A Trisha Brown tribute in Jefferson Park, new dance and dance films from Jacob Jonas in West L.A. and Sarah Elgart in Venice, plus dozens of Pacific Standard Time events all over L.A. 4. Being spontaneous A choreographer equally known as an improviser, Judith Sánchez Ruiz offers her latest solo Encaje. Dancer/choreographer Laurel Jenkins joins Ruiz for an …
New York’s Metropolitan Museum, one of the world’s greatest art museum, a private institution in a New York City-owned building, just announced a change in its nearly fifty year-old “pay as you wish” admissions policy. Below, are the new conditions: • Current pay-as-you-wish policy will continue for all New York State residents and students from …
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“And the Winner Is…” brings segments of a Q&A with the five Foreign Films directors nominated for the Golden Globes Awards sharing their thoughts and experiences on the making of their latest films. Angelina Jolie, Ruben Östlund, Andrey Zvigagintsev, Sebastian Lelio and Fatih Akin sat next to each other at the American Cinematheque’s Egyptian Theater and …
This headline accompanied LA Times art critic Christopher Wright’s October 3, review of Gaetano Pesce: Molds (Gelati Misti) at MOCA’s Pacific Design Center branch. So, what else is new at MOCA? Jeffrey Deitch, the previous director, was castigated for having guest curators for his Geffen MOCA “Art in the Streets” exhibition when these guest curators …
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Landlady I can’t get a straight answer from her but I don’t mind my mind being bent by beautiful turns of phrase Quilts of words with soft stich less edges wrapped in overlapping designs from one side to the other. Word bouquets imitate petals bent in the breeze crinkle like the pink edged white roses …
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Poppies I never truly understood flower readings. Not because the concept is particularly a difficult one to grasp, But because each flower could be assigned a sundry of meanings. It’d be like reading a sentence in which each word could be switched for 20 others. Red poppies. Beauty, success, Extravagance, and luxury in the East. …
In my previous post, I focused on the loneliness inherent in writing, the loneliness of modern life, and social media’s role in the loneliness epidemic. Now it’s time to talk about whether modern life leads the writer to drink. “Modern life is often a mechanical oppression and liquor is the only mechanical relief.” Ernest Hemingway …
Sometimes there is a vision you have, a kind of mythic logic image that, for an instant, becomes real, as real as two-minute noodles or a toy poodle. But that vision, or its shadow, its aura, its ghost, remains in your consciousness and you do not forget it. I had an impression of what I …
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