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Myself and Maisel, a Documentary
•"Jay Myself," is a reverential documentary portrait of photographer Jay Maisel by noted photographer Stephen Wilkes, Maisel's one-time apprentice. The framing device for the story is Maisel's having to vacate the New York City building at 190 Bowery where he"d lived and worked for the last 48 years.What makes this… -
Behind The Scenes Of The Beyond Music Project
•"Same Sky: Beyond Music Volume 1," is a wonderful collection of inspiring new music, the product of a collaboration between artists from all over the world, all produced by the project's artistic director, Los Angeles native, Grammy-award-winning producer and legendary musician in his own right, Larry Klein.First things first: To… -
Sometimes The King Is A Woman: The Paintings Of Amy Sherald
•Amy Sherald's show at Hauser & Wirth in New Yorkwhich I regret to say will close October 26th, is a joy to behold and a revelation. Go see it, if you still can!Sherald is perhaps best known for her portrait of Michele Obama which can be seen at the National… -
California's Marciano Museum Closes
•Los Angeles" Marciano Art Foundation, the three-year-old art museum founded by Marciano brothers, Paul and Maurice - who made their fortune in the jeans business - has unceremoniously closed.Paul and Maurice Marciano came to Los Angeles in 1981 from France and founded a denim company that eventually became the very… -
Seeing Picasso in Palo Alto
•It's time to see Picasso anew View Original Article -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
Art Experiences At Home: Russian Edition
•In the period A.C. (After Covid), I needed, more than ever, to look at Art. And given that I didn"t see traveling in the foreseeable future, I started to think: Where have I always wanted to go? What Museum have I always wanted to visit? What first came to mind:… -
Los Angeles' Annenberg Space For Photography To Close Permanently
•Wallis Annenberg announced this week that the Annenberg Space for Photography which has been closed since March due to the pandemic, will not reopen. Located in Century City, the decade old institution had been LA's only museum devoted solely to Photography.In a letter posted on the The Annenberg Space's website,…