By Eric Yarber At 11 a.m. on January 11, more than 420 people assembled on the green not far from the Sponto Gallery to collectively remember the man who made everything happen […]
24 Years of a Venice Institution End with Death of Mark Sponto
Three articles by Suzy Williams, Leland Auslander and Carol Fondiller
Sponto is gone
By Suzy Williams On December 28, our beloved Mark “Sponto” Kornfeld, died in the gallery that he had created – Sponto’s – at 7 Dudley Avenue. This had been a space in […]
Remembering Sponto
By Leland Auslender Mark Kornfeld, who answered equally to “Sponto,” the name of his art gallery, was always the happy host at his art openings during the many years he operated the […]
My Friend Sponto
By Carol Fondiller Two people who have left their imprint on the Venice “Art Scene” have died. Both within the same week. One got the full funeral treatment of a prominent art […]
Windward Avenue Resident and Sculptor Robert Graham
By Jim Smith Sculptor Robert Graham died Dec. 27 from undisclosed causes. He was 70 years old and had been ill for about six months. Graham lived with his wife, Anjelica Huston, […]
Terrence Leon Sullivan, RIP
Terrance Sullivan passed on very suddenly in August, in Venice, a town he embraced with enthusiasm and with a critical eye and tongue. He was a husband, father of four, a seeker […]
August 2008 – Melvyn Hayward, Senior: Jan. 16, 1949 – June 29, 2008
Melvyn Hayward was a role model and a powerful force for good in the Oakwood community for more than 30 years. He worked with the Venice Drug Coalition, Didi Hirsch Mental Health, […]
July 2008 – George Carlin, renown comedian and Venice canal resident, dies
By Jack Neworth I’m not sure if it’s prophetic, or eerie, perhaps neither that in the late George Carlin’s most recent HBO special (“It’s Bad For Ya”) he commented so much on […]
June 2008 – Folksinger U. Utah Phillips has Died
By Karl Abrams Bruce “U. Utah” Phillips, storyteller and tireless political folk musician for more than 40 years died in his sleep on May 23 at his home in Nevada City. Called […]
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