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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. [...]

31 March 2013

“Roof Piece” (1971) to be restaged at Getty Museum Saturday 6 April

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Trisha Brown’s “Roof Piece,” an historic dance work, the mother of all site-specific dances, to be restaged in Los Angeles on April 6, 2013, at the Getty Museum. [...]

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.” [...]

27 March 2013

Koplowitz driven underground with “Red Line Time”

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A dance happening in the Los Angeles Metro system, a site specific dance piece created by choreographer Stephan Koplowitz. [...]

25 March 2013

Book review: “Hermes Pan, The Man Who Danced with Fred Astaire”

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A book review of “Hermes Pan, The Man Who Danced with Fred Astaire” (Oxford, 2012), John C. Franceschina. Review originally published in December 2012 Dance Magazine. [...]

24 March 2013

Kyle Abraham sings Jacques Brel’s plaintive “Ne Me Quitte Pas” with his body

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Video of a dance solo by choreographer Kyle Abraham. [...]

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. [...]

18 March 2013

Ornette Coleman via Shirley Clarke via Ross Lipman

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A screening of “Ornette: Made in America” a documentary by Shirley Clarke this coming weekend at the Billy Wilder Theater hosted by UCLA Film & Television Archive. [...]

12 March 2013

Edward Villella: The Prodigal Son returns to New York

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Writer Sarah Morton describes a wonderful evening at New York’s Paley Center for Media in which the great one, Edward Villella appeared and chatted. The evening included video clips of his television broadcasts. [...]

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. [...]

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. . . events I'm attending.
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06-01arts•meme's fifth birthday celebration, Jack Rutberg Fine Arts. Join us!
05-23Benefit evening and performance, California Dance Institute, Herb Alpert Educational Village, Santa Monica
05-20American Masters, Mel Brooks: Make a Noise, PBS broadcast
05-18Benjamin Center's art party & benefit, Fresh Canvas Party, Santa Monica Airport

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zuniga show june first

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the art of the drip

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click for more on jack cole

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dancers we love: george chakiris

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