Lacma launches interview series: Artists on Art

The Los Angeles-based photographer Catherine Opie is among those interviewed for Lacmas newly launched Artists on Art video series, in which artists discuss a work from the museums permanent collection. Looking at Thomas Eakinss painting Wrestlers (1899), Opie points to the influence of photography and the portrayal of masculinity in relationship to the figures. Other videos include John Baldessari on Ren Magritte, Alison Saar on Ernst Ludwig Kirchner and Judy Fiskin on Lee Friedlander.