Photographer’s work instantly recognizable
Many in the audience at Tuesday’s Town Hall Lecture Series didn’t know the speaker, but they sure knew his work. “Who is this guy?” they whispered before photographer Platon (just one name) bounded onto the Van Wezel stage, a mix of sharp (trim gray suit) and casual (tan suede slip-ons) armed with a remote to […]
President Bush visits Sarasota for lecture series
SARASOTA, Fla. – Former President George W. Bush is on the Suncoast Tuesday, in town for a speaking engagement. The nation’s 43rd president is speaking twice at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall as part of the Ringling Town Hall Lecture Series. Both events are sold out. Read more…
Former President George W. Bush Opens 2014 Ringling Town Hall Lecture Series
Former President George W. Bush opened the Ringling College Library Association’s Town Hall lecture series Tuesday with two sold-out talks before enthusiastic audiences at the 1,731-seat Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall in Sarasota. Security was heavy. Lecture-goers had to pass through screening machines and pocketbooks were inspected; stage signs admonished no photography, videotaping or note-taking; and media […]
Bush revisits Sarasota, and memory of dark day
By Jeremy Wallace, Herald-Tribune / Tuesday, January 14, 2014 Former President George W. Bush returned to Sarasota on Tuesday for his first public appearances here in more than seven years, and for just the second time since the area became a backdrop for one of the darkest days in American history. In a morning speech, […]
Ringling student presents portrait to Bush
Herald-Tribune By Susan L. Rife Published: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 4:43 p.m. Last Modified: Tuesday, January 14, 2014 at 4:43 p.m. SARASOTA – Morgan Davidson was sitting backstage at the Van Wezel Performing Arts Hall Tuesday morning, nervously awaiting the presentation of her portrait of George W. Bush, when she felt a hand on […]
Jenna Bush Hager is Monday’s RCLA Platinum Dinner speaker
Guests at Monday night’s Ringling College Library Association Platinum Dinner might expect the daughter of a former president to talk politics. But Jenna Bush Hager instead is likely to focus on her passions, which are literature and literacy. Hager, one of the twin daughters of George W. and Laura Bush, has spent the years since […]
VIDEO — DARU/Public Art — NYU Langone Medical Center Ambulatory Care Center
The NYU Langone Medical Center Art Commission 2013 Daru – NYU Langone Medical Center Installation from Daru on Vimeo.
DARU’S NEW PUBLIC ART COMMISSIONS UNVEILED AT NYU LANGONE MEDICAL CENTER
Latest High-Profile Works from Korean-Born Artist NEW YORK, NY – For New York based artist Daru (Jung Hyang Kim) two new public art commissions for NYU Langone Medical Center (NYU Langone) illuminate the healing connections between nature and culture. Her latest contemporary masterpiece, “Floating Bubbles and Whimsical Rays,” is a 12-by 20-foot glass artwork that […]
DAYTIME – Singer/Songwriter Margo Rey & Comedian Ron White
Watch the Margo Rey and Ron White DAYTIME Segment aired on 10.31.2013.
Ron White on love, marriage and helping Sarasota charity: interview
SARASOTA HERALD TRIBUNE Three days after marrying singer Margo Rey, Ron White sounds downright euphoric and madly in love and, yes, still capable of talking dirty right in front of her. Really, how else would they get along if she didn’t adore his famously filthy mouth? See, the way Ron tells it, he met Margo […]
