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7 April 2013

Trisha Brown’s “Roof Piece” scales the J. Paul Getty Museum

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An urban happening, “Roof Piece,” birthed in NYC in 1971, roosted on the Getty Museum rooftops high above 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. [...]

1 August 2011

Colonoscopy

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Why can’t museum curators write cogent titles for their shows? The pretentiousness starts with the exhibition title. [...]

19 December 2010

Beato photography reveals beauty & brutality of the East-West encounter

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A compelling exhibition now on at the Getty Museum features photo-journalism by the roaming mid-19th century photographer, Felice Beato. In his travels throughout Asia, Beato captured with a sensitive eye the first culture clashes between east and west. The Italian was one of the primary photographers to provide images of India, China, Japan, Burma, Korea, newly opened to the West. [...]

13 December 2010

Bloody mamas: violence against women in art and life

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“Lucretia” had me riveted for another reason. I had just reviewed Darren Aronofsky’s overheated gothic horror flick, Black Swan. The director and his all-male screenwriting team subject their female characters to as numbing a level of disrespect as possible without being pornographic. [...]