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25 April 2013

MOCA’s Jeffrey Deitch reflects on Boston violence, Urs Fischer gallery installation

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A chat with the museum director at the opening of MOCA’s Urs Fischer show. [...]

23 April 2013

Hammer symposium: Dancers, meet the museum world. Museums, please consider dance.

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Dancing with the Art World, a two-day symposium that convenes a working group of artists, choreographers, curators, and historians to structure a space for critical reflection on the recent interface between dance and the visual arts. [...]

21 April 2013

Preeminent dance movie poster collection gets Barnsdall reception April 30

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An opening reception for a world-class dance movie poster collection April 30, 2013. [...]

14 April 2013

The new Academy Museum gets a launch party at LACMA

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Super fun party on April 11 2013 to launch the AMPAS film museum project in the former May Company building on Wilshire Blvd. [...]

1 April 2013

Review: Quirky master-photographer of the 1960s Bert Stern captured in doc

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Reviews the documentary “Bert Stern: Original Mad Man” soon to open in Los Angeles. [...]

29 March 2013

Word up … at Rutberg’s

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A beautiful, locally driven, museum-quality show at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, the LaBrea Avenue gallery: an expansive exhibition titled “Letters from Los Angeles: Part II – Identity & Self Identity Through Text in Art.” [...]

20 March 2013

Shulamit Gallery wishes us Happy Nowruz

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An evocative work of photo realism by Israeli-Persian artist Tal Shochat gives ample reason for gallerist Shula Nazarian to wish us a happy Persian New Year. [...]

9 March 2013

L.A. billboard update

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Trolling Sunset Boulevard, we enjoyed some of the new signage. A humongous birthday card to 95-year-old Zsa Zsa Gabor. [...]

19 February 2013

Connoisseur collection of dance-themed movie posters grace Barnsdall Park exhibit

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The vintage posters of collector Mike Kaplan, beautifully hung throughout the lobby area of the basement theater of Barnsdall Park in East Hollywood, focus on dance films. [...]

12 February 2013

Animated women of film-animation world step out — in gallery show

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“Ladies of Animation,” a gallery exhibit featuring personal works by female artists from major film studios including Disney, Pixar and Dreamworks just opened at GRspace. [...]