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Laguna Art Museum's 'California Printmakers' showcases inventive process
One image feels like confrontation: In Dirk Hagner's woodcut on washi paper, the Austrian painter Egon Schiele appears in stark form — the point of the eyes, the fault lines in the face, the hands entrenched in pockets and a deep shadow running toward you, the viewer. In another image, the prevailing feeling is one of escape: Raymond Pettibon's subject is running out of frame, the caption above reading: "I thought California would be different." Contrasting emotions are linked by artistic process in the Laguna Art Museum exhibition "California Printmakers, 1950-2000" running through May 31. Curated by museum executive director Malcolm Warner, the...
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Laguna Art Museum's 'California Printmakers' showcases inventive process
One image feels like confrontation: In Dirk Hagner's woodcut on washi paper, the Austrian painter Egon Schiele appears in stark form — the point of the eyes, the fault lines in the face, the hands entrenched in pockets and a deep shadow running toward...
'Secrets and Lies' on ABC fails to provide a reason to care
In "Secrets and Lies," ABC's new limited series premiering Sunday, the killing of a young boy unhinges an already troubled family and turns an idyllic community into a suspicious mob, further riled by a predatory media and the icy relentlessness...
Soko mines '80s new wave on 'My Dreams Dictate My Reality'
A rich, oddly magnetic new wave record far removed from the artist's introspective 2012 debut, the new "My Dreams Dictate My Reality" sees the singer known as Soko mining retro synths, echoed guitar tones suggestive of New Order and the Cure and...
John Boorman catches up with alter ego in 'Queen & Country'
John Boorman has made a lot of tough-nosed, violent and demanding films, including the 1967 film noir "Point Blank" with Lee Marvin, the Oscar-nominated 1972 thriller "Deliverance," starring Burt Reynolds and Jon Voight, and...
LACMA to screen '400 Blows,' other Francois Truffaut films
After building a reputation as a maverick film critic, New Wave pioneer Francois Truffaut burst into the international scene with his first feature, 1959's "The 400 Blows," a hauntingly personal tale starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as troubled...
'Mockingjay Part 1' sets up 'Hunger Games' finale nicely
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The "Hunger Games" franchise went from "massive worldwide hit" to "critically acclaimed" with its second installment, "Catching...
In 'Tyler's Suite,' voices unite against bullying
When Jane Clementi's son Tyler went off to Rutgers University in fall 2010 and began playing violin for a school orchestra composed primarily of upperclassmen and graduate students, she thought the skill he had been perfecting since age 3 — even...
Kobe Bryant calls the shots on his Showtime documentary 'Muse'
Ever since Kobe Bryant departed Staples Center in January with a season-ending tear in his rotator cuff, Lakers fans have braced for the worst.
The unforgiving advance of Father Time, debilitating injuries that have prematurely halted back-to-back...
'Provocations' pays tribute to designer Thomas Heatherwick
"We've become experts in not being experts," Thomas Heatherwick said during a tour of "Provocations," a Hammer Museum survey of the work his London design firm has produced over the last two decades.
He was referring to the ability,...
Leonard Nimoy made Spock 'Star Trek's' most complicated, and modern, hero
It is important, and sometimes difficult, to remember that Leonard Nimoy, who died Friday at the age of 83, was an actor, not an alien.
As Mr. Spock, the elf-eared, half-Vulcan science officer and first mate of the Starship Enterprise, he created a...
The Mosul Museum video from Islamic State could be a staged drama
The Islamic State wants the global community to know that there's a new sheriff in town. So it wrecked a museum full of precious sculptures and on Thursday posted video of the vandalism on the Internet.
At least, that's what their video wants you to...
The world as seen by Beaumarchais through a character named Figaro
Whether Rolex, the official timepiece of Los Angeles Opera, knows it not, it is as much a beneficiary of the work of Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais as the opera company itself. The 18th century French playwright wrote the trilogy of plays around...
The ghost of Prometheus: a long-gone tree and the artist who resurrected its memory
Somewhere in the high desert of eastern Nevada, a few turns off Route 50 — "the loneliest road in America" — a station wagon sat parked by the side of the highway. Before it lounged a young couple on red lawn chairs. A crudely painted wooden...
'Focus' filmmakers Glenn Ficarra and John Requa go for the unexpected
Movies don't have to be an either/or proposition. They can be both smart and fun, a pleasure without guilt and self-aware without being snobby.
The writing and directing team of Glenn Ficarra and John Requa specialize in something all too rare in...
'Jinx' director Andrew Jarecki thinks he knows the truth about Robert Durst
You might call Andrew Jarecki an expert in family dysfunction. His directorial debut, the Oscar-nominated documentary "Capturing the Friedmans," was a gripping portrait of a father and son accused of child molestation. The subject of his...
Post-beetles, a new tree is planted in George Harrison's memory
George Harrison was quoting ancient spiritual wisdom when he titled his 1970 solo album "All Things Must Pass," never suspecting that the proverb would one day apply to the fate of a pine tree planted in his memory in Griffith Park.
But two...
Opera is here to stay, says 'Dead Man Walking' composer Jake Heggie
Don't tell Jake Heggie that opera is a dying art form.
The composer of the opera "Dead Man Walking" thinks it's alive and kicking — he even uses an unprintable term to describe a recent batch of articles declaring that "Opera is...
UCLA film festival a fascinating window into our cinematic past
The UCLA Festival of Preservation doesn't have a motto, but if it did it might be "Give me your tired films, your huddled masses of forgotten and decaying cinema, and I will breathe fire into them and set them free." Really.
Put on every...
Sound of civil rights rings out in resurrected Staple Singers records
Occasionally, for reasons of fate or coincidence, sounds from the past converge in the present at key moments.
Consider the Staple Singers, whose gospel recordings starting in the early 1960s carried them through the next four decades and included...
NEA's Jane Chu visits L.A. arts programs, calls for focus on education
Amid a national conversation about the decline of arts education, National Endowment for the Arts Chairwoman Jane Chu came to Southern California this week and visited area arts programs including one at the Colburn School focusing on low-income sixth-...
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