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Seeing Picasso in Palo Alto
A Turn on Kienholz's Merry Go-Round
The work of Ed and Nancy Kienholz is mostly junk. Junk assembled to reveal the dark secrets of the American soul â our violence, our racism, our addiction to the screens that haunt us. Assembled from the detritus of the modern world , their work is deeply political and, in some instances, deeply disturbing. Other […]
Making the Unseen Known
The Getty Museum is well regarded for their collection of antiquities housed at the Getty Villa in Malibu, for the work of the Getty Research Institute and the Getty Conservation Institute, as well as for their support of far-flung restorations, and their support and leadership in organizing such landmark art initiatives as the epic “Pacific […]
Meet Anne Litt, KCRW's New Music Director
Longtime KCRW DJ Anne Litt has just been named the station’s new music director (or program director of music, as her official title will read). She’s the first woman to lead the beloved local tastemaker music station, which has a national reputation for breaking new music. Litt’s been on air at KCRW since 1996, and […]
Donald Judd Breakthrough Art
Judd, the Donald Judd retrospective at New York’s Museum of Modern Art was among the shows I caught B.C. (before Coronavirus), and although you can see it now online, it doesn”t do it justice.Donald Judd’s who died in 1994, studied philosophy in college, and did graduate work in Columbia in art history. He spent many […]
Dance And Theater From Home
To cap off this round of arts and culture in the quarantine era, I want to share some dance and theater experiences.If you happened to catch the 90th birthday celebration of Stephen Sondheim, “Take Me to The World,” despite initial technical difficulties, it was a wonderful and moving celebration of Sondheim and how his songs […]