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The Art to Being David Van Eyssen
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 […]
The Mariinsky: A Dream of a Ballet at the Segestrom
The Mariinsky Ballet performs La Bayadere View Original Article […]
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Carl Bernstein Delivers Inaugural Beck Lecture In Investigative Journalism
This past Sunday October, 27, 2019 Carl Bernstein delivered the inaugural Nick Beck Investigative Journalism Lecture at Los Angeles City College (LACC), telling a standing-room-only crowd that journalism is how we “arrive at the best obtainable version of the truth.”Bernstein, celebrated for breaking the Watergate scandal with Bob Woodward as a young reporter at the […]
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The Gateway Arch is a Tourist Must-do
There are some tourist experiences that need doing, such as walking the Sydney Harbour Bridge or going up the Eiffel Tower or the Empire State Building. And when in St, Louis, you”ve got to go up in the Arch, America’s tallest man-made monument, a catenary curve 630 feet up in the air, as wide as […]
Pieces of R. B. Kitaj
It is hard to believe that twelve years have passed since the death of R. B. Kitaj, the at-times-controversial artist who coined the term “The London School” about his fellow contemporary artists in Britain (including Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach) and who spent his last years living in Los Angeles. A new exhibition at LA […]
Netflix Debuts "The Devil Next Door"
Netflix’s just-released documentary The Devil Next Door is a true crime mystery about John Demjanjuk, a Cleveland autoworker who was discovered to be a Nazi death camp guard and was tried over a 40-year period in the United States, Israel and Germany in a roller-coaster of convictions and appeals – as he denied any and […]