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The Timeless Shimmer Of Beatrice Wood
Sometimes a gallery show can remind you not just of an artist but of a rare personage.This is the case with Beatrice Wood: Drawings, Prints, Ceramics, which opened on September 21 at L.A. Louver in Venice, CA., and runs through October 29, 2022. I am sorry I didn”t get to this exhibition sooner, but it’s […]
R.I.P. Jerry Lee Lewis
You shake my nerves and you rattle my brainToo much love drives a man insaneYou broke my willBut what a thrillGoodness gracious, great balls of fire!Jerry Lee Lewis, the enfant terrible of Rock “n Roll, one of Sun Records million dollar quarter, the rocker whose career was momentarily cancelled when it was revealed his third […]
The Joys And Oys Of Being A British Jew - One-Woman Show Comes To Santa Monica
“It’s hard to be a Jew” is a Yiddish expression popularized by writer Sholom Aleichem as the title of his comic play that premiered at New York’s Yiddish Art Theater on October 1, 1920.It could also be an alternative title for Suzanne Levy’s one woman show, Dress British, Think Yiddish, directed by Stacie Chaiken, that […]
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Works By Egon Schiele Restituted To The Heirs Of Fritz Grünbaum To Be Auctioned In New York City
Tonight in New York, Christie’s will hold their 20th Century Evening Sale at Rockefeller Center.Among the works being offered for sale are two works on paper by Early 20th Century Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele, from the collection of Viennese film and cabaret star Fitz Grünbaum. Grünbaum was not unlike Joel Grey in Cabaret, famous […]
Rhapsodizing Khatia Buniatishvili
Several years ago, in 2017, I found myself at Tsinandali in the Republic of Georgia for the launch of their music festival. The Israel Philharmonic Orchestra conducted by Zubin Mehta was performing. They were joined by Khatia Buniatishvili, a dark-haired Georgian pianist who interpreted Schumann with great finesse and other selections dramatically with great gusto. […]
Robert Longo's Art of The Now
There is an Ocean wave gathering strength, filled with ominous portent, set to come crashing before us. It began with Ferguson, but it’s always been there, only now it’s gained the weight and heft of a Death Star, a collection of all the AR-15 bullets fired in a year of mass shootings. It is Albrecht […]