TheNakedEmperor.com is a Truth.Art. movement.
Truth.Art. is a grassroots effort to bring individual, understandable stories to the public. The focus is on corporate kleptocrats and their enablers. These people have names. They have faces. They have taken actions for which they – as individuals – are accountable.
Our objective is to inform about the transgressions of those high up in various industries and their allies, and to demonstrate that their treatment is contrary to basic American values of democracy, justice, and patriotism. There is nothing wrong with capitalism and everything wrong with corruption.
If this truth is not spoken by artists it appears that it will not be spoken at all.
We begin with the ‘leaked’ video notes from “The Autobiography of Oli Garch”. As we develop more content we will expand our focus to cover health and wellness, the environment, and defense.
These pieces are intended for the internet and their purpose to is to raise awareness and drive discussion. The timing is important because, once again, the election threatens to be about peripheral issues rather than an honest dialogue about the large strategic issues we, the people, face.
Art can bring that Truth to the conversation through TheNakedEmperor.com.
John Sullivan +
Mr. John Sullivan is an internationally award winning filmmaker. His company, Naked Emperor Productions Inc., has worked with clients that include ABC News, Eastman Kodak, Telepiu – Canalplus, SkyTV, and The Garth Group. Mr. Sullivan’s first film, The Buddha Hood, won Best Short at the 1999 Foyle Film Festival in Derry, Northern Ireland (an Academy Qualifying Festival). His second film, Farang Ba (Crazy White Foreigner), won the 2003 Banff Rockie Award for Best Documentary in Sport and is now available on Netflix.
Mr. Sullivan graduated from St. Albans School in Washington, D.C. and Hamilton College. He is exceptionally proud of his grandfather, former Secretary of the Navy John L. Sullivan, who resigned in protest over policy in an interservice conflict that has come to be known as the Revolt of the Admirals.
Richard Bryers +
Mr. Richard Bryers is a political and media consultant based in New York City. Until 2009, he was a partner in the Garth Group which was dissolved upon the retirement of the legendary David Garth, a fiercely independent political consultant who amassed an astonishing .638 winning percentage in his forty-five years in the business. Mr. Bryers was involved a number of notable campaigns while with the Garth Group, including those of New York City Mayors Rudy Giuliani and Mike Bloomberg, New York Governor Mario Cuomo, San Juan Mayor and then Puerto Rican Governor Sila Calderon, as well as other statewide races and referendums in Pennsylvania, New York, Puerto Rico, Bermuda and Venezuela.
Prior to joining the Garth Group, Mr. Bryers worked a decade in Washington in a variety of positions for the late Senator John Heinz of Pennsylvania. He was serving as Legislative Director when the popular Senator was tragically killed in a mid-air collision in 1991.
Tere Iturralde +
Ms. Tere Iturralde specializes in Contemporary and Modern Art from Latin America and is the co-founder and director of the Iturralde Gallery. Ms. Iturralde has curated over 100 exhibitions and was instrumental in launching and promoting, within the U.S., the work of several prominent artists including Oscar Muñoz from Colombia, Marcos Ramirez Erre from Mexico, as well as Tania Bruguera and Los Carpinteros from Cuba.
Over the years Ms. Iturralde has advised and worked with museum curators throughout the U.S., Latin America and Europe, including among many others, LACMA, MOCA, the Museum of Latin American Art, MARCO, the Tamayo Museum in Mexico, and the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid.
Ms. Iturralde was born in Mexico City and received her B.A. in Art with a minor in French at the University of San Diego. She is currently the personal advisor to a Los Angeles based private collection focusing on Modern Latin American Art.
