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When Reality Was a Joke: Making Albert Brooks' Real Life - BLARB
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Looking at Cindy Sherman
Looking at Cindy Sherman View Original Article -
Buzzed About Art Fair in Santa Monica Shines Light on Cheech Marin's Collection
This week's Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art fair in Santa Monica, (Jan..25-28 at Barker Hanger) is no joke. And neither is Cheech Marin's collection of Chicano Art.Art Los Angeles Contemporary (ALAC) launches this Thursday, January 25 and runs through Sunday January 28 at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica. This is the ninth year of ALAC which has only grown in buzz, excitement, attendees and dealers. ALAC has a number of unique features: Of the more than 50 galleries exhibiting, half… -
Astana Days: Kazakhstan's Excellent Financial Adventure
During the first week of July, Astana, the capital of Kazakhstan, celebrated its 20th Anniversary and officially launched the Astana International Financial Center (AIFC), a bold plan to make this city of 1 Million people in a landlocked country of some 18 million citizens, the financial hub of Central Asia and a destination for European, Arab, and Asian investment. And here's the thing... they just might succeed View Original Article -
When a "City Without Jews" Was a Comedy
Wilshire Boulevard Temple will host a special screening of the Los Angeles premiere of "The City Without Jews," a long-lost, recently restored 1924 Austrian silent film, featuring live accompaniment on the temple's magnificent, 4,102-pipe Korn Kimball organ.This film could not be more timely (alas). The increase of anti-Semitic incidents in England, France, Hungary and Poland has prompted many Jews to consider emigrating from those countries. And this November will mark the 80th anniversary ... View Original Article -
Using the Blues to Bridge Across the Great Americana Divide
One of the things I most enjoy about benefit concerts (beyond the whole save-the-world ethos), and music award shows (beyond the awards themselves) is seeing a wide spectrum of artists, each doing 3-5 songs. It's sort the musical equivalent of a smorgasbord â enough to hear a favorite artist or song and discover someone worth exploring more and short enough to move from those who hold no appeal .Which is why I so enjoyed "Across the Great Divide," a recent… -
Hollywood Makes History: Preview of Next Year's New Academy Museum of Motion Pictures
A year from now, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences, known more popularly as the people who brings us The Oscars, hope to open their long-gestating Academy Museum of Motion Picture.At a luncheon given by the Academy recently, Academy and Museum board members. executives and officials Ron Meyer, Dawn Hudson and Kerry Brougher offered a preview of their plans for the contents of the 300,000 square foot Renzo Piano designed Museum at the corner of Fairfax and Wilshire… -
Springsteen On Netflix Showcases The Man Who Made The Music
Last night I watched "Springsteen on Broadway" on Netflix. I had wanted to see the show during its run, but I couldn"t quite bring myself to pay the $800-$1000 a ticket cost on the open market.It's a good show. It's 2 ý hours long and is compelling throughout. Springsteen performs his well-known songs in new ways with context supplied. He is humble at moments but boastful at other times, appropriately given his very real achievements. The Netflix show does not… -
Rudi Gernreich: Fashion-Made For These Times
Rudi Gernreich has arrived at the Skirball in a new exhibition, "Fearless Fashion: Rudi Gernreich" as a Culture-shaking creator, activist and a human being whose time has come â some 30 years after his death (the exhibition runs until September 1, 2019 ).Gernreich is best known as a celebrated LA based fashion designer â world famous for his "mono-kini" (a topless bathing suit for women), his 60s knits and unisex fashions.In truth, at the time of Gernreich's death in 1985,… -
Myself and Maisel, a Documentary
"Jay Myself," is a reverential documentary portrait of photographer Jay Maisel by noted photographer Stephen Wilkes, Maisel's one-time apprentice. The framing device for the story is Maisel's having to vacate the New York City building at 190 Bowery where he"d lived and worked for the last 48 years.What makes this "moving day" film all the more remarkable is that Maisel owned and occupied the entire six-story former bank building â all 72 rooms of the 1898 Germania Bank Building. Over… -
Behind The Scenes Of The Beyond Music Project
"Same Sky: Beyond Music Volume 1," is a wonderful collection of inspiring new music, the product of a collaboration between artists from all over the world, all produced by the project's artistic director, Los Angeles native, Grammy-award-winning producer and legendary musician in his own right, Larry Klein.First things first: To explain how the Beyond Music Project came about, we have to begin with its patrons, Beati and Regula Curti, a Swiss couple who believe passionately that music can b... View… -
Sometimes The King Is A Woman: The Paintings Of Amy Sherald
Amy Sherald's show at Hauser & Wirth in New Yorkwhich I regret to say will close October 26th, is a joy to behold and a revelation. Go see it, if you still can!Sherald is perhaps best known for her portrait of Michele Obama which can be seen at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. In that portrait, Sherald invests an authority and a greatness that becomes Obama. So much so that Parker Curry, an African-American toddler, gazing up at the…