Recently, I went to an art opening in Santa Monica, where a doorman stood guard, clipboard in hand like at some private party or club. A spiral staircase led to a basement gallery where new works by David Van Eyssen were on display that combined film and still images layered upon each other and interacting […]
“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 […]
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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 […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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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 […]
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My Cousin Mike: Michael Sherwood 1923-2018 April 8, 2018 By Tom Teicholz My father’s cousin Michael Sherwood, 95, — died this week. He was probably the last person who knew my father in Poland and knew of their life then. Here is the eulogy I wrote to be read at his funeral (which I was […]
Danish singer-songwriter MØ (Karen Marie Aagaard Ørsted Andersen ) was singing “I assure you I would dye my hair in crazy colors just to make you smile,” from her song Nights With You, dancing and striking poses that were silhouetted on a giant scrim behind her as her band played and a sophisticated light show […]
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 […]
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As I stood before the magnificent tapestries and tapestry cartoons (full sized drawings made in preparation for weaving) on display in “Once Upon a Tapestry: Woven Tales of Helen and Dido” at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena (on view until May 27, 2019) I wondered if during the Middle Ages persons of means looked […]
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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 […]
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 […]