2024 Jerome Robbins Dance Division Annual Symposium To Honor Martha Graham On the Occasion of Her Dance Company's Centennial Anniversary

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2024 Jerome Robbins Dance Division Annual Symposium To Honor Martha Graham On the Occasion of Her Dance Company's Centennial Anniversary

On January 26th, the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts at Lincoln Center will present the 2024 Jerome Robbins Dance Division Annual Symposium, a “day-long exploration of Martha Graham and her legacy as her company celebrates its centennial anniversary.” In the 1960s and ‘70s, Graham and her dance company were documented extensively by photographer Jack Mitchell, whose collection GME proudly represents.

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GME Remembers Celebrated Star of Stage and Screen Glynis Johns

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GME Remembers Celebrated Star of Stage and Screen Glynis Johns

GME remembers celebrated star of stage and screen Glynis Johns, who passed away last week, on January 4th, 2024, at the age of 100. This photo, culled from the Jack Mitchell collection, captures Johns during the original 1973 Broadway production of Stephen Sondheim’s musical A LITTLE NIGHT MUSIC.

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December 2023 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

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December 2023 Roundup Related to GME Titles, Artists, and Colleagues

Happy New Year from Gartenberg Media Enterprises! As we ring in 2024, we’re reflecting on screenings, events, and celebrations from last month, in New York City and beyond, related to colleagues of GME, as well as films and/or filmmakers in our collection that we distribute to the North American university market. Notably, a mid-’60s sci-fi flick by Jean-Luc Godard returned to the big screen, while the Film-Makers’ Cooperative hosted a two-night benefit screening of an infamous Andy Warhol film — which GME President Jon Gartenberg was instrumental in rediscovering, in the mid-1980s, while working at The Museum of Modern Art.

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GME Presents A Selection of Photos Of Queer Celebrities By Jack Mitchell In Honor of LGBTQ+ History Month

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GME Presents A Selection of Photos Of Queer Celebrities By Jack Mitchell In Honor of LGBTQ+ History Month

Jack Mitchell (September 13th, 1925—November 7th, 2013) chronicled, over the course of his half-century professional career, a unique history of creators in the fields of dance, theater, music, the fine arts, film, and television. Within this impressive body of work exist images of celebrated individuals whose public and private lives represent a broad spectrum of queer identity.

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GME Notes the Recent Passing of Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist Harry Belafonte

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GME Notes the Recent Passing of Barrier-Breaking Singer, Actor and Activist Harry Belafonte

Harry Belafonte, who stormed the pop charts and smashed racial barriers in the 1950s with his highly personal brand of folk music, and who went on to become a dynamic force in the civil rights movement, died at his home on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. He was 96.

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30th Anniversary of Choreographer Agnes de Mille’s Death Commemorated at 92nd Street Y

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30th Anniversary of Choreographer Agnes de Mille’s Death Commemorated at 92nd Street Y

A group of experts — Diana Gonzalez-Duclert, Ted Chapin, Elena Zahlmann, and Diana Byer — who have all been closely involved with de Mille’s choreographic and written works, celebrate de Mille’s major contribution to American dance and its cultural heritage, and explore how these contributions are still relevant today in commemoration of the 30th anniversary of Agnes de Mille’s death in a live, online course presented by Roundtable at the 92nd Street Y.

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African American Life and Legends Photographed by Jack Mitchell

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African American Life and Legends Photographed by Jack Mitchell

To celebrate Black History Month this year, GME would like to share some of the many outstanding photographs by Jack Mitchell of African American artists and individuals taken during his half century professional career chronicling a unique history of creators in the fields of dance, theater, music, the fine arts, and film and television.

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GME Notes the Recent Passing of Artist and Filmmaker Alfred Leslie

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GME Notes the Recent Passing of Artist and Filmmaker Alfred Leslie

The iconoclastic figurative painter amidst the surging reign of abstract expressionist painters of the 1960, Alfred Leslie was also a noted filmmaker, especially well-known for his films THE CEDAR TAVERN (1952, from his own play of the same title), and the definitive Beat film, PULL MY DAISY (1959), made with Jack Kerouac, Allen Ginsberg, Robert Frank and other luminaries from the scene.

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Alex Katz Photos from the Jack Mitchell Collection in Conjunction with his Paintings at the Guggenheim Museum

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Alex Katz Photos from the Jack Mitchell Collection in Conjunction with his Paintings at the Guggenheim Museum

GME would like to share some photographs by Jack Mitchell of the artist Alex Katz alongside the exhibition, currently at the Guggenheim Museum, of 8 decades of Katz’s portraits, social scenes, and landscapes, which capture the immediacy of visual perception in his paintings.

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