A Curatorial Project by Janet LevyWritten & Directed by Artist, Nicole Cohen Live Video PerformanceFriday, March 11, 2011, 7-10 pmMondrian8440 Sunset BoulevardWest Hollywood, CA 90069Video installation from the projectOn view, March 11- May 31, 2011Mondrian Los Angeles presents 'The Mythology of Interiors', a curatorial project produced and curated by Janet Levy, Independent Curator and Gallery Owner/Director of See Line Gallery in Los Angeles.The Mythology of Interiors" is an original live video performance of short acts, written and directed by New York and Berlin based Artist, Nicole Cohen. The opening performance will take place on March 11, 2011, from 7-10pm. After the performance launch, a video installation will be exhibited at Mondrian Los Angeles from March 11- May 31, 2011. The video installation will be produced and fabricated from the site-specific live performance that was made at the boutique hotel in Los Angeles. The audience arrives, receives a program, will sit on pillows and watch the performances in the hotel setting. "The Mythology of Interiors" is a performance about interior design spaces, using the bodies of art world actors/ performers as screens. Video will be projected onto their white clothing and will follow their movements. All thirteen of the special guest performers represent the international art world. The performers are artists, curators, actors and museum professionals acting on a small outdoor white stage with white theater curtains at SKYBAR at Mondrian.The short acts were written to describe historical interior spaces as they also are inspired and relate to mythology. There will be a detailed program, which will be online shortly for more specific information about the script. The short acts include The Pomegranate Seeds, The Golden Fleece, The Seduction of Lo, Atlas, Mount Olympus, and The Underworld. These scenes all describe interior design in relation to mythology. The myths will be acted out and an emphasis will be placed on the space and the interior design where they are and how they relate to the environment. In all acts, there will be humor and a twist of a myth about how historical spaces can relate to contemporary design and space.This project is a site-specific performance made for Mondrian Los Angeles. Based on SKYBAR and the Mondrian being well known for their exquisite interiors, this project was formed and created to reference both the sky (mythology) and the interiors. The short plays show an energetic and lighthearted way of physically expressing design, space and mythological references, made with a contemporary twist. The outdoor entertainment will create an evening of intelligent writing and connections with how the body and new digital media can be used to describe interior design. For additional information, please contact, Curator Janet Levy, janet@seelinegallery.com.

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Janet Levy is a curator and gallery founder/director born in Los Angeles, CA. She presented her first curatorial project in Luzern, Switzerland in 1990 and brings years of curatorial, gallery and marketing experience to her success in producing and promoting significant projects by prominent contemporary artists. Levy has demonstrated an extraordinarily intuitive ability for selecting talented visual artists and, in 2006, she founded See Line Gallery, an exhibition space dedicated to supporting the work of these exceptional contemporary artists. Nicole Cohen, (b. 1970) in Falmouth, Massachusetts on Cape Cod, lives and works in New York and in Berlin, Germany. She received her BA from Hampshire College in Amherst, Massachusetts and her MFA from the University of Southern California in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited at the Williams College Museum of Art (Williamstown, MA), the Fabric Workshop and Museum (Philadelphia, PA), the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and at different venues in Berlin, Germany; Bergen, Norway; Paris, France; Shanghai, China and Harajaku, Osaka, Kobe, and Tokyo, Japan. From 2007-2009 she had a commissioned video solo exhibition at The J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles, California. In January 2011, she had her third solo museum exhibition called< 'Driving in Circles' at the American University Museum Katzen Arts Center in Washington, D.C.Morgans Hotel Group Co. (NASDAQ: MHGC) is widely credited as the creator of the first 'boutique' hotel and is a continuing leader of the hotel industry's boutique sector. Morgans Hotel Group operates and owns, or has an ownership interest in, Morgans, Royalton and Hudson in New York, Delano and Shore Club in South Beach, Mondrian in Los Angeles and South Beach, Clift in San Francisco, Ames in Boston, and Sanderson and St Martins Lane in London. Morgans Hotel Group and an equity partner also own the Hard Rock Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas and related assets. Morgans Hotel Group also manages hotels in Isla Verde, Puerto Rico and Playa del Carmen, Mexico. Morgans Hotel Group has other property transactions in various stages of completion, including projects in SoHo, New York and Palm Springs, California. For more information please visit www.morganshotelgroup.com.