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A captivating crime documentary about the heist one of the most valuable paintings of the 20th century, 1985, Willem de Kooning's "Woman-Ochre," which was brazenly cut from its frame while hanging at the University of Arizona Museum of Art. 32 years later, the painting was found hanging in the New Mexico home of an eccentric married couple with a keen eye for great works but a very unconventional method of collecting them.
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©2007
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8 videodiscs (1440 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (iv, 347 pages ; 19 cm).
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Presents a course in Western visual art that serves as both a mind-broadening survey and an essential introduction. It is designed to give anyone interested in Western art a firm familiarity with its basics, including major artists and styles in various media and providing a broad foundation for deeper exploration.
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[2016]
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1 videodisc (126 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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A cookie art museum has just opened on Sesame Street. Surrounded by beautiful cookie paintings, like "Girl with the cookie earring" and the "Muncha Lisa", Cookie Monster and his friends feel as if they're in a whole new world. But when art suddenly starts to disappear, Cookie Monster quickly becomes a suspect. Can Cookie Monster clear his name? Will they find the missing art in time or will Cookie Monster be banished from the museum forever?
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[2016]
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1 videodiscs (95 min.) : sound, colour with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
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Filmmaker Lisa Immordino Vreeland examines the life of Peggy Guggenheim, the wealthy socialite who amassed a world-class collection of modern European and American art. Vreeland does a good job of examining the different sides to Guggenheim's life and cohering them into some sort of whole by the end of this cradle-to-grave account. She was blessed by a stroke of incredible good fortune: the discovery of audio tapes, thought lost, of interviews between...
7) Coast Modern
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A core group of architects embraced the West Coast from Vancouver to LA with its particular geography and values and left behind a legacy of inspired dwellings. Today, architects celebrate the influence established by their predecessors.
10) Astral Traveler
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Take a voyage through both inner and outer realities as you fly through star fields, gas clouds, fractal formations and mystical worlds. Soothing soundscapes help unlock your mind to long-forgotten secrets of ancient, universal knowledge. Inspired by an artist's own voyages of cosmic consciousness, this video communicates on a deep, inner level that cannot be expressed through language. This music video is ideal for meditation, relaxation, or as an...
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In the fashion world, hundreds of designers showcase their latest collections in the giant white tents erected every spring and fall for New York Fashion Week. The tents draw people in, from fashion editors, to buyers to celebrities -- this pop cultural phenomenon generates global fashion trends and often becomes the proving ground for legendary designers.
13) Showrunners
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SHOWRUNNERS explores the fascinating world of the US television showrunner and the creative forces around them, as they battle daily between art and commerce to deliver television comedies and dramas to audiences worldwide.
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From Lance Bangs and Spike Jonze, acclaimed director of Where the Wild Things Are, comes A Portrait of Maurice Sendak, a loving look at one of the most cherished and controversial figures in children's literature. Featuring Tell Them Anything You Want, this is a deeply moving tribute to Sendak, a seminal talent whose conflicts with success and lifelong obsession with death have subtly influenced his work. Now 81, Sendak is best known for his book,...
20) Museum town
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[2022]
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1 videodisc (76 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
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Tells the story of a unique museum, the small town it calls home, and the great risk, hope, and power of art to transform a desolate post-industrial city. MASS MoCA is the largest museum for contemporary art in the world, but just three decades before, its vast brick buildings were the abandoned relics of a massive shuttered factory. How did such a wildly improbable transformation come to be? A testament to tenacity and imagination, Museum Town traces...
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