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Museum of Contemporary Art interviews

Title: Museum of Contemporary Art interviews

The Museum of Contemporary Art Interviews measure 8 linear feet and contain video interviews with 35 artists, curators, and an art collector, conducted by the staff of the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago between 1979 and 1986, on 107 U-Matic videocassettes. The first set of interviews are with contemporary artists who had solo exhibitions at the museum between 1979 and 1985, including Chuck Close, Roger Brown, Eric Fischl, Peter and Ritzi Jacobi, Steve Keister, Sol Le Witt, and collector Dennis Adrian, whose Chicago art collection was exhibited in 1982. The remainder of the series contains four sets of interviews and other footage relating to exhibitions and programming, including the 1979 exhibition <title render="italic">Wall Painting - Ryman, Hafif, Pozzi, Jackson, Yasuda</title>; the 1981 exhibition <title render="italic">Kick out the jams: Detroit’s Cass Corridor 1963-1977</title>; and the 1983 exhibition and educational program <title render="italic">Eleven Chicago Artists</title>, created with Chicago’s N.A.M.E. gallery, which traveled to area high schools featuring short video documentaries about each artist that were created from the footage on the tapes in this collection. The last set includes interviews with architects Dirk Lohan and George Danforth and historian Franz Schulze, created for the 1986 program “Mies van der Rohe Remembered,” celebrating the centennial of the architect’s birth.

OralHistoryResource: 107 video cassettes (U-matic) ; 3/4 inch.

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