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The Cool School (2008 Film)
''The Cool School'' is a 2008 American documentary film about the rise of the Los Angeles contemporary art scene. It was directed by Morgan Neville and narrated by Jeff Bridges. The documentary premièred at the Cleveland International Film Festival. It focused on the Ferus Gallery, and its founders, Walter Hopps and Ed Kienholz. It profiled numerous artists, including Ed Ruscha, Craig Kauffman, Wallace Berman, Ed Moses (artist), Ed Moses, John Altoon, and Robert Irwin (artist), Robert Irwin. The review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes surveyed and, categorizing the reviews as positive or negative, assessed 24 as positive and 2 as negative for a 92 percent rating. Among the reviews, it determined an average rating of 7.00 out of 10. The critics consensus reads "A breezy and lively modern art documentary, revealing that LA is not a cultural wasteland when it comes to fine art." References External links * *The Cool School' at Rotten Tomatoes *The Cool School' at Arthouse Fi ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Kristine McKenna
Kristine McKenna is an American journalist, critic and art curator best known for her interviews with artists, writers, thinkers, filmmakers and musicians. Many of these have been collected in ''Book of Changes'' (2001) and ''Talk to Her'' (2004). Among the people she has interviewed and written about most often over the years are Exene Cervenka, Leonard Cohen, David Lynch, Captain Beefheart, Brian Eno and Dan Hicks. Career McKenna wrote for the ''Los Angeles Times'' from 1977 through 1998 and was one of the first mainstream journalists chronicling the early L.A. punk rock scene. She was Music Editor for influential avant-garde arts publication '' Wet'' and West Coast Editor of NME. Her profiles and criticism have appeared in ''Artforum'', ''The New York Times'', ''ARTnews'', ''Vanity Fair'', ''The Washington Post'', ''Rolling Stone'' and many other publications. She was awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Administration grant (1976) and a Critics Fellowship from ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |