Ivan Karp

Ivan Karp

Born: June 4, 1926
Died: June 28, 2012
in Bronx, New York, USA
Ivan C. Karp was an American art dealer, gallerist and author instrumental in the emergence of pop art and the development of Manhattan's SoHo gallery district in the 1960s.

Movies for Ivan Karp...

The Cool School
Title: The Cool School
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 2008
Type: Movie
How LA Learned to Love Modern Art. A lesson in how a few renegade artists built an art scene from scratch.
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Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
Title: Andy Warhol's Factory People... Inside the Sixties Silver Factory
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
Takes an in-depth look at the lives and times of the people who hung out with Andy Warhol and "worked" at the Silver Factory during the Sixties, making it all click as a new counter-culture arose and began to exert its influence throughout the arts.
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Who Gets to Call It Art?
Title: Who Gets to Call It Art?
Character: Himself
Released: February 1, 2006
Type: Movie
Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York.
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Art City 1 Making It in Manhattan
Title: Art City 1 Making It in Manhattan
Released: January 1, 1996
Type: Movie
Unlike any art movie you've ever seen, Making it in Manhattan is informed 'entertainment' about the people who make contemporary art. Artists, collectors, and dealers bring to life the art capital of the world, New York, as it plunges into the 21st Century. Presenting a cross-section of artists, the film discusses inspiration, aesthetics, and the meaning of success. With Louise Bourgeois, Brice Marden, Chuck Close, Neil Jenney, Elizabeth Murray, Ashley Bickerton, Gary Simmons, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Rirkrit Tiravanija, St. Clair Cemin, Ivan Karp, Jay Gorney, Matthew Marks, Jerry Saltz, Herb & Dorothy Vogel, and others. From abstraction to figuration, from installation to conceptual art, from the privacy of the doctor's office to the posh gallery opening, Making it in Manhattan captures the reality of a special world. Music by Tom Waits, Don Braden Ryuichi Sakamoto, George van Eps, Piero Umiliani with Chet Baker.
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Andy Warhol
Title: Andy Warhol
Character: Art Dealer
Released: June 9, 1987
Type: Movie
The first major profile of the American Pop Art cult leader after his death in 1987 covers the whole of his life and work through interviews, clips from his films, and conversations with his family and superstar friends. Andy Warhol, the son of poor Czech immigrants, grew up in the industrial slums of Pittsburgh while dreaming of Hollywood stars. He went on to become a star himself.
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An Unmarried Woman
Title: An Unmarried Woman
Character: Herb Rowan
Released: May 24, 1978
Type: Movie
A wealthy woman from Manhattan's Upper East Side struggles to deal with her new identity and her sexuality after her husband of 16 years leaves her for a younger woman.
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This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage
Title: This Is Marshall McLuhan: The Medium Is The Massage
Character: Himself
Released: March 19, 1967
Type: Movie
Investigates the central ideas of Marshall McLuhan using pictorial techniques and including his own comments. Examines the reaction of others to his views and points out that his interest is the impact of electronic technology on the contemporary world.