Gemini’s Grinsteins up close: A life of art, family and celebration
For the Los Angeles art scene — its masters, its patrons, its admirers, its dissenters, and even its casual followers — the passing of Stanley and Elyse Grinstein, co-founders of the artists’ workshop and publishing house Gemini G.E.L., marked the end of a pivotal era. Among the L.A. cultural world’s movers and shakers, its advocates and philanthropists whose generosity helped generate the thriving scene that exists today, the Grinsteins were among those at the nucleus.