Jordan Schnitzer

Écrit par Kimberly Nichols

When noted art collector Jordan Schnitzer was a young boy his mother Arlene Schnitzer opened the Fountain Gallery in Portland, Oregon to spotlight artists in the Pacific Northwest. Her staunch belief in supporting artists from the region carried down to her son who, at 14 years of age, bought his first painting – a canvas by Louis Bunce titled Sanctuary.

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Playwright with the Right Stuff

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Playwright with the Right Stuff

David Henry Hwang romances the word

By Judy Seckler

From the beginning, playwright David Henry Hwang found the theater fascinating because of the way in which words could fill a stage.

"Theater is inherently metaphorical. Film is supposed to be real," he observes, reflecting on more than 30 years of experience as a scribe of plays, film, librettos, TV and texts for dance. Thus, Hwang’s ideas for characters in a play often come from unexpected places. In a seminal workshop with Sam Shepard, he learned how to write from his unconscious.

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DAVID W. STREETS: KEEPING APPRAISED

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DAVID W. STREETS: KEEPING APPRAISED by Lynn Morgan

For the past five years, veteran art dealer David W. Streets has been holding court at his Beverly Hills gallery, David W. Streets Fine Art. A Southern transplant, David Streets arrived in the wake of Hurricane Katrina, and established himself as an art dealer, appraiser and consultant.

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