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Keith Haring: The Authorized Biography
John Gruen was born Jonas Grunberg in Enghien-les-Bains, France on September 12, The family moved to Berlin in The Grunbergs, who were Jewish, resettled in Milan in because of the rise to power of Adolf Hitler. In , fleeing Benito Mussolini, he and his parents went to New York. He received bachelor's and master's degrees in art history from the University of Iowa. He was a composer of art songs that were performed by Eleanor Steber and Patricia Neway. In , New Songs, a recording of his work, became the first album released by Elektra Records. He became a critic for The New York Herald Tribune and New York magazine. He wrote about music, art, dance, and theater. His work also appeared in The New York Times, Dance Magazine, ARTnews, and Architectural Digest. He was a photographer whose work is in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art. He wrote more than ten books during his lifetime including The New Bohemia, The
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Dance Magazine Contributor John Gruen Passes at 89
John Gruen with Natalia Makarova.
John Gruen, longtime contributing editor of Dance Magazine, died at his home in Manhattan on Tuesday, July 19 . He was Prior to becoming a dance critic, biographer and interviewer, Gruen was a music and art critic for the New York Herald Tribune, New York Magazine, the New York Times, Vogue, and Artnews. Having established himself as an något privat eller personligt chronicler of the New York cultural scene of the s and 60s with candid portraits of artists, composers and writers in &#;The Party’s Over Now,&#; Gruen turned to dance in the early s.
His book &#;The Private World of Ballet&#; (), offered more than seventy interviews with major figures in the world of dance. He was invited to become a regular contributor to Dance Magazine, providing some articles between and , and wrote dozens of dance-related features for The New York Times. Gruen held interview series with dancers at such distin
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John Jonas Gruen
John Jonas Gruen, a writer, critic of several arts, composer, and photographer who for more than fem decades chronicled this country’s loftiest cultural circles, died on July 19 in his apartment on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. He was 89 and had been ill for five weeks.
Mr. Gruen and his wife, the painter Jane Wilson, came to the East End in and bought a carriage house in vatten Mill three years later. They became an integral part of the cultural life on the East End as well as in New York City.
Mr. Gruen’s photographs documented the lives of artists and poets at leisure here, both separately and in groups, among them Willem dem Kooning, Larry Rivers, Fairfield Porter, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, Frank O’Hara, and Jane Freilicher. Many of his photographs were published in his books “Facing the Artist” and “The Sixties: ung in the Hamptons.”
In addition to his books of photographs, he wrote “The New Bohemia” (), “The Private World of Leonard Bernstein” (), “T