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Sunday, November 7, 5p.m.
Admission: $10
Location: The Historic Lynnwood Theatre on Bainbridge Island
In 1979, Christo and Jeanne-Claude proposed their project, The Gates, to New York City. It took the artists 26 years before they could install seven thousand gates hung with saffron-colored panels in Central Park.
Albert Maysles and his brother David began filming the Gates in 1979, attending community board hearings and interviewing the artists, their supporters, and their detractors. Christo and Jeanne-Claude persevered, and in 2005 they succeeded in installing The Gates. The Maysles persevered too, and their film was finally aired in 2007. ...
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Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and DesignDVD, 65 minutes, Director, Faythe Levine$19.95
Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and DesignBy Faythe Levine and Cortney HeimerlPrinceton Architectural Press$24.95
Ah, youth! It is impossible to watch Handmade Nation and not be affected by its spirit: passionate, upbeat, idealistic and above all energetic. The frenetic pixilated opening credit sequence almost suggests that the title might be Over-Caffeinated Nation. It is also impossible not to be struck by déjà vu all over again, for most of the ...
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The Kunsthalle Wien presents Bruce Conner's first comprehensive
exhibition in Europe until January 30, 2011. The show combines more
than one hundred artworks including drawings, photographs, and films.
For the first time, Conner's complex oeuvre is made accessible to a
broad European audience. The 220-pages catalog in English includes 150
illustrations. The exhibition was curated by Barbara ...
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Produced between 1978 and 1991, Hands is a reminder of the richness of Ireland's traditional crafts. ...
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A Year in the Life: Clary IllianDirected by Atom BurkeAtom Burke Productions 24 min., DVD $30atomburke.com
The Leach Pottery, 1952Restored and re-released byMarty Gross Film Productions32 min., DVD $30martygrossfilms.com
A Year in the Life begins with a quotation from Clary Illian's A Potter's Workbook: "It is a wondrous thing that ... people still want to make pots on a potter's wheel." The Leach Pottery, 1952 ends with a voice-over by Warren MacKenzie saying that he learned from Bernard Leach not only "how to make pots," but "why anyone made pots ...
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