6 Artists on Their Parents from video mom japanese Watch Video

⏲ Duration: 6 min 72 sec
✓ Published: 03-Nov-2016

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When Bill Viola’s mother died it gave him an artistic breakthrough, David Shrigley’s parents wondered why people would pay for his art, Jonathan Meese’s mother is working for him as his assistant, and Yayoi Kusama escaped her parents to become an artist. nnAmerican photographer Leigh Ledare (b. 1976) tells the story of his mother, who was a ballerina with the New York City Ballet but turned to striptease in her early 50s. Ledare uses photography and film to map social relationships and beg