The Thomas Crown Affair
Apr 21, 2014
(Norman Jewison, United States, 1968, 35mm, 102 min)
Hosted by Mark Mitchell and Chiyo Ishikawa!
This steamy heist starring Faye Dunaway and Steve McQueen gets a custom makeover, as designer/artist Mark Mitchell and SAM curator Chiyo Ishikawa bring us a whole new way to watch the ultimate chess game between a millionaire sportsman and a saucy insurance investigator: by delighting in the fashion, style and design on display in this 1968 classic.
ABOUT YOUR HOSTS
Through his work with the burlesque dancer known as Swedish Housewife and the art/rock band the Ononos and other similarly theatrically garbed performers, Seattle has known Mark Mitchell as a costumer and custom designer. But this year they met the true artist. His show Burial, at the Frye Art Museum, required him to imagine complex and thoughtful death ensembles for nine muses and then render them in biodegradable materials in shades of rich white and cream. The Seattle art community responded with such support and praise that the fashion-meets-function-meets-sculpture exhibit is being readied for transport to other cities—and perhaps continents. Mark is the subject of a short feature that recently won "Best Interview" at Hot Docs in Toronto.
Chiyo Ishikawa helped bring revelatory exhibits to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston before moving to Seattle in 1990 to take an assistant curator position with the Seattle Art Museum. Now SAM's deputy director for art and curator of European painting and sculpture, Chiyo played a key role in bringing the Picasso show to town in 2010 and directly imprints the museum's calendar with her scholarship of international art history. Her 2004 book, The Retablo of Isabel la Catolica by Juan de Flandes and Michael Sittow was awarded the Eleanor Tufts Award from the American Society of Hispanic Art Historical Studies and was given the acknowledgement of The Order of Isabel la Católica by His Majesty King Juan Carlos of Spain.