Because Ezra Pound Isn’t A Crowd Pleaser
When it comes to choosing between The Jersey Shore and a Fellini film, more people will choose The Jersey Shore. Same with hip hop lyrics and a modernist poem, or street graffiti and a piece of...
View ArticleLACMA Director Michael Govan
Michael Govan is director of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Before participating in a panel on how L.A’s art museums can thrive, he revealed in the Zócalo green room that he just might prefer to...
View ArticleOur Negligent, Academically Corrupt Culture Neglects High Art
In a wide-ranging talk at the Skirball Cultural Center, critic Camille Paglia, author of Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars, exalted George Lucas, Adele, and the artist...
View ArticleGetty Director Timothy Potts
Timothy Potts became the director of the Getty Museum in September; previously, he was director of the Fitzwilliam Museum at the University of Cambridge in England. Before participating in a panel on...
View ArticleDocumentary Filmmaker Jody Hassett Sanchez
Producer and documentary filmmaker Jody Hassett Sanchez is the president of Pointy Shoe Productions, a film company that focuses on issues of faith and culture; previously, she was a producer at ABC...
View ArticleArt Historian Martin Schwarz
Art historian Martin Schwarz curated the Getty Museum exhibition “Heaven, Hell, and Dying Well: Images of Death in the Middle Ages” before moving to the University of Chicago. Before participating in a...
View ArticleAnn Philbin
Ann Philbin has been the director of the Hammer Museum since 1998. Before participating in a panel on the future of L.A.’s art museums, she confessed in the Zócalo green room that despite the fact that...
View ArticleCritic Camille Paglia
Critic Camille Paglia is the author most recently of Glittering Images: A Journey Through Art From Egypt to Star Wars, and is University Professor of Humanities and Media Studies at the University of...
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Bahooka is Dead. Long Live Bahooka.
The recent closing of Bahooka, a Tiki-themed restaurant in the San Gabriel Valley city of Rosemead, was an occasion for mourning. Bahooka was one of the great delights of Southern California Tiki, with...
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L.A. Only Looks Ugly
Los Angeles is a city of architects but not a city of architecture—not public architecture, anyway. For more than 100 years, its residential designs have been some of the best in the world, and yet, in...
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Architecture Does Matter—Even In Crazy L.A.
We accord both architects and their buildings celebrity status, but how much do blueprints ultimately influence the way we live or the way our cities develop? Architects, planners, designers, and...
View ArticleStill Life
The ocean can be so trite. How can one escape wanting and failing to describe and so capture the feinting one-two punch of childhood? I enjoy cranking up the heat in winter. I like...
View ArticleHow’d That German-Owned House Get Up on An L.A. Hill?
In 1927, the Los Angeles Times, in cooperation with the investors Arthur A. Weber and George Ley, built a “demonstration home” in Pacific Palisades. The project was supposed to attract wealthy buyers...
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Coming Home Again to Make Art
Can two artists, husband and wife, make a career and a life together in Tulare County? We grew up together in the town of Dinuba, right in the middle of this county in the middle of California. And we...
View ArticleWhy We Can’t Stop Loving Saints
Wildly famous. Frequently scandalous. Speakers of truth to power. Action heroes. Acclaimed by the people. Romantic, rebellious, charismatic, inspirational. These were just a few of the ways saints were...
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Is That An Art Exhibition In Your Ear?
It’s a stymying truth that a large percentage of people attending an art opening don’t see any art. Like showing up for roll call and sneaking out of the classroom the moment the teacher turns to write...
View ArticleThe Stuff Made of Dreams
What defines glamour, and why do we need it? Bloomberg View columnist Virginia Postrel, author of The Power of Glamour: Longing and the Art of Visual Persuasion, offered her thoughts on what makes up...
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Can Art Save My City?
Merced in California’s San Joaquin Valley has a population of 80,000 and a reputation for crime, unemployment, and teen pregnancy. But I want my hometown to be known for something else. My ultimate...
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Can a Sculpture Help Solve an Epidemic?
Twenty-five years ago, I was foraging through a museum bookstore and came upon an eye-catching title: AIDS: Cultural Analysis/Cultural Activism. The word “AIDS,” rendered on the cover in large font,...
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You Can Find Iran in Malibu
Iranians have a strong love for their country and sense of pride in their heritage and more than 2,500 years of recorded history. Parents instill these feelings in their children at an early age, by...
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