Paul Gardner (writer)

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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[]

Filmography[]

As co-writer[]

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[]

  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. ^ Richard Brody, "Ten Days Wonder", The New Yorker, December 10, 2018, https://www.newyorker.com/goings-on-about-town/movies/ten-days-wonder
  4. ^ Jann Parry, "The Lost Ballerina", The [UK] Observer, April 29, 1984
  5. ^ 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
  6. ^ "Leni Riefenstahl", Vanity Fair, July 1984, https://archive.vanityfair.com/article/1984/7/leni-riefenstahl
  7. ^ Delaware Theatre Company, https://www.delawaretheatre.org/
  8. ^ 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.
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