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![Louise Bourgeois: The Spider, The Mistress and the Tangerine](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-1140x666.jpg)
Louise Bourgeois was far from “nice” but this doco is revealing portrait of an artist who refused to follow any path but her own…
![Painters Painting](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
Painters Painting is a thoughtful, sometimes amusing history of the New York art scene from the 1940s until the 1970s, writes Andrew Frost.
![Over Your Cities Grass Will Grow](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
Anselm Kiefer left his native Germany for Barjac in the south of France where he devised an extraordinary artistic living-space: an atelier, an installation complex, an entire created landscape
![Rebels without a pause](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
New York Beat Movie (Downtown 81) – 1981: Rambling, amateurish and often incoherent, this film portrays the day-to-day routine of Jean-Michel Basquiat: artist and (sometime) musician, as he tries to survive amidst rappers, junkies, gangsters, strippers, models and uptown art-lovers.
![Freak In](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
Excerpts from the films of James Whitney, early pioneer of computer animation… James Whitney, Yantra, 1957. “Between 1950 and 1955, Witney laboured to construct a truly astounding masterpiece, Yantra. The film was produced entirely by hand. By punching grid patterns
![Herb ‘n’ Dot](https://theartlife.com.au/wp-content/themes/blogim/assets/img/fallback-555x375.jpg)
Herb & Dorothy Trailer, via YouTube. “Do you have to be a Medici or a Rockefeller to collect art? “Not according to Herbert and Dorothy Vogel. This documentary film tells the extraordinary story of Herb, a postal clerk, and Dorothy,