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Boychoir's Lasting Impression Is the Transcendental Power of Song and Story
Either at a great symphony hall or at a joyous holiday music program, some of us have been fortunate in our lives to hear an otherworldly choral performance, one that sounds like a morning lark...
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Once a Soldier, Today a Heartist. The Journey From External Demand to...
I have many costumes in my wardrobe. One of the oldest is my soldier's uniform. I wore it over 40 years ago, as a lieutenant in the Israeli army. Like the many other "uniforms" I have worn, I was...
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Thinking Retrospectively About the Jeff Koons Retrospective
Jeff Koons has two things in common with the great Renaissance painters like Rembrandt and Titian. He maintained a studio filled with helpers and he produced self-portraits. Where Koons differs from a...
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We Are: An Urban Indian Youth Celebration of Indigenous Peoples
Monday, October 13, 2014 marked a major shift in U.S. and Washington history. Joining forces with a number of cities around the country removing the celebration of Columbus Day, Seattle officially...
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With blogs posting almost daily about how opera is dying or dead, with even the head of the Metropolitan Opera, in a pre-strike negotiating tactic (that badly misfired) claiming, "Grand opera is in...
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No, These Are Not Photographs...They're Paintings By Robin Eley
(Noble Refracted (Blue) by Robin Eley. Image courtesy of the artist and 101/exhibit) Is hyperrealism destined to take over what could soon be the lost art of photography? Amid a sea of abject...
View ArticleIves Maes on the ImageBlog
Title: 51° 0' 27" x 5° 24' 42" Material: C-print Year: 2014 Since 2013 I started working on a new project called ‘Sunville’. ‘Sunville’ is the English translation of the name of my native village...
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Elegance and Style Dictates the Art Collection at the Park Hyatt Zurich
Sol LeWitt, (IRREGULAR WAVY COL- LOR BANDS, Wall DRAWING No 1133), Mural, 7.00 x 7.5 m. Courtesy of Park Hyatt Zurich. Like many of the Park Hyatt hotels around the world, the Park Hyatt Zurich paid...
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Fragmentos
Fragmentos is the title of my latest project. The project started as collaboration with Caleb Sillars, where we two artists were obsessed with making photography an object of desire. The intention was...
View ArticleTheater: Tepid Nite 'On The Town;' Overwrought 'Belle'
ON THE TOWN ** out of **** THE BELLE OF AMHERST ** out of **** ON THE TOWN ** out of **** LYRIC THEATRE How can you fail with On The Town? This bubbly, classic musical is filled with great musical...
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Not All Who Wander
Global Yodel recently sat down with illustrator Jesse Tise to talk about his new print, "Not All Who Wander", and to learn more about his hometown of South Pasadena. Read on to learn more about the...
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Sustainable Housing, Politics and a Basic Pride of Place
Fifth in an illustrated series about place-decoding from the South of France. What do the politics of urban housing have to do with a seasonal caravan park in Provence? For me, the answer is clear. Our...
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"Re:Mind" Miri Chais at USC Fisher Museum of Art
When Israeli artist Miri Chais moved to Los Angeles two years ago, she brought with her a universality in her art, which deals with the tension between the real and the virtual. Using existing...
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"A Sort of Monument": Why Villa Lewaro Is More Than a Building
Kathy Dixon, president of the National Organization of Minority Architects As Walker descendant A'Lelia Bundles eloquently put it, "Villa Lewaro is one of the few remaining tangible symbols of the...
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Crouching spider, hidden dragon horse (Longma in Beijing)
I had never heard of La Machine before so I had no clue what to expect. But I definitely did not expect to see a 46 ton fire-breathing, smoke puffing, dragon-horse (Long Ma) made of wood and steel...
View ArticleA-Sides With Jon Chattman: Get "Wild" With Vacationer; Go "Crazy" With Scars...
It's raining in New York. It's cold. I'm wearing a cardigan, and downing a Pumpkin Creme Brulee latte from Dunkin' Donuts. Autumn can be beautiful, but it's not today. That's why I chose these two...
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On William Blake's 'Newton'
Between 1795 and 1805, the mystic poet, painter and printmaker William Blake produced a print that he titled "Newton" (Figure 1). Just like the mythological figure Urizen, that to Blake portrayed law...
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Ivo van Hove's "Scenes From a Marriage"
At the time of it's original release in 1974 Ingmar Bergman's Scenes From a Marriage was the perfect antidote to the wave of post-modernism which hovered like a horrible tsunami, threatening to place...
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A Look at 2014 Tribute Albums -- Part One
One thing certain about 2014 -- and any year, for that matter: it brings with it new tribute and covers albums, as sure as the changing seasons. So with this year already more than half finished, it's...
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Goodwill Art Hunting: This Artweek.LA (October 20, 2014)
Tova Celine: Ye Olde Thrifte Shoppe | This show features thrift-store paintings from the extensive collection of Tova Celine, a Los Angeles-based clothing designer who has been haunting thrift stores,...
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