The overall problem with "After the Fall," however, might be the Strauses' criteria: The exhibition's catalog stipulates that the artists "live and maintain studios in their hometowns".
And Irving himself was committed to maintaining studio authority in shaping the careers of stars, directors and writers; to making studio, as opposed to auteur, pictures.
The shady courtyard, the lovingly maintained studio and charming dacha are testament to a culture that was kept going despite the revolution, despite 70 years of Communism, and is now holding on for dear life against the encroachment of Benidorm.
To keep up with his public commissions and exhibitions, he maintained studios in Berlin and in Santa Barbara, Calif.
He maintains studios in both Buryatia and Moscow.
Most of the Hudson River School painters worked in the White Mountains while maintaining studios in New York City, including such well-known artists as Sanford Robinson Gifford (1823 1880) and Jasper Francis Cropsey (1823 1900).
While maintaining studios in the building for many years, WCIU-TV broadcast the Stock Market Observer, a daily seven-hour live business television news program that is listed in the Guinness Book of World Records for the show telecast the most hours.
A few artist-craftsmen maintain independent studio workshops, producing commercially unprofitable but artistically significant work.
Walter Sear, an audio engineer whose steadfast devotion to pre-digital recording technology led him to maintain a studio with vintage, analog equipment, a risk that paid off in recent years as musicians like Norah Jones, Wilco and Wynton Marsalis flocked there for its rich natural sound, died on April 29 in Manhattan.
I was a 21-year-old artist with no time, space, or money to maintain a studio practice.
