The Cool School - Poster

The Cool School is a documentary all about the art scene in Los Angeles in the '50s and '60s. It focuses on L.A.'s Ferus Gallery and the artists it helped cultivate.

Operating out of a small storefront, the gallery hosted debut exhibitions and served as a general launching point for Ed Kienholz, Ed Ruscha, Craig Kauffman, Wallace Berman, Ed Moses and Robert Irwin, among many other artists. By the time it closed in 1966, the gallery had also played a role in solidifying the careers of many of New York’s brightest talents, including Roy Lichtenstein, Andy Warhol, Donald Judd, Frank Stella, Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns.

Jeff Bridges narrates, and Dennis Hopper and Dean Stockwell provide some amusing commentary. It just came out on DVD.

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