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This Week Taught Me How Out of Touch I Am About Race
This has been a week that’s felt overwhelming. Here, in Santa Monica, my wife and I and our 22 year old daughter Natasha, all stayed at home. Although there was no looting or vandalism in our immediate vicinity, the street where my office is in downtown Santa Monica was completely rampaged â with my local […]
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Herb Alpert Awards In the Arts Go Virtual
“Artists are the heart and soul of this nation,” Music icon, Artist and Philanthropist Herb Alpert said at the 26th annual Herb Alpert Award in the Arts. “It’s all about freedom of expression, imagination and truth telling.”“They are our second responders,” Alpert said in a telephone interview earlier in the week.The Herb Alpert Award in […]
More Cultural Adventures At Home
It seems like only yesterday…or maybe the day before? What day is it anyway? As one week glides into the next I”ve found that I”m not reading for pleasure as much as I normally do. I started a book some time ago, and find it strange that I can”t get past the mid-point. And I […]
Zsa Zsa Gabor Dead - The Last Hungarian Actress of Her Generation
Zsa Zsa Gabor has died at 99. As my fellow Hungarican wrote me: ‘That’s it. 2016 worse year ever.’ Zsa Zsa was the last connection to my mother’s world of Budapest and the glory of Hungarian women born before World War Two – a cosmopolitan, very clever, very adaptable, very assimilated, world of superficial beauty, […]
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Cult of Luxury: Craftsmanship, Scarcity and the Hermès Brand
How Hermès has succeeded in creating veneration-worthy items as well as a successful global brand is a story worth studying.Thierry Hermès was a leather harness maker who set up shop in Paris in 1837. The saddles, bridles and harnesses he made were prized by the rising bourgeoisie of Louis Phillipe’s reign in 19th Century France. […]
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The Art of the Rubell Family Collection Miami
The Rubell Family Collection (RFC) in Miami, housed in a former DEA warehouse, is remarkable in many respects. First and foremost, as it name advertises, it is the collection of one family, Donald and Mera Rubell and their two adult children Jason and Jennifer collected over the last half century, that continues to grow with […]
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