We spent a little time with Joel Ferree of LACMA’s brand, spanking new Art + Technology Lab. It’s a gorgeous, recently-renovated space with a cool green mood that is surely a boost to the creativity of all who enter.
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Art + Technology Laboratory at LACMA
Why Free Museum Admission is Such a Big Deal
Why Why Free Museum Admission is Such a Big Deal: it's the Just Do It of Art Appreciation (and especially great for turning kids into art lovers)
What Every Snowflake Knows in its Heart: Thoughts of Snow, Safety and Cloud Cake
Winter Games, the Kevin Pearce documentary, and a neat show about Winter Sports at SMMOA
Yutaka Sone & Benjamin Weissman: What Every Snowflake Knows in Its Heart, Tuck with Loose Straps 2007
In the midst of California’s worst drought on …
MLK, Jr. Day Reflections: 12 Years a Slave, Steve McQueen & a Charleston, SC Plantation
Traveling produces potent memories, and one of the most indelible experiences I’ve had on the road took place on the grounds of a former rice plantation outside Charleston, South Carolina called Middleton Place. I can’t remember exactly why we …
1.20.14
The Last Bookstore
Are your local Barnes and Nobles bookstores either closing or overrun with computer-fixated patrons? Are you a little too dependent upon your Amazon wish list? We might have the perfect https://www.thefamilysavvy.com/2014/01/the-last-bookstore/ to modern book malaise: a cavernous and strangely beautiful …
3 Reasons to Explore DTLA
Surprise, surprise! DTLA has been listed at the tippy top of several travel lists for 2014. GC magazine declared that “America’s Next Best City is inside LA” — declaring DTLA one of the coolest places in the country …
Giselle at The Music Center- Ticket Offer for Subscribers (Tea and a Film, too!)
The Royal New Zealand Ballet’s critically acclaimed staging of Giselle comes to town for four performances between January 31 and February 2… in time to put us all in the mood for Valentine’s Day! The ballet is known as …
Start the Year with David Hockney
Our New Year’s Resolution is to get to San Francisco before January 20 to see the de Young Museum’s extremely popular show, David Hockney: A Bigger Exhibition, which is only on view until January 20.
David Hockney, Yosemite I,
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Remembering Mandela
The media has been saturated with accounts of Mr. Mandela’s extraordinary life since his death last week at the age of 95. Much of it is worth reading — notably Nadine Gordimer and Philip Gourevitch in The New Yorker.
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