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Paul Gardner
Occupation
  • Writer
  • filmmaker
NationalityAmerican
Alma materUniversity of California, Berkeley
College of William & Mary

Paul Gardner is an American writer and filmmaker living in New York City.

Background

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Gardner grew up in Pasadena and Los Angeles. He attended the University of California, Berkeley, and graduated from the College of William & Mary in Virginia.

Career

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Gardner was on staff of The New York Times for seven years as a writer-critic and assistant editor of Sunday Arts & Leisure.[1] In Paris, where he lived for over three years, he contributed theatre and film reviews to the Financial Times of London and worked on film projects with director Claude Chabrol, co-scripting Chabrol's Ten Days' Wonder (film) (La Décade prodigieuse),[2][3] which starred Orson Welles and Anthony Perkins.

He published a William Faulkner portrait published in A Faulkner Perspective for the Franklin Library; Lynn,[4][5] the memoirs of Royal Ballet star Lynn Seymour; Brooklyn: People and Places, Past and Present, a socio-cultural history of the famous borough; and Louise Bourgeois, a personal journey into the life of the acclaimed sculptor. Writing for a variety of periodicals, Gardner interviewed subjects as diverse as the Beatles (on their first visit to the U.S.A.), Howard Hawks in Palm Springs, and Leni Riefenstahl in Pöcking, Bayern.[6]

A founding board member of the Delaware Theatre Company,[7] Gardner helped launch the state's first regional theatre in Wilmington.

He co-produced the Art City series of three contemporary art documentaries[8] featuring artists Brice Marden, Elizabeth Murray (artist), Agnes Martin, and Neil Jenney, among others; and the visual profile, Richard Tuttle: Never Not an Artist. The films have been shown at festivals in Toronto, Montréal, Paris, and Naples, as well as at art museums throughout the world.

Bibliography

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Books

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  • Lynn : The Autobiography of Lynn Seymour. London : Granada Publishing Ltd., 1984.
  • Brooklyn : People and Places, Past and Present (with Grace Glueck). New York : Harry N. Abrams, 1991.
  • Louise Bourgeois. New York : Rizzoli, 1994.

Selected essays, articles, and other works

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  • "The French They Are a Movie Race", The New York Times, May 18, 1969[9]
  • "Faulkner Remembered", A Faulkner Perspective. Franklin Center, Pennsylvania : The Franklin Library, 1976
  • "My Night with Rohmer", New York, November 8, 1976
  • "Sometimes, Nothing Succeeds Like a Flop", The New York Times, September 16, 1977[10]
  • "Think of Leonardo Wielding a Pixel and a Mouse", The New York Times, April 22, 1984[11]
  • "Leni Riefenstahl", Vanity Fair, July 1984[12]
  • "Chuck Close : Making the Impossible Possible", ArtNews, May 1992
  • "The Houses That Louise Built", HG, October 1992
  • "Chamber Music Barges in on the Brooklyn Docks", The Smithsonian, January 1994
  • "Neil Jenney: Scary Territory", ArtNews, January 1996
  • "When France Was Home to African-American Artists", The Smithsonian, March 1996[13]
  • "Music to the Eyes", Harper's Bazaar, April 1996
  • "Carl Van Vechten, Culture Connoisseur", On Paper : The Journal of Prints, Drawings and Photography, May–June 1998
  • "Auction Signals," ArtNews, October 1998[14]
  • "Neil Jenney : The Bad Years 1969-70", Exhibit Catalogue, Gagosian Gallery, New York City, 2001
  • "Renaissance Men by the Letter", The Nation, July 2, 2001 https://www.thenation.com/article/renaissance-men-letter/
  • "Richard Tuttle: Odd Man In", ArtNews, April 2004[15]

Filmography

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As co-writer

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As co-producer

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  • Art City 1 : Making It in Manhattan (1996)
  • Art City 2 : Simplicity (2002)
  • Art City 3 : A Ruling Passion (2002)
  • Richard Tuttle : Never Not an Artist (2005)

References

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  1. ^ Arthur Gelb. The City Room. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003
  2. ^ Jan Dawson, "10 Days Wonder", Sight & Sound, Autumn 1972
  3. ^ "Ten Days Wonder". The New Yorker. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  4. ^ Jann Parry, "The Lost Ballerina", The [UK] Observer, April 29, 1984
  5. ^ Bernheimer, Martin (1985-06-02). "MEMOIRS OF A RENEGADE BALLERINA". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  6. ^ Gardner, Paul. "LENI RIEFENSTAHL | Vanity Fair | July 1984". Vanity Fair | The Complete Archive. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  7. ^ "Delaware Theatre Company". delawaretheatre. Retrieved 2022-09-15.
  8. ^ Kennicott, Philip. "'Art City': A Compelling Collection of Film Portraits". The Washington Post. Retrieved 2023-08-07.
  9. ^ Gardner, Paul (1969-05-18). "The French They Are a Movie Race". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  10. ^ Gardner, Paul (1977-01-16). "Sometimes, Nothing Succeeds Like a Flop". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  11. ^ Gardner, Paul (1984-04-22). "THINK OF LEONARDO WIELDING A PIXEL AND A MOUSE". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  12. ^ Gardner, Paul. "LENI RIEFENSTAHL | Vanity Fair | July 1984". Vanity Fair | The Complete Archive. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  13. ^ Magazine, Smithsonian. "When France Was Home to African-American Artists". Smithsonian Magazine. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  14. ^ Gleadell, Colin (2005-05-10). "London Galleries Ride A Wave of Prosperity". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2023-01-27.
  15. ^ Gardner, Paul (2004-04-01). "Odd Man In". ARTnews.com. Retrieved 2023-01-27.

Additional sources

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  • Alan Wells, editor. Mass Media and Society (Third Edition). California : Mayfield Publishing Company, 1979.
  • Deborah Jowitt. Jerome Robbins : His Life, His Theater, His Dance. New York : Simon & Schuster, 2004.
  • Mel Gussow. Edward Albee : A Singular Journey. New York : Applause, 2001.
  • Arthur Gelb. The City Room. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003.
  • Alice Goldfarb Marquis. The Pop Revolution. Boston : MFA Publishing, 2010.
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