If you would have told me a few years ago that Iron and Wine ““ famous for spare acoustic, man-alone-with-his-guitar music ““ would be creating fully fleshed-out, sonically complex music, I would have told you to take off your plaid hipster shirt and eat it.
Author Archives: Madeleine Flynn
Alumnus Allan deSouza reworks famed masterpieces to explore feelings of displacement
Something about the colorful, pixilated print is familiar, and yet, it’s not immediately clear why.
Then the faint outline of Paul Cezanne’s face emerges from the yellow, red and green patterns.
The piece, “Cezanne,” is a digitally altered version of Cezanne’s famous self-portrait and hangs along similarly remastered works of some of the most well-known names in Western art.
The artwork is part of “His Masters’ Tools,” an exhibition currently on display through May 29 at the Fowler Museum.
L.A.-based thatwasthen goes from winning Spring Sing’s best band award to performing at Troubadour
Songs by Auto-Tune-loving musicians may fill the radio these days, but the members of L.A.
Acting like the ancients
As the afternoon sunlight filters through the windows of Macgowan Hall and illuminates the black rehearsal clothes of a group of UCLA theater undergraduates, they’re not exactly acting as one would expect.
Painting with sand
Living so close to many of California’s most famous beaches, residents of Los Angeles get a lot of one-on-one face time with sand.