Paul Gardner (writer)
Paul Gardner is an American writer and filmmaker living in New York City.
Background[]
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[]
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[]
Books[]
- 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[]
- "The French They Are a Movie Race", The New York Times, May 18, 1969, https://www.nytimes.com/1969/05/18/archives/the-french-they-are-a-movie-race.html
- "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, https://www.nytimes.com/1977/01/16/archives/sometimes-nothing-succeeds-like-a-flop-nothing-succeeds-like-some.html
- "Think of Leonardo Wielding a Pixel and a Mouse", The New York Times, April 22, 1984, https://www.nytimes.com/1984/04/22/arts/think-of-leonardo-wielding-a-pixel-and-a-mouse.html
- "Leni Riefenstahl", Vanity Fair, July 1984, https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1984/7/leni-riefenstahl
- "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, https://www.smithsonianmag.com/arts-culture/when-france-was-home-to-african-american-artists-1-39800769/
- "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, https://www.artnews.com/issue/october-1998/
- "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, http://www.artnews.com/2004/04/01/odd-man-in/
Filmography[]
As co-writer[]
- Ten Days' Wonder (film) (1971)
As co-producer[]
- 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[]
- ^ Arthur Gelb. The City Room. New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons, 2003
- ^ Jan Dawson, "10 Days Wonder", Sight & Sound, Autumn 1972
- ^ Richard Brody, "Ten Days Wonder", The New Yorker, December 10, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/ten-days-wonder
- ^ Jann Parry, "The Lost Ballerina", The [UK] Observer, April 29, 1984
- ^ Martin Bernheimer, "Memoirs of a Renegade Ballerina", The Los Angeles Times, June 2, 1985, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-06-02-ca-14910-story.html
- ^ "Leni Riefenstahl", Vanity Fair, July 1984, https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1984/7/leni-riefenstahl
- ^ Delaware Theatre Company, https://www.delawaretheatre.org/
- ^ Philip Kennicott, "Compelling Film Portraits", The Washington Post, February 3, 2002, https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/style/2002/02/03/art-city-a-compelling-collection-of-film-portraits/6239bf8f-c559-4af2-924b-272bdfb4b18b
Additional sources[]
- 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.
- American documentary film producers
- Living people