Art Film

Thanks to the New York Times, we learned about Make, a documentary about four artists with varying degrees of mental or physical disabilities: Judith Scott, Hawkins Bolden, Royal Robertson (one of whose works appeared in our exhibition Amazing Grace: Self-Taught Artists from the Mullis Collection) and Ike Morgan. Currently, the film is screening at Ricco/Maresca Gallery in New York, but you can watch the trailer at its official website and scroll through a photo gallery. The thing about artists like this is that, perhaps due to their lack of self-promotion, it's all too easy to discover them only after their deaths, when important stories can no longer be accurately documented. The film appears to be the kind of useful primary research that will serve us in good stead.