Video Is Still a Bit Player in the Art World
Video Art Book: 50 Years Later, It Still Has Catching Up to Do
In 1974, Barbara London, a young curator at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, started what was probably the first ongoing video art exhibition program in any museum, anywhere.Operating out of a former broom closet, she slowly acquired videos by artists including  Bruce Nauman,  Nam June Paik, and Joan Jonas. The going rate, she says, was $250 per video.