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Abandoned Goods
Jeff, Embrace Your Past
Roxie Theatre
Sat, Jun 13, 2015 4:46 PM
In 1992, SFMOMA put on the first major retrospective of the work of Jeff Koons, who at a boyish 37 was already lauded as a visionary and reviled as a provocateur. As Koons and his wife, Italian porn star/politician Ilona Staller, roll into town for the show the filmmakers cannily document everyone caught up in Koons’s success? the curators, the consultants, and the collectors? while also capturing a multi-sided portrait of a man whose work co
Jeff, Embrace Your Past
Roxie Theatre
Wed, Jun 17, 2015 7:00 PM
In 1992, SFMOMA put on the first major retrospective of the work of Jeff Koons, who at a boyish 37 was already lauded as a visionary and reviled as a provocateur. As Koons and his wife, Italian porn star/politician Ilona Staller, roll into town for the show the filmmakers cannily document everyone caught up in Koons’s success? the curators, the consultants, and the collectors? while also capturing a multi-sided portrait of a man whose work co
Here is the synopsis: Patients committed to Netherne psychiatric hospital between 1946 and 1981 created an extraordinary collection of artworks in a pioneering studio under artist Edward Adamson. ABANDONED GOODS is a moving portrait of the little-known history of UK postwar asylum life.
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