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Museum: ART BREAK: THE POLITICS OF LABOR (Getty)
BREAK AWAY FROM THE EVERYDAY WITH THE GETTY’S NEWEST PROGRAMStature #8, 2020, Rodrigo Valenzuela. Photograveur. Courtesy of and © Rodrigo Valenzuela First in the series in Art Break: The Politics of Labor Friday, March 26, 2021 12:00 p.m. PT Art Break, a new online program series, offers unique perspectives on the Getty collections. Take a…
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Museum: THE WALT DISNEY STUDIOS AND WORLD WAR II (The Walt Disney Family Museum in San Francisco)
The Walt Disney Family Museum opens its new special exhibition, The Walt Disney Studios and World War II, on Thursday, March 18 for museum members and to the general public the following day, Friday, March 19, 2021. Disney Studio Artist, historically accurate color rendition by Kent Ramsey; 2nd Reconnaissance Squadron, Fresno, CA, Dumbo insignia, 1942….
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Film Screening and Q&A: DISCLOSURE (with Laverne Cox, Sam Feder & Amy Scholder; Hammer Museum)
YANCE FORD MODERATES Q&A PRIOR TO SCREENING with Laverne Cox, Sam Feder & Amy Scholder Beginning today, January 19 at 5pm PST, L.A.’s Hammer Museum will present a free screening of Sam Feder’s Disclosure on demand. Before the screening, producer and director Yance Ford moderates a Q&A with Disclosure director Sam Feder, producer Amy Scholder, and Emmy Award winner Laverne Cox. The…
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Museum and Film Feature: MICHAEL ALMEREYDA HERE AND NOW (Retrospective at the Museum of the Moving Image)
MUSEUM OF THE MOVING IMAGE PRESENTS A SELECT RETROSPECTIVE OF SINGULAR AMERICAN AUTEUR MICHAEL ALMEREYDA ON THE OCCASION OF HIS NEW FILM, TESLA MoMI’s Virtual Cinema presentation includes four features and rarely shown shorts AUGUST 21 THROUGH SEPTEMBER 20, 2020 A true American iconoclast, Michael Almereyda has been directing, writing, and producing unconventional, fiercely independent…
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Art Preview: PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ: HARLEM RENAISSANCE FASHION TALK (Art Deco Society of Los Angeles)
PUTTIN’ ON THE RITZ: HARLEM RENAISSANCE FASHION TALK A Virtual Illustrated Presentation with CAMARA HOLLOWAY & ELIZABETH WAY Sunday, August 23, 2020 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM PDT / 6:00 PM EDT Tune in from Home Presented by the Art Deco Society of Los Angeles Harlem during the Jazz Age was renowned for the style…
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Theater and Art Preview: ARTISTS-IN-PRESIDENTS: FIRESIDE CHATS (UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance / CAP UCLA)
CHATS FOR CHANGE UCLA’s Center for the Art of Performance (CAP UCLA) presents Artists-In-Presidents: Fireside Chats for 2020. This project is one of this season’s micro-commissions and a commitment to artists, especially during this season of financial uncertainty. While Artists-In-Presidents will be free to enjoy from Tuesday, September 14, through Friday, November 13, 2020 over…
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Art and Film Preview: ORIGINAL STAR WARS PROPS (Prop Store’s Entertainment Memorabilia Live Auction August 26 and 27, 2020)
ICONIC STAR WARS PROPS TO BE SOLD IN HOLLYWOOD AUCTION AUGUST 26 & 27, 2020 (Darth Vader costume, Stormtrooper Helmet, lightsabers and more) 1977 Darth Vader Promotional Touring Costume used in the promotion of Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) is estimated to sell between $150,000 – 250,000 ( £114.8k – 191.4k) as part of Prop Store’s Entertainment…
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Auction Preview: ICONIC HORROR & SCI-FI PROPS (Prop Store)
ICONIC HORROR & SCI-FI PROPS TO BE SOLD AS PART OF HOLLYWOOD AUCTION AUGUST 26 and 27, 2020 Anthony Hopkins “Hannibal Lecter” Costume, Alien Queen Model Miniature, Gremlins, plus more classic horror film memorabilia to go under the hammer in upcoming Los Angeles auction. Over 850 rare and iconic lots will be sold during Prop…
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Museum Preview: DISNEYLAND’S 65TH (Walt Disney Family Museum)
DISNEYLAND CELEBRATION COMES TO YOU Celebrate Disneyland’s 65th trip around the sun this Friday, July 17. San Francisco’s Walt Disney Family Museum hosts a day filled with special Disneyland-centric virtual programming, Disneyland trivia, and a few surprises along the way. Expect some of your favorite Disneyland memories coming to life—virtually! Start the day with well-known…
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Exhibit Review: SOCIALLY DISTANT THEATER: THE SOLO SHOW AS SEEN BY HIRSCHFELD (The Al Hirschfeld Foundation)
TAKE A SOLO BOW, MR. HIRSCHFELD How many of us theater addicts have gone to a solo show only to find some woman squealing about her private parts (or man for that matter), and you think “Never Again.” Then you catch Whoopi Goldberg or Robert Morse or Julie Harris or John Leguizamo or the great…
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Arts: MUST-SEE MUSEUMS FOR COLLEGE STUDENTS IN LONDON
Ever had a trip to the museum? Students are the ones who are often given the privilege to visit museums as these are educational and will surely make the mind work. It has tons of beautiful, amazing, and mesmerizing things to see and know about. This is why students love going out and visit museums….
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Art Exhibit Review: KING TUT: THE TREASURES OF THE GOLDEN PHARAOH (California Science Center / Los Angeles)
THE PHARAOH-EST OF THEM ALL One of the most famous people who has ever existed isn’t well-known because of his life, but his death. Over 5,000 perfectly preserved artifacts were discovered along with this young king’s mummified remains by English archaeologist Howard Carter on November 4, 1922 in Egypt’s Valley of the Kings. As the…
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Art Exhibit Review: THE CLOCK (Christian Marclay at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
TIME, THOU SHALL NOT BOAST Christian Marclay’s 2010 24-hour found-footage movie The Clock really is a clock: The 12,000-clip montage is only shown synchronized to local time, and through September 7 it’s running as an installation during LACMA hours. You can tell time by it. As a philosophical and spiritual reverie, it also tells time…
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Art Exhibit Review: HOLLYWOOD COSTUME (Academy Museum of Motion Pictures)
HOORAY FOR HOLLYWOOD COSTUME More than a celebration and appreciation of over a century of cinematic costume design, this exquisite exhibit is a piece of art unto itself. Surprisingly, Hollywood Costume goes beyond a Planet Hollywood-esque display of artifacts with a swanky, insightful, and exhaustive (but not exhausting) look into the creative minds who brought…
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Art Exhibit Review: PIERRE HUYGHE (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
PIERRE IN WONDERLAND At the entrance to Pierre Huyghe’s retrospective at LACMA, a tuxedoed gentleman requested my name and then announced me to the exhibit as if I was entering a grand ball (Name Announcer, 2011). I was then greeted by a low-lit maze of angled and mostly stark white walls which led me down…
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Art Festival Review: L.A. ART SHOW 2020 (Convention Center)
I never in my wildest imaginings would have thought Los Angeles to become a mecca for art. But the combination of a rich cultural stew, the burgeoning arts life of downtown L.A., an explosion of galleries (of which Culver City was at the forefront), the opening of The Lucas Museum of Narrative Art next year,…
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