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...reached a point in my career where I directed my first movie and had been producing and acting for a decade and had a very very heavy workload. I decided to stop and put something back and I had the idea of creating a place for more independent type artist to come and work and have a place to develop. The mainstream was already showing signs of moving toward a more centralized position. Also there was new technology coming, there was video, there was cable, there was computers and you could imagine that the combination of those three things would...
Ma’s prominence as both an artist and a humanitarian will serve him well as an ambassador, Acosta said...
...Covarrubias has always been underestimated as an artist. Unlike his celebrated compatriots Diego Rivera and David Siqueiros, who painted public murals on a heroic scale, Covarrubias made his name in the humble medium of the caricature. He arrived in New York at age 18 (after dropping out of high school when he cracked a teacher's skull in a fit of anger), and found fame and a good living almost immediately with his witty, irreverent ink portraits for glossy magazines such as the New Yorker and Vanity Fair. By 1930, when he married Rosemonde Cowan, a popular Broadway dancer...
...Covarrubias' newly revealed work in Bali stands among the finest of his career: his deceptively polished, Art Deco-inspired compositions and intensely colorful palette were a flexible medium for the artist to explore every aspect of life on the island. His portraits of Balinese women capture their frank sensuality without the overlay of leering orientalism frequently found in the work of other foreign artists in the tropics?perhaps because of the similarities between village life in Mexico and Bali. The paintings of the island's legendary dance performances are carefully observed yet imbued with a full measure of mystical atmosphere...
...imbibe deeply and freely of its unique civilization. Yet it's questionable how much the island ultimately got out of the bargain, aside from the mixed blessing of a billion-dollar-plus tourism industry. Covarrubias was one early guest who made a major contribution. He was not a great artist, but he was a brilliant observer: for generations, everyone with a serious interest in Bali has been grateful for his book about its culture. Now everyone interested in Covarrubias is indebted to Williams and Chong for this fascinating, beautiful study of the artist's stays in Bali, which reveals...