Design and Architecture
Velvet Buzzsaw; USC’s architecture heist
"Velvet Buzzsaw” is a new thriller that takes on the contemporary art world with blood, gore and parody. DnA talks to writer/director Dan Gilroy as well as the real-life LA artist who made the paintings that kill.
By Frances Anderton • • 28m Listen"Velvet Buzzsaw” is a new thriller that takes on the contemporary art world with blood, gore and parody. DnA talks to writer/director Dan Gilroy as well as the real-life LA artist who made the paintings that kill. And in 2012 some furnishings designed by architects Frank Lloyd Wright and Rudolph Schindler disappeared from a warehouse at USC. Now the theft has come to light. What happened?
In this episode
2 storiesVelvet Buzzsaw slashes through LA’s art scene
Right in the midst of LA’s season of art fairs and festivals, along comes a film that takes a hatchet to LA’s art world.
Read the story19 minWright, Schindler furniture stolen in mystery USC heist
The appearance at auction of a tile from Frank Lloyd Wright’s Freeman House in the Hollywood Hills has exposed the theft of some valuable chairs and lamps by Rudolph Schindler and by Wright.
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