I have started this piece so many times already. I mean I often write versions of an opening to anything new I write. And it’s not that I ever thought it would be a quick assignment; nothing about your mother is that simple. Then came and went the election. Then came the silence and it stayed. …
Dear Mr. President-elect, I’d like to explain something about the theatre, because you seem to misunderstand what theatre is all about. You recently asked the cast of Hamilton to apologize to the Vice President-elect, Mike Pence. You tweeted: The Theater must always be a safe and special place. The cast of Hamilton was very rude …
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As two major cosmopolitan centers, New York and Los Angeles have always been in a kind of tug of war for notoriety in the arts. Certainly in the arena of visual arts New York has historically been the center of the market – a place where serious global impact is delivered and exchanged – whereas …
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As two major cosmopolitan centers, New York and Los Angeles have always been in a kind of tug of war for notoriety in the arts. Certainly in the arena of visual arts New York has historically been the center of the market – a place where serious global impact is delivered and exchanged – whereas …
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Blood and Paint: Essays on Art in Los Angeles looks at the art world in a way in which we are unaccustomed. Author Gordy Grundy is a long time Los Angeles artist and arts writer. Blood and Paint is his second volume of such work. Almost exclusively, the art world is presented in a formalized and …
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Blood and Paint: Essays on Art in Los Angeles looks at the art world in a way in which we are unaccustomed. Author Gordy Grundy is a long time Los Angeles artist and arts writer. Blood and Paint is his second volume of such work. Almost exclusively, the art world is presented in a formalized and …
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[alert type=alert-white ]Please consider making a tax-deductible donation now so we can keep publishing strong creative voices.[/alert] This weeks SoCal dance events include Nutcracker ballets downtown and in Santa Monica, an Irish Christmas dance, CalArts welcomes winter, and Keith Johnson/Dancers remember on World AIDS Day. 5. Winter wonderland CalArts’ faculty member Julie Bour and guest …
The recipient of a Fellowship from the City of Los Angeles in 2015, Lynne Thompson is the author of three poetry chapbooks as well as two full-length collections, Start With A Small Guitar and Beg No Pardon, winner of the Perugia Press Book Award and the Great Lakes Colleges New Writers Award. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Thompson’s work has recently appeared in …
The recent presidential election has shifted the subtext of two Off-Broadway plays. With the unexpected triumph of Donald Trump as president, irony has been added and at the performances attended, the audience sighed with regret at lines which would have had a different meaning if the outcome had favored Hillary Clinton. Both still offer telling …
It’s Thanksgiving, and of course turkey is on everybody’s mind. Well, instead of thinking so much about gobbling up the big gobbler on turkey day, how about if we consider what other birds around the US are eating? Like the Bald Eagle: Or the Golden Eagle: And of course, the ever-present Crows: Enjoy your …
It’s Thanksgiving, and of course turkey is on everybody’s mind. Well, instead of thinking so much about gobbling up the big gobbler on turkey day, how about if we consider what other birds around the US are eating? Like the Bald Eagle: Or the Golden Eagle: And of course, the ever-present Crows: Enjoy your …
The Intuition When I stipulated that for aging persons “visiting old neighborhood, homes and school” is a comforting encounter point experience, it was something of an intuition based on my own experience and readings on the ecology of human development. This intuition was recently revisited when, following some browsing in a flea market with my …
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