Michael Slenske

2 months ago | hollywoodreporter.com | Michael Slenske

For nearly seven decades, painter Don Bachardy has lured Hollywood luminaries — from Marlene Dietrich to Mark Ruffalo — to sit for portraits, most frequently inside his second-floor studio perched atop a converted garage at his cliffside bungalow overlooking Santa Monica Canyon. There are now 17,000 Bachardy portraits in existence, some of which have landed at the Smithsonian, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the National Portrait Gallery of London.

2 months ago | yahoo.com | Michael Slenske

Yahoo is using AI to generate takeaways from this article. This means the info may not always match what's in the article. Reporting mistakes helps us improve the experience.Generate Key TakeawaysFor nearly seven decades, painter Don Bachardy has lured Hollywood luminaries — from Marlene Dietrich to Mark Ruffalo — to sit for portraits, most frequently inside his second-floor studio perched atop a converted garage at his cliffside bungalow overlooking Santa Monica Canyon.

Mar 2, 2025 | hollywoodreporter.com | Michael Slenske

Last year, when THR first asked L.A. and N.Y. artists to reinvent the Oscar statuette, we had no idea what to expect. Alake Shilling’s painting of a smiling blue octopus — with a shiny trophy gripped in almost every tentacle — was definitely a surprise. Seth Bogart’s ceramic beefcake body-builder Oscar was also a head-turner. That’s to say nothing of Trulee Hall’s performance art version of the statuette, complete with a bald, sword-wielding model in a gold Speedo atop a life-size award pedestal.

Dec 4, 2024 | wmagazine.com | Michael Slenske

Model Oliver Chávez wears a Dior top, skirt, and boots. “I’m obsessed with calla lilies, and this outfit was meant to look like you’re going to a funeral,” says Bárbara Sánchez-Kane. The Mexican artist Bárbara Sánchez-Kane started out as a fashion designer—albeit a highly unconventional one.

Aug 18, 2024 | yahoo.com | Michael Slenske

“I’m a survivor,” says Magdalena Suarez Frimkess. “Since I was a kid, that’s been the definition of my life. Whatever I have to do, I do it. I’m still surviving at 95.” For decades, this feisty nonagenarian toiled away in relative obscurity at the Venice studio that she shared with her husband and longtime collaborator, the classically trained ceramicist Michael Frimkess, 89. Yet in the past decade, the Venezuela-born Suarez Frimkess also has been thriving.