Photo of Henry Geldzahler (left)
and David Hockney (right)
courtesy of Robert Doisneau.

Photo: Douglas Edmonds

"Henry Geldzahler and Christopher Scott" 1969, painting by David Hockney,
courtesy of David Hockney.

Henry Geldzahler photo
courtesy of John F. Waggaman.

“WONDERFUL… an exuberant fix for art junkies.
Work(s) best as a well-organized primer on key art and artists.
It’s impossible to emerge… unmoved by the pungency of the scene.”
– Joshua Rothkopf, Time Out New York

“ENTERTAINING!”
– New York Magazine

NEW!
Film Forum Podcast

Listen to the Feb 1 Q&A
with Peter Rosen and
artists James Rosenquist and Larry Poons here

“ENGAGING…time has borne out the power of (Geldzahler’s) exacting taste. Evocative archival footage and trenchant interviews with artists arouse nostalgia for the converging postwar currents that made New York the capital of artistic originality, for the cheap housing that afforded artists the time to achieve it, and for a bygone age of lower image saturation, when the romantic craft of painting was a crucial source of news from the outer and inner world.”
– Richard Brody, The New Yorker

“Parallel tributes to the cherubic iconoclast and to the movements he championed. Lively, intelligent collage, richly complex and immediately accessible – thanks to the openness of Geldzahler and to the passion with which James Rosenquist and David Hockney speak of him. A cornucopia of archival and contemporary footage, featuring a veritable ‘Who’s Who’ of painters and sculptors.”
– Ronnie Scheib, Variety

A WILD RIDE THROUGH THE NYC ART SCENE OF THE 1960s, through the eyes of Henry Geldzahler, the first curator of contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Geldzahler’s ground-breaking show, “New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970,” featured his selection of 400 works by living American artists. In Peter Rosen’s lively portrait of the iconoclastic connoisseur, many of these artists characterize his influence and personality with breathtaking candor. (“What will the public think? Who gives a rat’s ass! It’s their job to catch up.” — John Chamberlain) With Mark di Suvero, Frank Stella, James Rosenquist, David Hockney, Larry Poons, Ellsworth Kelly, Francesco Clemente, and a slew of other art world notables.

• The Leonard Lopate Show interview on WNYC with filmmaker and James Rosenquist
• View the trailer
• Listen to the Feb 1 Q&A with Peter Rosen and James Rosenquist here
• James Rosenquist on ArtNet
• Larry Poons website