The Cool School, Dir Morgan Neville, USA 2007
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The Cool School
16 - 17, 19, 25 Aug 2008
An essential, exciting documentary that shows how America's West Coast art scene of the late 50s and 60s was built through hard work and determination, at a time when the East was considered the place for art and the West was sneered at by Manhattanites. The film focuses on the seminal Ferus Gallery, which groomed the LA art scene from a loose band of idealistic beatniks into a coterie of competitive, often brilliant artists, including Ed Kienholz, Ed Ruscha, Craig Kauffman, Wallace Berman, Ed Moses and Robert Irwin. A fresh and invigorating perspective on the American art world, narrated with laconic style by Jeff Bridges.
Released by Arthouse Films.
Dir Morgan Neville, USA 2007, 86 mins
£8 / £7 Concessions / £6 ICA Members.
| Date | Time | Venue | Book |
|---|---|---|---|
| Saturday 16 August 2008 | 8:30 pm | Cinema 2 | |
| Sunday 17 August 2008 | 4:30 pm | Cinema 2 | |
| Tuesday 19 August 2008 | 8:30 pm | Cinema 2 | |
| Monday 25 August 2008 | 6:30 pm | Cinema 2 |
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A small and very, very cool season of art documentaries inspired by Face Addict, a new release which takes us through the Downtown scene of 70s New York. Among the other films here you'll see and hear tales of Ed Ruscha, Robert Mapplethorpe, Patti Smith, Jean-Michel Basquiat, the Velvet Underground, Ed Kienholz and, of course, Andy Warhol.