Interviews
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Brooklyn Museum
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content: Brooklyn Museum interviews of artists
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 7 Linear Feet (Box 1-7)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1965-1968
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.broomuse, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement note
content: Interviews, transcripts, excerpts, and other recordings are arranged alphabetically by interviewee.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: All of the sound recordings have been digitized for preservation and research access.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents note
content: This series contains interviews of 72 artists on 157 sound tape reels (1/4 in. tape). Jack Levine and John Koch were interviewed twice, so the collection contains 74 interviews total. Also found are brief excerpts of the interviews on 38 sound tape reels, made for the exhibition, "Listening to Pictures," an acoustiguide for a Walter Murch Retrospective exhibition on one sound tape reel, and a monologue by Elbert Weinberg on his painting, "Temptation of Eve" on one sound cassette. All interviews were conducted by Arlene Jacobowitz, Assistant Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Brooklyn Museum. Most of the interviews were recorded on one to three half-hour reels, except for the Ad Reinhardt and Walter Murch interviews, which are longer. Excerpts are typically between 2 and 3 minutes long. The interviews focus primarily on works by the artist that are in the museum's collection.

As noted in the box inventory below, transcripts are available for all but five interviews, as well as for the Murch acoustiguide and the Weinberg monologue. The interviews without transcripts include that of Stephen Antonakos, Jane Freilicher, Seymour Lipton, Walter Murch, and Elbert Weinberg. The Edward Hopper interview has a transcript only, and no original sound recording or excerpt.