New York, New York—August 26, 2008. MUSE Film and Television celebrates its 16th Gala on September 24, 2008 in a two-part event: Muse is collaborating with the Paul Kasmin Gallery in hosting Robert Indiana’s 80th Birthday Exhibition. And at the Marquee Club, Muse previews Eric Breitbart’s film... Read more
New York, New York—August 26, 2008. MUSE Film and Television celebrates its 16th Gala on September 24, 2008 in a two-part event: Muse is collaborating with the Paul Kasmin Gallery in hosting Robert Indiana’s 80th Birthday Exhibition. And at the Marquee Club, Muse previews Eric Breitbart’s film: Robert Indiana: American Dreamer. Evening highlights also include a live art auction and raffle. Diandra de Morrell Douglas, documentarian and philanthropist, and Gillian Salama-Caro, art collector and philanthropist, are co-chairing the Gala.
Robert Indiana : American Dreamer is an hour long documentary about the artist who invented the iconic Love image. The film explores the intimate world of this enigmatic artist who calls himself, “a sign painter and a painter of signs.” Combining archival footage and interviews, the film is a portrait of not only Indiana but also his artist friends – Ellsworth Kelly, Agnes Martin and Jack Youngerman – and the New York art scene from the mid-fifties until 1978. Since then, Indiana has lived in Maine and continues to create painting, sculpture, set designs, graphics and prints.
The only company of its kind in the U.S., MUSE Film and Television is a non-profit organization that creates award-winning documentary films about art in its historical and cultural contexts. MUSE productions include a film about Metropolitan Museum of Art curator Henry Geldzahler, Who Gets to Call it Art?; Robert Capa in Love and War; and Chuck Close: A Portrait in Progress. They have aired on PBS stations nationwide and have also appeared in theaters, on Ovation, on the TBS Cable Network, and in other venues around the world. MUSE was established in1992 by Karl Katz, founder and former director of the Office of Film and Television at the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Filmmaker Eric Brietbart is noted as a filmmaker, cinematograher, writer and producer.
The Gala begins at 6:30 p.m. at the Kasmin Gallery (293 10th Ave, at 27th Street). Then at 7:30 pm, at the Marquee Club (289 10th Ave., at 27th Street) there a sneak preview of the Indiana film precedes, a buffet dinner at 8 pm which is followed at 9 pm by a raffle and auction. The auction features works by John Chamberlain, Milton Rogovin, Ben Fernandez, Edda Renouf, Milton Rogovin and Jonathan Torgovnik
