Sometimes… on a certain night…. or on a certain day…. or in a certain moment, people come together in your life… in an inexplicable, maybe karmic, and if you believe in it, even in a magical way. There’s no logic for it. It’s just something like “life is stranger than fiction”. I don’t think it’s …
A Perfect Circle of People, or… Karma, Coincidence, and Clowns Read More »
Coming back to Rome is always emotional. It triggers pleasant memories of our days as students of architecture, of lifelong friendships, of great teachers, of great art, architecture, lifestyle. To link the central theme of “As We Saw It,” ‘what makes a city great,’ with what we chose to document through film and photography, we …
A new year of openings begins with Take My Money / Take My Body at LACE, Stephanie Buer in tandem with Daniel Bilodeau at Thinkspace, and Hannah Epstein’s must-see installation at Steve Turner Contemporary. Here’s the Los Angeles art to get hung up on as you start your new year right… You’ve officially survived holiday …
Swan Wedding See the bride turn into a swan. Her neck sliding out of the satin dress, a waterfall rising up from light. Her eyes glaze over the heads of visitors, her tongue extended like an obsidian fountain from the black spigot of her parted beak. Look how she walks, spreading broken egg shells among …
There were even more women who directed American movies in 2018 than in 2017. See my article Women Directors: Movies and Television. As a journalist in the Hollywood Foreign Press, I had the privilege of interviewing many of them; some had directed before, others are newcomers. Read here what they said. Ava du Vernay, from California, …
The American art scene in the ’60s and ’70s was almost totally a boys club, and one of the few women who broke through to full membership was Vija Celmins, first in Los Angeles and then in New York. Now the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has mounted a full-scale exhibition of her work, …
Vija Celmins Show Stars Pop Paintings, Zen Drawings Read More »
Visitors start the dancing in 2019–a Chicago a contemporary troupe with live Grammy-award winning music in Beverly Hills, a Berlin ex pat launches a festival in West L.A., plus a preview of the centennial celebration of choreographer Merce Cunningham. 3. Something about Merce A harbinger of 2019 centennial activities celebrating the life and legend of …
Cultural Weekly’s Eileen Murphy recently caught up with music producer Derek Menchan. Here is their conversation. Eileen Murphy: You’re the producer of the eclectic album The Griot Swings the Classics that’s already a big hit (#4 on Amazon’s Contemporary R & B charts). You’re a tenured professor of the Humanities at a Polk State College …
I began my time with Cultural Weekly by writing a weekly series called “Literary Alchemy,” just reporting on the goings on of a micro indie publisher in Los Angeles. Each week, I shared what we were doing at Writ Large Press, what we were planning, what we thinking, what we were making. And if any …
Context Perched on a grassy slope up from the sidewalk, located against a basement wall with no visible means of access, the feature image looks like a bench but for the questions tied to its use: who, why and how … unanswerable to one ignorant of its history and of whether it is on private …
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