From May 4 through May 21, Chicago’s Gene Siskel Film Center will present “The Mighty Quinn: A Tribute to Anthony Quinn,” a six-film series. Click the link above for more information and tickets.
We hope you will join us on May 3rd and 4th for what promises to be a spectacular event, as we introduce the Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarship Program to Chicago. For full event details, click here. To purchase tickets, click here.
For the second year in a row, Katherine Quinn and the Anthony Quinn Foundation hosted guests and sponsors of the New England Festival of Ibero-American Cinema (NEFIAC 2011) at the Quinn residence in Bristol, RI. Guests were provided the opportunity to learn about and rediscover the life and extraordinary art of Anthony Quinn. Katherine Quinn also shared with attendees the details of the work the Anthony Quinn Foundation does in regards to the development of and support for the youth and the arts.
The Anthony Quinn Foundation welcomed Bill & Camille Cosby to Bristol, Rhode Island. Few entertainers have achieved the legendary status of Dr. William H. Cosby, Jr. His successes span five decades and virtually all media. Dr. Cosby and Anthony Quinn were lifelong friends and strong supporters of the arts. This exclusive reception with the Cosbys at the private Quinn residence raised over $15,000 to benefit the Anthony Quinn Foundation Scholarship Program. Media, please click here. For event photos, please click here.
The representational motifs central to Quinn’s creative verb without question have a pathos with the modernist traditions of the 20th century. The exhibition has culled together a number of significant two and three dimensional pieces that have not been widely viewed by the public. These seamlessly assembled works will also serve as an opportunity for the ongoing formal aesthetic and scholarly examination of the visceral yet exacting craftsmanship founded in his compositions. This material could be said to be inspired by Quinn’s fascination with the desert but the real focus is an artist compelled to find his voice while searching for nuance in an economy of gestural exploration that being the palette for a new art.
James Montford, Curator/Director, Bannister Gallery
Katherine Quinn attends fundraiser in Abu Dhabi, UAE to benefit the Abu Dhabi Music and Arts Foundation, hosted by H.E. Mrs. Hoda Al Khamis Kanoo, founder of ADMAF.
A major Tribute took place at the Grand Lyon Film Festival in Lyon, France from October 5-10. Curated by Thierry Frémaux, Director of Cannes Film Festival & Institut Lumiere. The Tribute included a screening of the restored film Zorba the Greek. In attendance was Katherine Quinn, President of Anthony Quinn Foundation, Benjamin Bergenholtz, Executive Director of Anthony Quinn Foundation, Foundation Board Members Erich G. Rhynhart and Sandra van den Broek, and Foundation friends from Europe and America.
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Institut Lumiere payed tribute to creative force Anthony Quinn (1915-2001) through the construction of a special exhibition space to showcase photographs of the actor on set in Crete while filming Zorba the Greek in 1964. The photographs were taken by Sam Shaw (1912-1999) who shot the biggest stars in Hollywood (Audrey Hepburn, Humphrey Bogart, Elizabeth Taylor, and Marilyn Monroe). The stolen moments on the set show Quinn at work, posing, or between takes. In both color and black and white and often photographed closely, one discovers Quinn’s face carved in moments of relaxation or concentration, where the party life mingles with the film.
The exhibition of rare photographs released both the mood of the film and that of the actor and was organized by the Shaw Family Archives.
LYON, France – A sculpture by the late actor Anthony Quinn has been unveiled at INTERPOL’s General Secretariat headquarters in Lyon. The bronze work of art, entitled ‘Mercedes Woman’ and created by the Mexican-American actor in 1991, has been lent to the world police body by the Anthony Quinn Foundation.
Paying tribute to Anthony Quinn at the unveiling of the sculpture, Secretary General Ronald K. Noble said that the work of art was ‘both inspiring and fitting to the work of INTERPOL’ in its message of universality and unbounded versatility, paying no heed to linguistic, cultural, or religious differences.
The President of the Anthony Quinn Foundation, Katherine Quinn, said she was ‘proud to have the sculpture in such a global environment’ since her late husband had been ‘a global citizen’, as she outlined the role of the arts, education and creative thinking in bringing cultures together. In attendance was Benjamin Bergenholtz, Executive Director of Anthony Quinn Foundation, Foundation Board Members Erich G. Rhynhart and Sandra van den Broek, and Foundation friends.
‘Mercedes Woman’ was stolen in December 2006 but recovered by Rhode Island police within a fortnight.
The reception took place at the private Quinn residence with a sit down dinner for 60 of ABANA’s members and friends to learn about Anthony Quinn Foundation’s Scholarship Program, mission, and goals. ABANA is a not-for-profit professional association with members from the financial services industry in the Arab world and North America. Through its programs, website and publications, ABANA fosters improved relations, information-sharing and understanding between the Arab and American public and private financial sectors.
A photography exhibition opens at Museo
Nazionale del Cinema, Turin, Italy.
