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New art documentary by LAArtTV. part one, part two being filmed, interviewing L.A. writers. Find success.

At the literary celebration the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books there was about hundred and sixty thousand people, writers, readers, modern polymath crowd. “The moment the catalyst we’ve always hoped to meet suddenly appears on the scene.”

LaArtTV, Story-driven interview asked writers this question. A discouraged writer—seven years deep, twenty rejections—wanders the festival.

An artist-painter approaches, placing in my hand a bottle of mysterious, magical ink—enough for only 118 pages. I must write only after midnight, while he paints me at the same hour. When I reach page 118 of this roman à clef story he reaches the 118th stroke of my portrait. This could be the “Recipe Dream,” for a bestseller. The painting, with its one-of-a-kind creative story, was auctioned in Paris at Christie’s for one hundred twenty-eight thousand dollars. “I wonder how many romantic strokes live within those 118 after-midnight pages of the painting.” If it stands as the ultimate social currency of art, you take it to auction—not a dealer. Joanna Gronward, writer.

“A similar painting later appeared at Christie’s, echoing the roman à clef story that surrounded it.”

The fact is that some mega bestsellers are 140 pages or less: The Little Prince, The Metamorphosis, Animal Farm. What role does the amygdala—linked to emotional salience—play in how a book “impinges” on the human brain and potentially becomes a bestseller? Not plot. Not length. Not even writing quality at first contact. Each page of a story creates impact through its core premise—the thing someone can say in one sentence and another person immediately gets and wants. A concept simple enough to spread, but deep enough to promise meaning. Joan Strausman PhD, for laarttv.

In 2025, major European and American publishers encountered a “bidding war over a hot manuscript” for the rights to the new literary star, 20-year-old Swiss writer Nelio Biedermann’s novel Lazar, compared to Thomas Mann’s family epic Buddenbrooks. Circana/Nielsen.

In this charged aura every writer longs to feel, what will be the subject of the one book everyone wants to read? LaArtTV©

Caught in the still life, “the celebrity art crowd.” Hanz Shula AP

World-renowned artists grace the walls of Sprüth Magers Los Angeles. As a visitor, you enter an art encounter your senses instantly devour — the kind of cultural date that stays with you long after the night ends. Two luminous halls frame the spectacle with cinematic light. An unexpected highlight arrives with LaArtTV, offering guests the chance to speak about the art itself.

You, the people’s critic, discover a moment dissolving any fear of public speaking. Your cell phone slips into silence inside your Gucci bag — the signal: do not disturb this magnetic art experience.

Artist participating:

Kenneth Anger, Richard Artschwager, John Baldessari, Bernd & Hilla Becher, Gretchen Bender, Cao Fei, George Condo, Hanne Darbove, Thomas Demand, Phillip-Lorca diCorcia, Thea Djordjadze, Lucy Dodd, Petter Fischli David Weiss, Sylvie Fleury, Cyprien Gaillard, Gilbert & George, Andreas Gursky, Nancy Holt, Jenny Holzer, Gary Hume, Anne Imhof, Robert Irvin, Arthur Jafa, Craig Kauffman, Karen Kilimnik, Joseph Kosuth, Barbara Kruger, David Lamelas, Louise Lawler, Mire Lee, Anthony McCall, Robert Morris, Reinhard Mucha, Senga Nengudi, David Ostrowski, Otto Piene, Michail Pirgelis, Gala Porras-Kim, Stephen Prina, Jon Rafman, Bridget Riley, Pamela Rosenkranz, Sterling Ruby, Ed Ruscha, Analia Saban, David Salle, Thomas Scheibitz, Andreas Schulze, Cindy Sherman, Stephen Shore, Martine Syms, Ryan Trecartin, Rosemarie Tockel, Nora Turato, Kaari Upson, Kara Walker, John Waters, Andro Wekua, and Andrea Zittel.

The tone is literary, simple, and direct, like something important is unfolding in real time. You are in the Louvre, walking through one of the world’s great museums in Paris. You stop in front of Aphrodite—Venus de Milo. It feels as if the statue steps out of stone into life. The idea that perfect art can awaken into flesh becomes real. She invites you to walk with her through Paris, toward Aubade l’Art d’Aimer in the Marais District to shop for lingerie.

Later that evening, you meet your lover, a well-known playwright and artist—a feminist male protagonist who travels from Prague to read from his novel, Will You Take It? at Messy Nessy’s Cabinet Literary Salon, 19 Rue de Bièvre, 75005 Paris, France. There, he unveils your portrait and reads a poem dedicated to you, as if the city, the art, and your image are part of the same living story. You experience tears of joy, a new life journey begins. Will you take it? © by Joanna Strohl for laarttv. 2026, (AEJ. France.)

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