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Who Gets to Call It Art? is a wild ride through the fascinating world of the 1960's New York art scene, an amazing ten years when American artists forever changed the world of art, as seen through the eyes of legendary New York Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler. This thought-provoking, unforgettable film both reveals the world of Frank Stella, David Hockney, James Rosenquist, Andy Warhol and many others and investigates what makes art "art". A must-see for anyone who has ever looked at and loved a work of modern art. "There is no hyperbole in stating this is one of the greatest art documentaries ever made."   -Film Threat Watch Chicago Public Radio's Gretchen Helfrich and a panel of experts as they look at issues of art curatorship, collecting and connoisseurship after a screening of Who Gets to Call It Art? at the Facets Cinémathèque. Panelists include: Kathy Cottong, Director, Arts Club of Chicago Susanne Ghez, Director, Renaissance Society Judith Russi Kirshner, Dean, College of Architecture & Art, UIC Architect/art collector Ron Krueck Art collector Lewis Manilow Art dealer Donald Young Click here to stream RealPlayer file You will need RealPlayer to view this file, which can be acquired here. "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 "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