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Herb Alpert Foundation Donates $10.1 Million to Los Angeles City College
Herb Alpert Foundation Donates $10.1 Million to Los... View Original Article -
Why You Should See 'The BFG' this Weekend
Why You Should See 'The BFG' this Weekend View Original Article -
Remembering Debbie Reynolds
Remembering Debbie Reynolds View Original Article -
Inarritu Receives Special Oscar for 'Carne Y Arena'
Inarritu's VR project wins a special Oscar View Original Article -
Agnes Martin: Perfection
Agnes Martin: Perfection View Original Article -
See Alison Saar's 'Topsy Turvy' Art
Alison Saar's new paintings and sculptures at LA Louver in Venice, CA, (on view through May 12, 2018) speak of a strength derived from a bitter harvest.The exhibition is called "Topsy Turvy," and the figures reference Topsy, a character in Harriett Beecher Stowe's great abolitionist novel, "Uncle Tom's Cabin."Topsy, as described by Stowe, had wooly hair that was braided into little tails that went every which way. Topsy is labelled a bundle of energy, and a mischievous, bad child, who… -
A Russian Ballet Dreams of Isadora Duncan
The world premiere of a ballet, Isadora, inspired by the life of Isadora Duncan, choreographed by Vladmir Varnava with Royal Ballet Principal dancer Natalia Osipova in the lead role, as performed at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa.... View Original Article -
Art that Asks us to Change our Worldview or be Changed
The Skirball Museum in Los Angeles' exhibition 'Selections from Kehinde Wiley's The World Stage: Israel' called to mind a novel I'd just finished reading, Seth Greenland's The Hazards of Good Fortune. View Original Article -
Contacting The Artist in Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol is currently the subject of a much-praised career survey at the Whitney Museum in New York â which I look forward to seeing before the show closes next March. In the interim, for those of us on the West Coast with an interest in Warhol, there is a compelling show, "Contact Warhol: Photography Without End" at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University on view until January 6, 2019.In the more than 30 years since his untimely death… -
Will a Pair of Beloved Jewish Summer Camps Rise from the Ashes of the Woolsey Fire?
From the Pacific Coast Highway, just past Neptune's Net, you can see Camp Hess Kramer's giant menorah still standing. However, after last fall's devastating fires and the winter's subsequent mudslides, the fate of the landmark and its surroundings remains uncertain. On a recent visit to the beloved Jewish summer camp, which is still closed to the public, the nature-made destruction is so great, savage, and indiscriminate that saying it's "of Biblical proportions" is entirely appropriate.On t... View Original Article -
Painted Words, Day-Glo Posters and Hotel Rooms: The Influence Of Allen Ruppersberg
Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968-2018 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (through May 12, 2019), features an artist you may not know well and the extent of whose influence you never realized â until this exhibition.To set this in context: One of the most significant developments in Los Angeles in the last decade has been that as LA continued to rise in prominence as a 21rst Century hub for creativity and art, its cultural institutions have looked back to… -
Buried by Vesuvius Explodes the Getty Villa
Almost a year ago, I visited Pompei and Herculaneum, marveling at the extant evidence of the lives of the Romans as preserved when Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D.Turns out I didn"t have to travel to Italy to see many of the magnificent treasures from the greatest of Herculaneum's Roman Villas (although I would do it again in a second!). The Getty Villa is currently exhibiting: Buried by Vesuvius, Treasures from the Villa dei Papiri, with a show of artifacts from…