If you have a yen for our city’s unusual and fascinating structures – from buildings to freeways – the next three months present rich opportunities for exploring how the modern art of architecture has rose up over the past fifty …
Architecture Month in LA – Overdrive at the Getty Center
3.22.13
War/Photography at the Annenberg Space for Photography
In the past year I saw an original war protest poster that looked like this:
If you asked your kids tonight if war was good or bad it would be like one of those AT&T ads where the market research …
What to Read Right Now: March 2013
With ski week and spring break ahead, we’re starting to stack up some books for vacation. Here’s what we think looks great.
It’s all over the headlines and hasn’t even been released to the public, but Sheryl Sandberg’s book Lean …
3.3.13
New documentary on PBS — Makers: Women Who Make America
It’s been 30 years since the publication of Betty Freidan’s The Feminine Mystique and the women’s movement is still a vital force in our lives, albeit it one that is easily taken for granted. For a primer on how …
What to Read Right Now: Recommendations for February 2013
Here’s a round up of books we’re enjoying right now that span the globe in topic — from parenting to politics to pure pleasure. 
Sonya Sotomayer’s autobiography My Beloved World chronicles her path from an underprivileged child suffering from Juvenile …
2.7.13
LA’s Rite: Stravinsky, Innovation and Dance
LA’s music and dance communities come together this year to celebrate the 100th anniversary of one of the most infamous pieces of music ever composed, Igor Stravinsky’s Rite of Spring. Want to find out why the original production sparked a …
Mapplethorpe Moves to Los Angeles
Significant art and associated archives from the Robert Mapplethorpe Foundation have been jointly obtained by the Getty Museum, LACMA, and Getty Research Institute, and this week marks the start of a partnership to protect and preserve the work of the …
10.23.12
Mad about Metzker: The Photography of Ray K Metzker and the Institute of Design
City Whispers: Los Angeles, negative 1981; print 2006 The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art, Gift of the Hall Family Foundation
The image above is the one Metzker photo with which I was familiar before heading into the Getty Center’s new show …
10.5.12
