E. Warren Perry, Jr.

Warren Perry interviews baseball legends Tommy Lasorda and Steve Garvey

September 22, 2009 - Former Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda and former Dodgers first baseman Steve Garvey, along with other baseball greats and current Commissioner of Baseball Bud Selig, were on hand at the National Portrait Gallery Tuesday as Lasorda's portrait was officially entered into the museum's collection. The new portrait by Everett Raymond Kinstler is now on view in the New Arrivals gallery of the National Portrait Gallery in Washington, DC.

Image: Warren Perry (right) with Steve Garvey (left) at NPG on September 22. Photo by Ben Bloom.
 

 

Go to the NPG blog at http://face2face.si.edu/my_weblog/2009/09/tommy-lasorda-joins-the-collection-of-the-national-portrait-gallery-.html to read more about the event.

 

To see the dedication ceremony and Warren's interviews with Tommy Lasorda and former LA Dodgers player Tom Paciorek, see the video link below:

If you are having difficulty viewing the video, click here to go to the YouTube link.

Video of Warren Perry reading from Swift to My Wounded at the National Portrait Gallery

September 4, 2009 - Ben Bloom of the National Portrait Gallery just completed and posted the following video of Warren Perry reading from his recently published play, Swift to My Wounded: Walt Whitman and the Civil War. The reading took place in the galleries of the NPG.

If you are having difficulty viewing this clip, click here to go to the Youtube link:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=35k-ZweitEY

August 30 feature article on Warren Perry in Memphis' The Commercial Appeal

Sunday, August 30, 2009 - Memphis' daily newspaper The Commercial Appeal featured a lengthy article on Warren Perry, who was born and raised in Memphis, written by long-time CA arts writer Fredric Koeppel.  The article discusses Perry's recent play, Ekphrasis: Cave Walls to Soup Cans, currently running in Chicago, the recent publication of his play Swift to My Wounded: Walt Whitman and the Civl War, and his curatorial work on two upcoming exhibitions on Elvis Presley (Echoes of Elvis at the National Portrait Gallery, opening January 2010, and Elvis at 21, a Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service exhibition opening in December 2009 at the Grammy Museum in Los Angeles).

Click here to read the entire article:

Memphis Commercial Appeal - "Ex-Memphian Warren Perry embraces art, from lighthearted to heavy-handed" by Fredric Koeppel

Our thanks to Fredric Koeppel for the hard work on the article!