Topic Archive: Art & culture
Another local music critic down, not many left to go. Alan Rich, who is at least 83, was let go as classical music critic over... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted April 9, 2008 12:37 AM
Last weekend's New York Times did a nice spread on J. Michael Walker and his one-of-a-kind Los Angeles book, "All the Saints of the City... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 11, 2008 06:40 PM
Tyler Green at Modern Art Notes has the memo and the explanation from spokesman Ron Hartwig that staff reductions are a result of new CEO... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted March 7, 2008 09:44 AM
Not too many musicians follow this particular career arc. Buddy Miles, who died yesterday in Austin of congestive heart failure, began as a session player... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 27, 2008 07:35 PM
The skylight over the rotunda of the Natural History Museum in Exposition Park has been nicely, if painstakingly, restored with help from the great-grandson of... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 17, 2008 10:49 PM
One of my favorite quirky L.A. public sculptures — the gold panner of Carthay Circle — has been stolen and recovered. The bronze cast in... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 15, 2008 04:45 PM
Vogue fashion photographer Irving Penn began taking photographs of workers in Paris in 1950, usually posing them in natural north light. He continued in New... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 7, 2008 12:25 AM
Downtown blogger Angelenic has the scoop (and some nice photos): Wilshire Boulevard institution La Fonda will reopen on Valentine's Day. The new version won't appeal... $MTEntryExcerpt$>
Posted February 6, 2008 08:05 PM