Art City Box Set

All three volumes of the Art City documentary set are collected here. Together they provide a broad yet intimate glimpse into the modern art world and the fascinating people who inhabit it.

MAKING IT IN MANHATTAN, the first part of this sprawling and enlightening documentary series, constitutes a new and fresh kind of art movie. Artists, collectors, and dealers all examine inspiration, beauty, and achievement in 21st-century New York, the center of the art world. Chuck Close, Elizabeth Murray, St. Clair Cemin, Matthew Marks, and Jerry Saltz are just a few of the subjects featured here, against a backdrop of great music from Tom Waits, Piero Umiliani, and Chet Backer.

SIMPLICITY, the second segment, takes viewers all over the United States with an exhilarating examination of artists' studios and lives. Some of the artists featured here are Richard Tuttle and his workspace in the desert outside Santa Fe; the Santa Monica home of John Baldessari; Robert Williams's North Hollywood de...