Forman was originally identified with the so - called Czech New Wave, a group of directors
whose lively and honest films came to
international prominence in the mid-1960s.
Walter Hopps, an art dealer and museum curator who was instrumental in bringing the first generation of postwar Los Angeles artists to
international prominence and
whose 1963 retrospective of Dada artist Marcel Duchamp ranks as a seminal event in modern museum history, died Sunday in Los Angeles after a brief hospitalization.