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Who Killed Orchestral Music?
JOHN MAUCERI, founding director of the Hollywood Bowl Orchestra, is a composer, arranger, writer, and educator who has conducted the world’s major opera companies and symphony orchestras. For 18 years, Mauceri worked closely with Leonard Bernstein on many of Bernstein’s premieres. He has championed the work of composers banned by Hitler, in particular those who […]
Julian Schnabel vs. Death At Pace Gallery Los Angeles
“All art is optimistic because it contains a denial of death”- Julian Schnabel.Recently, Pace Gallery celebrated the opening of their new Los Angeles flagship outpost, a partnership with Kayne Griffin, in their 15,000 square foot space on South La Brea, a former 1940s auto showroom whose building is now ivy-covered. The opening exhibition, “For Esmé […]
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Seeing Red: Matisse's The Red Studio At The Museum Of Modern Art
On a recent trip to New York and its summer environs, I was struck by what was in some ways a small exhibition centered on just one painting, quite well known, that is more than 110 years old and that has been part of a museum collection for more than 75 years: Matisse, The Red […]
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If It's Tuesday, This Must Be Auschwitz: On Jerry Stahl's "Nein, Nein, Nein! One Man's Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the Holocaust"
Nein, Nein, Nein! One Man’s Tale of Depression, Psychic Torment, and a Bus Tour of the HolocaustONE TIME, AT A friend’s 50th birthday party, I appeared in a black unitard and heels, cued up the music, and performed Beyoncé’s dance to “Single Ladies.” I did the bit because I knew it was foolproof: just the […]
Of Madeleines And Butchery: Paris Police 1900
I”ve been spending a good amount of time in Paris 1900. For most of this year, my online reading group of high school friends has been making our way through Proust (The Modern Library Revised English Edition) in this the centennial of Marcel Proust’s death on November 18, 1922.In keeping with this theme, I”ve just […]
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Shantell Martin: Where The Line Takes You
“I always thought being an artist,” Shantell Martin told me recently in her Los Angeles studio, “allowed you to do anything you want. It’s a freedom to create whatever you want, wherever you want, whenever you want.”That is certainly true for Martin whose life and career has never followed a straight line. Martin has found […]