Culture
Botticelli ‘Young Man’ portrait heads to auction at Sotheby’s
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Who wants to buy a Botticelli? Now’s your chance. A lovely portrait with an excellent pedigree by the Florentine Renaissance painter who gave us “The Birth…
COVID watch list: Randy Rainbow, Ken Burns, Broad on Basquiat
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn A star-studded benefit to save a beloved jazz club, a “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” watch party and a three-part series exploring artist Jean-Michel Basquiat’s…
COVID-19 led an L.A. troupe to reject Zoom theater for games
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn In 2016, Marlee Delia and Anna Mavromati started an independent theater group. In 2020, the pandemic turned them into game designers. With their small…
Biden inauguration hits a recently absent theme: Humility
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Character, the ancient Greek philosopher Heraclitus contended, is fate. And it was Joe Biden’s character, magnificently magnified at Wednesday’s inaugural…
Symbolism in the Biden inaugural painting by Robert Duncanson
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn The official “inauguration painting” displayed at a reception inside the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday came weighted with layered symbolism. The deft choice…
Biden inauguration day: Composer Peter Boyer of ‘Fanfare’
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn When the 2020 presidential election officially was called for Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, Altadena-based composer Peter Boyer dashed off a note to Col.…
Column: Trump trolls us on his way out the door with his garden of heroes plan
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn It is fitting that a presidential administration that has relentlessly trolled the world of culture — say, by repeatedly trying to eliminate the National…
How to watch Biden light, bell ceremony for COVID-19 victims
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn A salve is coming in the form of light: At 2:30 p.m. Pacific today, President-elect Joe Biden and Vice President-elect Kamala Harris are scheduled to…
New CEO of Ebony and Jet maps a comeback for Black magazine
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn The current media landscape is hardly conducive to launching a publication. Ad-funded journalism has sharply declined. Digital subscriber bases for…
My nominees for a Secretary of Culture in the Biden Cabinet
Facebook Twitter Pinterest LinkedIn Eight years ago, as President Obama was about to be sworn in for his second term, I noted that in the crush of inauguration activities he had forgotten…