This week my family and I are in Los Angeles for the holidays and each day has taken us to a different part of town. A case in point – on Sunday I planned our day around a visit to Hauser & Wirth’s LA gallery complex in downtown. Alexander Calder First and foremost what drew […]
TV Production in Los Angeles, 1940s – 1980s
January 16, 2018 9:54 pm By
The Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) Photo Collection and Photo Friends are co-sponsoring a new exhibition titled The Industry In Our Backyard: Television Production In Los Angeles, 1940s -1980s. Featuring images from the vast LAPL photo collection, this new exhibit “…showcases five decades in the life of the medium that dominated American culture, yet for […]
LA Art Book Fair 2017
February 21, 2017 3:58 pm By
Events that combine books and art always get my attention. I love both and write about them often on this blog. So it should come as no surprise that I’m really excited about the 2017 installment of the LA Art Book Fair (LAABF17). The LA based event and its counterpart, the NY Art Book Fair, showcase […]
Celebrate Los Angeles Through Photography
December 9, 2016 6:07 pm By
There are many ways to understand Los Angeles. One of my favorites is through photographs, which capture moments in time that tell stories about the built and natural environment and the people who make the city their home. For decades, the Los Angeles Public Library (LAPL) has collected millions of such images that date from […]
What was Los Angeles Like in 1962? National Geographic Tells One Side of the Story
October 29, 2016 11:02 am By
Last year a friend of mine mailed me an issue of National Geographic from October 1962. Like more recent issues of the magazine, this one included a wide range of stories, from a piece profiling “Western Samoa: The Pacific’s Newest Nation” to another about sending “Robots to the Moon.” But the main attraction for me, […]
Renato D’Agostin Photographs Los Angeles and Mines the City’s Collective Memory
September 15, 2016 2:04 pm By
There are different ways to represent, and share one’s impressions of, a place. Photographers use light to define their subject as they see it, while writers use words to describe, explain and tell stories about particular settings. In a recently published book called Archaeologies: LA, Italian photographer Renato D’Agostin and CalArts urban historian Norman Klein […]
KCRW and the Annenberg Foundation Announce SOUND IN FOCUS
June 1, 2015 5:52 pm By
Summer in Los Angeles always presents me with a quandary. What to do on any given weekend given the vast number of options that I can choose from? While I often decide on the spur of the moment, basing my choice on friends’ availability, my previous commitments and how I happen to feel that particular day, […]
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