Artists
Once Upon an Otto
2011-12-10 16:00
A book of photographs of artist Frank Otto’s paintings sits invitingly on a table at the same chic Santa Monica hotel that was home to his acclaimed multi-media project, TRIP. Described by the artist as a film-music-art project, TRIP involved 33 directors, 14 musicians, and scores of technicians during its Los Angeles run late last year,
Jordan Schnitzer
作者：Kimberly Nichols 2011-07-28 16:57
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.
Playwright with the Right Stuff
作者：Admin_Joomla 2011-07-28 16:54
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.
DAVID W. STREETS: KEEPING APPRAISED
作者：Admin_Joomla 2011-07-28 16:46
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.
Portraits of the New York School
2010-08-09 14:51
For a number of years in the middle of the last century, Dan Budnik captured on film the seminal figures of the NewYork art scene: Johns, Rauschenberg, and numerous others.Today his images serve as historical treasures, revealing some of the era’s most famed personalities
Jasper Johns poses with his iconic Target and Flag paintings. Robert Rauschenberg is nearly dwarfed by a mega-painting Charlene, and a black-clothed Louise Nevelson perfectly complements the color scheme of her wood sculptures. Ellsworth Kelly appears before a blue- and-white composition, and an intense Lee Bontecou looks up from working on an intriguing relief sculpture.
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