…is something I rarely miss when at home – usually with eyes open just before the first glimmer of light rolls over the San Gabriel Mountains…this morning ..
Tag : Los Angeles
…’strings of paper flags with kaleidoscope cut-outs used as festive decorations throughout Mexico…traced back to the Aztecs’ hand made by Taller Arte Papel Oaxaca with local stalks of flax was the ceiling-hanging/covering highlight of Dosa’s installation at the Santa Monica Museum of Art opening l..
…not to be confused with that other thing going on over there in Italy – casually and graciously infiltrates, while paying homage to, the existing landscape of art, craft, performance and booths along the Venice Beach boardwalk this weekend organized by curator Ali Subotnick as a part of the Hammer Museums’s Los Angeles Biennial exhibition “Made in L.A.” featuring ..
…back after a few months away, happy to home in California which always put those Joni Mitchell words through my mind…Oh California I’m coming home, Oh make me feel good rock ‘n’ roll band, I’m your biggest fan, California I’m coming h..
…from Rome to L.A. was only part of a much longer day, starting with getting in a car at the Pollinaria farm in Abruzzo at 1am to a Fiumicino bound bus in Pescara and ending with a long meeting and dinner at the Hammer Museum in Westwood right off the plane, followed by immediate collapse ..
…this evening after 24 hours checking in on the homefront, and now headed ‘back east’ as they refer to it here ‘out west’ to New York City where I’ll be planting a big round wild edible medicinal herbal pollinator attractor garden (with plants and dirt from McEnroe Organic Farm and the amazing Annie Novak of ..
…The Story of the Angeles National Forest‘ is the title of this charming 48-page booklet by W.W. Robinson and illustrated by Irene Robinson, published by the Title Insurance and Trust Company in 1946, which I picked up after seeing it prominently displayed at my new favorite neighborhood bookstore – Alias Books East in Atwater Village, ..
…is the rare event that came to us here in LA late this afternoon from 5:24 until 7:42, peaking at 6:48, so up on the deck I arranged my hands in the NASA-recommended finger formation of a waffle to see the eclipse play itself out, projected in eight little solar eclipses on the blue dome ..
…was always one of my favorite city escapes when I first moved to LA from NYC in 1999, when everything was all California Dreaming newness to me, which it feels like all over again, while inspired to rediscover the city after being in and out, but mostly out, of town for the past few years ..
..the scenic Hollywood Hills / Santa Monica Mountains park popular with fit youngish Angelenos in the ‘industry’ is not a place I get to visit very often, but wanting to make a gradual informal tour of the wild regions of the city, it’s where I headed today for a hike up and sweaty jog down. ..
…or Romneya coulteri, or fried-egg flower, are the towering white petaled and yellow native Californians whose drama is greeting visitors to the Theodore Payne Foundation right now (the place I can’t get enough of, and where I have returned today for some native grape vines, currants, sages, and such) – which of course leads to ..
…opened tonight, featuring set installations by artist friends Alice Konitz and Katie Grinnan (presenting a bright shiny colorful dramatic ‘Junk Heap’). Crescent City is a hyperopera with music by Anne LeBaron, libretto by Douglas Kearney, and directed by Yuval Sharon. It’s the inaugural production of The Industry, a new home for new and experimental opera in ..
…with the San Gabriels in the distance was my welcome home ..
…was a jolt to the eyes on a hot bright midday lunch excursion to Forage today, coming upon the brand new street-to-plaza conversion at this very familiar intersection of Sunset Boulevard and Maltman – just down the hill from my first L.A. home from 1999-2000, and the location of my favored Saturday farmers market – ..
…after a hot sunny summer-like 80 degree day spent in shorts gardening is my prelude to a late night red-eye to NYC, and all of the early March weather it implies, making the day more special, and harder to l..
…for the Otis College of Art & Design’s Graduate Public Practice convention occupation program called Re/Locating Learning: Public Practices as Art at the College Art Association 100th Annual Conference housed in the very very dreadful Los Angeles Convention Center, a hostile environment that could pretty much suck the humanity out of even the most earnest ..
…caught me off guard while doing some L.A. re-entry grocery shopping on the other side of the hill in Highland Park, exiting Figueroa Produce – my new favorite neighborhood market and go-to place when I miss the farmer’s markets – where I came upon a make-shift main street of various food makers, families making themselves ..
…is a typical return to town lately, delivering me to Union Station – the highlight of which is the vista of the city and mountains (if you’re lucky) from the top of the massive 105 to 110 interchange which then directs us north to downtown, dramatically framed in the b..
…kicked off last night at LA’s Human Resources in Chinatown (where, despite the crowd, I managed to get real Doris Day parking – right at the front door) with an opening for the big exhibition of new work and videos plus an audience participation performance of ‘personification’ where about 15 spectators were pulled up on ..
…(a triangular modular system that can take just about any form you can imagine) in my dome organized by Francois Perrin this afternoon was an intimate kick-off for his upcoming LA-Paris program at the end of the year – events, activities and projects created collaboratively by artists & architects from the two cities – and ..
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