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Pole art popularity outstrips its origins
Sergia Anderson climbed high up a pole as Bjork's "Hyperballad" blasted through Circus Disco, a West Hollywood nightclub. Spinning and twirling, legs straight and toes pointed, she hung perpendicular to the ceiling, holding the pole with just her hands....
Tags: Bars and Clubs, Dance, Physical Fitness and Exercise, Dining and Drinking, Artists
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Review: Perspectives in photography in 'Falling From Great Heights'
Keeping pace with the rapid evolution of photography — understanding its formal capacities, its social relevance, its relationship to other media — has proved easier, on the whole, for artists than for galleries, which are more prone to...
Tags: Artists, Arts and Culture, Arts
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Artist Xavier Veilhan takes on Lautner's Sheats-Goldstein house
Xavier Veilhan, the Paris-based artist who last year turned Richard Neutra’s VDL House in Silver Lake into a startling temporary gallery and later transformed Pierre Koenig’s Case Study House No. 21 into a ghostly, smoke-filled, one-night-only...
Tags: Artists, Arts and Culture, Arts, Architecture
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Art review: Urs Fischer's grand gestures come up short at MOCA
Urs Fischer is an artist of the big gesture. It's a mixed blessing. Emblematic is a monumental outdoor sculpture in his newly opened, 16-year survey exhibition, which is divided between the Museum of Contemporary Art's two downtown L.A. buildings. The...
Tags: Halloween, Sculpture, Artists, Thomas Kinkade, Museums
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'Filly Brown' forges a link between generations of Latino artists
A few minutes before a screening of "Filly Brown" last week, Oscar-nominated actor Edward James Olmos tried to explain why the new family drama about a female Los Angeles street poet "is the most hopeful film I've ever worked on in my life." Olmos, 66,...
Tags: Stand and Deliver (movie), Celebrities, Sundance Film Festival, Music, Entertainment
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Former L.A. Times art critic William Wilson dies at 78
William Wilson, who wrote art criticism for the Los Angeles Times for more than three decades, died Saturday after suffering from Alzheimer's disease for several years. He was 78. Wilson, who was diagnosed with the disease four years ago, passed away...
Tags: The Getty, Alzheimer's Disease, Obituaries, California State University, Fullerton, Artists
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Coachella 2013: The music goes on, but for what purpose
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival is considered one of the music industry's premier festivals, connecting the dots between musical generations and genres with a diverse lineup that attracts fans from around the globe. But the festival, which...
Tags: Blur (music group), Fool's Gold (music group), Entertainment, Music, Festive Events
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Rachel Kushner lights a fire in 'The Flamethrowers'
Rachel Kushner's house in Angelino Heights feels about a million miles — and a million years — from the tumult embodied in her novels. There are books on shelves and stacks of children's games; in one corner, a music stand holds a beginner's...
Tags: Italy, Authors, Artists, Arts and Culture, Cuba
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Summer Movie Sneaks complete list
The 2013 Summer Movie Preview is a snapshot of films opening through the end of August. Release dates (for Los Angeles) and other details, as compiled by Oliver Gettell, are subject to change. -------------------- FOR THE RECORD: Sneaks list: In the...
Tags: Chris Pine, Mike O'Malley, Olivia Wilde, Zack Snyder, Networking
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Review: History lurks in Stephen Prina's sculptures at LACMA
Edouard Manet (1832-83) was arguably the first Modern artist. Partly that's because the 19th century painter's work was made in direct, conscious response to museum art — in those days a newfangled institution. Before, painters and sculptors...
Tags: The Getty, Austria, Sculpture, Tangerine, Artists
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MOCA gala takes walk on the wild side
It seemed only fitting that the MOCA gala celebrating the opening of Urs Fischer's new chaos-skirting show, organized under the "creative direction" of the crazy-making artist Rob Pruitt, would have a Dada sort of anti-logic. In other words, it was...
Tags: Eli Broad, Celebrities, The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Antonio Villaraigosa, Artists
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Playwright drags Chile's conscience into the spotlight
The stage lights rise, and Michelle Bachelet — former political prisoner, torture victim and socialist president of Chile from 2006 to 2010 — braces herself to deliver a dramatic farewell speech. "Pardon me if I offend the fascists," she tells...
Tags: Crime, Law and Justice, Chile, Celebrities, Political Systems, Human Rights
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