20 January 2012
The work of Julian Stanczak, the Polish-born artist now living in Cleveland, caught my eye at the L.A. Art Show opening last night. A skilled practitioner of optical art, Stanczak has an amazing biography. [...]
23 December 2011 Category: Architecture & Design, Film, Music, Visual arts | Tags: blake edwards, breakfast at tiffany's, california's designing women, caroline graham, david philp, herb alpert, herb alpert foundation, hunter drohojowska-philp, jacqueline bisset, norman pfeiffer, rona sebastian, the automatics
It was an L.A. traffic jam of a good sort, Caroline Graham’s Christmas party, packed with people. [...]
17 December 2011
An extraordinary photography of the (then) brand-new Griffith Park Observatory taken by the late Julius Shulman captures the burgeoning megalopolis with the photographer’s characteristic rapture. [...]
27 November 2011
A quiz on who got the best one-night gig at the recent MOCA gala event — the dancers or the bartenders. [...]
26 November 2011
Concerns the recently opened, “Naked Hollywood: Weegee in Los Angeles” now on at MOCA. [...]
22 November 2011
Trying to get your arms around Pacific Standard Time is daunting for us all. But here’s a way to not miss the great regional events that are going on south of L.A. proper. [...]
21 November 2011 The greatest at his best, Michael Brennan’s iconic photos of Muhammad Ali on view now in Pasadena. [...]
16 November 2011 Features the great graphic designers movie titles and credits. [...]
14 November 2011
One year ago this week, a crazy chapter in the long tradition of Los Angeles noir: the murder of publicist Ronni Chasen, followed by her alleged bicyclist-murderer’s suicide. [...]
10 November 2011 Category: Dance, Fashion, Music, Visual arts | Tags: african american photography, billie holiday, cal state northridge, csun, dorothy dandridge, harry belafonte, identity and affirmation, mahalia jackson, miles davis, pacific standard time, pst These are but a few arts-related images drawn from “Identity and Affirmation: Postwar African-American Photography,” an exhibition of 125 images produced by Los Angeles African-American photographers during the postwar years from 1945 to 1980. The marvelous show, at Cal State Northridge, which also includes social and political photographs, is part of Pacific Standard Time survey of post-war L.A. creative undertakings. [...]
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