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Ben Woolfitt: Mixing Art and Commerce
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By Laura Blum Of all the romantic images in cultural history, that of the starving, bohemian artist is surely the stubbornist. But Ben Woolfitt is no example. He\'s keeping both of his ears. The gifted creator of paintings and drawings has mastered the entrepreneurial arts. Or is it the other way a ...
- 10.1 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Why Shirt Designer Cinthia Menolascino is Not Over the Top
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By Laura Blum Cino\'s rise among devotees of funky chic flows, like a hot air balloon, from a jettisoning of extra ballast. Owner-designer Cinthia Menolascino began with a broad collection, and eventually tossed off all but the standouts: shirts and tops, with the occasional jacket in the mix. Mon ...
- 10.19 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Film Editor Tom Cross Brings on \"Whiplash\"
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By Laura Blum Whiplash has never felt so good. You\'re bound to get it watching Damien Chazelle’s Whiplash, a musical war picture waged on the battlefield of Manhattan\'s elite Shaffer Conservatory. If drill sergeant Terrence Fletcher (Oscar-shoe-in J.K. Simmons) doesn\'t inflict a jolt while ...
- 10.45 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Cinematographer Dick Pope Throws Light on \"Mr. Turner\"
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By Laura Blum NEW YORK, NY - When cinematographer Richard \"Dick\" Pope was tapped to shoot a movie about the Romantic landscape painter Joseph Mallord William Turner, he was entranced. Having come off of lensing Topsy-Turvy in the late 90s, and prior to that, other prizewinning Mike Leigh titles i ...
- 10.49 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Cinematographer Jeff Cronenweth Brings Light to \"Gone Girl\"
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By Laura Blum Marital dysfunction has a honeymoon in Gillian Flynn\'s romantic mystery Gone Girl and its chilling screen adaptation by David Fincher. Presented from the clashing viewpoints of Nick Dunne (Ben Affleck) and his wife Amy (Rosamund Pike), the saga traces her vanishing act on the couple& ...
- 10.52 years ago - By Laura Blum
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\"The Salt of the Earth\" Juliano Ribeiro Salgado Honors His Father
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By: Laura Blum NEW YORK, NY - Photographer Sebastiaõ Salgado has spent more than four decades covering labor, exodus, famine and strife from some of the farthest flung reaches of the globe. The irony is: Although his images are instantly recognizable, the face that captured them often is not ...
- 10.56 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Nano Lopez: Sculpting the Mysteries of Nature, Technology and Folklore
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Byline: Laura Blum Walla Walla, WA -- All art is quasi-autobiographical, though for sculptor Nano Lopez, his own stirrings -- like the creatures he conjures -- are pure mystery. During moments of inspiration, the Bogota, Colombia native produces his fine art bronzes with the faith of intuition. \"I ...
- 10.73 years ago - By Laura Blum
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Pratt Celebrates 125 Years of the Wall Street Journal
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Byline: Laura Blum New York, NY - Say you\'re an art student. And say you have a brief: \"to creatively represent the past, present and future\" of a 125-year-old newspaper. Now say that paper is The Wall Street Journal. Chances are, if you\'ve ever glimpsed the business- and economics-focused dail ...
- 10.77 years ago - By Laura Blum
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The Leiber Collection: Judith and Gerson Leiber\'s Beauty, Bliss and the Bag
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By Laura Blum EAST HAMPTON, NY -- Judith Leiber, you might gather, is a blithe eccentric drenched in jewels and painted like Madama Butterfly. You\'d gather wrong. Though best known for her glittery evening bags fashioned like frogs, Fabergé eggs and everything in between, the luxury accesso ...
- 10.85 years ago - By Laura Blum
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