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Towering Voices at 9/11 Flight 93 Memorial
This Sunday September 9, 2018, The National Park Service will mark the dedication of “The Tower of Voices,” a 93-foot high tower of wind chimes that stands in Pennsylvania, at the entrance to the 2,200 square National Memorial Park dedicated to the 40 heroes of Flight 93 who perished on 9/11. View Original Article […]
The Getty Museum's Freakin' Amazing Ancient Hebrew Manuscript
“Freakin” Amazing!”Those are words I never expected to hear from Rabbi Steven Leder, the senior Rabbi at Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles (the congregation to which I belong).Rabbi Leder was marveling at the Getty Museum’s latest acquisition, The 13th Century Rothschild Pentateuch (which is also the first Hebrew manuscript in the Getty’s collection). View […]
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Woven Women: Helen and Dido Tapestries at the Norton Simon
As I stood before the magnificent tapestries and tapestry cartoons (full sized drawings made in preparation for weaving) on display in “Once Upon a Tapestry: Woven Tales of Helen and Dido” at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena (on view until May 27, 2019) I wondered if during the Middle Ages persons of means looked […]
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MØ Waves, MØ Better Sound
Danish singer-songwriter MØ (Karen Marie Aagaard Ørsted Andersen ) was singing “I assure you I would dye my hair in crazy colors just to make you smile,” from her song Nights With You, dancing and striking poses that were silhouetted on a giant scrim behind her as her band played and a sophisticated light show […]
The Art to Being David Van Eyssen
Recently, I went to an art opening in Santa Monica, where a doorman stood guard, clipboard in hand like at some private party or club. A spiral staircase led to a basement gallery where new works by David Van Eyssen were on display that combined film and still images layered upon each other and interacting […]
The Mariinsky: A Dream of a Ballet at the Segestrom
The Mariinsky Ballet performs La Bayadere View Original Article […]
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