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Wagner, Tristan & Me
Recently, I spent three nights in a row at Disney Hall in Downtown LA listening to The Tristan Project, a Gustavo Dudamel conducted LA Phil concert performance of Richard Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, as directed by Peter Sellars with video accompaniment by artist Bill Viola, as well as participation by the LA Master Chorale. The Tristan Project was first performed at Disney Hall with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting in 2004, subsequent productions have taken place in New York at the Met… -
Did Figaro turn Marie Antoinette's head? Can LA Opera engage yours?
Last Saturday, I spent the day at the Getty Center at a one day study program hosted by The Getty in cooperation with LA Opera, "Luxury and Liberation: Art and Revolution in 18th Century France," just one of the events in LA Opera's multi-faceted city-wide "Figaro Unbound"celebration. This is the... View Original Article -
The Book on Billy Joel with Fred Schruers
Fred Schruers is the author of "Billy Joel: The Definitive Biography" (Crown Books). Fred has written for Rolling Stone, GQ, The Los Angeles Times and Entertainment Weekly among many others. I"ve been friends with Fred for a long time., Recently I did a Google Hangout with him to talk about... View Original Article -
Inside the Mind of Artist Miri Chais
'Re:Mind,' a multimedia installation at USC's Fisher Museum of Art, is the first solo show in the United States for Miri Chais, an Israeli-born artist who now lives in Los Angeles....... View Original Article -
Documenting disaster in order to save the planet
Nov 24, 2014 ... Tom Teicholz is a film producer in Los Angeles. Everywhere else, he's an author and journalist who has written for The New York Times ...... View Original Article -
My father, who was not a hero
Jun 14, 2007 ... He left his mark fighting in the Shoah, spearheading postwar relief efforts, aiding migration to Palestine - and on me. by Tom Teicholz. June 14Â ...... View Original Article -
Andy Warhol Goes Disco At Los Angeles' MOCA
Today Andy Warhol, who died in 1987, is considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century (if not "the" greatest). Auction prices for Warhol's work, often silk-screened images, tinted or painted, sell for record prices at auctions: Warhol's "Triple Elvis"(1963) sold at Christie's for close to $82 Million... View Original Article -
My Nazi Revenge
On the eve of what may be the last Nazi Trial, the son of Holocaust survivors recalls encounters with two accused war criminals. View Original Article -
The Enigmatic Art of Josef Koudelka
The Getty exhibition is the first retrospective of Koudelka's work in the United States and features many of the artist's own vintage prints, books, notebooks, maquettes and even rare vintage photos that Koudelka sold to flee to the West....... View Original Article -
Tony Curtis, movie star and philanthropist to Hungarian Jewish life, dies.
Tony Curtis died yesterday of cardiac arrest at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada where he had been living for... View Original Article -
'Beauty' Is Skin Deep
The Annenberg Space for Photography's 'Beauty Culture' left me feeling empty. It simply skims the surface of the issues by acknowledging them, while the very beauty of its images acts as a counterargument saying That's just the way it is. View Original Article -
The 'Arch Henchman'
Review of 'The Trial of Ivan the Terrible' by Tom Teicholz View Original Article