The opening of new exhibitions presents a perfect opportunity to share these fascinating videos relating to contemporary artists – Antony Gormley, Alfredo Jaar and Gerhard Richter – and their artwork in the McMaster Museum of Art collection.

Proof 1983, an early single lead bodycase work by artist Antony Gormley (British, b. 1950), is now on display in the exhibition The Last Things Before the Last. The 1988 documentary below, including discussions with the artist, looks at Gormley’s work, his process and the bodycase series in particular.
 

 
McMaster’s owns two paintings by Gerhard Richter (German, b. 1932) – a portrait, Isa 1990, and a mirror – and both are on view now in separate exhibitions at the Museum of Art (one in Painting Beyond a body of views and the other in The Last Things Before the Last).
 
In this 2009 video, Guardian art critic Jonathan Jones discusses Gerhard Richter’s photorealist portraits: