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Please note: The exhibition Erica Baum: the bite in the ribbon—a paper show is closed today due to technical issues in the gallery. We apologize for the inconvenience and hope to reopen it as soon as possible.

Your Views

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Gillian Wearing, OBE (British, b. 1963)
Your Views, 2013-2017
Color video with sound, 139 min. 32 sec.
© Gillian Wearing, courtesy Maureen Paley, London

Your Views is a global, collective moving image work that was organized by internationally acclaimed conceptual artist Gillian Wearing, OBE (British, b. 1963). Wearing solicited submissions for the project with the following post online:

The idea is very simple; film a very short clip of either curtains or blinds opening to reveal the view from a window, preferably without showing hands or arms. We are looking for a wide variety of views...

Actor and photographer Jason Lee to speak at the George Eastman Museum on August 23

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Rochester, N.Y., June 27, 2018—
The George Eastman Museum welcomes actor and photographer Jason Lee to Rochester on Thursday, August 23. Lee will present a special edition Wish You Were Here talk in the Dryden Theatre at 6 p.m., followed by a signing of his new photo book, A Plain View. Over the course of his career, Lee has been a professional skateboarder, an actor, a producer, and—for the focus of this special Wish You Were Here talk—a photographer. Lee’s latest installment ( A Plain View) in his series documenting rural America consists of photographs taken in Texas in 2017. The images are rich in texture and saturation

Employing & Collaborating Institutions

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Employing Institutions Graduates of the L. Jeffrey Selznick School of Film Preservation have been employed in a variety of national and international museums, film archives, private corporations, laboratories, libraries, and other cultural institutions, including: Academy Film Archive Anthology Film Archives Appalshop, Inc. Artpace Brattle Theatre British Film Institute Canyon Cinema, Inc. China Film Archive Cinemateca Brasileira, São Paolo Cinematheque Francaise Country Music Hall of Fame The Criterion Collection EYE Filmmuseum Netherlands George Eastman Museum The Getty Haghefilm Digitaal