Rome is difficult to describe; one has to feel it through all the senses. Defined as “The Eternal City,” it implies that its past goes back to immemorial times, and yet, it is a city of an eternal present. The accompanying documentary, An Eye on Rome, attempts to give the spectator a general idea of …
An EYE on BERLIN illustrates contemporary architecture and art examples within a consciousness of the city’s history between 1933 and 1989. It includes the Reichstag dome, the Jewish Museum, and the Sony Center. It also illustrates aspects of the city’s past and present and a visit to the Hamburger Bahnhof art museum and the German …
What makes cities great? Streets, public spaces, and architecture physically express its residents’ values, belief systems, lifestyles, and self-expression through the arts. Lifestyle is expressed through our work, how we act, spend our leisure time, and follow social patterns. “An Eye on Paris” focuses on observing daily life and on some new outstanding works …
Bruno Zevi (1918-2000) NOW – WHY? This is a time of major transformations: scientifically, technologically, demographically, and politically. Climate change has already reached a point where the question is not if but how we will cope. Professor Bruno Zevi, an architect, historian, critic of architecture, writer, publisher, and politician, continues to be a source …
The opening of the new Orange County Museum of Art (OCMA) is good news for architecture, art, and especially for community life. The museum has a poetic edge without being overwhelming; the space has flow and transparency, and artworks can be seen with good lighting and without distractions. More than a museum, it is an educational …
Basic observation Summer is the season when we enjoy doing our own food shopping, particularly when fruits and vegetables are on display inside and outside the storefront of food stores along our main streets I noted a variety of ways of treating that display, whether the store belongs to a chain of the supermarket type …
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With the war in Ukraine entering most people’s lives worldwide, Ukrainian Bullets shows creative alternatives from life before the beginning of the war. In delineating a short documentary, I focused on contemporary young artists at the forefront of art, music, and architecture. The artists Daria Marchenko graduated from Kyiv National University of Technologies and Design. She …
Los Angeles has a new icon: the spherical Geffen Theater, a state-of-the-art place for film projections designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano. It is part of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, inaugurated last September. The City of Angels is not short of icons, but few have visual clarity. The most …
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The Wende Museum is a unique depository of memories from the Eastern European countries beyond the Iron Curtain that endured Communism-labeled fascism during the Cold War. It is dedicated to preserving this period’s art, culture, and stories. When my friend Elisa Leonelli sent me a recent article she wrote about her visits to The Wende, we followed after her …
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The spaces in-between-buildings, usually referred to as “yards” at the scale of the small residential building, became a subject of interest, as urban experience, because of their quirks and variety at the scale of the apartment/condominium blocks in my immediate neighborhood. My daily walks allowed me to examine these spaces, from the sidewalk, in terms …
The Ford from Rick Meghiddo on Vimeo. When you go to the Long Beach Opera, expect the unexpected. The program fitted our expectations: Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire (1912) and Kate Soper’s Voices from the Killing Jar (2012.), an all-women performance. Jenny Wong directed the music, the choreography was directed by Danielle Agami, and the singing …
As an architect, we are not surprised by Frank Gehry surprising us. We also know that he is also prolific as an artist. What surprised me this time is that, at ninety-two, following a pandemic year when he had to lay off 170 people working at his office, he has not stopped pushing the envelope. …
Mishmash: a confused mixture of things. Merriam-Webster Dictionary Fairfax Avenue is an excellent example of an urban mishmash of disjointed places, events, and buildings. The documentary visually shows many of the incongruities and contradictions that characterize our time. The contrast between the long line of colorful young people hoping to find a deal at the …
Spring is here—resurrection, liberation, vaccination. We re-emerge from the rubble of quarantine into fresh air—a little tentative and rattled. The breeze feels good against our unmasked faces. Landscapes have been leveled and reshuffled. There is lots more empty space, between people, on streets, in buildings, in communities. We are beamed photos from Mars and they …
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Many places around the world celebrate this year Astor Piazzolla’s centenary of his birth (1921-1992.) A full-page article published recently in the Los Angeles Times triggered some personal memories about my encounter with Piazzolla when I was seventeen years old. I decided to make a documentary on him, his music, his influence on some contemporary …
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