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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 […]
Will a Pair of Beloved Jewish Summer Camps Rise from the Ashes of the Woolsey Fire?
From the Pacific Coast Highway, just past Neptune’s Net, you can see Camp Hess Kramer’s giant menorah still standing. However, after last fall’s devastating fires and the winter’s subsequent mudslides, the fate of the landmark and its surroundings remains uncertain. On a recent visit to the beloved Jewish summer camp, which is still closed to […]
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Painted Words, Day-Glo Posters and Hotel Rooms: The Influence Of Allen Ruppersberg
Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968-2018 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (through May 12, 2019), features an artist you may not know well and the extent of whose influence you never realized â until this exhibition.To set this in context: One of the most significant developments in Los Angeles in the last decade has […]
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Buried by Vesuvius Explodes the Getty Villa
Almost a year ago, I visited Pompei and Herculaneum, marveling at the extant evidence of the lives of the Romans as preserved when Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D.Turns out I didn”t have to travel to Italy to see many of the magnificent treasures from the greatest of Herculaneum’s Roman Villas (although I would do it […]
The Sorrow of Soviet Poetry: On Lev Ozerov's "Portraits Without Frames"
PORTRAITS WITHOUT FRAMES is a singular work of literary biography: a history of Soviet-era literature and culture that is also a masterful poetic sequence in its own right. In Portraits, Lev Ozerov (1914âÂÂ1996), a relatively little-known Russian literary figure, recounts his personal encounters with a who’s who of 20th-century poets, authors, artists, composers, and musicians. […]
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