The Dream Colony: A Life in Art

$21.99 at de Young Museum.

“An intimate tour through fifty years of American art history” (The New Yorker) as seen by the visionary curator who helped shape those years—with an introduction by legendary artist Ed Ruscha. An innovative, iconoclastic curator of contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded his first gallery at the age of twenty-one. At twenty-four, he opened the Ferus Gallery with then-unknown artist Edward Kienholz. Ferus turned the spotlight on a new generation of West Coast artists, premiered Andy Warhol’s Campbell’s Soup…