A new movie, opening today, looks at the work of Frank Gehry.
"One of the hardest places for a movie -- or anything else -- to go is into the mind of an artist. You can point the camera at the work that is the tangible product of how that mind operates, and you can record interviews that try to explain and interpret, but the creative process remains a durable mystery.
'Sketches of Frank Gehry' respects the essential enigma of its subject even as it illuminates his ways of thinking about form, space and construction. As its title suggests, this absorbing documentary, the first directed by Sydney Pollack ('Out of Africa,' 'The Way We Were' and so on), is a modest undertaking, offering glimpses of the architect and his work rather than a full-scale portrait or catalogue raisonne."
Read the full story: In 'Sketches of Frank Gehry,' a Design for Living Large
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