Lights, Camera, Bad Art: Jeni Baker goes to the movies
Oval Office, Sept. 1998, v. 2, no. 2
Jeni Baker discusses a trend in film, especially Hollywood film, in which directors "...delight in making anyone remotely connected to the art world cringe". Baker argues that Hollywood films present the art world in a ridiculous, embarassing and off-putting light, with performance artists getting the most flak. Baker also discusses some films that portray the art world insightfully.
ITEM 1998.104 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
The General – John Boorman
The Letter Writer – Vermeer
2 Days in the Valley – John Herzfeld
Graham Knuttel
As Good as it Gets – James Brooks
If Lucy Fell – Eric Schaeffer
Great Expectations – Alfonso Cuaron
Francesco Clemente
Age of Innocence – Martin Scorsese
Life Lessons – Martin Scorsese
Seinfeld
Legal Eagles – Ivan Reitman
Surviving Picasso – James Ivory
Basquiat – Julian Schnabel
Lust for Life – Vincente Minnelli
La Belle Noiseuse – Jacques Rivette