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'John Bock: Palms' at REDCAT
In the late 1990s, a lot of American artists fancied themselves filmmakers. Most got stuck in a no man's land that was not very fun to visit.
On the upside, artists enjoyed the freedom of including feature-length videos in their installations. And they...Tags: West Hollywood, Marcel Duchamp, Los Angeles, No Country for Old Men (movie), Lincoln
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Celeb art auction to benefit HIV in Africa
A Valentine's Day auction of contemporary works donated by some of the world's leading artists will benefit HIV/AIDS relief programs in Africa. Sotheby's auction house has joined with Gagosian Gallery in Chelsea, U2 lead singer Bono and artist Damien...Tags: Auction Service, Diseases, Georg Baselitz, United Nations, AIDS
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Cult filmmaker Jodorowsky's bloody visions
Special to The TimesAs the first of a trio of his movies the Nuart is presenting over the next several days, Alejandro Jodorowsky's "El Topo" seems just as pretentious and shallow as it did more than 35 years ago, but, then as now, it is understandable why it caught on as...Tags: Clint Eastwood, Sergio Leone, John Lennon, Tod Browning, Robert Altman
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He dont use jelly
Aboard a Japanese whaling vessel, conceptual artist Matthew Barney and his musician girlfriend, Björk, sit on the floor of the tearoom. As the space becomes flooded with a thick, oozing substance, they start carving each other's legs with flensing knives,...Tags: Natural Resources, Art Basel, Energy Resources, Hunting, Seafood and Fishing Industry
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'Matthew Barney: No Restraint'
Special to NewsdayHaving left pre-med for art at Yale, Matthew Barney recalls he quickly found the process of making things "more interesting to me than the things I was eventually making." Subsequently, his career in the plastic arts - and film as well (the "Cremaster"...Tags: Natural Resources, John Anderson, Energy Resources, Arts, Movies
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'No Restraint'
Having left pre-med for art at Yale, Matthew Barney recalls he quickly found the process of making things "more interesting to me than the things I was eventually making."
Subsequently, his career in the plastic arts -- and film as well (the "Cremaster"...Tags: Natural Resources, John Anderson, Energy Resources, Arts, Movies
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THE WILD BLUE YONDER, ABSOLUTE WILSON
THE WILD BLUE YONDER (unrated). Taking a break from tropical jungles and Alaskan nature preserves, Werner Herzog moves into outer space in his restless quest to push the formal and geographic boundaries of documentary filmmaking. Herzog's hybrid-style...Tags: Susan Sontag, NASA, Robert Wilson, Jessye Norman, Brad Dourif
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'Drawing Restraint 9'
Times Staff WriterIn June, Matthew Barney's "Drawing Restraint 9" will be shown as part of a larger exhibit comprising paintings, drawings, videos, sculptures and photographs at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The installation will take up the entire fourth floor,...Tags: West Los Angeles, Family, Santa Monica, Museum of Modern Art, Movies
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Movie review: Drawing Restraint 9'
Tribune staff reporter2 stars (out of four) After learning that I had just seen visual artist Matthew Barney's latest cinematic work, "Drawing Restraint 9," my husband e-mailed this question to his movie reviewer wife: "Was the movie in any way normal?" That's not usually...Tags: Ceremonies, Society, Sculpture, Movies, New York Times
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Summer of same
Tribune movie reporterThe sequels and franchise flicks scored big last summer, so what do we get? More of the same this year. Check out the titles, and you might conclude that this is the year of the colon. But don't be fooled by the amount of noise generated by the highest-...Tags: Jan de Bont, John Malkovich, Robert Rodriguez, Renee Zellweger, Lucy Liu
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Let the bidding begin
Special to The SunI consider myself a fairly fearless traveler. I've eaten things indigenous that were inedible (goat stomach, anyone?), hitched rides from people whose language I didn't speak, and bartered the shirt off my back for a souvenir. Until recently, though, I'd...Tags: Vehicles, Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis, Joseph Stella, Dining and Drinking, Photography
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A most personal gallery
Times Staff WriterHe seems like just the kind of guy you'd expect to be a success in the television industry. Brusque-yet-polished New York manners, semi-casual dress, dry wit and enough self-deprecation to let you know right away there's a lot more intellect beyond the...Tags: Newspaper and Magazine, Walt Disney, Wrestling, Ellen DeGeneres, Government
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