What happened to the paper airplanes in Grand Park? Did they shrink?
by Artists Elenita Torres and Dean Sherriff won the assignment sponsored by the Goldhirsh Foundation to create a new shade structure in Grand Park. I had …
Category: Architecture around Los Angeles
Finally…a visit to Rodia’s Towers, an homage to Marco Polo and a desire to be remembered
Sabato ‘Simon’ Rodia was a small man, only 4 foot 11 inches tall. Somewhere inside him, however, was a goal to ‘do something big’ so …
The gentrification of the Los Angeles River is underway and it isn’t pretty!
Thanks to 1 or 2 million dollars of taxpayers’ money Frank Gerhy’s gang of experts working for the River L.A group earlier this year produced …
Sculpture in the garden at the Norton Simon museum on a free Friday evening
The Norton Simon museum in Pasadena offers free admission on the first Friday evening of the month and I had been meaning to go there …
Petersen Automotive Museum is as hot as a ticket-me-red Camaro
Across Wilshire Boulevard and a block west of LACMA is the amazing Petersen Automotive Museum, founded by Robert Petersen, publisher of Hot Rod magazine. Designed …
Amazing glass garden sculptures at the Pasadena Showcase House 2016
The Pasadena Showcase House has been held annually for almost six decades. Year after year designers and decorators and crafts people have transformed large old …
Preparing for Palm Sunday at Los Angeles Cathedral
I had intended to visit The Broad museum on Saturday but the line for people without tickets was two–yes! two–blocks long and the museum hadn’t …
What to do on Saturday night? Go to the Last Book Store for art and music!
The Last Book Store in downtown Los Angeles not only sells new and used books, albums and comic books, this funky and huge store also …
Winding “sky path” and secret gardens high up in Disney Hall
What’s behind all those curving stainless steel panels on Disney Hall? I was surprised to find out that there is a complicated iron structure, a …
New bumps up against old in the Pasadena Playhouse District
The Pasadena Playhouse was founded in 1917 and, true to that era, it is a Spanish Revival building complete with palm trees and a fountain …