Ian McKellen in Conversation with Jerry Saltz

​4 PM — Ian McKellen in Conversation with Jerry Saltz

​This is the first talk of the evening at WSA, presented as part of Canvas on the Silver Screen: A Live Conversation Program, inspired by the forthcoming film The Christophers, directed by Steven Soderbergh and written by Ed Solomon.

​Pulitzer Prize-winning New York Magazine art critic Jerry Saltz interviews Ian McKellen about the life and career of artists and the nature of late-career work and style, acting as a form of portraiture, and the provocative appeal of art-world reality shows. (Note: Jerry starred on Bravo’s “Work of Art: The Next Great Artist” for two seasons.)

​A rare opportunity to hear two singular voices consider what it means to sustain a creative life.

​About The Christophers
A mainstay of the London art scene since his starry breakout in the creative explosion of the 1960’s, Julian Sklar (Ian McKellen) has drifted into a cluttered, self-imposed seclusion. His two estranged children (James Corden, Jessica Gunning) enlist Lori (Michaela Coel), a young painter and sometime-forger, to pose as a prospective assistant and gain access to a fabled series of unfinished canvases Julian has buried deep in his home studio, in a deceptive bid to secure an inheritance for themselves.