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Inarritu Receives Special Oscar for 'Carne Y Arena'
Inarritu’s VR project wins a special Oscar View Original Article […]
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Agnes Martin: Perfection
See Alison Saar's 'Topsy Turvy' Art
Alison Saar’s new paintings and sculptures at LA Louver in Venice, CA, (on view through May 12, 2018) speak of a strength derived from a bitter harvest.The exhibition is called “Topsy Turvy,” and the figures reference Topsy, a character in Harriett Beecher Stowe’s great abolitionist novel, “Uncle Tom’s Cabin.”Topsy, as described by Stowe, had wooly […]
A Russian Ballet Dreams of Isadora Duncan
The world premiere of a ballet, Isadora, inspired by the life of Isadora Duncan, choreographed by Vladmir Varnava with Royal Ballet Principal dancer Natalia Osipova in the lead role, as performed at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts in Costa Mesa…. View Original Article […]
Art that Asks us to Change our Worldview or be Changed
The Skirball Museum in Los Angeles’ exhibition ‘Selections from Kehinde Wiley’s The World Stage: Israel’ called to mind a novel I’d just finished reading, Seth Greenland’s The Hazards of Good Fortune. View Original Article […]
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Contacting The Artist in Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol is currently the subject of a much-praised career survey at the Whitney Museum in New York â which I look forward to seeing before the show closes next March. In the interim, for those of us on the West Coast with an interest in Warhol, there is a compelling show, “Contact Warhol: Photography […]