"Art Scene" Interviews
name: label: Collection Creator
content: Gore, Marian L.
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content: Marian Gore "Art Scene" interviews and papers
physdesc: label: Extent
content: 1.3 Linear Feet (Boxes 1-2, 4)
unitdate: label: Date
content: 1962-1965
dataSource: label: Archival Repository
content: Archives of American Art
identifier: label: Identifier
content: AAA.goremari, Series 1
objectType: label: Type
content: Archival materials
arrangement: label: Arrangement
content: Sound recordings are arranged alphabetically by interviewee.
altformavail: label: Existence and Location of Copies
content: All of the sound recordings have been digitized for research access.
scopecontent: label: Scope and Contents
content: Series contains 37 radio programs created for KPFK radio in Los Angeles, Calif. by Marion L. Gore.  Thirty-six of the interviews were part of her "Art Scene" radio series and featured artists, museum curators, art collectors, and gallerists working in the contemporary art scene in Los Angeles, particularly galleries and artists showing on La Cienega Boulevard in West Hollywood.  Also found is a single episode of another KPFK program called "Seen at the galleries" and hosted by Earl Carter, featuring an interview with Jacques Lipchitz on the occasion of his retrospective at UCLA.  

Among the many notable California art world figures represented in the collection are Esther Robles, who opened the first gallery on La Cienega Boulevard, who tells the history of her gallery, and Walter Hopps, who discusses the history of the Ferus Gallery and the censorship of the Wallace Berman exhibition there.  Interviews with Mathias Goeritz and David Siqueiros were conducted in Mexico City, as was a recording of Gore herself describing the art world of Mexico City.  The remainder of interviews were all conducted in Los Angeles.

Recordings are on 37 sound tape reels. One additional blank reel is also found and has been retained because of annotations on the box. Each reel generally contains one radio program between 15 minutes and a half-hour long.  Dates noted are recording dates; broadcast dates were generally within 6 months of the recording dates.