This is one of the best films about the power of art.
Art as protest!
She went to war for the people she loved and who loved her back – the bowery junkies, the late-night queens, and the forgotten. Nan Godlin spent three decades photographing the low life – the jagged, raw, scary company. And she nearly died herself from an over dose of opioids.
Artist Nan Goldin set up an art activist group called PAIN -
She campaigned to force the Sackler name removed from art galleries –
“Hear us Roar!”
At the Guggenheim museum New York – with blood red banners they all chanted …
.”400,000 dead/ 200 dead each day / shame on Sadler / take down their names."
They roar to blow the roof off! As white papers fall like snow…with the words
“if only Oxy-Contin is controlled how substantially would it improve sales?”
In the Sunday Times 15th January 2023 and the art critic Wlldemar Januszczak says this art film is the best art film he’s seen. “For her art is a friend, a refuge, a family. When she and her buddies stormed the Guggenheim - they weren’t looking for easy publicity. They were hoping to rescue art from the Sacklers.”
ART as protest
Picasso - Guernica
Goya – Third of May 1808
John & Yoko – Bed ins for Peace
Suffragette Mary Richardson – Slashed a Velazquez at the National galleries
Worth watching
