Now Available: New Digitization of Alexis Krasilovsky’s End of the Art World

Posted July 1st, 2025 in Announcements, New Acquisitions, New Digital Files, News / Events

Canyon Cinema is pleased to announce that a new digitization of Alexis Krasilovksy‘s 1971 documentary End of the Art World, about the New York art scene, is now available. Recently preserved by Yale Film Archive, End of the Art World was the first film made by an undergraduate woman at Yale, and features artists such as Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Roy Lichtenstein, Robert Rauschenberg, Jo Baer, and Michael Snow in conversation and in process. 

End of the Art World (1971, 35 minutes, color, sound, digital file)

“With a quality of humor possible only with depth of understanding, Alexis Krasilovsky presents a catalogue of interviews with modern artists in which the shooting style as well as the aural material’s format rehearses the personal style, the aesthetics, and the assumption of each artist about the nature of his art.”
– Joan Braderman, Artforum

“The interviews with the individual artists vary from gala opening with Warhol’s superstars at the Whitney Museum … to the creation of actual art work in the studios of Rauschenberg and Snow.”
– Howard Guttenplan, Millennium Film Journal

“With ferocious wit, Ms. Krasilovsky sends up New York’s art scene in End of the Art World. In essence, Ms. Krasilovsky uses the sounds and images of the usual art documentary to create her own work of art.”
– Kevin Thomas, The Los Angeles Times

New digitization courtesy of Yale Film Archive, with thanks to Brian Meacham.