Willem de Kooning A Retrospective at MoMA Part II

[Slava17751]

Great Willem de Kooning!This is American Style!

[KeithHarperSF]

Does MoMA ever give you grief for taping there?

[jameskalmroughcut]

@KeithHarperSF They used to, but have in recent years realized that I'm providing a service to people who wouldn't be able to experience the exhibitions without the James Kalm Report.  Mind you, these videos are recorded during press previews.

[MrChubbington1]

Gotham News ( in my opinion ) is the painting that has absolutely everything in it.... Thanks James. Great show , I just wish I had seen again. Only once isn't enough !

[Whatever3114]

I was lucky to have been in New York exposing in Brooklyn - took a good look at the retrospective and it is simply incredible... Everything is there, and the sculptures are damned good too! As i'm an artist this show was a total must see. A one off miracle not to be lost. It was ... The best show i've ever seen

[d1artbob]

Art History. A painting at this or that museum. I thought I knew DeKooning, and was pretty damn impressed. Then, I saw your videos, and was taken aback. Thank you so much.

[LawrenceCharlesMille]

Thank you, James! Best-

[theschwantz]

Thank you so very, very mush for the DeKooning retrospective film as well as ALL of your videos. I miss living in NYC and going to the galleries and Museums. You fill a deep void with your work. We appreciate it more than you know here in Oregon.

[claureic]

Excavation was bought in the early sixties by Chicago collector Muriel Kallis Newman. It is the only painting she donated to the AIC. The rest of her incredible collection (Pollock, Rothko, Newman...) was donated two years ago to the Met, of all museums...What is really striking is that even in those apparently abstract works, there is always the trace of a figure; thanks for pointing this out James.

[Badahwood]

Thanks James!

[PicassoStar1]

These two videos of de Kooning are among my favorites of all your videos ever posted (and I have watched them ALL - yeah, I know I need to get a life) but these two videos made me want to get up out of my chair and run into my studio and start painting...Is there a Part III? I noticed other de Kooning paintings in the background..thanks for posting this...you do every art lover a great favor - Ron

[Badahwood]

Who are they talking about? Can't hear. Dammit. Doesn't matter. Amazing. This has made my day. Hmm is there a part 3?

[jameskalm]

@Badahwood They are talking about Ruth Kligman, the lady who survived the crash that killed Jackson Pollock, who also became de Kooning's lover as well.

[fuktface]

@jameskalm aka death car girl

[PicassoStar1]

@jameskalm Yes, and what a beautiful woman Ruth Kligman was in her hey day...died last year at age 80

[Billart]

Your Part II de Kooning at MoMA is also awesome - GREAT! His Abstracts & Women Series one after the other really snap into creative life over & over by your sweeping through his explosive paint marking. Good comments. Cute coda at the end about Ruth Kligman with Valery Oisteanu & Robert Morgan. I'd like to see any conceptual art with the expressive vitality & color reflected here. Surely his painting resounds in ways most other art today can't begin to touch. Your film will help.

[wuz352]

The piece you spoke of being in Chicago for 50 years was there several years ago when I saw it. It was stoved away in a tiny hallway that I didn't even realize was there that lead to a big section of the Art Institute. It was along side a Pollack and an Ellsworth Kelly, other contemporaries also. Great video as always, James.