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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… -
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.… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
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,… -
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… -
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… -
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…