute montage of E.1027, the iconic modernist villa on the Cote d’Azur in 1929, built by Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici . Filmed today, and using Eileen Gray’s 1929 photographs of the villa and recently restored Le Corbusier film footage, the camera takes us through E.1027 as the couple talks and argues off screen about the design philosophy behind the breakthrough layout, interiors and furniture. Heated correspondence between Corbu (Le Corbusier) and Bado (Badovici) adds a bit of controversy over the later addition of Corbu’s wall paintings.

This multi-media art piece created by Elizabeth Lennard was part of the MoMA exhibit, How Should We Live? Propositions for the Modern Interior (Oct. 1–April 23, 2017) and is now in MoMA’s collection.

In lieu of the the canceled in person program to celebrate the Eileen Gray exhibition at Bard Graduate Center this Spring, we’re kicking off this streaming series with a film that spotlight’s Gray’s status as a pioneer of modern architecture.

Streaming should begin in time for Friday Happy Hour at 5 PM EST and conclude at midnight on Sunday. We hope you enjoy!

Thank you to Ingrid Dinter, NY Chapter, for organizing this program.