Henry Geldzahler, Mark Di Suvero,
David Hockney, Larry Poons, James Rosenquist,
Frank Stella
Producer
:
Peter Rosen
Director
:
Peter Rosen
Genre
:
Documentary
Duration
:
80 mins
A ride through the world of the
1960's New York art scene, one of the most creatively
fertile periods of American art as seen through
the eyes of the Metropolitan Museum of Art's modern
art curator Henry Geldzahler. Henry reveled in the
hip and debaucherous parties that marked the downtown
artists' community, never missing an event that
promised to draw only the biggest and brightest
stars of art and music. Not only was Henry a curator
to the artists whose work he championed, he was
also accepted as one of their own. He had an unsurpassed
eye for spotting talent and was single-handedly
responsible for curating the largest exhibit of
modern art ever shown at the MET: New York Painting
and Sculpture 1940-1970.
