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ABT’s Giselle At The Segerstrom: Love, Death And Dancing
Chloe Misseldine as Giselle in Giselle. Photo by Laura Sukowatey, Courtesy ABT “Youth is wasted on the young,” the old saying goes. But it is not wasted on Chloe Misseldine, 22, who danced the lead role of Giselle at last Saturday’s matinee American Ballet Theatre (ABT) performance at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Orange County. […]
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Grateful Dead: 60 Years Of Celebration
Grateful Dead photographed in NYC, June, 1967. Publicity photo from the exhibition and coffee table book: An American beauty – Grateful Dead 1965-1995. © Ron Rakow / Retro Photo Archive Courtesy of the artist and David Kordansky Gallery What is it about the Grateful Dead that had tens of thousands of fans heading to Golden […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Allison Katz Goes Hollywood in Westward Ho!
The works in the exhibition are different in style, subject matter, even the way the paint is applied, showing a wide level of craft, ability and talent that is impressive. Yet each work, even when painted in a completely different style, remains recognizably the work of Allison Katz. Katz grew up in Montreal, attended Concordia […]