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Improvising Rachel Rosenthal, Always Avant-Garde
The contemporary art world’s performance fervor and cross-pollination of artistic media are a throwback to the late 1950’s More …
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Thanks for the NAMMemories
NAMM is the National Association of Music Merchants. Good people doing good things for weirdo musicians. The NAMM More …
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Kama Sutures, a Two-Piece, Plays Eclectic Sounds
It’s fairly rare these days to find musical artists who aren’t completely obsessed with how fast they can More …
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The Allure of Serialized TV and What It’s Doing to Movies
Last year, the busiest “retired” filmmaker in history, Steven Soderbergh, claimed for the umpteenth time that he was quitting More …
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An Etched Image of Philip Seymour Hoffman
I’m certainly not going to tell you anything you don’t already know about Philip Seymour Hoffman. I’m not More …
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Must-Sees at Sundance
The truism about Sundance is that it has grown — in all sorts of directions. During the festival, More …
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“Lady Gaga, We’re Through!”
Editor’s Note: This email was found by technicians nearly ten years after Lady Gaga entered a convent following More …
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The Light Years: James Turrell’s Retrospective at LACMA
Nearly 50 years of James Turrell’s holograms and geometries of light comprise the restless and revelatory retrospective at More …
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American Beauty — Three Folk Stories on Film
One great American genre is the tale of “what almost was and what might have been.” In Hollywood More …
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Novelty, Ingenuity, Response: Machine Histories’ Jason Pilarski on Design
Machine Histories is the Los Angeles design collaborative of Jason Pilarski and Steven Joyner. Machine Histories has collaborated More …
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“Transmedia” and Storyworld: How “Story” Evolves in Entertainment
Transmedia is one of those new words (birthdate: 2007) you may not have heard of: Here’s the wiki. And More …
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Pacific Standard Time, Or Biding Time in New Mexico?
Often, for artists, a move to New Mexico from Los Angeles or New York has been perceived as More …
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