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Beauty Is In The Eye Of Photographer Steve McCurry
Steve McCurry, a Magnum photographer best known for his striking images from the world’s remote places and conflict zones, most notably his portrait of an Afghan girl with piercing green eyes, has gathered decades of work in both a new book, Devotion from Prestel, and in an exhibition, Endless Traveler, at Peter Fetterman Gallery in Santa Monica, CA (on view […]
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LA Friezes Over
LA Friezes Over Frieze Los Angeles, the contemporary art fair, was launched in 2019. This year’s fifth edition, held in Santa Monica, featured more than 100 exhibitors, from the international gallery multiplexes (Gagosian, Pace, Hauser & Wirth, Zwirner) to local single galleries from New York, LA, Paris, Milan, and other art-collecting friendly destinations. Terry Allen […]
Lubbock On Everything: Adventures In Art and Music with Terry Allen
There must be something in the water in Lubbock, Texas, that produced songwriters, musicians and artists such as Buddy Holly, Mac Davis, and the singer-songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen, whose artwork was featured at LA Louver’s booth at Frieze LA and who gave two performances during Frieze Week at the Masonic Lodge at the […]
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Literary Twofer Finds Characters ‘In Sickness And In Health’ And On ‘Yom Kippur In A Gym’
Nora Gold’s novellas, In Sickness and In Health, and Yom Kippur in a Gym (Guernica Editions) COVER COURTESY OF NORA GOLD AND GUERNICA EDITIONS Nora Gold, the prize-winning Canadian author of novels and short stories and the founder and editor-in-chief of JewishFiction.net, has just published what Vegas aficionados call a twofer – that is two for […]
Los Angeles Ballet Takes Next Steps
Last June, when I interviewed Melissa Barak, the former dancer, choreographer, founder of Barak Ballet, who is now the artistic director of Los Angeles Ballet (LAB) she spoke of her belief that LAB could distinguish itself and catalyze the audience for dance in Los Angeles with new works, in much the same way the Los […]
Mozart as Guilty Pleasure
“Mozart in the Jungle” which I binged watched on Amazon’s streaming service recently is a great example of what I call a really good bad show. Which is another way of saying that although it is thin on plot, the characters are at times caricatures and there are moments of… View Original Article […]