Reviews 2016
STUPID MODEL
a Timely Story of Sexism in the Seventies
It’s 1973, and top model Janice Dickinson says to Bee Berger, “I’m Super Model, and you’re Stupid Model.” Just two weeks out of high school, Bee leaves home and puts herself on the doorstep of Christa’s modeling agency in Paris. Climbing the stairs, big photographs of famous models intimidate her. Christa looks her up and down, flips through her portfolio and says, “too tall for us.” Bee says she works all the time in Holland. “Do you do nude?” Christa asks. “I came for the couture shows,” Bee says, “and I don’t do topless.” Bee...
read moreMeeting Thrity Umrigar
Thrity Umrigar spent the first portion of her breakfast salon at The Betsy-South Beach, touting her good friend and fellow novelist Debra Dean, who was there to introduce her. Anyone not familiar with Umrigar might have taken her for a doting aunt — spelling Dean’s name for the audience so they can look up her books—but they became friends ten years before when Dean’s first novel, The Madonnas of Leningrad, and Umrigar’s breakout novel, The Space Between Us, came out within days of each other, from the same publishing company, the same...
read moreBetween Worlds
Henthorne is an international award-winning artist who works in the medium of high contrast black-and-white photography. He currently resides in Florida, but spends many months abroad, capturing the intersection of ocean and earth. ”Between Worlds” is his latest series of images and is a visual journey where earth, sea and sky unite. For this body of work, Henthorne collaborated with Andres Amador. Amador is an EarthScape artist who uses natural materials in wild settings to create breathtaking works of art. His canvas, a wide expanse...
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