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Grammys 2021 Get Fresh
This week’s Grammy Awards Ceremony, the second during the pandemic, made the best of a bad situation bringing a much needed freshness to the awards show.In recent times, the Grammys show have found a successful formula and run it into the ground. The show had pared down the more than 100 awards given as part […]
Reviewing 2020: My Top Ten Books Of 2020
In the beginning of the pandemic I was scattered and couldn”t really concentrate on any sustained reading. However, as the year went on and I reached saturation in my viewing capacity, I turned to books, aided by the discovery that I could easily borrow books online from the Public library, via Overdrive (Los Angeles Public […]
Tobi Kahn's Visual Seder
“To think visually is a capacity not just for artists; it is essential for everyone.” With these words the visual artist Tobi Kahn concludes the artist statement that accompanies the just published “Mishkan Haseder,” a new Passover Haggadah published by the Central Conference of Rabbis (CCR).This new edition comes replete with new translations, new Rabbinical […]
A Pleasing Pandemic In Normandy: David Hockney's Creative French Country Prints
LA Louver gallery in Venice, California which is celebrating its 45th year, has a new exhibition that you can actually go see by appointment, “David Hockney: My Normandy.” I could say that seeing an exhibition of art in person, and seeing the joy with which Hockney in his 80s creates his work, was for me […]
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Herb Alpert Awards Double Down During Pandemic: Ten Award Winners Announced In Online Event
The Artist is often imagined as a solitary figure creating works of the imagination that stand on their own when shared with a public that they remain separate from.That is a fiction. The last year of isolation has made me keenly aware of how much Art in all its forms â Visual, theater, film, music, […]
Traces Of Ai Weiwei's Politics At Skirball Cultural Center.
“Ai Weiwei: Trace” at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles presents three of the six floor panels Ai Weiwei created in 2014 for a site-specific exhibition in San Francisco on Alcatraz Island concerning prisoners of conscience, political prisoners, and those subject to unlawful detention and, in some cases, torture. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture […]
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