The who’s who of the arts and entertainment world, both Indian and international, gathered for the grand inauguration of the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (Nmacc) at the Jio World Gardens, Bandra-Kurla Complex, Mumbai, on Friday evening.
The Ambani family was in full attendance at the opening of Nita Ambani’s dream cultural project — Mukesh Ambani arrived with his daughter Esha and her father-in-law, Dilip Piramal, Akash Ambani came with wife Shloka Mehta, and Anant Ambani with fiancee Radhika Merchant.
And then the red carpet saw a procession of celebrities, from ‘Citadel’ star Priyanka Chopra and her husband Nick Jonas, who had landed in Mumbai on Friday afternoon, along with their daughter Malti Marie, and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar (with wife Anjali and daughter Sara), to Bollywood’s Great Khans — Shah Rukh, Salman, Aamir.
The A-plus list included ‘Thalaivar’ Rajinikanth, who came in tees, jeans and sandals, Uddhav, Rashmi and Aditya Thackeray,...
The Ambani family was in full attendance at the opening of Nita Ambani’s dream cultural project — Mukesh Ambani arrived with his daughter Esha and her father-in-law, Dilip Piramal, Akash Ambani came with wife Shloka Mehta, and Anant Ambani with fiancee Radhika Merchant.
And then the red carpet saw a procession of celebrities, from ‘Citadel’ star Priyanka Chopra and her husband Nick Jonas, who had landed in Mumbai on Friday afternoon, along with their daughter Malti Marie, and cricket legend Sachin Tendulkar (with wife Anjali and daughter Sara), to Bollywood’s Great Khans — Shah Rukh, Salman, Aamir.
The A-plus list included ‘Thalaivar’ Rajinikanth, who came in tees, jeans and sandals, Uddhav, Rashmi and Aditya Thackeray,...
- 3/31/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
The who’s who of the arts and entertainment world, both Indian and international, gathered for the grand inauguration of the Nita Mukesh Ambani Cultural Centre (Nmacc) at the Jio World Gardens, Bandra-Kurla Complex, Mumbai, on Friday evening.
The Ambani family was in full attendance at the opening of Nita Ambani’s dream cultural project — Mukesh Ambani arrived with his daughter Esha, Akash Ambani came with wife Shloka Mehta, and Anant Ambani with fiancee Radhika Merchant.
The opening exhibition titled ‘Sangam/Confluence’ features the works of leading Indian artists Bharti Kher, Bhupen Khakhar, Ranjani Shettar, Ratheesh T., and Shantibai, and international trend-setters such as Anselm Kiefer, Cecily Brown, Francesco Clemente, Lynda Benglis, and Raqib Shaw.
The exhibition has been curated by Jeffrey Deitch and Ranjit Hoskote.
The second opening exhibition is centred around the world of fashion and history. Curated by Hamish Bowles, global editor-at-large, ‘Vogue’, and designed by Patrick Kinmonth and Rooshad Shroff,...
The Ambani family was in full attendance at the opening of Nita Ambani’s dream cultural project — Mukesh Ambani arrived with his daughter Esha, Akash Ambani came with wife Shloka Mehta, and Anant Ambani with fiancee Radhika Merchant.
The opening exhibition titled ‘Sangam/Confluence’ features the works of leading Indian artists Bharti Kher, Bhupen Khakhar, Ranjani Shettar, Ratheesh T., and Shantibai, and international trend-setters such as Anselm Kiefer, Cecily Brown, Francesco Clemente, Lynda Benglis, and Raqib Shaw.
The exhibition has been curated by Jeffrey Deitch and Ranjit Hoskote.
The second opening exhibition is centred around the world of fashion and history. Curated by Hamish Bowles, global editor-at-large, ‘Vogue’, and designed by Patrick Kinmonth and Rooshad Shroff,...
- 3/31/2023
- by News Bureau
- GlamSham
Nadya Tolokonnikova, the most visible member of the artist-activist collective Pussy Riot, is now on Russia’s most wanted criminals list. The Associated Press reports that earlier today a Russian news outlet, Mediazona, found Tolokonnikova’s name on the Russian Interior Ministry’s database, which claimed Tolokonnikova faced criminal charges without specifying what those charges are.
“Oopsie, I was just added to Russia’s federal wanted list,” Tolokonnikova wrote on Instagram next to a photo of herself flipping the bird. Tolokonnikova believes the charges relate to her art.
In 2012, Tolokonnikova...
“Oopsie, I was just added to Russia’s federal wanted list,” Tolokonnikova wrote on Instagram next to a photo of herself flipping the bird. Tolokonnikova believes the charges relate to her art.
In 2012, Tolokonnikova...
- 3/29/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
A little over two weeks have passed since the art installation Pussy Riot: Putin’s Ashes closed in Los Angeles. Now sources in the Russian media report that the activist-art group’s Nadya Tolokonnikova may face criminal charges in Russia for staging it.
“My job is to hurt Putin as much as possible, and [the threat of lawsuits] means that he and people around him are actually getting hurt by Putin’s Ashes, so that’s great news,” Tolokonnikova tells Rolling Stone in a Wednesday Zoom interview. “I’ll keep doing my work and keep pushing.
“My job is to hurt Putin as much as possible, and [the threat of lawsuits] means that he and people around him are actually getting hurt by Putin’s Ashes, so that’s great news,” Tolokonnikova tells Rolling Stone in a Wednesday Zoom interview. “I’ll keep doing my work and keep pushing.
- 2/23/2023
- by Kory Grow
- Rollingstone.com
February is L.A.’s busiest art month, with no less than five fairs kicking off around the city. Among them, Frieze Los Angeles, owned by Endeavor, returns in a new and larger location at Santa Monica Airport. As Frieze opens, THR catches up with four buzzy artists, all with new shows right now that explore the topography of Los Angeles.
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Just days after his AI-based art was shown on screens surrounding the stage of the 2023 Grammys, artist and computer programmer Anadol opened a mesmerizing solo show, Living Paintings, at Jeffrey Deitch. The exhibit showcases the Istanbul-born artist’s large-scale LED-screen video works that harness millions of images and data points, transforming them into seemingly fluid cascades of imagery. The pieces include the work Artificial Realities: California Landscapes, generated from 300 million photos of national parks in the Golden State. “We create our AI on this data...
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Just days after his AI-based art was shown on screens surrounding the stage of the 2023 Grammys, artist and computer programmer Anadol opened a mesmerizing solo show, Living Paintings, at Jeffrey Deitch. The exhibit showcases the Istanbul-born artist’s large-scale LED-screen video works that harness millions of images and data points, transforming them into seemingly fluid cascades of imagery. The pieces include the work Artificial Realities: California Landscapes, generated from 300 million photos of national parks in the Golden State. “We create our AI on this data...
- 2/16/2023
- by Degen Pener
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
Aug. 10, Wednesday
Seth Meyers participates in a Kcrw conversation moderated by Elvis Mitchell.
Linwood Dunn Theater, Los Angeles
Jamie Foxx and Dave Franco celebrate their new movie “Day Shift.”
Regal LA Live, Los Angeles
Aug. 11, Thursday
Variety celebrates its Power of Young Hollywood issue with cover stars Halle Bailey, Brooklyn Peltz Beckham, Angus Cloud and Becky G. Chris Olsen hosts.
NeueHouse Hollywood
David Lachapelle, Jeffrey Deitch and “The Andy Warhol Diaries” director Andrew Rossi celebrate the docuseries’ four Emmy nominations.
Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Richa Moorjani, Jaren Lewison, Darren Barnet, Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher walk the red carpet at the “Never Have I Ever” Season 3 premiere.
Regency Village Theatre, Westwood
Aug. 14, Sunday
Martha Plimpton, Garret Dillahunt and Shakira Barrera launch their Freevee series “Sprung.”
Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles
Aug. 15, Monday
Benjamin Walker, Charles Edwards, Charles Vickers and Cynthia Addai-Robinson premiere “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
Seth Meyers participates in a Kcrw conversation moderated by Elvis Mitchell.
Linwood Dunn Theater, Los Angeles
Jamie Foxx and Dave Franco celebrate their new movie “Day Shift.”
Regal LA Live, Los Angeles
Aug. 11, Thursday
Variety celebrates its Power of Young Hollywood issue with cover stars Halle Bailey, Brooklyn Peltz Beckham, Angus Cloud and Becky G. Chris Olsen hosts.
NeueHouse Hollywood
David Lachapelle, Jeffrey Deitch and “The Andy Warhol Diaries” director Andrew Rossi celebrate the docuseries’ four Emmy nominations.
Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles
Maitreyi Ramakrishnan, Richa Moorjani, Jaren Lewison, Darren Barnet, Mindy Kaling and Lang Fisher walk the red carpet at the “Never Have I Ever” Season 3 premiere.
Regency Village Theatre, Westwood
Aug. 14, Sunday
Martha Plimpton, Garret Dillahunt and Shakira Barrera launch their Freevee series “Sprung.”
Hollywood Forever Cemetery, Los Angeles
Aug. 15, Monday
Benjamin Walker, Charles Edwards, Charles Vickers and Cynthia Addai-Robinson premiere “The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power.
- 8/10/2022
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Face value has never had a more accurate appraisal than the accumulated works of Andy Warhol. Early in The Andy Warhol Diaries, the artist at the center shows his colors. “If you didn’t have fantasies, you wouldn’t have problems,” Warhol says. The mask he wore never covered the mascara he always felt he needed. Warhol didn’t like his skin, the shape of his nose, his receding hairline, or his asexual façade. He says he’d always wanted to be a robot, unemotional, detached, and ageless. The six-part documentary gives him that, but infuses the machine with affection.
The main narrator of The Andy Warhol Diaries is Andy, but not. Along with layered readings by Bill Irwin, Andy’s words are translated by a Warhol-bot, an artificially intelligent vocal algorithm machine which inadvertently highlights how much the art celebrity would have enjoyed the current age of everyday stardom.
The main narrator of The Andy Warhol Diaries is Andy, but not. Along with layered readings by Bill Irwin, Andy’s words are translated by a Warhol-bot, an artificially intelligent vocal algorithm machine which inadvertently highlights how much the art celebrity would have enjoyed the current age of everyday stardom.
- 3/8/2022
- by Alec Bojalad
- Den of Geek
Greenwich Entertainment has acquired the U.S. distribution rights to the documentary feature Kenny Scharf: When Worlds Collide. The film is slated to debut in theaters and on digital platforms across the country on April 23.
The docu, which marks the directorial debut feature from Max Basch and Malia Scharf, made its world premiere last year at SXSW. Made over 11 years, the docu takes a look at the life of artist Kenny Scharf and features interviews and rare archival footage with Scharf, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Ed Ruscha, Dennis Hopper, Yoko Ono, Kaws, Marilyn Minter, and Jeffrey Deitch.
When Scharf arrived in New York City in the early 1980s, he quickly befriended Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. This trio changed the face of the art world with their works. While Basquiat and Haring both died tragically young, Scharf lived through cataclysmic shifts in New York City and the art world.
The docu, which marks the directorial debut feature from Max Basch and Malia Scharf, made its world premiere last year at SXSW. Made over 11 years, the docu takes a look at the life of artist Kenny Scharf and features interviews and rare archival footage with Scharf, Andy Warhol, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring, Ed Ruscha, Dennis Hopper, Yoko Ono, Kaws, Marilyn Minter, and Jeffrey Deitch.
When Scharf arrived in New York City in the early 1980s, he quickly befriended Keith Haring and Jean-Michel Basquiat. This trio changed the face of the art world with their works. While Basquiat and Haring both died tragically young, Scharf lived through cataclysmic shifts in New York City and the art world.
- 2/23/2021
- by Dino-Ray Ramos
- Deadline Film + TV
Greta Gerwig and Noah Baumbach have First Encounters at the Quad Cinema Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
The Quad Cinema in New York reopens in grand style this Friday, April 14 with theatrical releases of Katell Quillévéré's Heal The Living (Réparer Les vivants), Terence Davies' A Quiet Passion and Maura Axelrod's Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back. Amy Heckerling will introduce Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze) in the career retrospective for the great filmmaker Lina Wertmüller: Female Trouble.
Manchester By The Sea director Kenneth Lonergan first views Edward Yang's Yi Yi Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
First Encounters kicks off this Saturday with Greta Gerwig's first viewing of David Lynch's Blue Velvet. Jeffrey Deitch chooses Da Pennebaker's Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, John Turturro picks Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali, Noah Baumbach nails Bruce Robinson's Withnail And I, Sandra Bernhard views Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lola, and...
The Quad Cinema in New York reopens in grand style this Friday, April 14 with theatrical releases of Katell Quillévéré's Heal The Living (Réparer Les vivants), Terence Davies' A Quiet Passion and Maura Axelrod's Maurizio Cattelan: Be Right Back. Amy Heckerling will introduce Seven Beauties (Pasqualino Settebellezze) in the career retrospective for the great filmmaker Lina Wertmüller: Female Trouble.
Manchester By The Sea director Kenneth Lonergan first views Edward Yang's Yi Yi Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze
First Encounters kicks off this Saturday with Greta Gerwig's first viewing of David Lynch's Blue Velvet. Jeffrey Deitch chooses Da Pennebaker's Ziggy Stardust And The Spiders From Mars, John Turturro picks Satyajit Ray's Pather Panchali, Noah Baumbach nails Bruce Robinson's Withnail And I, Sandra Bernhard views Rainer Werner Fassbinder's Lola, and...
- 4/14/2017
- by Anne-Katrin Titze
- eyeforfilm.co.uk
Next month will mark the return of New York City’s Quad Cinema, a theater reshaped and rebranded as a proper theater via the resources of Charles S. Cohen, head of the distribution outfit Cohen Media Group. While we got a few hints of the line-up during the initial announcement, they’ve now unveiled their first full repertory calendar, running from April 14th through May 4th, and it’s an embarassment of cinematic riches.
Including the previously revealed Lina Wertmüller retrospective, one inventive series that catches our eye is First Encounters, in which an artist will get to experience a film they’ve always wanted to see, but never have, and in which you’re invited to take part. The first match-ups in the series include Kenneth Lonergan‘s first viewing Edward Yang‘s Yi Yi, Noah Baumbach‘s first viewing of Withnail and I, John Turturro‘s first viewing of Pather Panchali,...
Including the previously revealed Lina Wertmüller retrospective, one inventive series that catches our eye is First Encounters, in which an artist will get to experience a film they’ve always wanted to see, but never have, and in which you’re invited to take part. The first match-ups in the series include Kenneth Lonergan‘s first viewing Edward Yang‘s Yi Yi, Noah Baumbach‘s first viewing of Withnail and I, John Turturro‘s first viewing of Pather Panchali,...
- 3/21/2017
- by Jordan Raup
- The Film Stage
Noah Baumbach has never seen “Withnail and I.” Kenneth Lonergan has always wanted to see “Yi Yi.” Sandra Bernhard hasn’t had the chance to catch “Lola.” As part of New York City’s Quad Cinema’s newly announced “First Encounters” screening series, they (and more creative types) are going to finally remedy that — and they’d like you to join them.
The newly revamped four-screen theater — set to reopen in less than in a month — has announced the first lineup of their newest series, which sees notable New Yorkers (helped by programmers Christopher Wells and Gavin Smith) picking a film they’ve never seen (but have always wanted to) to show on the big screen, complete with a post-showing Q&A with the rest of audience.
Check out the first official lineup for First Encounters below, with descriptions and other information provided by Quad Cinema.
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The newly revamped four-screen theater — set to reopen in less than in a month — has announced the first lineup of their newest series, which sees notable New Yorkers (helped by programmers Christopher Wells and Gavin Smith) picking a film they’ve never seen (but have always wanted to) to show on the big screen, complete with a post-showing Q&A with the rest of audience.
Check out the first official lineup for First Encounters below, with descriptions and other information provided by Quad Cinema.
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- 3/20/2017
- by Kate Erbland
- Indiewire
Sky Ladder: The Art of Cai Guo-Qiang Netflix Reviewed by: Harvey Karten, Shockya Grade: B Director: Kevin Macdonald Written by: Kevin Macdonald Cast: Cai Guo-Qiang, Ian Buruma, Cai Wen-You, Cai Wenhao, Ben Davis, Jeffrey Deitch, Phil Grucci, Thomas Krens, Tatsumi Masatoshi, Orville Schell, Jennifer Wen Ma, Hong Hong Wu Screened at: Review 1, NYC, 9/22/16 Opens: October 14, 2016 China looks a lot different now from what I saw when I visited the world’s most populated country in 1975. At that time Shanghai was a dowdy city, one that would be considered a backwater when compared to the glittering premier cities of Europe. Its “Fifth Avenue” equivalent was dark, even [ Read More ]
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- 10/10/2016
- by Harvey Karten
- ShockYa
Totally and tragically unconventional, Peggy Guggenheim moved through the cultural upheaval of the 20th century collecting not only not only art, but artists. Her sexual life was -- and still today is -- more discussed than the art itself which she collected, not for her own consumption but for the world to enjoy.
Her colorful personal history included such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp and countless others. Guggenheim helped introduce the world to Pollock, Motherwell, Rothko and scores of others now recognized as key masters of modernism.
In 1921 she moved to Paris and mingled with Picasso, Dali, Joyce, Pound, Stein, Leger, Kandinsky. In 1938 she opened a gallery in London and began showing Cocteau, Tanguy, Magritte, Miro, Brancusi, etc., and then back to Paris and New York after the Nazi invasion, followed by the opening of her NYC gallery Art of This Century, which became one of the premiere avant-garde spaces in the U.S. While fighting through personal tragedy, she maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art, now enshrined in her Venetian palazzo where she moved in 1947. Since 1951, her collection has become one of the world’s most visited art spaces.
Featuring: Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Vasil Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Willem de Kooning, Fernand Leger, Rene Magritte, Man Ray, Jean Miro, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Kurt Schwitters, Gino Severini, Clyfford Still and Yves Tanguy.
Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Director and Producer)
Lisa Immordino Vreeland has been immersed in the world of fashion and art for the past 25 years. She started her career in fashion as the Director of Public Relations for Polo Ralph Lauren in Italy and quickly moved on to launch two fashion companies, Pratico, a sportswear line for women, and Mago, a cashmere knitwear collection of her own design. Her first book was accompanied by her directorial debut of the documentary of the same name, "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel" (2012). The film about the editor of Harper's Bazaar had its European premiere at the Venice Film Festival and its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, going on to win the Silver Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival and the fashion category for the Design of the Year awards, otherwise known as “The Oscars” of design—at the Design Museum in London.
"Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict" is Lisa Immordino Vreeland's followup to her acclaimed debut, "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel". She is now working on her third doc on Cecil Beaton who Lisa says, "has been circling around all these stories. What's great about him is the creativity: fashion photography, war photography, "My Fair Lady" winning an Oscar."
Sydney Levine: I have read numerous accounts and interviews with you about this film and rather than repeat all that has been said, I refer my readers to Indiewire's Women and Hollywood interview at Tribeca this year, and your Indiewire interview with Aubrey Page, November 6, 2015 .
Let's try to cover new territory here.
First of all, what about you? What is your relationship to Diana Vreeland?
Liv: I am married to her grandson, Alexander Vreeland. (I'm also proud of my name Immordino) I never met Diana but hearing so many family stories about her made me start to wonder about all the talk about her. I worked in fashion and lived in New York like she did.
Sl: In one of your interviews you said that Peggy was not only ahead of her time but she helped to define it. Can you tell me how?
Liv: Peggy grew up in a very traditional family of German Bavarian Jews who had moved to New York City in the 19th century. Already at a young age Peggy felt like there were too many rules around her and she wanted to break out. That alone was something attractive to me — the notion that she knew that she didn't fit in to her family or her times. She lived on her own terms, a very modern approach to life. She decided to abandon her family in New York. Though she always stayed connected to them, she rarely visited New York. Instead she lived in a world without borders. She did not live by "the rules". She believed in creating art and created herself, living on her own terms and not on those of her family.
Sl: Is there a link between her and your previous doc on Diana Vreeland?
Liv: The link between Vreeland and Guggenheim is their mutual sense of reinvention and transformation. That made something click inside of me as I too reinvented myself when I began writing the book on Diana Vreeland .
Can you talk about the process of putting this one together and how it differed from its predecessor?
Liv: The most challenging thing about this one was the vast amount of material we had at our disposal. We had a lot of media to go through — instead of fashion spreads, which informed The Eye Has To Travel, we had art, which was fantastic. I was spoiled by the access we had to these incredible archives and footage. I'm still new to this, but it's the storytelling aspect that I loved in both projects. One thing about Peggy that Mrs. Vreeland didn't have was a very tragic personal life. There was so much that happened in Peggy's life before you even got to what she actually accomplished. And so we had to tell a very dense story about her childhood, her father dying on the Titanic, her beloved sister dying — the tragic events that fundamentally shaped her in a way. It was about making sure we had enough of the personal story to go along with her later accomplishments.
World War II alone was such a huge part of her story, opening an important art gallery in London, where she showed Kandinsky and other important artists for the first time. The amount of material to distill was a tremendous challenge and I hope we made the right choices.
Sl: How did you learn make a documentary?
Liv: I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng were very helpful.
Research is fundamental; finding as much as you can and never giving up. I love the research. It is my "precise time". Not just for interviews but of footage, photographs never seen before. It is a painstaking process that satisfies me. The research never ends. I was still researching while I was promoting the Diana Vreeland book. I love reading books and going to original sources.
The archives in film museums in the last ten years has changed and given museums a new role. I found unique footage at Moma with the Elizabeth Chapman Films. Chapman went to Paris in the 30s and 40s with a handheld camera and took moving pictures of Brancusi and Duchamps joking around in a studio, Gertrude Stein, Leger walking down the street. This footage is owned by Robert Storr, Dean of Yale School of Art. In fact he is taking a sabbatical this year to go through the boxes and boxes of Chapman's films. We also used " Entre'acte" by René Clair cowritten with Dadaist Francis Picabia, "Le Sang du poet" of Cocteau, Hans Richter "8x8","Gagascope" and " Dreams That Money Can Buy" produced by Peggy Guggenheim, written by Man Ray in 1947.
Sl: How long did it take to research and make the film?
Liv: It took three years for both the Vreeland and the Guggenheim documentary.
It was more difficult with the Guggenheim story because there was so much material and so much to tell of her life. And she was not so giving of her own self. Diana could inspire you about a bandaid; she was so giving. But Peggy didn't talk much about why she loved an artist or a painting. She acted more. And using historical material could become "over-teaching" though it was fascinating.
So much had to be eliminated. It was hard to eliminate the Degenerate Art Show, a subject which is newly discussed. Stephanie Barron of Lacma is an expert on Degenerate Art and was so generous.
Once we decided upon which aspects to focus on, then we could give focus to the interviews.
There were so many of her important shows we could not include. For instance there was a show on collages featuring William Baziotes , Jackson Pollack and Robert Motherwell which started a more modern collage trend in art. The 31 Women Art Show which we did include pushed forward another message which I think is important.
And so many different things have been written about Peggy — there were hundreds of articles written about her during her lifetime. She also kept beautiful scrapbooks of articles written about her, which are now in the archives of the Guggenheim Museum.
The Guggenheim foundation did not commission this documentary but they were very supportive and the film premiered there in New York in a wonderful celebration. They wanted to represent Peggy and her paintings properly. The paintings were secondary characters and all were carefully placed historically in a correct fashion.
Sl: You said in one interview Guggenheim became a central figure in the modern art movement?
Liv: Yes and she did it without ego. Sharing was always her purpose in collecting art. She was not out for herself. Before Peggy, the art world was very different. And today it is part of wealth management.
Other collectors had a different way with art. Isabelle Stewart Gardner bought art for her own personal consumption. The Gardner Museum came later. Gertrude Stein was sharing the vision of her brother when she began collecting art. The Coen sisters were not sharing.
Her benevolence ranged from giving Berenice Abbott the money to buy her first camera to keeping Pollock afloat during lean times.
Djuana Barnes, who had a 'Love Love Love Hate Hate Hate' relationship with Peggy wrote Nightwood in Peggy's country house in England.
She was in Paris to the last minute. She planned how to safeguard artwork from the Nazis during World War II. She was storing gasoline so she could escape. She lived on the Ile St. Louis with her art and moved the paintings out first to a children's boarding school and then to Marseilles where it was shipped out to New York City.
Her role in art was not taken seriously because of her very public love life which was described in very derogatory terms. There was more talk about her love life than about her collection of art.
Her autobiography, Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict (1960) , was scandalous when it came out — and she didn't even use real names, she used pseudonyms for her numerous partners. Only after publication did she reveal the names of the men she slept with.
The fact that she spoke about her sexual life at all was the most outrageous aspect. She was opening herself up to ridicule, but she didn't care. Peggy was her own person and she felt good in her own skin. But it was definitely unconventional behavior. I think her sexual appetites revealed a lot about finding her own identity.
A lot of it was tied to the loss of her father, I think, in addition to her wanting to feel accepted. She was also very adventurous — look at the men she slept with. I mean, come on, they are amazing! Samuel Beckett, Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, and she married Max Ernst. I think it was really ballsy of her to have been so open about her sexuality; this was not something people did back then. So many people are bound by conventional rules but Peggy said no. She grabbed hold of life and she lived it on her own terms.
Sl: You also give Peggy credit for changing the way art was exhibited. Can you explain that?
Liv: One of her greatest achievements was her gallery space in New York City, Art of This Century, which was unlike anything the art world has seen before or since in the way that it shattered the boundaries of the gallery space that we've come to know today — the sterile white cube. She came to be a genius at displaying her collections...
She was smart with Art of the Century because she hired Frederick Kiesler as a designer of the gallery and once again surrounded herself with the right people, including Howard Putzler, who was already involved with her at Guggenheim Jeune in London. And she was hanging out with all the exiled Surrealists who were living in New York at the time, including her future husband, Max Ernst, who was the real star of that group of artists. With the help of these people, she started showing art in a completely different way that was both informal and approachable. In conventional museums and galleries, art was untouchable on the wall and inside frames. In Peggy's gallery, art stuck out from the walls; works weren't confined to frames. Kiesler designed special chairs you could sit in and browse canvases as you would texts in a library. Nothing like this had ever existed in New York before — even today there is nothing like it.
She made the gallery into an exciting place where the whole concept of space was transformed. In Venice, the gallery space was also her home. Today, for a variety of reasons, the home aspect of the collection is less emphasized, though you still get a strong sense of Peggy's home life there. She was bringing art to the public in a bold new way, which I think is a great idea. It's art for everybody, which is very much a part of today's dialogue except that fewer people can afford the outlandish museum entry fees.
Sl: What do you think made her so prescient and attuned ?
Liv: She was smart enough to ask Marcel Duchamp to be her advisor — so she was in tune, and very well connected. She was on the cutting edge of what was going on and I think a lot of this had to do with Peggy being open to the idea of what was new and outrageous. You have to have a certain personality for this; what her childhood had dictated was totally opposite from what she became in life, and being in the right place at the right time helped her maintain a cutting edge throughout her life.
Sl: The movie is framed around a lost interview with Peggy conducted late in her life. How did you acquire these tapes?
Liv: We optioned Jacqueline Bogard Weld’s book, Peggy : The Wayward Guggenheim, the only authorized biography of Peggy, which was published after she died. Jackie had spent two summers interviewing Peggy but at a certain point lost the tapes somewhere in her Park Avenue apartment. Jackie had so much access to Peggy, which was incredible, but it was also the access that she had to other people who had known Peggy — she interviewed over 200 people for her book. Jackie was incredibly generous, letting me go through all her original research except for the lost tapes.
We'd walk into different rooms in her apartment and I'd suggestively open a closet door and ask “Where do you think those tapes might be?" Then one day I asked if she had a basement, and she did. So I went through all these boxes down there, organizing her affairs. Then bingo, the tapes showed up in this shoebox.
It was the longest interview Peggy had ever done and it became the framework for our movie. There's nothing more powerful than when you have someone's real voice telling the story, and Jackie was especially good at asking provoking questions. You can tell it was hard for Peggy to answer a lot of them, because she wasn't someone who was especially expressive; she didn't have a lot of emotion. And this comes across in the movie, in the tone of her voice.
Sl: Larry Gagosian has one of the best descriptions of Peggy in the movie — "she was her own creation." Would you agree, and if so why?
Liv: She was very much her own creation. When he said that in the interview I had a huge smile on my face. In Peggy's case it stemmed from a real need to identify and understand herself. I'm not sure she achieved it but she completely recreated herself — she knew that she did not want to be what she was brought up to be. She tried being a mother, but that was not one of her strengths, so art became that place where she could find herself, and then transform herself.
Nobody believed in the artists she cultivated and supported — they were outsiders and she was an outsider in the world she was brought up in. So it's in this way that she became her own great invention. I hope that her humor comes across in the film because she was extremely amusing — this aspect really comes across in her autobiography.
Sl: Finally, what do you think is Peggy Guggenheim's most lasting legacy, beyond her incredible art collection?
Liv: Her courage, and the way she used it to find herself. She had this ballsiness that not many people had, especially women. In her own way she was a feminist and it's good for women and young girls today to see women who stepped outside the confines of a very traditional family and made something of her life. Peggy's life did not seem that dreamy until she attached herself to these artists. It was her ability to redefine herself in the end that truly summed her up.
About the Filmmakers
Stanley Buchtal is a producer and entrepreneur. His movies credits include "Hairspray", "Spanking the Monkey", "Up at the Villa", "Lou Reed Berlin", "Love Marilyn", "LennoNYC", "Bobby Fischer Against the World", "Herb & Dorothy", "Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present"," Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child", "Sketches of Frank Gehry", "Black White + Gray: a Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe", among numerous others.
David Koh is an independent producer, distributor, sales agent, programmer and curator. He has been involved in the distribution, sale, production, and financing of over 200 films. He is currently a partner in the boutique label Submarine Entertainment with Josh and Dan Braun and is also partners with Stanley Buchthal and his Dakota Group Ltd where he co-manages a portfolio of over 50 projects a year (75% docs and 25% fiction). Previously he was a partner and founder of Arthouse Films a boutique distribution imprint and ran Chris Blackwell's (founder of Island Records & Island Pictures) film label, Palm Pictures. He has worked as a Producer for artist Nam June Paik and worked in the curatorial departments of Anthology Film Archives, MoMA, Mfa Boston, and the Guggenheim Museum. David has recently served as a Curator for Microsoft and has curated an ongoing film series and salon with Andre Balazs Properties and serves as a Curator for the exclusive Core Club in NYC.
David recently launched with his partners Submarine Deluxe, a distribution imprint; Torpedo Pictures, a low budget high concept label; and Nfp Submarine Doks, a German distribution imprint with Nfp Films. Recently and upcoming projects include "Yayoi Kusama: a Life in Polka Dots", "Burden: a Portrait of Artist Chris Burden", "Dior and I", "20 Feet From Stardom", "Muscle Shoals", "Marina Abramovic the Artist is Present", "Rats NYC", "Nas: Time Is Illmatic", "Blackfish", "Love Marilyn", "Chasing Ice", "Searching for Sugar Man", "Cutie and the Boxer"," Jean-Michel Basquiat: the Radiant Child", "Finding Vivian Maier", "The Wolfpack, "Meru", and "Station to Station".
Dan Braun is a producer, writer, art director and musician/composer based in NYC. He is the Co-President of and Co-Founder of Submarine, a NYC film sales and production company specializing in independent feature and documentary films. Titles include "Blackfish", "Finding Vivian Maier", "Muscle Shoals", "The Case Against 8", "Keep On Keepin’ On", "Winter’s Bone", "Nas: Time is Illmatic", "Dior and I" and Oscar winning docs "Man on Wire", "Searching for Sugarman", "20 Ft From Stardom" and "Citizenfour". He was Executive Producer on documentaries "Kill Your Idols", (which won Best NY Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival 2004), "Blank City", "Sunshine Superman", the upcoming feature adaptations of "Batkid Begins" and "The Battered Bastards of Baseball" and the upcoming horror TV anthology "Creepy" to be directed by Chris Columbus.
He is a producer of the free jazz documentary "Fire Music", and the upcoming documentaries, "Burden" on artist Chris Burden and "Kusama: a Life in Polka Dots" on artist Yayoi Kusama. He is also a writer and consulting editor on Dark Horse Comic’s "Creepy" and "Eerie 9" comic book and archival series for which he won an Eisner Award for best archival comic book series in 2009.
He is a musician/composer whose compositions were featured in the films "I Melt With You" and "Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Radiant Child and is an award winning art director/creative director when he worked at Tbwa/Chiat/Day on the famous Absolut Vodka campaign.
John Northrup (Co-Producer) began his career in documentaries as a French translator for National Geographic: Explorer. He quickly moved into editing and producing, serving as the Associate Producer on "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel" (2012), and editing and co-producing "Wilson In Situ" (2014), which tells the story of theatre legend Robert Wilson and his Watermill Center. Most recently, he oversaw the post-production of Jim Chambers’ "Onward Christian Soldier", a documentary about Olympic Bomber Eric Rudolph, and is shooting on Susanne Rostock’s "Another Night in the Free World", the follow-up to her award-winning "Sing Your Song" (2011).
Submarine Entertainment (Production Company) Submarine Entertainment is a hybrid sales, production, and distribution company based in N.Y. Recent and upcoming titles include "Citizenfour", "Finding Vivian Maier", "The Dog", "Visitors", "20 Feet from Stardom", "Searching for Sugar Man", "Muscle Shoals", "Blackfish", "Cutie and the Boxer", "The Summit", "The Unknown Known", "Love Marilyn", "Marina Abramovic the Artist is Present", "Chasing Ice", "Downtown 81 30th Anniversary Remastered", "Wild Style 30th Anniversary Remastered", "Good Ol Freda", "Some Velvet Morning", among numerous others. Submarine principals also represent Creepy and Eerie comic book library and are developing properties across film & TV platforms.
Submarine has also recently launched a domestic distribution imprint and label called Submarine Deluxe; a genre label called Torpedo Pictures; and a German imprint and label called Nfp Submarine Doks.
Bernadine Colish has edited a number of award-winning documentaries. "Herb and Dorothy" (2008), won Audience Awards at Silverdocs, Philadelphia and Hamptons Film Festivals, and "Body of War" (2007), was named Best Documentary by the National Board of Review. "A Touch of Greatness" (2004) aired on PBS Independent Lens and was nominated for an Emmy Award. Her career began at Maysles Films, where she worked with Charlotte Zwerin on such projects as "Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser", "Toru Takemitsu: Music for the Movies" and the PBS American Masters documentary, "Ella Fitzgerald: Something To Live For". Additional credits include "Bringing Tibet Home", "Band of Sisters", "Rise and Dream", "The Tiger Next Door", "The Buffalo War" and "Absolute Wilson".
Jed Parker (Editor) Jed Parker began his career in feature films before moving into documentaries through his work with the award-winning American Masters series. Credits include "Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart", "Annie Liebovitz: Life Through a Lens", and most recently "Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides".
Other work includes two episodes of the PBS series "Make ‘Em Laugh", hosted by Billy Crystal, as well as a documentary on Met Curator Henry Geldzahler entitled "Who Gets to Call it Art"?
Credits
Director, Writer, Producer: Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Produced by Stanley Buchthal, David Koh and Dan Braun Stanley Buchthal (producer)
Maja Hoffmann (executive producer)
Josh Braun (executive producer)
Bob Benton (executive producer)
John Northrup (co-producer)
Bernadine Colish (editor)
Jed Parker (editor)
Peter Trilling (director of photography)
Bonnie Greenberg (executive music producer)
Music by J. Ralph
Original Song "Once Again" Written and Performed By J. Ralph
Interviews Featuring Artist Marina Abramović Jean Arp Dore Ashton Samuel Beckett Stephanie Barron Constantin Brâncuși Diego Cortez Alexander Calder Susan Davidson Joseph Cornell Robert De Niro Salvador Dalí Simon de Pury Willem de Kooning Jeffrey Deitch Marcel Duchamp Polly Devlin Max Ernst Larry Gagosian Alberto Giacometti Arne Glimcher Vasily Kandinsky Michael Govan Fernand Léger Nicky Haslam Joan Miró Pepe Karmel Piet Mondrian Donald Kuspit Robert Motherwell Dominique Lévy Jackson Pollock Carlo McCormick Mark Rothko Hans Ulrich Obrist Yves Tanguy Lisa Phillips Lindsay Pollock Francine Prose John Richardson Sandy Rower Mercedes Ruehl Jane Rylands Philip Rylands Calvin Tomkins Karole Vail Jacqueline Bograd Weld Edmund White
Running time: 97 minutes
U.S. distribution by Submarine Deluxe
International sales by Hanway...
Her colorful personal history included such figures as Samuel Beckett, Max Ernst, Jackson Pollock, Alexander Calder, Marcel Duchamp and countless others. Guggenheim helped introduce the world to Pollock, Motherwell, Rothko and scores of others now recognized as key masters of modernism.
In 1921 she moved to Paris and mingled with Picasso, Dali, Joyce, Pound, Stein, Leger, Kandinsky. In 1938 she opened a gallery in London and began showing Cocteau, Tanguy, Magritte, Miro, Brancusi, etc., and then back to Paris and New York after the Nazi invasion, followed by the opening of her NYC gallery Art of This Century, which became one of the premiere avant-garde spaces in the U.S. While fighting through personal tragedy, she maintained her vision to build one of the most important collections of modern art, now enshrined in her Venetian palazzo where she moved in 1947. Since 1951, her collection has become one of the world’s most visited art spaces.
Featuring: Jean Dubuffet, Marcel Duchamp, Max Ernst, Alberto Giacometti, Arshile Gorky, Vasil Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Willem de Kooning, Fernand Leger, Rene Magritte, Man Ray, Jean Miro, Piet Mondrian, Henry Moore, Robert Motherwell, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Kurt Schwitters, Gino Severini, Clyfford Still and Yves Tanguy.
Lisa Immordino Vreeland (Director and Producer)
Lisa Immordino Vreeland has been immersed in the world of fashion and art for the past 25 years. She started her career in fashion as the Director of Public Relations for Polo Ralph Lauren in Italy and quickly moved on to launch two fashion companies, Pratico, a sportswear line for women, and Mago, a cashmere knitwear collection of her own design. Her first book was accompanied by her directorial debut of the documentary of the same name, "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel" (2012). The film about the editor of Harper's Bazaar had its European premiere at the Venice Film Festival and its North American premiere at the Telluride Film Festival, going on to win the Silver Hugo at the Chicago Film Festival and the fashion category for the Design of the Year awards, otherwise known as “The Oscars” of design—at the Design Museum in London.
"Peggy Guggenheim: Art Addict" is Lisa Immordino Vreeland's followup to her acclaimed debut, "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has to Travel". She is now working on her third doc on Cecil Beaton who Lisa says, "has been circling around all these stories. What's great about him is the creativity: fashion photography, war photography, "My Fair Lady" winning an Oscar."
Sydney Levine: I have read numerous accounts and interviews with you about this film and rather than repeat all that has been said, I refer my readers to Indiewire's Women and Hollywood interview at Tribeca this year, and your Indiewire interview with Aubrey Page, November 6, 2015 .
Let's try to cover new territory here.
First of all, what about you? What is your relationship to Diana Vreeland?
Liv: I am married to her grandson, Alexander Vreeland. (I'm also proud of my name Immordino) I never met Diana but hearing so many family stories about her made me start to wonder about all the talk about her. I worked in fashion and lived in New York like she did.
Sl: In one of your interviews you said that Peggy was not only ahead of her time but she helped to define it. Can you tell me how?
Liv: Peggy grew up in a very traditional family of German Bavarian Jews who had moved to New York City in the 19th century. Already at a young age Peggy felt like there were too many rules around her and she wanted to break out. That alone was something attractive to me — the notion that she knew that she didn't fit in to her family or her times. She lived on her own terms, a very modern approach to life. She decided to abandon her family in New York. Though she always stayed connected to them, she rarely visited New York. Instead she lived in a world without borders. She did not live by "the rules". She believed in creating art and created herself, living on her own terms and not on those of her family.
Sl: Is there a link between her and your previous doc on Diana Vreeland?
Liv: The link between Vreeland and Guggenheim is their mutual sense of reinvention and transformation. That made something click inside of me as I too reinvented myself when I began writing the book on Diana Vreeland .
Can you talk about the process of putting this one together and how it differed from its predecessor?
Liv: The most challenging thing about this one was the vast amount of material we had at our disposal. We had a lot of media to go through — instead of fashion spreads, which informed The Eye Has To Travel, we had art, which was fantastic. I was spoiled by the access we had to these incredible archives and footage. I'm still new to this, but it's the storytelling aspect that I loved in both projects. One thing about Peggy that Mrs. Vreeland didn't have was a very tragic personal life. There was so much that happened in Peggy's life before you even got to what she actually accomplished. And so we had to tell a very dense story about her childhood, her father dying on the Titanic, her beloved sister dying — the tragic events that fundamentally shaped her in a way. It was about making sure we had enough of the personal story to go along with her later accomplishments.
World War II alone was such a huge part of her story, opening an important art gallery in London, where she showed Kandinsky and other important artists for the first time. The amount of material to distill was a tremendous challenge and I hope we made the right choices.
Sl: How did you learn make a documentary?
Liv: I learned how to make a documentary by having a good team around me. My editors (and co-writers)Bent-Jorgen Perlmutt and Frédéric Tcheng were very helpful.
Research is fundamental; finding as much as you can and never giving up. I love the research. It is my "precise time". Not just for interviews but of footage, photographs never seen before. It is a painstaking process that satisfies me. The research never ends. I was still researching while I was promoting the Diana Vreeland book. I love reading books and going to original sources.
The archives in film museums in the last ten years has changed and given museums a new role. I found unique footage at Moma with the Elizabeth Chapman Films. Chapman went to Paris in the 30s and 40s with a handheld camera and took moving pictures of Brancusi and Duchamps joking around in a studio, Gertrude Stein, Leger walking down the street. This footage is owned by Robert Storr, Dean of Yale School of Art. In fact he is taking a sabbatical this year to go through the boxes and boxes of Chapman's films. We also used " Entre'acte" by René Clair cowritten with Dadaist Francis Picabia, "Le Sang du poet" of Cocteau, Hans Richter "8x8","Gagascope" and " Dreams That Money Can Buy" produced by Peggy Guggenheim, written by Man Ray in 1947.
Sl: How long did it take to research and make the film?
Liv: It took three years for both the Vreeland and the Guggenheim documentary.
It was more difficult with the Guggenheim story because there was so much material and so much to tell of her life. And she was not so giving of her own self. Diana could inspire you about a bandaid; she was so giving. But Peggy didn't talk much about why she loved an artist or a painting. She acted more. And using historical material could become "over-teaching" though it was fascinating.
So much had to be eliminated. It was hard to eliminate the Degenerate Art Show, a subject which is newly discussed. Stephanie Barron of Lacma is an expert on Degenerate Art and was so generous.
Once we decided upon which aspects to focus on, then we could give focus to the interviews.
There were so many of her important shows we could not include. For instance there was a show on collages featuring William Baziotes , Jackson Pollack and Robert Motherwell which started a more modern collage trend in art. The 31 Women Art Show which we did include pushed forward another message which I think is important.
And so many different things have been written about Peggy — there were hundreds of articles written about her during her lifetime. She also kept beautiful scrapbooks of articles written about her, which are now in the archives of the Guggenheim Museum.
The Guggenheim foundation did not commission this documentary but they were very supportive and the film premiered there in New York in a wonderful celebration. They wanted to represent Peggy and her paintings properly. The paintings were secondary characters and all were carefully placed historically in a correct fashion.
Sl: You said in one interview Guggenheim became a central figure in the modern art movement?
Liv: Yes and she did it without ego. Sharing was always her purpose in collecting art. She was not out for herself. Before Peggy, the art world was very different. And today it is part of wealth management.
Other collectors had a different way with art. Isabelle Stewart Gardner bought art for her own personal consumption. The Gardner Museum came later. Gertrude Stein was sharing the vision of her brother when she began collecting art. The Coen sisters were not sharing.
Her benevolence ranged from giving Berenice Abbott the money to buy her first camera to keeping Pollock afloat during lean times.
Djuana Barnes, who had a 'Love Love Love Hate Hate Hate' relationship with Peggy wrote Nightwood in Peggy's country house in England.
She was in Paris to the last minute. She planned how to safeguard artwork from the Nazis during World War II. She was storing gasoline so she could escape. She lived on the Ile St. Louis with her art and moved the paintings out first to a children's boarding school and then to Marseilles where it was shipped out to New York City.
Her role in art was not taken seriously because of her very public love life which was described in very derogatory terms. There was more talk about her love life than about her collection of art.
Her autobiography, Out of This Century: Confessions of an Art Addict (1960) , was scandalous when it came out — and she didn't even use real names, she used pseudonyms for her numerous partners. Only after publication did she reveal the names of the men she slept with.
The fact that she spoke about her sexual life at all was the most outrageous aspect. She was opening herself up to ridicule, but she didn't care. Peggy was her own person and she felt good in her own skin. But it was definitely unconventional behavior. I think her sexual appetites revealed a lot about finding her own identity.
A lot of it was tied to the loss of her father, I think, in addition to her wanting to feel accepted. She was also very adventurous — look at the men she slept with. I mean, come on, they are amazing! Samuel Beckett, Yves Tanguy, Marcel Duchamp, and she married Max Ernst. I think it was really ballsy of her to have been so open about her sexuality; this was not something people did back then. So many people are bound by conventional rules but Peggy said no. She grabbed hold of life and she lived it on her own terms.
Sl: You also give Peggy credit for changing the way art was exhibited. Can you explain that?
Liv: One of her greatest achievements was her gallery space in New York City, Art of This Century, which was unlike anything the art world has seen before or since in the way that it shattered the boundaries of the gallery space that we've come to know today — the sterile white cube. She came to be a genius at displaying her collections...
She was smart with Art of the Century because she hired Frederick Kiesler as a designer of the gallery and once again surrounded herself with the right people, including Howard Putzler, who was already involved with her at Guggenheim Jeune in London. And she was hanging out with all the exiled Surrealists who were living in New York at the time, including her future husband, Max Ernst, who was the real star of that group of artists. With the help of these people, she started showing art in a completely different way that was both informal and approachable. In conventional museums and galleries, art was untouchable on the wall and inside frames. In Peggy's gallery, art stuck out from the walls; works weren't confined to frames. Kiesler designed special chairs you could sit in and browse canvases as you would texts in a library. Nothing like this had ever existed in New York before — even today there is nothing like it.
She made the gallery into an exciting place where the whole concept of space was transformed. In Venice, the gallery space was also her home. Today, for a variety of reasons, the home aspect of the collection is less emphasized, though you still get a strong sense of Peggy's home life there. She was bringing art to the public in a bold new way, which I think is a great idea. It's art for everybody, which is very much a part of today's dialogue except that fewer people can afford the outlandish museum entry fees.
Sl: What do you think made her so prescient and attuned ?
Liv: She was smart enough to ask Marcel Duchamp to be her advisor — so she was in tune, and very well connected. She was on the cutting edge of what was going on and I think a lot of this had to do with Peggy being open to the idea of what was new and outrageous. You have to have a certain personality for this; what her childhood had dictated was totally opposite from what she became in life, and being in the right place at the right time helped her maintain a cutting edge throughout her life.
Sl: The movie is framed around a lost interview with Peggy conducted late in her life. How did you acquire these tapes?
Liv: We optioned Jacqueline Bogard Weld’s book, Peggy : The Wayward Guggenheim, the only authorized biography of Peggy, which was published after she died. Jackie had spent two summers interviewing Peggy but at a certain point lost the tapes somewhere in her Park Avenue apartment. Jackie had so much access to Peggy, which was incredible, but it was also the access that she had to other people who had known Peggy — she interviewed over 200 people for her book. Jackie was incredibly generous, letting me go through all her original research except for the lost tapes.
We'd walk into different rooms in her apartment and I'd suggestively open a closet door and ask “Where do you think those tapes might be?" Then one day I asked if she had a basement, and she did. So I went through all these boxes down there, organizing her affairs. Then bingo, the tapes showed up in this shoebox.
It was the longest interview Peggy had ever done and it became the framework for our movie. There's nothing more powerful than when you have someone's real voice telling the story, and Jackie was especially good at asking provoking questions. You can tell it was hard for Peggy to answer a lot of them, because she wasn't someone who was especially expressive; she didn't have a lot of emotion. And this comes across in the movie, in the tone of her voice.
Sl: Larry Gagosian has one of the best descriptions of Peggy in the movie — "she was her own creation." Would you agree, and if so why?
Liv: She was very much her own creation. When he said that in the interview I had a huge smile on my face. In Peggy's case it stemmed from a real need to identify and understand herself. I'm not sure she achieved it but she completely recreated herself — she knew that she did not want to be what she was brought up to be. She tried being a mother, but that was not one of her strengths, so art became that place where she could find herself, and then transform herself.
Nobody believed in the artists she cultivated and supported — they were outsiders and she was an outsider in the world she was brought up in. So it's in this way that she became her own great invention. I hope that her humor comes across in the film because she was extremely amusing — this aspect really comes across in her autobiography.
Sl: Finally, what do you think is Peggy Guggenheim's most lasting legacy, beyond her incredible art collection?
Liv: Her courage, and the way she used it to find herself. She had this ballsiness that not many people had, especially women. In her own way she was a feminist and it's good for women and young girls today to see women who stepped outside the confines of a very traditional family and made something of her life. Peggy's life did not seem that dreamy until she attached herself to these artists. It was her ability to redefine herself in the end that truly summed her up.
About the Filmmakers
Stanley Buchtal is a producer and entrepreneur. His movies credits include "Hairspray", "Spanking the Monkey", "Up at the Villa", "Lou Reed Berlin", "Love Marilyn", "LennoNYC", "Bobby Fischer Against the World", "Herb & Dorothy", "Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present"," Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child", "Sketches of Frank Gehry", "Black White + Gray: a Portrait of Sam Wagstaff and Robert Mapplethorpe", among numerous others.
David Koh is an independent producer, distributor, sales agent, programmer and curator. He has been involved in the distribution, sale, production, and financing of over 200 films. He is currently a partner in the boutique label Submarine Entertainment with Josh and Dan Braun and is also partners with Stanley Buchthal and his Dakota Group Ltd where he co-manages a portfolio of over 50 projects a year (75% docs and 25% fiction). Previously he was a partner and founder of Arthouse Films a boutique distribution imprint and ran Chris Blackwell's (founder of Island Records & Island Pictures) film label, Palm Pictures. He has worked as a Producer for artist Nam June Paik and worked in the curatorial departments of Anthology Film Archives, MoMA, Mfa Boston, and the Guggenheim Museum. David has recently served as a Curator for Microsoft and has curated an ongoing film series and salon with Andre Balazs Properties and serves as a Curator for the exclusive Core Club in NYC.
David recently launched with his partners Submarine Deluxe, a distribution imprint; Torpedo Pictures, a low budget high concept label; and Nfp Submarine Doks, a German distribution imprint with Nfp Films. Recently and upcoming projects include "Yayoi Kusama: a Life in Polka Dots", "Burden: a Portrait of Artist Chris Burden", "Dior and I", "20 Feet From Stardom", "Muscle Shoals", "Marina Abramovic the Artist is Present", "Rats NYC", "Nas: Time Is Illmatic", "Blackfish", "Love Marilyn", "Chasing Ice", "Searching for Sugar Man", "Cutie and the Boxer"," Jean-Michel Basquiat: the Radiant Child", "Finding Vivian Maier", "The Wolfpack, "Meru", and "Station to Station".
Dan Braun is a producer, writer, art director and musician/composer based in NYC. He is the Co-President of and Co-Founder of Submarine, a NYC film sales and production company specializing in independent feature and documentary films. Titles include "Blackfish", "Finding Vivian Maier", "Muscle Shoals", "The Case Against 8", "Keep On Keepin’ On", "Winter’s Bone", "Nas: Time is Illmatic", "Dior and I" and Oscar winning docs "Man on Wire", "Searching for Sugarman", "20 Ft From Stardom" and "Citizenfour". He was Executive Producer on documentaries "Kill Your Idols", (which won Best NY Documentary at the Tribeca Film Festival 2004), "Blank City", "Sunshine Superman", the upcoming feature adaptations of "Batkid Begins" and "The Battered Bastards of Baseball" and the upcoming horror TV anthology "Creepy" to be directed by Chris Columbus.
He is a producer of the free jazz documentary "Fire Music", and the upcoming documentaries, "Burden" on artist Chris Burden and "Kusama: a Life in Polka Dots" on artist Yayoi Kusama. He is also a writer and consulting editor on Dark Horse Comic’s "Creepy" and "Eerie 9" comic book and archival series for which he won an Eisner Award for best archival comic book series in 2009.
He is a musician/composer whose compositions were featured in the films "I Melt With You" and "Jean-Michel Basquiat, The Radiant Child and is an award winning art director/creative director when he worked at Tbwa/Chiat/Day on the famous Absolut Vodka campaign.
John Northrup (Co-Producer) began his career in documentaries as a French translator for National Geographic: Explorer. He quickly moved into editing and producing, serving as the Associate Producer on "Diana Vreeland: The Eye Has To Travel" (2012), and editing and co-producing "Wilson In Situ" (2014), which tells the story of theatre legend Robert Wilson and his Watermill Center. Most recently, he oversaw the post-production of Jim Chambers’ "Onward Christian Soldier", a documentary about Olympic Bomber Eric Rudolph, and is shooting on Susanne Rostock’s "Another Night in the Free World", the follow-up to her award-winning "Sing Your Song" (2011).
Submarine Entertainment (Production Company) Submarine Entertainment is a hybrid sales, production, and distribution company based in N.Y. Recent and upcoming titles include "Citizenfour", "Finding Vivian Maier", "The Dog", "Visitors", "20 Feet from Stardom", "Searching for Sugar Man", "Muscle Shoals", "Blackfish", "Cutie and the Boxer", "The Summit", "The Unknown Known", "Love Marilyn", "Marina Abramovic the Artist is Present", "Chasing Ice", "Downtown 81 30th Anniversary Remastered", "Wild Style 30th Anniversary Remastered", "Good Ol Freda", "Some Velvet Morning", among numerous others. Submarine principals also represent Creepy and Eerie comic book library and are developing properties across film & TV platforms.
Submarine has also recently launched a domestic distribution imprint and label called Submarine Deluxe; a genre label called Torpedo Pictures; and a German imprint and label called Nfp Submarine Doks.
Bernadine Colish has edited a number of award-winning documentaries. "Herb and Dorothy" (2008), won Audience Awards at Silverdocs, Philadelphia and Hamptons Film Festivals, and "Body of War" (2007), was named Best Documentary by the National Board of Review. "A Touch of Greatness" (2004) aired on PBS Independent Lens and was nominated for an Emmy Award. Her career began at Maysles Films, where she worked with Charlotte Zwerin on such projects as "Thelonious Monk: Straight No Chaser", "Toru Takemitsu: Music for the Movies" and the PBS American Masters documentary, "Ella Fitzgerald: Something To Live For". Additional credits include "Bringing Tibet Home", "Band of Sisters", "Rise and Dream", "The Tiger Next Door", "The Buffalo War" and "Absolute Wilson".
Jed Parker (Editor) Jed Parker began his career in feature films before moving into documentaries through his work with the award-winning American Masters series. Credits include "Lou Reed: Rock and Roll Heart", "Annie Liebovitz: Life Through a Lens", and most recently "Jeff Bridges: The Dude Abides".
Other work includes two episodes of the PBS series "Make ‘Em Laugh", hosted by Billy Crystal, as well as a documentary on Met Curator Henry Geldzahler entitled "Who Gets to Call it Art"?
Credits
Director, Writer, Producer: Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Produced by Stanley Buchthal, David Koh and Dan Braun Stanley Buchthal (producer)
Maja Hoffmann (executive producer)
Josh Braun (executive producer)
Bob Benton (executive producer)
John Northrup (co-producer)
Bernadine Colish (editor)
Jed Parker (editor)
Peter Trilling (director of photography)
Bonnie Greenberg (executive music producer)
Music by J. Ralph
Original Song "Once Again" Written and Performed By J. Ralph
Interviews Featuring Artist Marina Abramović Jean Arp Dore Ashton Samuel Beckett Stephanie Barron Constantin Brâncuși Diego Cortez Alexander Calder Susan Davidson Joseph Cornell Robert De Niro Salvador Dalí Simon de Pury Willem de Kooning Jeffrey Deitch Marcel Duchamp Polly Devlin Max Ernst Larry Gagosian Alberto Giacometti Arne Glimcher Vasily Kandinsky Michael Govan Fernand Léger Nicky Haslam Joan Miró Pepe Karmel Piet Mondrian Donald Kuspit Robert Motherwell Dominique Lévy Jackson Pollock Carlo McCormick Mark Rothko Hans Ulrich Obrist Yves Tanguy Lisa Phillips Lindsay Pollock Francine Prose John Richardson Sandy Rower Mercedes Ruehl Jane Rylands Philip Rylands Calvin Tomkins Karole Vail Jacqueline Bograd Weld Edmund White
Running time: 97 minutes
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- 11/18/2015
- by Sydney Levine
- Sydney's Buzz
The line at the new SoHo Jeffrey Deitch art gallery is around the block. There's an air of hushed anticipation as the vanguard of the New York art world gathers to admire the latest discovery from the renowned art curator. This time, though, it's no Keith Haring headlining the opening. On display is a family's childhood artwork — albeit a family with one of the most bizarre childhood stories imaginable. Read More: The Crazy Five-Year Story Behind 'The Wolfpack' As Crystal Moselle chronicled in her Grand Jury Prize-winning Sundance documentary "The Wolfpack," the six Angulo brothers were raised in captivity in their Lower East Side apartment. Their father, a dictatorial devotee to Hare Krishna, permitted the brothers to leave the apartment only to see the doctor once a year. Though their passive yet deeply loving mother homeschooled them, the brothers' real portal to the outside was through movies. They became the world's purest cinephiles,...
- 10/26/2015
- by Emily Buder
- Indiewire
On October 22, John Mellencamp will open a new show. Not of songs at a concert but of paintings (like the Arshile Gorky–influenced one above). The rock star is just the latest in a tumble of actors, singers, newscasters, and others of their famous ilk who feel the need to be seen, and taken seriously, as visual artists. I’ve written before about how freaked out I was contemplating the intense, almost village-idiot-like unself-conscious paintings of George W. Bush. For once, through his work, I got to peek inside his strange inner life. Could, I wondered, the same thing happen by looking at the work of entertainment celebrities, typically enshrined in their own publicity bell jars? Some of these boldfaced names range relatively far afield: Miley Cyrus has gone big into sculpture (and was compared by art impresario Jeffrey Deitch to Mike Kelley), and last year, Jay Z took a...
- 10/19/2015
- by Jerry Saltz
- Vulture
The Angulo brothers, the movie-loving sextet at the center of Crystal Moselle's prizewinning Sundance documentary "The Wolfpack," is taking on a new medium: contemporary art. Former MoCA director Jeffrey Deitch will open "The Wolfpack Show," including homemade materials from their reenactments of modern classics like "Reservoir Dogs," at his Soho gallery later this month. (Listen to Eric Kohn and Anne Thompson's conversation with Moselle, during a live taping of "Screen Talk" from this year's Sundance.) Read More: "Watch: 'The Wolfpack' Does De Niro" The show, scheduled to coincide with the release of the book "Wolves Like Us: Portraits of the Angulo Brothers," as well as the DVD edition of "The Wolfpack," also marks the premiere of Mukunda Angulo's new short, "Window Feel." Isolated in their Lower East Side apartment by their tyrannical, paranoid father, the brothers re-created the outside world within...
- 10/8/2015
- by Matt Brennan
- Thompson on Hollywood
Jeffrey Deitch is back in New York and as ubiquitous on the art scene here as ever, even without (at least so far) a space to program as his own. One of his great successes out at MoCA in L.A. was 2011's "Art in the Streets" and now, working with Thor Equities, which is redeveloping the ragtag urban resort, he's invited a slew of famous street artists to light up walls in Coney Island. The Times recently called Deitch an “itinerant showman and dealmaker.” It’s true that he’s without a permanent base in New York — dealer without portfolio — but perhaps, at this point, he doesn’t need one. As he told Seen of his explorations in Brooklyn’s Red Hook, “When word got out that I was considering doing something here, people suddenly began offering me free spaces.” His reputation for fun still precedes him.Indeed, perhaps...
- 5/27/2015
- by Kyle Chayka
- Vulture
Below, a sort of social-media-era, two-person panel discussion between our art critic Jerry Saltz and the artist Matthew Weinstein — on the nature of pop fame, art stars, and what could possibly be drawing so many celebrities into Jeffrey Deitch’s orbit these days.Jerry Saltz: Matthew, I know you as an artist who also used to write criticism. I looked at your Facebook page the other day and got stopped in my tracks by an amazing couple of paragraphs of something like Critical Cultural Theory. You seemed to be writing that an inversion has taken place in the flow of fame. Whereas we in the art world used to go to other sectors in order to have fame or coolness rub off on us — to the worlds of fashion, music, movies, wherever — now the stars of those worlds are coming to the art world for some sort of stamp...
- 12/19/2014
- by Jerry Saltz
- Vulture
Leave it to Miley Cyrus to spend time in the hospital and still be focused on fashion. On Friday night, the singer, 22, posted a sad-faced selfie on Instagram while wearing a hospital gown, adding the message, "The gown is sooooo hipster." The singer underwent a procedure on her wrist, as she also posted several graphic, Photoshopped images of the wound to her Instagram page (warning: the photos aren't for the squeamish). But thankfully, there's nothing to worry about: A source tells People, "She is fine. She had an outpatient procedure on her wrist yesterday." The hospital visit follows a recent...
- 12/13/2014
- by Danielle Anderson, @dak5000
- PEOPLE.com
Leave it to Miley Cyrus to spend time in the hospital and still be focused on fashion. On Friday night, the singer, 22, posted a sad-faced selfie on Instagram while wearing a hospital gown, adding the message, "The gown is sooooo hipster." The singer underwent a procedure on her wrist, as she also posted several graphic, Photoshopped images of the wound to her Instagram page (warning: the photos aren't for the squeamish). But thankfully, there's nothing to worry about: A source tells People, "She is fine. She had an outpatient procedure on her wrist yesterday." The hospital visit follows a recent...
- 12/13/2014
- by Danielle Anderson, @dak5000
- PEOPLE.com
Looks like things are getting serious! Miley Cyrus was spotted with beau Patrick Schwarzenegger poolside in Miami on Thursday. Rocking a black one-piece deep-v swimsuit, denim shorts, a gold and black choker and a Chanel purse, the "Wrecking Ball" singer looked like she was having a lot of fun with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Maria Shriver's son. Patrick even looked a little protective as the pair made their way to the pool with his hand resting on her back. Miley has been having a wild week in Miami for the annual Art Basel festivities -- she even took the stage in a silver tinsel wig, disco pasties, and sparkly tights at Tommy Hilfiger and art dealer Jeffrey Deitch's Art Basel party at the Raleigh Hotel on Wednesday. Patrick has been accompanying Miley to all of her public appearances this week, so clearly the two are going strong! Do you...
- 12/5/2014
- by tooFab Staff
- TooFab
She loves to kick back and relax from time to time, and last night (December 3) Miley Cyrus had a blast at Art Basel in Miami, Florida. The “Can’t Be Tamed” dame made her rounds at several events, including the V Magazine, Tommy Hilfiger and Jeffrey Deitch-hosted opening night party at the Raleigh Hotel.
Couple Alert: Miley Cyrus and Patrick Schwarzenegger Still Going Strong!
Cyrus performed at the gig, sporting disco ball nipple pasties and a silver thong with a tinsel wig that got plenty of attention.
As her boyfriend Patrick Schwarzenegger looked on, Miley told the crowd, "You thought this [Art Basel] was a respected place where you could escape me! This year has constantly challenged me, and that's why I started doing art."
Lighting up on stage, Cyrus continued, "Usually I don't smoke weed and drink—well that's a lie...usually I don't smoke weed and drink on show days,...
Couple Alert: Miley Cyrus and Patrick Schwarzenegger Still Going Strong!
Cyrus performed at the gig, sporting disco ball nipple pasties and a silver thong with a tinsel wig that got plenty of attention.
As her boyfriend Patrick Schwarzenegger looked on, Miley told the crowd, "You thought this [Art Basel] was a respected place where you could escape me! This year has constantly challenged me, and that's why I started doing art."
Lighting up on stage, Cyrus continued, "Usually I don't smoke weed and drink—well that's a lie...usually I don't smoke weed and drink on show days,...
- 12/4/2014
- GossipCenter
We were directed to wave for the cameras. So, naturally, we assumed that standing somewhere behind us would be a photographer or a step-and-repeat to stand against with our canned smiles. “Look up!” shouted Opening Ceremony’s Olivia Kim, who had invited 50 friends, including architect Rafael de Cardenas, Paper’s Mickey Boardman, and swimsuit designer Lisa Marie Fernandez to an oceanside dinner at the Standard Spa for the holiday edition of her Pop-In curated collection for Nordstrom. There, above our heads, alien-green lights flashed and whizzed. Our paparazzo was a drone.A flying machine, albeit a much larger one, say, a helicopter, was needed to transport us over to the next event of the evening. But with the infamous Miami traffic clogging Collins Avenue, we ran. Why? Because some 3,000 people had been invited to the Jeffrey Deitch x V magazine extravaganza, and the three gates that opened to the Raleigh...
- 12/4/2014
- by Julie Baumgardner
- Vulture
They may not be the most obvious couple, but Miley Cyrus and Patrick Schwarzenegger's budding romance was on full display in Miami this week. They arrived in the Magic City on Tuesday in preparation for the singer's Art Basel performance. One of their first stops: Dinner at the famed Joe's Stone Crab. For their date night, they kept things casual, with Cyrus wearing denim shorts, a crop top and a denim jacket while Schwarzenegger wore a Kenzo sweatshirt and dark pants. While relaxing at the Fountainbleau, the duo were seen "holding hands and being sweet to each other," a source tells People.
- 12/4/2014
- by Becky Randel, @beckyrandelM
- PEOPLE.com
She's just being Miley—and Miley loves her pasties! Miley Cyrus had a seriously wild night of performing and partying at Art Basel in Miami Beach on Wednesday, Dec. 3—and that included cruising around in nothing more than disco-ball pasties and shimmering sheer tights. The former Hannah Montana star, 22, took the stage at the Jeffrey Deitch, Tommy Hilfiger, and V Magazine Art Basel Opening Night Party at The Raleigh South Beach, to perform a medley of her hits. Cyrus, who's currently dating Patrick Schwarzenegger, pulled a Lady Gaga in [...]...
- 12/4/2014
- Us Weekly
That's not an alien, y'all—it's Miley Cyrus! The 22-year-old singer and her new man Patrick Schwarzenegger went to V Magazine, Tommy Hilfiger and art dealer Jeffrey Deitch's Art Basel Miami Beach Opening Night Party at the Raleigh Hotel in South Beach, Fla., Tuesday night. Miley performed at the event topless, her boobs covered by disco ball nipple pasties. She even rocked a matching tinsel wig, sheer silver tights and a tiny thong worn on the outside of her hosiery. The former Disney star joked to the audience, "You thought this [Art Basel] was a respected place where you could escape me!" But they had no such luck. The reason for her invasion? "This year has constantly...
- 12/4/2014
- E! Online
In naming Dia director Philippe Vergne its new director, the beloved and lately bedeviled Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art has taken a step to put itself out of the misery it's been in for almost six years. Born of an art community's mutual desires for a great museum and opened in 1983, MoCA has mounted an extraordinary number of exemplary group shows, surveys, and retrospectives. Everything was going swimmingly until the aughts, when it was discovered that under director Jeremy Strick the institution had spent down much of its endowment and was for all practices broke. From there, this great museum has had a season in hell. From the perspective of many in L.A.'s tight-knit art world, the low-water mark was Jeffrey Deitch's recently ended tenure.Vergne, 47, is a former curator and deputy director at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, director of the billionaire collector Francois...
- 1/16/2014
- by Jerry Saltz
- Vulture
It’s a couple of days into the New Year, and Jeffrey Deitch is in Los Angeles, that city that he, in three years as director of the Museum of Contemporary Art—and like so many swashbuckling, top-of-their-game Manhattanites who moved out West before him—ultimately failed to seduce. His plan was to transform the museum into a House of Deitchism: crowds, excitement, music, dancing, James Franco and Marina Abramovic, graffiti writers mixing it up with Andy Warhol’s soup cans, Kenneth Anger and the sisters of fashion label Rodarte. In short, the entire theatrical, multidisciplinary, occasionally pervy, finger-on-the-pulse aesthetic-entertainment complex that he’d helped stir up in New York, where for four decades he’d cavorted stylishly with a march of boldface names. It was a very New York concoction of cool.But it didn’t go over so well at MoCA, where his sensationalist instincts rankled those...
- 1/13/2014
- by Carl Swanson
- Vulture
Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca) announced Wednesday that Jeffrey Deitch is walking away from his job as director of the Los Angeles institution after three tough years, terminating his five-year contract early. Deitch informed the museum's board of trustees of his decision to depart at their meeting earlier in the day, telling them that he plans to remain at the museum through the transition period. He will also continue to oversee the museum's lifesaving $100 million endowment campaign, which has so far been a success and should allow Deitch to leave on a positive note. The museum this
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- 7/24/2013
- by Maxwell Williams
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
It was always only a question of when, never if. Today, when arrived. After less than 48 months, following massive community objection to his appointment in the first place and nearly constant controversy, maverick art dealer Jeffrey Deitch has left his position as director of Los Angeles’ tremendous but dysfunctional Museum of Contemporary Art.The marriage was made in hell — mainly because MoCA was in such a state of brokenness it seemed almost impossible for anyone to do the job. By 2008, MoCA had lost almost all of its $50 million endowment, with museum board members dropping the ball time after time, and late that year MoCA accepted a $30 million bailout loan from billionaire museum Darth Vader Eli Broad. Then things really unraveled. By the time of Deitch’s hiring in 2010, MoCA had lost its director, was being run by an interim one, and had become completely demoralized —...
- 7/23/2013
- by Jerry Saltz
- Vulture
Moca director Jeffrey Deitch is parting ways with the museum, according to La Weekly. Deitch will be leaving at the end of the month, and the museum is planning to make an announcement Wednesday, the paper reports. Deitch's tenure was controversial from the beginning, with many in the art world concerned about a commercial gallery owner taking over a public museum, The New York Times noted when Deitch was appointed Moca director in 2010. Just last summer, chief curator Paul Schimmel departed. Photos: Back to Black at Moca's 2013 Gala Schimmel was fired from his position amid an imbroglio that
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- 7/23/2013
- by THR Staff
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
When actor-director Dennis Hopper wasn't inhaling laughing gas and terrifying everyone as the villian in David Lynch's "Blue Velvet," he was accumulating a pretty significant artistic oeuvre.
Jeffrey Deitch spotlighted the multi-talented photographer in his first curation effort as director of Moca, and now Gagosian Gallery is, ahem, hopping on the bandwagon. "The Lost Album" exhibition features approximately 200 black-and-white photographs from the 1960's that have not been displayed in over 40 years.
The photographs follow Hopper through Los Angeles, Harlem and Tijuana, capturing the stuff of the sixties with California coolness. Small moments of beauty like a deteriorating bumper sticker or a jam-packed rear view mirror receive equal attention as mammoth historical moments or the latest Hollywood stars. Hopper may longer be with us, but his gaze lingers in each of the works on view.
Dennis Hopper's "The Lost Album" will show from May 7 until June 22 at Gagosian Gallery in New York.
Jeffrey Deitch spotlighted the multi-talented photographer in his first curation effort as director of Moca, and now Gagosian Gallery is, ahem, hopping on the bandwagon. "The Lost Album" exhibition features approximately 200 black-and-white photographs from the 1960's that have not been displayed in over 40 years.
The photographs follow Hopper through Los Angeles, Harlem and Tijuana, capturing the stuff of the sixties with California coolness. Small moments of beauty like a deteriorating bumper sticker or a jam-packed rear view mirror receive equal attention as mammoth historical moments or the latest Hollywood stars. Hopper may longer be with us, but his gaze lingers in each of the works on view.
Dennis Hopper's "The Lost Album" will show from May 7 until June 22 at Gagosian Gallery in New York.
- 4/10/2013
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Paz de la Huerta isn't afraid to show us what she's got.
She knocked our socks off as Lucy Danziger in "Boardwalk Empire," and now, she's taking her clothes off for Playboy magazine.
The gorgeous actress and model, 28, poses nude for the January/February issue of Playboy, as famed photographer Mario Sorrenti and art world provocateur Jeffrey Deitch get her to bare her soul ... and so much more.
“Cindy Crawford and Marilyn Monroe have appeared in Playboy," de la Huerta tells Deitch of her decision to strip down for the magazine. "I celebrate nudity every day. It’s our first wardrobe."
And she admits Sorrenti is the reason her shoot came out the way it did, saying he brings "so much mystery and sensuality to his photographs."
"We did the photos with no makeup, and we both wanted them to have a very natural feeling," de la Huerta explains. "It...
She knocked our socks off as Lucy Danziger in "Boardwalk Empire," and now, she's taking her clothes off for Playboy magazine.
The gorgeous actress and model, 28, poses nude for the January/February issue of Playboy, as famed photographer Mario Sorrenti and art world provocateur Jeffrey Deitch get her to bare her soul ... and so much more.
“Cindy Crawford and Marilyn Monroe have appeared in Playboy," de la Huerta tells Deitch of her decision to strip down for the magazine. "I celebrate nudity every day. It’s our first wardrobe."
And she admits Sorrenti is the reason her shoot came out the way it did, saying he brings "so much mystery and sensuality to his photographs."
"We did the photos with no makeup, and we both wanted them to have a very natural feeling," de la Huerta explains. "It...
- 12/17/2012
- by Leigh Blickley
- Huffington Post
We're counting down the days to Bjork's new music video for "Mutual Core," the fractious anthem from her science-savvy album, Biophilia. Moca commissioned La filmmaker Andrew Thomas Huang to direct the video, which features a stunning blue-haired Bjork emerging from a swirling bed of quicksand. Needless to say, we want more.
Jeffrey Deitch, the Moca director who is clearly not obsessed with celebrities and pop culture, initially approached Bjork for the video collaboration. Although we're still concerned about the implosion of Moca, we are excited that Deitch decided to make a super cool music video with one of our favorite musicians. Bjork's childish giggles and freaky shrieks made her a worldwide musical icon, but her ability to constantly evolve has given her staying power.
Bjork explained the imaginative visuals for "Mutual Core" in a recent interview with Paper, saying, "Some songs perhaps need a dozen listens to sink in. With a visual,...
Jeffrey Deitch, the Moca director who is clearly not obsessed with celebrities and pop culture, initially approached Bjork for the video collaboration. Although we're still concerned about the implosion of Moca, we are excited that Deitch decided to make a super cool music video with one of our favorite musicians. Bjork's childish giggles and freaky shrieks made her a worldwide musical icon, but her ability to constantly evolve has given her staying power.
Bjork explained the imaginative visuals for "Mutual Core" in a recent interview with Paper, saying, "Some songs perhaps need a dozen listens to sink in. With a visual,...
- 11/7/2012
- by Priscilla Frank
- Huffington Post
In a move that seems designed to enrage critics, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles will add a Hollywood uber-agent and a denim impresario to its board. The addition of Ari Emanuel and Maurice Marciano, which was announced today in a press release, means the museum still has no actual artists sitting on its board.
Emanuel may be best known to the public as the inspiration for Ari Gold, the fast-talking, amoral talent agent who brokered deals on the HBO series "Entourage." He is also the brother of Chicago mayor and former White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. As Co-Chief Executive at the influential William Morris Talent Agency, Emanuel is certainly one of Hollywood's elite. In the art world though, he's green -- known neither as a collector nor an insider. In defending the appointment, the release focuses on Emanuel's role in developing MOCAtv, an original YouTube channel devoted to contemporary art,...
Emanuel may be best known to the public as the inspiration for Ari Gold, the fast-talking, amoral talent agent who brokered deals on the HBO series "Entourage." He is also the brother of Chicago mayor and former White House Chief of Staff, Rahm Emanuel. As Co-Chief Executive at the influential William Morris Talent Agency, Emanuel is certainly one of Hollywood's elite. In the art world though, he's green -- known neither as a collector nor an insider. In defending the appointment, the release focuses on Emanuel's role in developing MOCAtv, an original YouTube channel devoted to contemporary art,...
- 10/3/2012
- by The Huffington Post
- Huffington Post
Trustees of Museum of Contemporary Arts split by row over dumbing down of shows
A furious row has broken out at Los Angeles's leading art institution, the Museum of Contemporary Art, which is pitting some of America's most celebrated aesthetes against a billionaire property developer.
Moca, one of the symbols of La's recent emergence as an art hub to match New York, is dedicated to the presentation and study of recent art and has long been a home to the erudite and esoteric. But the museum has been hit by the defection of high-profile artist board members furious at a perceived dumbing down.
The conceptual artist John Baldessari was first to resign, followed by agit-prop graphic artist Barbara Kruger and "queer-space" photographer Catherine Opie. Then Ed Ruscha, possibly the city's best known artist internationally, followed suit. Their resignations, they said, could be read as a protest at the commercial, pop-culture...
A furious row has broken out at Los Angeles's leading art institution, the Museum of Contemporary Art, which is pitting some of America's most celebrated aesthetes against a billionaire property developer.
Moca, one of the symbols of La's recent emergence as an art hub to match New York, is dedicated to the presentation and study of recent art and has long been a home to the erudite and esoteric. But the museum has been hit by the defection of high-profile artist board members furious at a perceived dumbing down.
The conceptual artist John Baldessari was first to resign, followed by agit-prop graphic artist Barbara Kruger and "queer-space" photographer Catherine Opie. Then Ed Ruscha, possibly the city's best known artist internationally, followed suit. Their resignations, they said, could be read as a protest at the commercial, pop-culture...
- 7/23/2012
- The Guardian - Film News
Monday marks the first morning of the 15th annual Milken Conference, a four-day long event hosted by the Milken Institute at the Beverly Hilton Hotel. Thousands of top-tier entrepreneurs, journalists, investors, executives, philanthropists, forward-thinking academic experts, journalists, senior foreign and U.S. government officials, scientists and Nobel laureates congregate this week to discuss today's most pressing social, political and economic challenges.
Over 140 panels -- lead by the likes of the 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton, calPERS Cio Joseph Dear, Lausd Superintendent John Deasy, Governor Jerry Brown, NBA legend Magic Johnson, House Majority Leader Eric Canton, state Controller John Chiang, Director of Moca Jeffrey Deitch, former Mayor of Chicago Richard Daley, former Governor of California Gray Davis, to name a few -- will cover issues ranging from business, finance, policy, education, health, energy and philanthropy.
Read up on last year's coverage here and follow the Milken Global Conference...
Over 140 panels -- lead by the likes of the 42nd President of the United States Bill Clinton, calPERS Cio Joseph Dear, Lausd Superintendent John Deasy, Governor Jerry Brown, NBA legend Magic Johnson, House Majority Leader Eric Canton, state Controller John Chiang, Director of Moca Jeffrey Deitch, former Mayor of Chicago Richard Daley, former Governor of California Gray Davis, to name a few -- will cover issues ranging from business, finance, policy, education, health, energy and philanthropy.
Read up on last year's coverage here and follow the Milken Global Conference...
- 4/30/2012
- by Lucy Blodgett
- Huffington Post
Getty Images Beastie Boys drummer Mike D
Beastie Boys drummer Michael Diamond, better known as Mike D, considers himself a caffeine aficionado. He’s scouted all the best places to get his espresso fix in New York and he’s headed to Los Angeles on a mission.
Besides exploring the local coffee roasters, Mike D will serve as artistic director for the 21-day “Transmission La: Av Club curated by Mike D,” a Los Angeles-based cultural festival that runs from April 19th to May 10th.
Beastie Boys drummer Michael Diamond, better known as Mike D, considers himself a caffeine aficionado. He’s scouted all the best places to get his espresso fix in New York and he’s headed to Los Angeles on a mission.
Besides exploring the local coffee roasters, Mike D will serve as artistic director for the 21-day “Transmission La: Av Club curated by Mike D,” a Los Angeles-based cultural festival that runs from April 19th to May 10th.
- 2/24/2012
- by Alexandra Cheney
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
Cameron Diaz and Charlize Theron were among the stars who headed to the Chateau Marmont in La on Tuesday night. The ladies attended a party thrown by Target and Bevy Smith to honor Pharrell Williams, who proudly took a seat next to Charlize at the dinner table. The celebs gathered at the Chateau's Bungalow One to raise a glass in honor of Pharrell scoring the music for this year's Oscars with renowned composer Hans Zimmer. Have you filled out your 2012 Oscar ballot yet with your winner predictions? Entering by Sunday places you in the running to win an iPad, complete with a Prada case! Cameron and Charlize made the rounds chatting with Usher, Johnny Knoxville, Jared Leto, and photographer Terry Richardson. Chelsea Handler even made a cameo with her possibly on-again boyfriend Andre Balazs, who happens to own the Chateau Marmont. Ellen Pompeo and her husband Chris Ivery also mingled with Pharrell and friends,...
- 2/23/2012
- by Allie Merriam
- Popsugar.com
Big one today. Let's begin with Movieline's St VanAirsdale introducing his interview with Wim Wenders: "Until the End of the World was conceived over most of the 80s, filmed on four continents (including video smuggled out of China), and foresaw a future abetted by such diversions as mobile viewing devices, proto-gps and a highly sought-after contraption that records images for the blind. Starring William Hurt, Sam Neill, Solveig Dommartin, Jeanne Moreau and Max von Sydow among an international ensemble of actors, the film also skyrocketed to a $23 million budget and found its distributors — including Warner Bros in the United States — requiring cuts that reduced it to barely a quarter of Wenders's original vision. Later locked in at just under five hours, it's the type of material that today would be a shoo-in for a cable miniseries that could probably win Emmys for everyone involved. Twenty years on, however, it's relatively lost to the mainstream,...
- 11/16/2011
- MUBI
Susan Michals Car by Kenny Scharf from the Art in the Street event.
Who knew Justin Timberlake and Jake Gyllenhaal were such big art fans? Art in the Streets, a history of street art and graffiti, is running at the Geffen Contemporary at Moca in Los Angeles, and recently held a party that featured the two aforementioned actors in tow. The exhibition, brought to you by Moca director Jeffrey Deitch and co-curators Roger Gastman and Aaron Rose, gives viewers a...
Who knew Justin Timberlake and Jake Gyllenhaal were such big art fans? Art in the Streets, a history of street art and graffiti, is running at the Geffen Contemporary at Moca in Los Angeles, and recently held a party that featured the two aforementioned actors in tow. The exhibition, brought to you by Moca director Jeffrey Deitch and co-curators Roger Gastman and Aaron Rose, gives viewers a...
- 4/20/2011
- by Susan Michals
- Speakeasy/Wall Street Journal
It was a star-studded evening at the Moca in La last night, as Gwen Stefani, Gavin Rossdale, and more attended the opening of the Art in the Streets, the first major retrospective of graffiti art in the Us. Gwen and Gavin are longtime supporters of the museum and its director, Jeffrey Deitch, after stepping out for another event there last Fall. Drew Barrymore and her red hair also made a cameo after she debuted the new hue Wednesday night at a book party. Other celebs like Adrian Grenier, pregnant Pink, and Christina Ricci were on hand to toast icons like Shepard Fairey and Thierry Guetta, the star of last year's documentary Exit Through the Gift Shop. Shepard and Thierry's work is represented there along with pieces by Banksy. View Slideshow ›...
- 4/15/2011
- by Allie Merriam
- Popsugar.com
Event: NY SAG Foundation Conversation with One Life To Live
The New York SAG Foundation has invited all union members (SAG, AFTRA, Equity) to a Conversations Event with the Executive Producer and Cast Members of One Life To Live. The panel will include: Frank Valentini, Gina Tognoni, Florencia Lozano, Sean Ringgold, Kristen Alderson, David Gregory, Hillary B. Smith, Kassie DePaiva. The panel will discuss the 42-year-old soap and will be moderated by Abby West from Entertainment Weekly.
Museums, including Maria Bell's MoCA, roll out the red carpet for Hollywood
Maria Bell, producer and head writer of The Young And The Restless and co-chair of the MoCA board, believes that making the contemporary art museum "less elitist and intimidating" helps. She helped bring the populist-minded Jeffrey Deitch on as director of Moca, and is the driving force behind the museum's increasingly star-studded galas — including last year's Lady Gaga showcase, where Brad...
The New York SAG Foundation has invited all union members (SAG, AFTRA, Equity) to a Conversations Event with the Executive Producer and Cast Members of One Life To Live. The panel will include: Frank Valentini, Gina Tognoni, Florencia Lozano, Sean Ringgold, Kristen Alderson, David Gregory, Hillary B. Smith, Kassie DePaiva. The panel will discuss the 42-year-old soap and will be moderated by Abby West from Entertainment Weekly.
Museums, including Maria Bell's MoCA, roll out the red carpet for Hollywood
Maria Bell, producer and head writer of The Young And The Restless and co-chair of the MoCA board, believes that making the contemporary art museum "less elitist and intimidating" helps. She helped bring the populist-minded Jeffrey Deitch on as director of Moca, and is the driving force behind the museum's increasingly star-studded galas — including last year's Lady Gaga showcase, where Brad...
- 10/28/2010
- by We Love Soaps TV
- We Love Soaps
Dennis Hopper's family and friends turned out to pay tribute to the actor at a memorial service in California on Monday.
The Easy Rider star's first wife, Brooke Hayward, his daughter Marin, and several of his pals, including director Dwight Yoakam and artist Ed Ruscha, all attended the touching service on the Santa Monica Pier.
Eulogies were read out by Hopper's art dealer friend Tony Shafrazi and Yoakam, who also sang during the memorial.
It was held just a day after the opening of an exhibition of the actor's artwork, entitled Double Standard, at Los Angeles' Geffen Contemporary, which is part of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca).
The display, featuring 200 pieces, is described as the "first comprehensive survey of Hopper's prolific work" and showcases his art, film, photography and sculpture works.
During the opening on Sunday, Moca director Jeffrey Deitch praised the late star's talent. He says, "His fusion of artistic media has become an inspiration for the new artistic generation who often draw on performance and film as well as painting, sculpture, and photography in the creation of their work."...
The Easy Rider star's first wife, Brooke Hayward, his daughter Marin, and several of his pals, including director Dwight Yoakam and artist Ed Ruscha, all attended the touching service on the Santa Monica Pier.
Eulogies were read out by Hopper's art dealer friend Tony Shafrazi and Yoakam, who also sang during the memorial.
It was held just a day after the opening of an exhibition of the actor's artwork, entitled Double Standard, at Los Angeles' Geffen Contemporary, which is part of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca).
The display, featuring 200 pieces, is described as the "first comprehensive survey of Hopper's prolific work" and showcases his art, film, photography and sculpture works.
During the opening on Sunday, Moca director Jeffrey Deitch praised the late star's talent. He says, "His fusion of artistic media has become an inspiration for the new artistic generation who often draw on performance and film as well as painting, sculpture, and photography in the creation of their work."...
- 7/13/2010
- WENN
A memorial service was held for Dennis Hopper on Monday, July 12. Family and friends of the late "Easy Rider" actor, who lost his battle with cancer in May aged 74, gathered at the Santa Monica Pier, California, to hear tributes to the star, with pals Tony Shafrazi and Dwight Yoakam reading eulogies.
Among those in attendance at the service were Dennis' ex-wife Brooke Hayward, his daughter Marin and friends Eli Broad, Wendy Stark, Michael Chow, Barbara Davis, Peter Brant, Nikki Haskell, Alex Hitz and Ed Ruscha. The service took place just a day after an exhibition of the actor's artwork, entitled, "Double Standard", opened at Los Angeles' Geffen Contemporary, which is part of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca).
Comprising over 200 works, the exhibition is described as the "first comprehensive survey of Hopper's prolific work" and features his art, film, photography and sculpture. Moca director Jeffrey Deitch praised the late star's talent,...
Among those in attendance at the service were Dennis' ex-wife Brooke Hayward, his daughter Marin and friends Eli Broad, Wendy Stark, Michael Chow, Barbara Davis, Peter Brant, Nikki Haskell, Alex Hitz and Ed Ruscha. The service took place just a day after an exhibition of the actor's artwork, entitled, "Double Standard", opened at Los Angeles' Geffen Contemporary, which is part of the Museum of Contemporary Art (Moca).
Comprising over 200 works, the exhibition is described as the "first comprehensive survey of Hopper's prolific work" and features his art, film, photography and sculpture. Moca director Jeffrey Deitch praised the late star's talent,...
- 7/13/2010
- by celebrity-mania.com
- Celebrity Mania
Reese Witherspoon struck a pose on Friday night at La's Moca, where the museum's new director Jeffrey Deitch hosted a reception honoring the late actor Dennis Hopper's show "Double Standard." Joining Reese for the artistic evening out were Selma Blair and Liv Tyler. Jim Toth was by Reese's side yesterday, though, for lunch at the Blue Plate Oysterette in Santa Monica. The happy couple enjoyed their latest fun weekend together during one of her breaks from work on Water for Elephants with costar Robert Pattinson - Reese and Jim even happily walked out to their car after the meal showing off some Pda. View 15 Photos › To see more Reese, just read more. View 15 Photos ›...
- 7/12/2010
- by PopSugar
- Popsugar.com
Much has been written lately about the adorably rubber-faced James Franco and his lark of a time on the soap opera General Hospital. (Quick rehash: Franco is playing a celebrated artist/serial killer named Franco. Sample dialogue from today’s episode: “I’m very fond of the number 66. I just like saying it. Sixty six. Sounds dirty.”) Franco, the real-life version, wrote an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal shortly after his arc began explaining he was treating the experience as a guerrilla piece of performance art. “I disrupted the audience’s suspension of disbelief, because no matter how far I got into the character,...
- 7/7/2010
- by Karen Valby
- EW.com - PopWatch
Things are about to get a little more interesting -- on more than one level -- on "General Hospital," thanks to Franco.
Franco the character and James Franco, the actor who plays him, return to the ABC soap opera on Wednesday (June 30). The character is bent on revenge against Jason Morgan (Steve Burton) from his last stint in Port Charles, and Franco himself is also approaching his stint as not just an acting job, but also as a performance art piece.
"The reaction to me being on [last fall] was, I don't know, one of surprise -- people couldn't understand why I was on 'General Hospital,'" Franco tells Zap2it. "So I wanted to take all that and push it even farther. So I talked to Jeffrey Deitch, who's the new head of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and we started discussing how we could turn it into an art project.
Franco the character and James Franco, the actor who plays him, return to the ABC soap opera on Wednesday (June 30). The character is bent on revenge against Jason Morgan (Steve Burton) from his last stint in Port Charles, and Franco himself is also approaching his stint as not just an acting job, but also as a performance art piece.
"The reaction to me being on [last fall] was, I don't know, one of surprise -- people couldn't understand why I was on 'General Hospital,'" Franco tells Zap2it. "So I wanted to take all that and push it even farther. So I talked to Jeffrey Deitch, who's the new head of the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles, and we started discussing how we could turn it into an art project.
- 6/30/2010
- by editorial@zap2it.com
- Zap2It - From Inside the Box
So...does this count as Jeffrey Deitch's first spectacle as director of Moca? The flashy gallerist took the reins at the Los Angeles museum on June 1 and today, Moca announces the performance piece Soap at Moca, which will bring actor James Franco and the plotline of General Hospital within the museum walls. We'd think the whole thing was bug-eyed bonkers if we didn't know Deitch better: Our experts who contributed free advice for Deitch's new role predicted this whole thing would happen a few months ago.
As we don't need to tell Gh fans, Franco has been playing an artist on the soap opera since last season. When rumors surfaced that his work on Gh would get a real-life gallery show at Deitch Projects, the soap and art worlds first began their sudsy agitation. Now it's all happening, only bigger: Franco's character will get his big break, a show at Moca,...
As we don't need to tell Gh fans, Franco has been playing an artist on the soap opera since last season. When rumors surfaced that his work on Gh would get a real-life gallery show at Deitch Projects, the soap and art worlds first began their sudsy agitation. Now it's all happening, only bigger: Franco's character will get his big break, a show at Moca,...
- 6/22/2010
- by Alissa Walker
- Fast Company
Actor and artist Dennis Hopper died of complications related to prostate cancer on Saturday. He was 74. We recently covered his debut at Moca under new curator Jeffrey Deitch. Here is that report revisited.
Well, newly appointed Moca curator Jeffrey Deitch didn't take all of our advice for reinvigorating Los Angeles' museum scene, but he did pick a feel-good blockbuster for his first show. Deitch's curatorial debut will feature the work of painter, photographer, and filmmaker Dennis Hopper, as curated by painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel. Hopper's photographs of his Hollywood cronies and a rapidly transforming Los Angeles--like this one shot through the windshield of his car in 1961--were recently featured in the Taschen book Los Angeles: Portrait of a City and have been exhibited widely at galleries.
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In this video tour shot a few years ago of his own Venice Beach house, famously designed by Frank Gehry and filled with his iconic cardboard furniture,...
Well, newly appointed Moca curator Jeffrey Deitch didn't take all of our advice for reinvigorating Los Angeles' museum scene, but he did pick a feel-good blockbuster for his first show. Deitch's curatorial debut will feature the work of painter, photographer, and filmmaker Dennis Hopper, as curated by painter and filmmaker Julian Schnabel. Hopper's photographs of his Hollywood cronies and a rapidly transforming Los Angeles--like this one shot through the windshield of his car in 1961--were recently featured in the Taschen book Los Angeles: Portrait of a City and have been exhibited widely at galleries.
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In this video tour shot a few years ago of his own Venice Beach house, famously designed by Frank Gehry and filled with his iconic cardboard furniture,...
- 5/29/2010
- by Alissa Walker
- Fast Company
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