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Art In The Woods
Huntington Woods artist Claudia
Hershman loves to explore themes of
nature, architecture, housing and aerial
landscape in an abstract style, incorporat-
ing an expert use of color, geometric shape
and interesting composition. She studied
painting and ceramics at the University of
Michigan, then created and successfully
sold wearable art jewelry.
Her current style of artwork is called
monoprint, in which
a unique image is
created each time a
plate is painted and
pressed to paper.
"Claudia
Hershman:' an exhib-
it of her work, continues through Oct. 30
at the Woods Gallery (located on the lower
level of the Huntington Woods Library),
in Huntington Woods. (248) 581-2696 or
www.woodsgallery.org.
Fab Fashion
Organized by the Science Fiction
Museum and Hall of Fame in
Seattle, the exhibit "Out of This
World: Extraordinary Costumes
from Film and Television" fea-
tures more than 40 costumes and
related memorabilia from such
blockbuster films as The Wizard
of Oz, Star Wars, Blade Runner,
Terminator and Batman and
Claudia Hershman: Cityscape.
popular television pro-
grams such as Star Trek
and Battlestar Galactica.
It comes to Henry Ford
Museum in Dearborn
Oct. 11-Jan. 11.
"The costumes
displayed in this exhibit [like the gold
tunic and sash formerly worn by William
Shatner — Captain Kirk on Star Trek] are
just as much a part of our pop culture as
the movies in which they were featured:'
said Jeanine Head Miller, curator of
Domestic Life and Leisure. "The design-
ers of these wonderful pieces of clothing
combined color and style with the right
cultural cues and historical traditions and
created these memorable fashions with
which we will forever associate our favor-
ite characters!'
Henry Ford Museum is open seven days
a week 9:30 a.m. -5 p.m. Admission is $14
adults, $13 seniors and $10 youths; mem-
bers and children 4 and under are free.
(313) 982-6001 or wwwthehenryford.org .
Pressler Plays
The Cranbrook Music Guild presents
the Ying Quartet, formed in 1992 by the
Ying siblings of Chicago, 8 p.m. Tuesday,
Oct. 14, at Christ Church Cranbrook in
Bloomfield Hills.
German-born Israeli pianist Menahem
Pressler joins the quartet for the second
half of the program, which includes
Mendelssohn's Quartet in E-flat Major,
Bartok's Quartet No. 6 and Dvorak's
Quintet in A Major for piano and strings.
A founding member and the pianist
of the Beaux Arts Trio for all of its 51
years, Pressler is known as an outstand-
ing chamber and solo performer and as a
remarkable teacher; he currently is a pro-
fessor at Indiana University.
In 2007, he was appointed an honorary
fellow of the Jerusalem Academy of Music
and Dance.
An afterglow follows the concert. $30;
$20 students. (248) 644 6352 or www.
cranbrookmusicguild.org.
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Signature Works
Warhol's paintings, photographs, prints
and film will be on view at Cranbrook.
Suzanne Chessler
Special to the Jewish News
A
rt collector Richard Weisman,
based on the West Coast, came
up with a way to draw sports
fans into museums. He convinced his late
friend, pop artist Andy Warhol, to com-
plete portraits of 10 famous athletes and
lends them out for display.
Those images — plus Warhol images
held by local collectors — will be shown
Oct. 19-Jan. 11 at the Cranbrook Art
Museum in Bloomfield Hills, where
Weisman will talk about his holdings dur-
ing a formal preview of the full exhibit,
"Grand Slam: Andy Warhol!"
"I felt that the two most popular leisure
activities were art and sports, and I thought
it might be nice to put the two together;' says
Weisman, who will be signing copies of his
book, Picasso to Pop: The Richard Weisman
Collection (Atelier Press; $58.95), at the pre-
view on Friday evening, Oct. 10.
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"Most of the people I know who really love
sports aren't big in the art world and vice
versa. Some people who go to see this series
have never set foot in a museum before,
but they look at the athletes and walk over
to other rooms. This expands the world of
people who are interested in art!"
The exhibit, showcasing 200 signature
works, includes paintings, photos, prints
and films brought together by curator
Gregory Wittkopp, museum director.
Almost each week, a new film by the artist
will be shown.
"The Athletes Series" includes portraits
of Muhammad Ali, Jack Nicklaus and Chris
Evert and is joined by another themed series,
"Ten Portraits of Jews of the Twentieth
Century:' screened prints on loan from
Robert and Lisa Katzman of Metamora.
"I'm not a Warhol collector, but I liked
the composition and colors in these
prints:' says Katzman, whose series
includes images of Freud, Einstein and the
Marx Brothers. "I added the prints to my
collection after getting a call from an art
dealer. I think it will be interesting to see
them among the other Warhol works."
A very different series of 10 screened
prints — "Electric Chairs" — has been
borrowed from the collection of Marc
Schwartz of Birmingham.
"I'm a big fan of Andy Warhol because
he made art very accessible to the public
and often depicted familiar objects:' says
Schwartz, who also owns two Warhol like-
nesses of a young Elizabeth Taylor.
"I've always been attracted to disaster
series, and I'm fascinated by the way he
took this gruesome mechanism and added
beautiful colors. To me, his approach to
the series expresses real conflict!'
Susan Sosnick of Birmingham has pro-
vided the most personal pieces held by
Jewish collectors enhancing the exhibit
— two renderings of herself. She and her
late husband, Robert Sosnick, met Warhol
in Paris, where the artist took photos of
her as the basis for the paintings com-
From Warhol's "Electric Chairs" series
pleted later.
"As Andy Warhol was photographing
me, my husband was photographing him
at work:' says Sosnick, who keeps the por-
traits in her bedroom and her husband's
snapshots in an album.
"Andy didn't talk a lot, but he told me not
to smile. I never get tired of seeing anyone
smile, but I had to go along with his style
and was glad I didn't look maudlin.
"I love the paintings because I think
they look very cool. I have bright red lips
and bright blue eye shadow!"
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"Grand Slam: Andy Warhol" will be
on view Oct.19-Jan.11 at Cranbrook
Art Museum in Bloomfield Hills. Info:
(877) 462-7262 or
cranbrookart.edu/museum.