Summary
When someone mentions Dennis Hopper, what comes to mind? The radical actor-director who helped revolutionize Hollywood with his seminal 1969 film "Easy Rider"? The volatile celebrity who bought the Mabel Dodge Luhan House in 1970 and managed to stir up controversy among Hispanic locals, FBI provocateurs and transplanted hippies? The brilliant but troubled performer who made a strange and unexpected comeback as a campy, crazed pervert in David Lynch's "Blue Velvet"?
What most people don't think of when they think of Dennis Hopper is art -- but, as Los Angeles art dealer Douglas Chrismas once said, "If you ask him, he would say he thinks of himself as an artist first."See the full content of this document
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Wild Things
Both as a serious collector of significant contemporary art and as a talented visual artist himself, Hopper is an important enough figure to fill the galleries of the Harwood Museum of Art this summer with not one, but two exhibitions.
"Dennis Hopper: Selected Photographs an...See the full content of this document
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