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    Feb 10, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  1. Al Pacino, Andre Watts among National Medal of Arts winners

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    Al Pacino and Andre Watts are among the National Medal of Arts winners announced Friday. President Obama will confer the awards on Monday at the White House....
    2. Feb 10, 2012 | Los Angeles Times

  2. National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medals announced

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    The White House announced the recipients of the National Medal of Arts and the National Humanities Medals today. Poet Rita Dove (above) is the leading literary figure among the seven who will receive the National Medal of Arts, joining actor......
    3. Nov 19, 2011 | Los Angeles Times

  3. An artistic dialogue about Proposition 8 at SFMOMA

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    "The Air We Breathe" at SFMOMA addresses issues of Prop. 8...
    4. Aug 26, 2010 | Los Angeles Times

  4. New Yorker Festival announces lineup

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    It wouldn't really be the New Yorker Festival without a little Malcolm Gladwell, would it? Today the New Yorker announced the lineup for its October festival of culture, arts and the written word. Who's taking part? A lot of the......
    5. Aug 29, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  5. W.S. Merwin is green as U.S. poet laureate

    Reporting from Maui —
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    Reporting from Maui — We've been batting our way through W.S. Merwin's yard for a couple hours, swatting mosquitoes in the streambed under the dark wet canopy of towering, philodendron-draped mangoes and looking at some 700 species of palm trees,...

    Tags: Natural Resources, Cambridge (Middlesex, Massachusetts), Human Interest, Awards and Prizes, Wildlife

    6. Apr 17, 2011 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  6. Discoveries

    Illuminations
    Special to the Los Angeles Times
    Illuminations Arthur Rimbaud, translated from the French by John Ashbery W.W. Norton: 165 pp., $24.95 This may be the most beautiful book in the world — lighted from within and somehow embodying all forms of literature at the same time. The 44...

    Tags: Bob Dylan, Photography, Merce Cunningham, American Red Cross, Arts and Culture

    7. Mar 14, 2010 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. 'Other Flowers: Uncollected Poems' by James Schuyler

    Other Flowers
    Other Flowers Uncollected Poems James Schuyler, edited by James Metzee and Simon Pettet Farrar, Straus & Giroux: 218 pp., $26 The Velvet Underground, it has been said, did not sell many records, but everyone who bought one went out and started his...

    Tags: Poetry, Awards and Prizes, Pulitzer Prize Awards, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch

    8. Jul 26, 2008 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  8. Honoring composer Elliott Carter

    LENOX, Mass. -- In 1986, Elliott Carter wrote "A Celebration of Some 100 x 150 Notes," a salute to Texas on its 150th anniversary. That may appear a lot of notes to fit into a three-minute piece, but this brash bevy of 11 fanfares all fighting for attention at once was but one very small part of "Carter's Century," a very large celebration of the composer's upcoming 100th birthday as part of the Tanglewood Music Festival here. If those 15,000 notes had been grains of sand, then this five-day jubilee (which ended Thursday) at the Boston Symphony's summer home in the lush green Berkshires could have been called Carter Beach.
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    LENOX, Mass. -- In 1986, Elliott Carter wrote "A Celebration of Some 100 x 150 Notes," a salute to Texas on its 150th anniversary. That may appear a lot of notes to fit into a three-minute piece, but this brash bevy of 11 fanfares all fighting for...

    Tags: Contemporary Music (genre), James Levine, Concerts, Festive Events, Music

    9. Sep 16, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Remembering Jim Carroll

    Jim Carroll, who died Friday of a heart attack at 60 in Manhattan, was a legend by the time he was 13. That's when the poet Ted Berrigan took him to visit Jack Kerouac, who took a look at some of Jim's writing and said, "Jim Carroll writes better prose than 89% of the novelists working today."
    Jim Carroll, who died Friday of a heart attack at 60 in Manhattan, was a legend by the time he was 13. That's when the poet Ted Berrigan took him to visit Jack Kerouac, who took a look at some of Jim's writing and said, "Jim Carroll writes better prose...

    Tags: Andy Warhol, Keith Richards, Death, Jack Kerouac, Poetry

    10. May 17, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  10. 'Curiosities of Literature: A Feast for Book Lovers'; 'Close Calls With Nonsense: Reading New Poetry'; 'The Whole Five Feet: What the Great Books Taught Me About Life, Death, and Pretty Much Everything Else'

    Curiosities of Literature
    Curiosities of Literature A Feast for Book Lovers John Sutherland Herman Graf/Skyhorse Publishing: 288 pp., $22.95 This totally silly literary miscellany is "loosely inspired" by Isaac D'Israeli's 1791 bestseller "The Curiosities of Literature." It is...

    Tags: Charles Dickens, Death, Hodgkins Disease, Poetry, Harvard University

    11. Jun 14, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  11. Still alive!

    To call something "notes" means it isn't finished.
    To call something "notes" means it isn't finished. A preparation for something else, or a work in progress. Or It means I know this is less than perfect. It means the piecemeal composition is acknowledged, should be applauded. "And to my horror (for I...

    Tags: Charles Dickens, Death, Walter Benjamin, Poetry, John Cage

    12. Oct 4, 2009 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  12. Manny Farber: A film critic not in awe of Hollywood

    Farber on Film
    Farber on Film The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber Edited by Robert Polito Library of America: 824 pp., $40 At this year's Academy Awards, the most incongruous moment came during the "In Memoriam" roll call. Among the distinguished deceased...

    Tags: Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Science and Technology, John Ford, World War II (1939-1945), Preston Sturges

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