Artland: USA Series Two

Illuminations was back on the road again in 2007 shooting the second series of our art road trip, Artland: USA. From late April to mid-July, hosts Mame McCutchin and Toby Amies drove 15,000 from Miami to Anchorage looking at the best of American art and architecture along the way. Covering 50 cities, including Dallas-Fort Worth, Mount Rushmore, Robert Smithson's earthwork Spiral Jetty in the Great Salt Lake, San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver, we reveal the life-changing experiences that unfold during their three-month quest to map art along the road in the US. Programme 1: San Diego, California to Las Vegas, Nevada. Highlights of the first leg include visiting the Salk Institute, designed by Louis Kahn, and meeting superstar artist Jason Rhoades in the desert. We visit a sculpture garden by Niki de Saint Phalle; we see modernist houses in Palm Springs; and we meet the world s oldest chimpanzee, Cheeta, who paints abstract canvases in his spare time. Programme 2: Las Vegas, Nevada to Marfa, Texas. We drive through the desert from the mighty Hoover Dam, just outside Las Vegas, to the art town of Marfa. Along the way we stop at Michael Heizer s earthwork, Double Negative; we check out nose art on airforce planes near Tucson; we hear about the art of Ansel Adams and Tom Lea; and we find a Prada store in the desert (in fact, it s an art installation). Programme 3: Marfa, Texas to Denver, Colorado. Donald Judd s Chinati Foundation in Marfa is simply extraordinary. We see classic Cadillacs buried near Amarillo (the artwork Cadillac Ranch). Santa Fe and Taos are en route, along with paintings by Georgia O Keeffe and the ceramics of Tammy Garcia. The USAF Academy Chapel is visionary architecture, as is Daniel Liebskind s extension to the Denver Art Museum. Programme 4: Denver, Colorado to Minneapolis, Minnesota. The great plains offer Carhenge at Alliance, Nebraska (Stonehenge but made from cars) and the world s largest easel. Photographer Alec Soth takes a photograph and we tour the General Mills Art Collection. Great buildings include the Des Moines Art Center and the Walker Arts Center in Minneapolis, graced with a new extension by Herzog & de Meuron. Programme 5: Minneapolis, Minnesota to Chicago, Illinois. St John s Abbey outside Minneapolis was designed by modernist Marcel Breuer. St Louis Memorial Arch is a great feat of engineering, and Richard Serras Joe is pretty good too. Michael Eastman shows us how he photographs America s vanishing buildings, and in Chicago we visit Mies van der Rohe s Farnsworth House and the glorious new Millennium Park. Programme 6: Chicago, Illinois to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The weeks riches include an extraordinary collection of modern architecture in the tiny mid-west town of Columbus, Indiana, and the world s largest ball of paint. We meet artist Ann Hamilton and Andy Warhol s brother in Pittsburgh. Plus we visit Frank Lloyd Wright s stunning Fallingwater house and see Diego Rivera s masterful murals in Detroit. Programme 7: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania to Shelter Island, New York. We make a side trip to Canada to look at Toronto s new architecture. But first we meet painting elephant Surapa in Buffalo Zoo. We visit two of the great new contemporary art spaces: MassMOCA in North Adams and Dia Beacon. We go to Jackson Pollock s studio in East Hampton, and we drop in on the eminent sculptor John Chamberlain. Programme 8: Boston, Massachusetts to Vinalhaven, Maine. The last week begins in Boston with some stunning architecture on the MIT campus and with the nearby Museum of Bad Art. We encounter the Shakers and smart public art both in the libraries of Portland, Maine and in the public transit system of Montreal. And finally we take a chopper across to the tiny island of Vinalhaven to meet artist Robert Indiana.

Actors: Toby Amies

Audio Languages: English

Duration: 480 minutes

Number of Discs: 4

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