Since 1981 Independent Curators International ICI has run a series in which prominent New York artists talk about their work to an audience gathered at the artists studio. The New York Studio Events program has visited some 200 distinguished artists throughout its history including Janine Antoni Mel Bochner Louise Bourgeois Petah Coyne Leon Golub David Levinthal Mary Lucier Laurie Simmons Richard Tuttle Fred Wilson Vik Muniz and Andrea Zittel. Inside the Studio shares for the first time the invaluable archive of audio recordings made during these events excerpting from approximately 75 of the most fascinating to provide an exceptional oral record of these artists thinking about their working processes conceptual issues the current scene and artists whose work they themselves admire.