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Who Gets to Call It Art?
Directed by
Peter Rosen
Not Rated
2006
78m
Documentary
6.9
75%
88%
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Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler reflects on the 1960s pop art scene in New York.
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Cast of Who Gets to Call It Art?
John Chamberlain
Self
Ivan Karp
Self
George Lois
Self
Frank Stella
Self
Larry Poons
Self
James Rosenquist
Self
Jonas Mekas
Self
David Hockney
Self
Mark Di Suvero
Self
Ellsworth Kelly
Self
Francesco Clemente
Self
Richard Bellamy
Self (archive footage)
Salvador Dalí
Self (archive footage)
Willem de Kooning
Self (archive footage)
Helen Frankenthaler
Self (archive footage)
Henry Geldzahler
Self (archive footage)
Clement Greenberg
Self (archive footage)
Hans Hofmann
Self (archive footage)
Jasper Johns
Self (archive footage)
Franz Kline
Self (archive footage)
Hilton Kramer
Self (archive footage)
Roy Lichtenstein
Self (archive footage)
Barnett Newman
Self (archive footage)
Claes Oldenburg
Self (archive footage)
Jackson Pollock
Self (archive footage)
Robert Rauschenberg
Self (archive footage)
Robert B. Scull
Self (archive footage)
Calvin Tompkins
Self
Andy Warhol
Self (archive footage)
Who Gets to Call It Art? Ratings & Reviews
AV Club
Noel Murray
Rosen covers a lot of ground in 80 minutes, and he's picked the right subject to focus on.
New York Post
V.A. Musetto
Peter Rosen's documentary Who Gets to Call It Art? paints an entertaining picture of the cherubic gentleman, who as the first curator of contemporary art at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
Upstage Magazine
Kam Williams
You are likely to enjoy this bio-pic to the extent that you buy into the idea that one effete snob ought to define an aesthetic for the rest of us slobs.
Chicago Tribune
Michael Wilmington
Shot with a Peter Greenaway-like austere impudence and edited brilliantly (by Jed Parker), this is an entertaining movie, and a moving one -- even if, like me, you're not especially fond of these paintings or that scene.
Seattle Times
Sheila Farr
With its snappy, even hectic editing and great archival footage, Who Gets to Call It Art? is loads of fun to watch.
New York Daily News
Jack Mathews
The film's appeal is for the eyes.
New York Times
Manohla Dargis
Clocking in at 80 minutes, this glib, largely uninformative and poorly organized précis of the post-World War II art scene succeeds neither as history nor as art history.
Filmcritic.com
Chris Barsanti
hard for us to take too seriously
Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Regina Hackett
This documentary feels stacked on his subject's side.
TV Guide
Maitland McDonagh
The film's flippant style ultimately undermines its material -- and, ironically, makes the American art scene of the '60s appear as shallow and trendy as its detractors always claimed it was.
Film Threat
Phil Hall
A documentary that is a true work of art.
Slant Magazine
Ed Gonzalez
Through his use of green screen and montage, Rosen seems to want to position his film as its own work of Pop Art.
Village Voice
Ed Halter
Surely a figure as crucial as Geldzahler deserves more incisive treatment.
Variety
Ronnie Scheib
Both richly complex and immediately accessible.
Film Journal International
Maria Garcia
Can be enjoyed as a quick overview of the contemporary American art scene.
Seattle Film Blog
Kathy Fennessy
Who Gets to Call It Art? is an entertaining look at an important period in America's aesthetic life. As biography, it falls short--and the first act is a little baggy--but as a snapshot of a colorful scene, it gets the job done.
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