Although Shepard Fairey is a Los Angeles-based artist, and I am a Los Angeles-based journalist, last month I traveled to Dallas, Texas, to attend the Dallas Contemporary (DC) annual gala and to see backward forward, Fairey’s exhibition of his new work, on view at DC through July 23, 2022 â all of which was very […]
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shepard fairey: backward forward at Dallas Contemporary in Dallas, Texas, through July 23, 2023, is an expansive solo show of Shepard Fairey’s most recent work that speaks to his evolution as an artist. When I was in Dallas for the opening of the exhibit, I had the chance to sit down with Fairey to hear […]
Sometimes a gallery show can remind you not just of an artist but of a rare personage.This is the case with Beatrice Wood: Drawings, Prints, Ceramics, which opened on September 21 at L.A. Louver in Venice, CA., and runs through October 29, 2022. I am sorry I didn”t get to this exhibition sooner, but it’s […]
“Ukraine can not lose,” Bernard-Henri Lévy says at the end of his powerful new film about the war in Ukraine, “But it must be helped to win.” And this film, Why Ukraine co-directed with Marc Roussel and co-written with Gilles Herzog, produced by Francois Margolin with Emily Hamilton and Natalia Gryvniak, which is being screened […]
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Leonard Cohen who died in 2016, has since been memorialized by several tribute concerts, including ones led by his son Adam Cohen in Cohen’s native Montreal and in Sweden led by the duo First Aid Kit (sisters Johanna and Klara Söderberg) and their friends. There have been touring museum exhibitions, and post-humous books of fiction […]
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“I always thought being an artist,” Shantell Martin told me recently in her Los Angeles studio, “allowed you to do anything you want. It’s a freedom to create whatever you want, wherever you want, whenever you want.”That is certainly true for Martin whose life and career has never followed a straight line. Martin has found […]
Late one night during the early days of the pandemic, I was listening to music performances on YouTube, one of my main new music discovery engines. I am always checking out NPR’s Tiny Desk concerts or listening to random performers that appear if I just let the channel play. It was on such evening of […]
When we look at abstract art, we tend to see in it a spontaneous investigation of a self-made universe untethered from the past. We decipher the works by the emotion they produce, the feelings they conjure, the intelligence we imagine informing the patterns, lines, movement, motion, color, and negative space and how they all interact […]
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I”ve been spending a good amount of time in Paris 1900. For most of this year, my online reading group of high school friends has been making our way through Proust (The Modern Library Revised English Edition) in this the centennial of Marcel Proust’s death on November 18, 1922.In keeping with this theme, I”ve just […]
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This Sunday, PBS premieres, The U.S., and The Holocaust, Ken Burn’s three-part six-hour documentary, produced and directed by Burns, Lynn Novick and and Sarah Botstein.You might wonder what, if anything, there still is to say about the Holocaust, after so many, many films have been made about it, all over the world. Having watched many […]
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Regeneration: Black Cinema 1898-1971, the new exhibition currently on view at Los Angeles” Academy Museum is a revelation, an education, a corrective to our blindered knowledge of American Film history and a lot of fun. It is superbly researched and curated with a wealth of artifacts intelligently installed and displayed, and really makes the case […]
Shulamit Nazarian Los Angeles Gallery just celebrated its tenth anniversary, which in gallery years is a serious achievement and reason enough to visit with Shulamit Nazarian and her gallery partner Seth Curcio.“The most meaningful part of what I do,” Shulamit Nazarian told me recently, “is learning from my artists, opening these amazing windows to their […]
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