Beautiful Losers, the 2008 Aaron Rose and Joshua Leonard film about contemporary art and urban creative culture, is currently showing at the IFC Center in Manhattan. Featuring a group of artists who “developed their craft with almost no influence from the ‘establishment’ art world,” the film includes Art21 artists Barry McGee and Margaret Kilgallen (both Season 1), as well as Cheryl Dunn, Harmony Korine, Mike Mills, Stephen Powers, Thomas Campbell, Shepard Fairey, Jo Jackson, Ed and Deanna Templeton, Geoff McFetridge and Chris Johanson. The film screens at IFC through Thursday, August 21, 2008; click here for showtimes.
Update: Beautiful Losers in New York
by Nicole J. Caruth | Aug 15, 2008
Nicole J. Caruth
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Nicole J. Caruth was managing editor of the ART21 Magazine from 2013-2015, and has been a regular contributor to this site since 2008. Her writing has appeared in a range of publications, including ARTnews, C Magazine, Gastronomica, Public Art Review, and the Phaidon Press books Vitamin Green and Vitamin D2.