• Basquiat Everywhere

    Jean Michel Basquiat died in 1988, only 27 years old. At the time of his death, Basquiat’s talent and importance were acknowledged but no one could have predicted how much his work would matter today, almost 40 years later. Or that his work would be available everywhere: in museums, galleries, independent art attractions, on stickers, T-shirts, tote bags, even on your TV. At this week’s New York Contemporary art auctions, works by Basquiat broke new records. At Phillips’ auction, an…

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  • Ed Ruscha: What You See Is What You Get LACMA retrospective celebrates long career of Ed Ruscha

    Ed Ruscha, Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half, 1964, Sid R. Bass, Private collection, © ED RUSCHA, PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST Ed Ruscha’s career retrospective at LACMA, ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN (first mounted at New York’s Museum of Modern Art) makes a strong case for the power of Ruscha’s hard-edged, minimalist, yet graphically strong works, as well as his many obsessive photo series, all of which have come to represent Los Angeles. Ruscha, who is 86, was present…

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  • Herb Alpert Award In The Arts Celebrates 30th Anniversary: The Greatest Arts Award You've Never Heard Of

    “In a confusing world like ours, we count on the artist to deliver the truth…” —Herb Alpert. 2024 Winners of the Herb Alpert Award in the ArtsCOURTESY OF THE HERB ALPERT FOUNDATION On May 2, the Herb Alpert Foundation in partnership with CalArts announced the 30th annual winners of the 2024 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (HAAIA), a $75,000 unrestricted prize given this year to ten mid-career artists, two in each of five categories: Jonathan Gonzalez and Mariana Valencia in Dance;…

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  • Feasting in Batumi: Caucasian home of super supras

    Tom Teicholz heads to Georgia’s second city, where he finds familiarity and wonderful hospitality—topped by the extravagant supra feastT From Lucire.com/ The global fashion magazine December 31, 2023 https://lucire.com/2023/1230vo0.shtml Feasting in Batumi: Caucasian home of super supras Volante Tom Teicholz heads to Georgia’s second city, where he finds familiarity and wonderful hospitality—topped by the extravagant supra feast PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE AUTHOR Above, from top: Downtown Batumi. Batumi’s changing skyline. Historical façades preserved in the city. The White House, a large synagogue in this multicultural city. We’ve…

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  • Motility: A memoir of male infertility

    It takes two to make a baby, but sometimes one to not.... View Original Article

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  • Lessons from Arthur Schnitzler's Vienna

    One of my favorite New Yorker cartoons features two men in conversation walking down a city street. Surrounding them are... View Original Article

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  • Bill Clinton Transforms LA

    President Bill Clinton, Inventor Dean Kamen, White House Chief Technology officer Ken Park and Astronaut Leland Melvin were among the big name speakers at this year's by-invitation-only TRANS4M conference, held at the California Science Center in Los Angeles this past Thursday. View Original Article

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  • "I want to leave home less and less."

    As the sixth week of the stay-at-home order in California begins, I realize that I"ve become deranged and must be suffering from a Coronavirus pandemic-induced Stockholm syndrome because I keep thinking: I don"t want the quarantine to end.Outside my home's bubble is tragedy: Thousands upon tens of thousands of lives lost to this insidious malady, and despite the most optimistic spin, no effective treatment or vaccine. Even where the disease has reached a plateau – it is a plateau where…

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  • Why Jonathan Alter Loves Our President

    A conversation with the author of the best-selling "The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies" View Original Article

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  • Michael Chabon Reconnects

    Before the crowded room of gregarious, well-read rabbis from around the country, Kahn asked Chabon to narrate his own Jewish coming-of-age. View Original Article

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  • The Department Store and the Culture It Created

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  • Chris Burch Never Stops Listening

    Chris Burch, the mega-successful investor, and brand guru was a poor student in school, as he would be the first to tell you. But he has been a great student of life and of people.Burch has seeded, launched, and invested in many successful businesses including Guggenheim Partners, Upstack, Rappi, and BaubleBar; products such as Jawbone, Jambox; fashion brands such as Staud and Danielle Guizio and, most notably, Tory Burch which he launched with his now ex-wife. Burch has also been…

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