Q&A with THE MELT GOES ON FOREVER: THE ART & TIMES OF DAVID HAMMONS Filmmakers Judd Tully & Harold Crooks and Arts Professional Stuart Anthony
Sunday, May 7
4:40
Judd Tully was born in Chicago and educated at American University, Washington, DC. His career in journalism began as a cub reporter with the ’70s underground paper The Berkeley Barb where he covered the politically charged trials of the Soledad Brothers, George Jackson and Angela Davis in San Francisco and Marin County. For over two decades, he was Editor-at-Large of Art & Auction magazine. His journalism and art criticism has appeared in Flash Art, ARTnews, the Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, and The Art Newspaper, as well as his blog juddtully.net. Judd has been frequently interviewed on BBC Radio, CNN, MSNBC, as well as made cameo appearances in a number of documentary films that chronicle the rise and fall of the art market and scandals associated with it including the CNBC's American Greed: The Art of the Steal and Driven to Abstraction, the expose of the $80 million art forgery at the once-venerated Knoedler Gallery.
Harold Crooks is the director/writer of THE PRICE WE PAY, which premiered at the Toronto International Film Festival and had its European premier at CPH:DOX. Named “Best Canadian Documentary” of 2014 by the Vancouver Film Critics Circle, it was a New York Times Critic’s Pick. He co-directed SURVIVING PROGRESS with Mathieu Roy which premiered at 2011 TIFF, CPH:DOX and IDFA. His film writing credits include THE GIG IS UP, a Hot Docs, CPH:DOX and IDFA selection in 2021; and the Sundance and TIFF audience winner THE CORPORATION (a Film Forum premiere in 2003), the narration for which he co-wrote with director Mark Achbar. Crooks is a recipient of a Prix Gémeaux and a Genie Award from the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television Genie Award, a Chicago International Film Festival Gold Hugo, a Leo Award for Best Screenwriter [Documentary] of the Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Foundation of B.C., a National Documentary Film Award (Best Writing) at Hot Docs 1996, and a Writers Guild of Canada Top Ten Awards finalist.
Stuart Anthony is a career arts professional in the fields of contemporary art and design, where he has worked with corporate, gallery, and non-profit organizations. Currently he is President of A&P Art Services, a fine art appraisal and valuation firm. From 2014-2018 he was the Executive Director of Art Connects New York, a community based not-for-profit that produced curated permanent installations of contemporary art for social service agencies throughout New York City. Before that he was Director of Sales at The Displayers, a boutique design-build firm which designed museum environments and fabricated artist editions. Stuart had a long association with Exit Art beginning in 1986, and where he was Associate Director for 13 years. He began his career at Monique Knowlton Gallery after interning with Franklin Furnace and Anthology Film Archives. He was an undergraduate fellow at the Institute for Architecture and Urban Studies, and received a B.A. in Art and Art History from Colgate University. Stuart completed the Appraisal Institute of America’s Comprehensive Appraisal Studies Program in 2020. He is an Associate Member of the Appraisers Association of America. Stuart is a member of the Salmagundi Club of New York. He serves on the Board of Managers of the Baltimore General Dispensary Foundation.