Movies
South Korean provocateur Kim Ki-duk’s new film “Pieta,” about a cold, wraith-like loan-shark enforcer in a poverty-stricken village, is expectedly gruesome in some of its details.
May 16, 2013
Entertainment & Arts
Robert Snyder’s “Michelagniolo: Self-Portrait” (the Westside Pavilion, and being advertised as “Michelangelo: Self-Portrait”), which had a special County Museum of Art screening last December, is even more enthralling the second time around.
May 11, 1989
Review: ‘Pieta’s’ vengeance tale shows capitalism’s cruel side
Books
What’s in a word?
Sept. 4, 1988
In the early 18th century, services at the Ospedale della Pieta in Venice were often high-society events, thanks to the hospice’s internationally famed music establishment.
Jan. 23, 2001
California
Fundamentalists in every faith have so misused the term “blasphemy” in their attempts to vilify their opponents that I hesitate to utilize this term.
April 20, 1992
Dorothea Lange’s haunting photograph of a careworn young woman holding a sleeping baby, titled “Migrant Mother,” is one of the icons of American culture, a back-road Pieta that symbolizes the ordeal of the refugees who fled the Dust Bowl of Oklahoma and Arkansas to seek their fortunes in California in the 1930s.
May 30, 1990
Ingmar Bergman used his films to take us inside his secret torments and feel his anguish. The result usually was cinema that moved us, whether it scared us or made us care.
July 31, 2007
Culture Monster Blog
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July 21, 2011
A contemporary depiction of the Virgen de Guadalupe, a respected symbol among Latinos, will adorn billboards for the next month in areas where gang turf wars have heated up.
March 28, 1993