Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse (1986

1986 in film

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) is a short film

Short subject

A short film is any film not long enough to be considered a feature film. No consensus exists as to where that boundary is drawn: the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences defines a short film as "an original motion picture that has a running time of 40 minutes or less, including all...

 biography of the Nashville

Nashville, Tennessee

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-born artist Red Grooms

Red Grooms

Red Grooms is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life...

. It was written by Tom Neff

Tom Neff

Thomas Linden Neff, known as Tom Neff, is a film executive, director and producer, born in Chicago, Illinois. Currently, he lives in Nashville, Tennessee.-Education:Neff received his Bachelor of Arts from Lawrence University with a major in English...

, co-directed by Neff and Louise LeQuire, and produced by Neff and Madeline Bell. The film was funded by the Tennessee State Museum

Tennessee State Museum

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 and was nominated for an Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject

Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject

This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...

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Synopsis

Barbara Haskell

Barbara Haskell

Barbara Haskell is an American art historian.Barbara Haskell is currently a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she has worked since 1975. She has previously worked at the San Francisco Museum of Art and Pasadena Museum...

, the curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Whitney Museum of American Art

The Whitney Museum of American Art, often referred to simply as "the Whitney", is an art museum with a focus on 20th- and 21st-century American art. Located at 945 Madison Avenue at 75th Street in New York City, the Whitney's permanent collection contains more than 18,000 works in a wide variety of...

, offers her insight into Grooms's art pieces and their place within twentieth century art.

Interviews

• Red Grooms
  Red Grooms
  Red Grooms is an American multimedia artist best known for his colorful pop-art constructions depicting frenetic scenes of modern urban life...
  
  
• Barbara Haskell
  Barbara Haskell
  Barbara Haskell is an American art historian.Barbara Haskell is currently a curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, where she has worked since 1975. She has previously worked at the San Francisco Museum of Art and Pasadena Museum...
  
   - curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art

Awards

Wins

• CINE
  CINE
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  : CINE Golden Eagle, Documentary; 1986.

Nominations

• Academy Awards
  Academy Awards
  An Academy Award, also known as an Oscar, is an accolade bestowed by the American Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers...
  
  : Oscar
  Academy Award for Documentary Short Subject
  This is a list of films by year that have received an Oscar together with the other nominations for best documentary short subject. Following the Academy's practice, the year listed for each film is the year of release: the awards are announced and presented early in the following year.-1940s:*1941...
  
  , Best Documentary, Short Subjects, Tom Neff and Madeline Bell; 1987.

External links

• Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse film clip at Google Video
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