Art & Artists
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Finding An Iraqi Jewish Treasure in Miami
Finding An Iraqi Jewish Treasure in Miami - Forbes View Original Article -
Tapestries of Louis XIV Are 'Woven Gold'
Tapestries of Louis XIV Are 'Woven Gold' - Forbes View Original Article -
A Hungarian Lens on Photography
A portrait of Picasso. Photos by Ervin Marton Courtesy Stephen Cohen Gallery “It is not enough to have talent,” photographer Robert Capa once said, turning an old saying on its head. “You also have to be Hungarian.” By which he meant Hungarian-Jewish. This point is reinforced in an exhibition of post-World War II Paris photographs by Ervin Marton at the Stephen Cohen Gallery on Beverly Boulevard. The contributions of Hungarian Jews to photography is mind-boggling: Legendary war photographer Robert Capa… -
The Whitney Done Right
The Whitney Done Right - Forbes View Original Article -
The Chill of Duchamp's 'Etant Donnes'
The Chill of Duchamp's 'Etant Donnes' - Forbes View Original Article -
From Here to 'Afar': The Art of Peter Forgacs
“Once upon a time” is a phrase we use for fairy tales and fables. Yet most Jews carry with them another time, another land, another city. It could be the Pale of Settlement or Vilnius, Krakow or Lvov or, in more recent times, the Lower East Side, the Bronx, Tehran, Moscow, Buenos Aires or even the Tel Aviv that once was. Perhaps in the future we will say the same for Paris, Manchester or Copenhagen. Quien Sabe? That feeling of… -
Bob Dylan Blew My Mind at MusiCares
Let me indulge in some hyperbole: When Moses spoke after he came down from the mountain, when Jesus delivered his Sermon on the Mount, I don’t believe their audience could have been any more stunned than I or the other 3000 attendees were at Friday night’s Grammy week MusiCares charity event when Bob Dylan, this year’s person-of-the-year honoree, took to the podium and spoke for some 35 minutes, cogently, lyrically and, at moments, comically and poignantly. During Dylan’s speech the… -
Champagne & Oyster Architecture for the Holidays
Downtown LA's Central Market is getting hipper by the minute. You can now have vertically responsible hamburgers (Bel Canto), gourmet coffee (G&G), small batch pastrami (Wexler's), and heavenly ice cream (McConnell's), and now, at  The Oyster Gourmet,my friend Christophe Happillon's new pop-up (and I mean that literally, the kiosk pops... 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 -
Paula Bronstein and The Big Picture
How do we understand the impact of climate change and natural disasters on people and architecture, and how does humanity learn from our mistakes and try to prepare for potential future cataclysms? That is ostensibly the agenda of “Sink or Swim: Designing for a Sea Change,” an exhibition opening Dec. 13 at the Annenberg Space for Photography, curated by Frances Anderton, an architecture writer perhaps best-known as the host and executive producer of KCRW’s DnA Design and Architecture radio program.… -
Living Masters of Latino Folk Art at LA's NHM
The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles (NHM) is celebrated for its Dinosaur skeletons, dioramas, oar fish display, gem and bug collections. Some specimens in the collection date back 4.5 billion years. Â Â Â When I arrived at the NHM to see the traveling exhibit Grandes Maestros: Great Masters... View Original Article -
The Kendall Jenner of The Belle Epoque Goes on View at The Getty
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, the J. Paul Getty Museum put on display "Spring" by Edouard Manet, a gorgeous Impressionist-style portrait of a highly fashionable young woman, the actress Jeanne Demarsy, that the museum recently acquired at auction for $65 Million. The painting is remarkable and note-worthy on several fronts, not... View Original Article