Time Capsules from a Crazy World: Manfred Kirchheimer at MoMA

What are Manfred Kirchheimer’s movies about? In one sense, these documentaries screening in a retrospective at MoMA February 3-11 are portraits of artists at work. Art Is…The Permanent Revolution (2012), for instance, consists primarily of interviews with three printmakers and a master printer about their work, which is placed in a historical line of politically disquieting activist art going back to Goya. Spraymakers (2007) features interviews with four former graffiti artists who