On Nov. 5, author Jim Flanagan will speak about "The Korean American Dream: Portraits of a Successful Immigrant Community". Los Angeles, he points out, is the largest Korean city outside Seoul.
The playwright, Howard Pflanzer, has tried to realize Benjamin's ideal of a text composed entirely of quotations, stitching together excerpts of Benjamin's writings and letters to create a fever-dream portrait of the night he died.
"Requiem for a Dream," a portrait of relationships addled and then curdled by drugs, cost $5 million.
To that end, this year she will complete "Our City Dreams," intimate portraits of five decades of female artists in New York, including Nancy Spero, Kiki Smith, Marina Abramovic, Ghada Amer and Swoon.
After years of literally dreaming of portraits, paintings, and gallery openings, Sicile-Kira's mother encouraged him to actualize these nighttime musings.
When Aronofsky screened "Requiem for a Dream" — a scarifying portrait of four addicts — at Cannes, in 2000, the audience's prolonged discomfort swelled into catharsis.
When Aronofsky screened "Requiem for a Dream"—a scarifying portrait of four addicts at Cannes, in 2000, the audience's prolonged discomfort swelled into catharsis.
In September 2013, he and his dancers will be featured in the National Portrait Gallery's exhibit "Dancing the Dream," where his portrait will hang in a gallery alongside modern-dance pioneers Isadora Duncan and Graham and contemporary masters Twyla Tharp and Mark Morris.
Kadare's mellifluous fever dream is a portrait of madness: the madness of the Stalinist state and the madness of men and women in the clamp of the state's machinations.
Excerpts from those interviews are to be published along with the 75 pictures in a 160-page book, "I Dream a World: Portraits of Black Women Who Changed America," (Stewart, Tobari & Chang).
