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still from Cornell Tech: Architecture and Art
courtesy Checkerboard Film Foundation

Frank Stella Black Aluminum Copper followed by Cornell Tech: Architecture and Art

Checkerboard Films on the American Arts: Recent Releases

  • Tuesday, January 14, 2020
  • 12:30 p.m.
  • West Building Lecture Hall
  • In-person

Frank Stella, one of the enduring figures in mid-twentieth-century American painting, revisits the seminal paintings that were on display in an L&M Arts gallery retrospective. As Stella looks back on his practice and approaches to his art, several curators and historians—including Adam Weinberg, Alice Pratt Brown, and Ann Temkin—also reflect on his place in the history of American art. (Edgar Howard and Susan Wald, 2019, 24 minutes)

Cornell Tech, a new graduate school for technology, engineering, and applied science, opened its Roosevelt Island campus in New York City in 2017. Architects discuss their innovative spaces, connected by an open and public campus design. (Edgar Howard and Susan Wald, 2018, 31 minutes)