Reflections: Conversations with Today's Artists

Reflections: Conversations with Today's ArtistsWhen filmmaker Matt Black interviews current artists, it's personal. His perceptive queries prompt these creatives to reveal intriguing pieces of their journeys. Jeff Koons explains the childhood experiences that made his art possible; Damien Hirst shares the motivation behind his spot paintings. These twenty one conversations are casual, comfortable, and insightful. Illustrated with the artists' work, artists in their studios, and shots from Black's

Already seen as oddballs in their small Japanese town in the 1960s

Its northern counterpart takes the reader among Sarakatsan shepherds

On a beautiful June weekend in 1967

featuring Anderson

and in his place was a 21-year-old with Long Island roots named Doug Yule

generating tens of millions of listeners for their exquisitely yearning

close to magic

All were complicit

on a larger retrospective of Glinn's work

Miles was smiling: his health problems were behind him

yet majestic in its scale and moral vision

but a subject ravaged