Italian choreographer Dewey Dell’s “Marzo” smartly advances dance
At long last, something new, thank God. It took a cluster of young Italians to inject pop and sizzle into dance’s tired traditional proscenium-arch format, creating a “screen” within the frame, replicating the tiny rectangles into which most audience members gaze much of their day. And I think “Marzo” (Italian for “March”), a super flamboyant work ...
Find openness & clarity through art @ Honor Fraser Gallery
Jun
4
2014
An intriguing and beautiful show that celebrates a cool-headed, fresh visual arts language dating back half a century opens this weekend at Honor Fraser Gallery on La Cienega Boulevard. Openness and Clarity pays tribute to the legacy of ‘Color Field’ artists who paved the way for Minimalism, Conceptual, and Pop art. Assembling works rarely exhibited ...
Dance Camera West’s “Restructure” festival to kick off with stylish sculptural dance 3
Wow, Dance Camera West! If this image does not capture the coolest vision of dance-of-the-future, then we must not be in the midst of the go-go dance explosion happening right now in Los Angeles. We sure are excited to see performances by BODYTRAFFIC on the crazy “structure” artist Gustavo Godoy has created on a commission ...
At CAP UCLA, the ‘B’s have it!
To be or not to be, that was the question Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA artistic director Kristy Edmunds pondered in fashioning her arts-forward performance series for the 2014-15 season. So much so that the curator tilted in one direction: toward artists with names starting with the letter ‘B.’ Yes, a barrage ...
Weaving magic to the Bard: The Royal Ballet in “The Winter’s Tale”
I don’t get to Covent Garden all that often lately. Downstairs to the Linbury Studio experiments, yes, but upstairs? Elegant always, but stately for my current tastes — my dance fix is generally fed by Sadlers Wells these days. Last season’s Royal Ballet encounter with Mayerling — my favorite narrative by far — had been ...
Historic Raleigh Studios to host “Photo Independent”
Photo Independent, the artist-only fair for photographic artists, collectors and art professionals, rolls out this weekend at an unusual venue: Hollywood’s Raleigh Studios. An amazing and charming movie complex that dates to the ‘teens and comprises fourteen sound stages, Raleigh occupies a distinct niche of Hollywood dream-factory history. Paired with Paramount Studios, which sits to ...
Cool arts happening along Melrose Avenue: Photo Independent
Apr
23
2014
Photo Independent, a first-time fair in which photographic artists self-present, opens at historic Raleigh Studios this weekend concurrent to Paris Photo Los Angeles which rolls out also at a film studio, the venerable Paramount Studios. It all transforms several massive blocks of Melrose Avenue, steeped in film history, into a fine-arts juggernaut. The ambitious and ...
The art of going to the movies, courtesy of Laemmle Theatres
The community-minded, venerable Los Angeles art-house theater chain, Laemmle Theatres, invites us to join them this Thursday, April 24, for the opening of an art exhibit by painter Taylor Negron. The evening will include a presentation about the artist as well as wine and cheese. Pop into a movie afterward and it sounds like a ...
A keeper: Quincy Jones photo-portrait for TCM Fest
At arts·meme, we like it when art begets art. That’s why we respond so positively to photographer Stefanie Keenan’s outstanding photo-portrait of an artist — Quincy Jones — that came across the transom from Turner Classic Movies this morning. The prodigious Jones gave a fascinating, free-wheeling interview to movie (and jazz) maven Leonard Maltin at ...
Come fly with artist Dan Reisinger
Mar
28
2014
Love the display of vintage El Al posters by Dan Reisinger (b. 1934), one of Israel’s design pioneers, known internationally for his innovative use of symbols and vibrant visual language. The entire Reisinger exhibition spans fifty years of iconic posters including ones of social and political protest (1963–1993); but the cream of the crop are ...