Fanta Pants

Another delightful dose of Barbaralee Diamonstein, this time opposite the bewildered duo of Robert Rauschenberg and Leo Castelli.

Stoked Americans -- May 2009: Gallery Crawl | KQED

Check out the KQED special on our MFA exhibit, YOUNG AMERICANS, on view at the Mills College Art Museum through the end of May.

Wow! I should have been alive in 1977. Join Barbaralee Diamonstein and curator Diana Waldman as they interview Op-Master, Kenneth Noland.

Ellsworth Kelly discusses his work at last year's Art Basel. This delightfully awkward interview is a candid look at one of the great minimalist masterminds. Regarding his groundbreaking approach to reductive painting, he declares, "This is more real than a depiction of something."

Change-up

This is the best. Produced by the National Gallery of Art, this video enables us to hear Guston talk about his paintings and to actually see footage of him working in the studio. "Nothing's ever solved in painting. It's a continuous chain that sometimes doesn't go in one line...[it] goes in a serpentine line or in crooked paths, detours which have to be investigated."

Local painter and Mills alum Mel Prest discusses her working process in this video made for the 2008 exhibition, THE SPACE BETWEEN, at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. Check out her website here.

Marina Keen

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