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Ferus Gallery
The Ferus Gallery was a contemporary art gallery which operated from 1957 to 1966. In 1957, the gallery was located at 736-A North La Cienega Boulevard, Los Angeles in the U.S. state of California. In 1958, it was relocated across the street to 723 North La Cienega Boulevard where it remained until its closing in 1966. History The gallery was founded in 1957 by the curator Walter Hopps, his wife Shirley Hopps, the artist Edward Kienholz on La Cienega Boulevard. Walter Hopps and Shirley Hopps ran the gallery. They called the gallery “Ferus” to honor a person named James Farris who shot himself to death, and was possibly the friend of a friend of Hopps. They spelled the name "Ferus" because the man who designed the gallery's logo, Robert Alexander (a.k.a. “Baza”), a collage artist and poet, thought that spelling looked stronger on the page, and Hopps agreed. In 1958, Kienholz left to concentrate on producing art, and his stake in the gallery was replaced by Irving Blu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
La Cienega Boulevard
La Cienega Boulevard is a major north–south arterial road in the Los Angeles metropolitan area that runs from the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood in the north to El Segundo Boulevard in Hawthorne in the south. It was named for Rancho Las Cienegas, literally "The Ranch Of The Swamps," an area of marshland south of Rancho La Brea. Route description La Cienega Boulevard's northern terminus is the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood. It runs as a surface street in a due south direction through Beverly Hills and a section known as "Restaurant Row" for its historic tradition of upscale restaurants. South of Olympic, La Cienega runs through between the Pico-Robertson, South Carthay, and Crestview neighborhoods of West Los Angeles. South of the Santa Monica Freeway, the I-10, it briefly borders Culver City, and passes the La Cienega/Jefferson station of the Metro E Line. Between Obama Boulevard and Manchester Avenue, most of La Cienega Boulevard is a divided, limited access ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Light And Space
Light and Space denotes a loosely affiliated art movement related to op art, minimalism and geometric abstraction originating in Southern California in the 1960s and influenced by John McLaughlin. It is characterized by a focus on perceptual phenomena, such as light, volume and scale, and the use of materials such as glass, neon, fluorescent lights, resin and cast acrylic, often forming installations conditioned by the work's surroundings. Whether by directing the flow of natural light, embedding artificial light within objects or architecture, or by playing with light through the use of transparent, translucent or reflective materials, Light and Space artists make the spectator's experience of light and other sensory phenomena under specific conditions the focus of their work. From the movement's inception, artists were incorporating into their work the latest technologies of the Southern California-based engineering and aerospace industries to develop sensuous, light-filled o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jay DeFeo
Jay DeFeo (31 March 1929 – 11 November 1989) was an American visual artist who became celebrated in the 1950s as part of the spirited community of Beat artists, musicians, and poets in San Francisco. Best known for her monumental work ''The Rose'', DeFeo produced courageously experimental works throughout her career, exhibiting what art critic Kenneth Baker called “fearlessness.” Life and work Early life Jay DeFeo was born Mary Joan DeFeo on 31 March 1929, in Hanover, New Hampshire, to a nurse from an Austrian immigrant family and an Italian Americans, Italian-American medical student. In 1932, the DeFeo family moved to the San Francisco Bay Area, where her father graduated from Stanford University School of Medicine and became a traveling doctor for the Civilian Conservation Corps. Between 1935 and 1938, DeFeo traveled around rural parts of Northern California with her parents, and also spent extensive time with her maternal grandparents on a farm in Colorado as well as w ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Frank Lobdell
Frank Lobdell (1921–2013) was an American painter, often associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement and Bay Area Abstract Expressionism. Life and career Frank Lobdell was born on August 23, 1921, in Kansas City, Missouri, and raised in Minnesota. He attended the St. Paul School of Fine Arts, St. Paul, Minnesota in 1939-40, and painted independently in Minneapolis from 1940 to 1942. He served in the U.S. Army in Europe during World War II (1942–46).'Frank Lobdell, influential Bay Area painter, dies' by Jesse Hamlin, ''SF Gate'', Thursday, December 19, 2013; http://www.sfgate.com/art/article/Frank-Lobdell-influential-Bay-Area-painter-dies-5076592.php retvd 7 29 14 Following the war, he moved to Sausalito, CA (1946–49), and from 1947-50 he attended the California School of Fine Arts on the G.I. Bill.The Annex Galleries - Frank Lobdell biography; http://www.annexgalleries.com/artists/biography/1417/Lobdell/Frank retvd 7 29 14 In 1950, he left the U.S. for Paris, where h ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Artforum
''Artforum'' is an international monthly magazine specializing in contemporary art. The magazine is distinguished from other magazines by its unique 10½ × 10½ inch square format, with each cover often devoted to the work of an artist. Notably, the ''Artforum'' logo is a bold and condensed iteration of the Akzidenz-Grotesk font, a feat for an American publication to have considering how challenging it was to obtain fonts favored by the Swiss school via local European foundries in the 1960s. ''Artforum'' is published by Artforum Media, LLC, a subsidiary of Penske Media Corporation. John P. Irwin, Jr named the magazine after the ancient Roman word ''forum'' hoping to capture the similarity of the Roman marketplace to the art world's lively engagement with public debate and commercial exchange. The magazine features in-depth articles and reviews of contemporary art, as well as book reviews, columns on cinema and popular culture, personal essays, commissioned artworks and essays, a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pace Gallery
The Pace Gallery is a contemporary and modern art gallery with 9 locations worldwide. It was founded in Boston by Arne Glimcher in 1960. His son, Marc Glimcher, is now president and CEO. Pace Gallery operates in New York, London, Hong Kong, Los Angeles, Geneva, Seoul, East Hampton, Tokyo, and Palm Beach. The gallery is named after Glimcher's father's nickname, "Pacey".Kelly Crow (August 26, 2011)Keeping Pace''Wall Street Journal''. It moved to Manhattan in 1963. Main business In 1960, at the age of 22, Arnold (Arne) Glimcher founded The Pace Gallery in Boston, running it with his wife, Milly, and his mother, Eva. In 1963, Glimcher partnered with Fred Mueller to bring the gallery to New York, where it opened a location on East 57th Street with the help of Ivan Karp, a close friend of Glimcher's. In 1965, Glimcher closed the Boston gallery and permanently moved his family to New York. Three years later, the gallery moved to its long-time location at 32 East 57th Street. Aft ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Arne Glimcher
Arnold "Arne" Glimcher (born March 2, 1938) is an American art dealer, gallerist, film producer, and film director. He is the founder of Pace Gallery, which by 2011 sold more than $400 million in art annually. He is the father of Marc Glimcher, who succeeded him as chairman of Pace, and American scientist Paul Glimcher. From 2013 to 2017, Arne and Marc Glimcher were included each year in the ''ArtReview'' annual list of the 100 most influential people in contemporary art. Arne Glimcher also produced and directed several films, including ''The Mambo Kings'' (1990) and ''Just Cause (film), Just Cause'' (1995). Early life and education Glimcher was born on March 12, 1938, in Duluth, Minnesota, and raised in Boston. His father was a cattle rancher who owned a ranch in Minnesota. Arne was the youngest of four and was interested in art from an early age, which he developed by taking Saturday classes at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. He later graduated from Massachusetts College o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pasadena Art Museum
The Norton Simon Museum is an art museum located in Pasadena, California. It was previously known as the Pasadena Art Institute and the Pasadena Art Museum and displays numerous sculptures on its grounds. Overview The Norton Simon collections include: European paintings, sculptures, and tapestries; Asian sculptures, paintings, and woodblock prints. Outside sculptures surround the museum, with notable Rodin sculptures near its entrance and other sculptures along Colorado Boulevard and in a landscape setting around a large pond. The museum contains the Norton Simon Theater which shows film programs daily, and hosts lectures, symposia, and dance and musical performances year-round. The museum is located on Colorado Boulevard along the route of the Tournament of Roses's Rose Parade, where its distinctive, brown tile exterior can be seen in the background of television broadcasts; the brown tile exterior itself shows signs of damage due to the rose motif posted every year during th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michael Blankfort
Michael Seymour Blankfort (December 10, 1907 – July 13, 1982) was an American screenwriter, writer of books and playwright. He served as a front for the blacklisted Albert Maltz on the Academy Award-nominated screenplay of '' Broken Arrow (1950)''. He was born in New York City and died in Los Angeles. Film career The Writers Guild of America, West, in its 1991 restoration of credit for the ''Broken Arrow'' screenplay to Maltz, expressed "a strong statement of appreciation for the courage of screenwriter Michael Blankfort" for his action in fronting for Maltz, in which Blankfort "risked being blacklisted himself to help his friend". Among his own screenplays were '' The Juggler (1953)'' and ''The Caine Mutiny''. He was president of the Writers Guild of America, West from 1967 to 1969 and won the Guild's Valentine Davies Award (along with Norman Corwin) in 1972. He also served on the Board of Governors of The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences from 1969 to 1971. Art ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Janss Investment Company
The Janss Investment Company was a family-run, Los Angeles–based real estate development company that operated from 1895 to 1995. First generation The Janss Investment Company was founded by Peter Janss, an immigrant doctor from Denmark. Peter Janss graduated in the class of 1877 in Keokuk, Iowa, and by 1882 he was appointed Hall County, Nebraska, Hall County physician. He moved to Los Angeles in 1893, planning to practice medicine but discovered the real estate industry was much more lucrative. By 1906 he and his two sons, Edwin Janss Sr. and Harold Janss established an investment company, creating subdivisions in East Los Angeles, California, Belvedere Gardens, Boyle Heights, California, Boyle Heights, Monterey Park, California, Monterey Park, and Yorba Linda, California, Yorba Linda. Janss developed Ramona Acres in Monterey Park. Janss subdivided Highland Villa and Belvedere Gardens (now known as East Los Angeles, California, East Los Angeles) in Boyle Heights. In 1909, ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vanity Fair (magazine)
''Vanity Fair'' is an American monthly magazine of popular culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast in the United States. The first version of ''Vanity Fair'' was published from 1913 to 1936. The imprint was revived in 1983 after Conde Nast took over the magazine company. Vanity Fair currently includes five international editions of the magazine. The five international editions of the magazine are the United Kingdom (since 1991), Italy (since 2003), Spain (since 2008), France (since 2013), and Mexico (since 2015). History ''Dress and Vanity Fair'' Condé Montrose Nast began his empire by purchasing the men's fashion magazine ''Dress'' in 1913. He renamed the magazine ''Dress and Vanity Fair'' and published four issues in 1913. It continued to thrive into the 1920s. However, it became a casualty of the Great Depression and declining advertising revenues. Nonetheless, its circulation at 90,000 copies was at its peak. Condé Nast announced in December 193 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Bob Colacello
Bob Colacello (born May 8, 1947) is an American writer. He began his career writing for ''The'' ''Village Voice'' before becoming an editor for pop artist Andy Warhol's ''Interview'' magazine from 1970 to 1983. His roles at ''Interview'' included special contributing editor, managing editor, and executive editor. He collaborated with Warhol on the books ''The Philosophy of Andy Warhol'' (1975) and '' Exposures'' (1979). In 1984, Colacello became a contributing editor for ''Vanity Fair'', and since 1993, he has served as a special correspondent. Life and career Robert Colaciello was born to John and Libby Colaciello in Bensonhurst, New York on May 8, 1947. He and his two sisters, Barbara and Suzanne, were raised in Plainview, Long Island. He graduated from the Edmund A. Walsh School of Foreign Service at Georgetown University in 1969 and has an MFA in film criticism from Columbia University Graduate School of the Arts. Colacello began his writing career around 1969, when he b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
