| Collector's items boost Nasher
In another pavilion, the Byrne Family Galleries housed objects from the exhibition "Street Level: Mark Bradford, William Cordova and Robin Rhode.""When I finished Duke in 1957, a lot of people in this room would not have suggested that I'd be sitting here talking about contemporary art," he said.But Byrne has gone far in 50 years, joining the elite group of international collectors who appear on the ARTnews 200 Top Collectors list.After finishing at Duke and earning his master's from Columbia University, he embarked on a broadcasting career that led him to Los Angeles. Two years ago, he made history with the largest donation of artworks by a private collector to the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles: 123 works by 78 artists.He can't credit his interest in art directly to Duke. When he attended the university, it didn't even have a museum."There were art history majors, but that was a girls' thing," he said.
Who can you trust? Wiki-truth a tricky subject
One of the last remaining virtues of newsprint is that once I attribute that quote to Jack Nicholson in "A Few Good Men" (the greatest bad movie of all time), no one can alter that statement after black ink meets white paper. If this were a Wikipedia entry, any jerk could type a rebuttal that would have you believe Jack Nicklaus said that during a few good Masters' rounds. Welcome to Wikipedia, the online encyclopedia that evidently is devoted to being the world's most detailed and exhaustive rumor mill. Go to Wikipedia.com if you want to read their defense on how standards of fairness and accuracy are maintained. But the truth is that any journalist who uses "I double-checked it on Wikipedia" as a defense will soon be selling scented candles at the strip mall. Still, Wikipedia is an entertaining and not entirely unreliable source for pop culture minutiae.
New Spielberg interview in Rolling Stone
Steven Spielberg is featured in a new interview with Rolling Stone on the event of the magazine's 40th anniversary. Founded in 1967, the periodical is celebrating its four decades in rock and pop culture journalism through chats with baby boomer luminaries and notables including Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Jack Nicholson, Jane Fonda, and many more musicians, writers, and artists.The Spielberg interview is a terrific read, as he touches on his life in the late 1960s (making films, avoiding the Vietnam draft), the influence of music and Rolling Stone in his life and work, his generation's influence on cinema (in which Spielberg respectfully puts the late Pauline Kael in her place for accusing Spielberg and George Lucas for infantilizing American film), politics in the 1960s and today, and the future of film production and presentation.The 40th anniversary issue of Rolling Stone is now available at local booksellers everywhere.
Kelli Connell - Double Life
Yossi Milo Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of color photographs by Kelli Connell from the series Double Life. Kelli Connell's series, Double Life, appears to document an evolving relationship between two women. To create a constructed reality, the artist digitally combines multiple negatives of the same model, who portrays each character in the various scenarios, changing her body language and clothing for the given role. By using a single model to enact multiple roles, the artist explores the complexity of shifting identities within intimate relationships. Described by the artist as an autobiographical questioning, the work represents Ms. Connells investigation of identity, sexuality, and gender. The photographs private moments of passion, conflict and repose, express both interpretations of observed situations and actual moments from the artists life.
New Spielberg interview in Rolling Stone
Steven Spielberg is featured in a new interview with Rolling Stone on the event of the magazine's 40th anniversary. Founded in 1967, the periodical is celebrating its four decades in rock and pop culture journalism through chats with baby boomer luminaries and notables including Spielberg, Martin Scorsese, Paul McCartney, Mick Jagger, Bob Dylan, Jack Nicholson, Jane Fonda, and many more musicians, writers, and artists.The Spielberg interview is a terrific read, as he touches on his life in the late 1960s (making films, avoiding the Vietnam draft), the influence of music and Rolling Stone in his life and work, his generation's influence on cinema (in which Spielberg respectfully puts the late Pauline Kael in her place for accusing Spielberg and George Lucas for infantilizing American film), politics in the 1960s and today, and the future of film production and presentation.The 40th anniversary issue of Rolling Stone is now available at local booksellers everywhere.
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