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Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
“˜Gray Column’ at Getty Museum reflects De Wain Valentine’s lifelong fascination with plastics
A visitor walking into the J. Paul Getty Museum’s new exhibition “From Start to Finish: De Wain Valentine’s Gray Column” will notice a quote from artist De Wain Valentine printed across the wall: “I would like to have some way, a magic saw, to cut out large chunks of ocean or sky and say “˜Here it is.'” In the center of the room stands the towering, prismatic sculpture known as the “Gray Column,” the form Valentine, who once taught at UCLA, chose to represent his vision.
“˜Transcultural Pilgrim’ exhibit at Fowler displays global visions
For more than 30 years, Cuban American artist José Bedia has travelled the globe, seeking a deeper understanding of various cultures and their spiritual practices.
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Faith, illuminated
To some, a title like “In the Beginning Was the Word: Medieval Gospel Illumination” evokes ideas antithetical to modernity: tradition, religion and non-reproducibility.
Theater Review: "Comedy of Errors"
For what may be their final performance as the main theater troupe of Santa Monica’s Powerhouse Theater, the Los Angeles Theater Ensemble is putting on a free production of Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors.”
Theater Review: "Dancing at Lughnasa"
A cast of characters that includes five unmarried sisters, a malaria-stricken brother and an illegitimate love child with a constantly disappearing father seems to set a rather sullen tone for the play “Dancing at Lughnasa.”
Elemental art
Even among the other simple drafts and outlines on display, one sketch in the J. Paul Getty Museum’s exhibition “Luminous Paper: British Watercolors and Drawings” at the Getty Center seems particularly unfinished.