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| Hear commentary by Pop Artist Red Grooms and Museum curators about the whimsical exhibition Red Grooms: In the Studio and the newly reinstalled sculpture The Bookstore. |
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1 - Introduce yourself to Red Grooms: In the Studio. |
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2 - The role of artist as clown. |
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3 - Red Grooms, who has made art for over 50 years, remembers his early paper movies. |
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4 - Grooms’ shares a portrait of himself as Big Mac. |
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5 - The Bookstore, Red Grooms’ larger than life sculpture, and its making. |
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6 - Red Grooms discusses the installation of Ruckus Manhattan, a critical success, and its characters Wall Street Man and Wall Street CEO. |
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7 - The Hudson River Museum commissioned Red Grooms to create The Bookstore in the 1970s. Here he talks about the process. |
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8 - The Bookstore is filled with the faces and figures of Grooms’ artistic team. The intriguing portraits in the piece are described. |
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9 - The Bookstore, its size and scale, make it an inviting environmental sculpture. Its parameters are discussed. |
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10 - Grooms constructed The Alley, a sculpto-pictorama made from foam. Hear how he experimented with this material. |
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11 - From conception to completion, artist Red Grooms recounts his creation of Tango Dancers. |
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12 - Colorado Hiker, a never-produced lithograph reflects his embrace of the Western landscape. |
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13 - The unrealized proposal for Venice Muscle Beach, a life-size sculpture in Venice CA is a perfect example of Grooms’ humorously grotesque rendering of the human form. |
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14 - Artist Red Grooms discusses The Divine Sarah, his unrealized “hap-retta,” a happening and an operetta. |
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15 - Created for a zoo, The Peaceable Kingdom, the animals are described by Grooms as stock characters appearing in a theatrical troupe within an elaborate composition. |
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16 - Tennessee Fox Trot Carousel. “ I found it difficult to tackle the whole carousel image, but I think I did a pretty good job here,” said Red Grooms, who tells us how. |
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17 - Red Grooms remembers Mendoza’s Bookstore and The Morgan Library, his two architectural inspirations for The Bookstore. |
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Download the entire tour and listen to it at your convenience! |
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