Saturday Night Live has regularly mocked Los Angelenos for their obsessive and unending conversations about their routes driving to and from any destination â and it is funny because it is true: Traffic and its avoidance is an inevitable fact of SoCal existence.In fact, one of the inside-LA jokes in Quentin Tarantino’s “Once Upon a […]
Art has always had as its schema to make us see. At different times, in different ways, it has called on us to rethink every aspect of perception – what we see, how we see it, how it is seen and how it is rendered; as well as to reconsider the very materials with which […]
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To cap off this round of arts and culture in the quarantine era, I want to share some dance and theater experiences.If you happened to catch the 90th birthday celebration of Stephen Sondheim, “Take Me to The World,” despite initial technical difficulties, it was a wonderful and moving celebration of Sondheim and how his songs […]
Star Trek famously called Space the final frontier, referring to the explorations of the space ship Enterprise to distant galaxies and planets. But in light of the current coronavirus pandemic quarantine, any travel right now seems far-fetched.Still, I tried to think if going forward I can”t (or won”t) travel in the foreseeable future, then: What […]
In the period A.C. (After Covid), I needed, more than ever, to look at Art. And given that I didn”t see traveling in the foreseeable future, I started to think: Where have I always wanted to go? What Museum have I always wanted to visit? What first came to mind: The Hermitage in St. Petersburg.Turns […]
Over the last five weeks I have had some great music experiences at home, music that has lifted my spirit and fed my soul, distracted me from the increasingly grim reality of the coronavirus death tolls, and been a companion during self-created “lunch hours” and late-night evening entertainment.Every day (or in my case, most nights) […]
Judd, the Donald Judd retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art was among the shows I caught B.C. (before Coronavirus), and although you can see it now online, it doesn”t do it justice.Donald Judd’s who died in 1994, studied philosophy in college, and did graduate work in Columbia in art history. He spent many […]
In the weeks before coronavirus shut down the world’s Art Museums, I saw a staggering amount of Contemporary Art both in Los Angeles which held its contemporary Artmegaddon – Frieze LA-Felix-Art Los Angeles Contemporary (all in one weekend!) and I also visited a number of contemporary art collections in South Florida, including the Perez Art […]
Coronavirus has given me the opportunity to catch up-to write about exhibitions, performances, books, that I had meant to address but that slipped by until Coronavirus got in the way. I feel like Larry David who has finally found the perfect excuse for avoiding going out and social interactions â sorry I can”t because it’s […]
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This is an article about caring in the time of Coronavirus.This is an article about a benefit concert that was supposed to happen on March 12, 2020: the 4th Annual Love Rocks NYC benefit produced by Fashion Designer John Varvatos, multi-hyphenate Greg Williamson (Real Estate, Concert Production and God’s Love We Deliver trustee), and Event […]
The Getty Museum is well regarded for their collection of antiquities housed at the Getty Villa in Malibu, for the work of the Getty Research Institute and the Getty Conservation Institute, as well as for their support of far-flung restorations, and their support and leadership in organizing such landmark art initiatives as the epic “Pacific […]
With the holidays imminent, whether due to the spirit of the season or the constant barrage of advertising and emails, one’s thoughts turn to gift-giving â for others and, even, for oneself.Many gifts are easily consumable or disposable or subject to the whims of trends or fashions. However, there is one gift that in my […]