Ambling along the Los Angeles River pathway from Frog Spot to Marsh Park
by The white gravel spread across the landscape at the Frog Spot, the activity center for the Friends of the Los Angeles River, is blinding in …
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Virtual reality, vertigo and refugees at the Annenberg Space for Photography
NOTE: The Annenberg Space for Photography closed in March 2020 and announced recently that it will not re-open. The post below was written in 2016. …
Shakespeare’s Richard III has a great band at Griffith Park and it is free
Once again the Independent Shakespeare Company is performing two of the bard’s works in Griffith Park for free. This summer they decided to do Richard …
The Lotus Festival is at Echo Park in Los Angeles
I won’t be going to the Lotus Festival this year, because I’m going to a Sri Lankan Festival in Pasadena and I’ve never been to …
Cindy Sherman photos are headlining at the Broad Museum, but take a look at Kara Walker’s art
Cindy Sherman has made a career of photographing herself. The photos, however, are not simply selfies. For decade after decade she has been exploring and …
The Los Angeles Bread Festival was a trip down Memory Lane to San Francisco in the Sixties
I am continually surprised — and maybe I shouldn’t be — by how many of the younger Millennials are taking up activities that I first …
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 …
An astonishing video at LACMA shows European court dancers in tribal fabrics
Another exhibit at LACMA, one I almost missed, is entitled ‘Sense of Time: video and film-based works of Africa.’ One work, The Masked Ball’ by …
After Mapplethorpe nudes comes men’s clothing during the last 300+ years
As a kind of counter-exhibit to the room after room of Mapplethorpe’s male nudes–which not all of which are suitable for publication, at least in …
Yellow hoses, Hawaiian feathers and the Rain Room at LACMA in Los Angeles
There are currently 4 1/2 exhibitions tied to the works of Robert Mapplethorpe around Los Angeles, including a huge one at LACMA (Los Angeles County …