Hess Collection Audio Tour

Donald Hess discusses Ivory Coast Artist Ouattara Watts

Trained as a concert pianist, Frederick discusses her growth from musician to painter.

Robert Rauschenberg reacts to what he saw as the United States’s Imperial aspirations.

Donald Hess on Rauschenberg's overnight fame

End VersionHow Donald Hess and Hifumi Ogawa met

EhrdbildAn artist changes the business principles of his patron by refusing to sell him his work.

WoodcutsFranz Gertsch's enormous woodcuts show a delicacy that and precision that belies their size. Robert Ceballos discusses the process of making a woodcut.

Johanna 2Franz Gertsch and on e of the Icons of the Hess Art Collection

CrowdA polish artist creates works that express her experiences growing up in communist Poland.

Robilee Frederick discusses how she came to meet Donald Hess.

Robilee Frederick on Her ArtNapa artist, and “late bloomer” Robilee Frederick discusses her art and how she would classify her art.

From the Ladder Series"And he dreamed and beheld a ladder set up on earth and the top of it reached into heaven" The ladder as metaphor for reaching higher.

Successful ArtistWho says artists only become famous after death? Many artists are successful markers of themselves. Robert Ceballos discusses this notion.

DiversityRobert Raushenberg in search of diversity and continual artistic investigations. Director, Robert Ceballos talks about conceptual art and the beauty of functional form in every day disposable objects.

A Dutch painter addresses his memories of German occupation in world war two.

Study of a man talking to himself

Seeing is not always believing. A Markus Raetz visual conundrum pays Hommage to a famous Joseph Beuys performance piece involving gold leaf, honey and a dead hare.

A seemingly simple method is not really that easy.

Lynn Hershman’s phantom limbs ask you to think about how visual media may objectify individuals.

a Room One's OwnAn interactive peep show based on Edison’s Kinetoscope and the Nickelodeon. Who is looking at whom?

A web-enabled piece allows you to become a Cyborg.

White Cliffs of Dover StudyA Scottish family asks you to think about what you miss. The Boyles create incredibly realistic representations of the earth’s surface out of fibreglass and paint.

A video work of sedimentary sand stones being returned to igneous rock.

Rock PoolsStones melted in a fantastically hot kiln.

UntitledTerrestrial quality from a former geologist.

An iconic German painter paints “very German” paintings. Director, Robert Ceballos and Founder, Donald Hess discuss Anselm Kiefer’s work, Am Anfang.

Using your imagination in abstract art.

Elegy to the Spanish Republic.Expression in painting and the use of titles to help guide individual response.

Sometimes one must suffer to buy good art.

A Post Painterly Abstract Expressionist painter and his method. When is less more?

A cursory overview of abstract art. Could your kid do this? What did the CIA have to do with American Abstract Expressionism?

A discussion on one of the Hess Art Collections most recognized and popular works.

Robert Ceballos discusses Alan Rath's artistic machines.

A polish artist creates works that express her experiences growing up in communist Poland.

Welcome to the Audio Tour of the Hess Collection Museum of Contemporary Art. Featuring narration by the collector Donald Hess and museum director Robert Ceballos.