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"The Maestro: King of the Cowboy Artists" features a portrait of local artist Gerald Gaxiola, who has adopted the persona of a flamboyant cowboy. Colorful and perpetually inventive, the Maestro experiments with virtually every possible form of art. His life, as one of his close friends testifies, “is his greatest canvas.”Preceded by "Gap-Toothed Women." This lively examination of the folklore surrounding gap-toothed women also takes a feminist look at the larger picture: the cultural relativity of female beauty and self-image. There are Geoffrey Chaucer’s Wife of Bath, whose amorous proclivities are attributed to the abyss between her ivories; American model and actress Lauren Hutton, who always thought she was a homely thing thanks to “The Gap”; and lucky African women for whom gap teeth are considered a sign of good fortune.
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Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film Archive, 2155 Center St,Berkeley,CA,United States
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