The Last Salonnier
13 mins
In this documentary profile, Johnston invites the audience to step behind the "crushed velvet curtain" of Bruce Bailey’s life as an investment banker, lawyer, farmer and patron. The enthusiastic collector, who has worked with artists such as Marina Abramovic and Kent Monkman, is one of a few notable individuals who still host traditional art salons; a form of egalitarian lab for the breeding of ideas made popular in seventeenth-century France, where literary luminaries, artists and thinkers gathered to discuss philosophy, politics, art and other matters of the day.
Bruce Bailey
Himself
Evan Dell'Aquila
Executive Producer
Dustin Peters
Music
Lindsay Allikas
Editor
Travis Richel
Producer
Adam Beck
Director of Photography