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Google’s Got A Make-Your-Own-Art-Show App (And It’s Free)

VISUAL Posted: December 13, 2013 10:40 am

Google’s Got A Make-Your-Own-Art-Show App (And It’s Free)

“Google has launched a new online tool to allow museums, galleries and individuals to create online art exhibitions. Google Open Gallery became available for public use this week, though potential users must request an invitation from Google to use the free service.”

Read the story at Published: 12.12.13, Los Angeles Times

John Cage, Filmmaker (They’ve Found The Evidence)

PEOPLE Posted: December 13, 2013 10:00 am

John Cage, Filmmaker (They’ve Found The Evidence)

“Ask John Cage in 1956, as the sculptor Richard Lippold did, to make a film and you take your chances.” (Pun intended.)

Read the story at Published: 12.11.13, Los Angeles Times

Court Allows California To Resume Suit For Nazi-Looted Pissarro Painting

VISUAL Posted: December 13, 2013 2:25 am

Court Allows California To Resume Suit For Nazi-Looted Pissarro Painting

“A Jewish family from San Diego that has been seeking to recover a painting by Camille Pissarro that a relative sold during the Holocaust has received a legal victory from a panel of judges who ruled this week that the family can pursue the case, reversing an earlier court decision that had favored the painting’s present owner.”

Read the story at Published: 12.11.13, Los Angeles Times

L.A. County Museum Of Art Is Reviving Its Art-Meets-Tech Companies Program

VISUAL Posted: December 13, 2013 2:20 am

L.A. County Museum Of Art Is Reviving Its Art-Meets-Tech Companies Program

But they’re doing it differently this time around – and the companies involved include Google and SpaceX.

Read the story at Published: 12.10.13, Los Angeles Times

Weinstein Brothers Sue Warner Studios – Again

MEDIA Posted: December 13, 2013 1:41 am

Weinstein Brothers Sue Warner Studios – Again

“For the second time this year, the brothers Weinstein are in a legal dispute with the brothers Warner.” This time, it’s about the Hobbit films.

Read the story at Published: 12.12.13, Los Angeles Times

Surprises And Snubs In The 2014 Golden Globe Noms

MEDIA Posted: December 12, 2013 4:59 pm

Surprises And Snubs In The 2014 Golden Globe Noms

“The Golden Globes have a long and often amusing reputation for nomination-morning howlers. But [this year], there was no Tourist, no Burlesque, no Salmon Fishing in the Yemen … Yet that didn’t mean the snubs and surprises, the jaw-droppers and the head-scratchers, weren’t there. Here are six of the biggest.”

Read the story at Published: 12.12.13, Los Angeles Times

Will David Sedaris Or Stephen Colbert Finally Win A Grammy This Year?

WORDS Posted: December 12, 2013 4:53 pm

Will David Sedaris Or Stephen Colbert Finally Win A Grammy This Year?

They’ve each been nominated in the Spoken Word category three times before – and they’re competing against a couple of living legends (whom people under 35 may not even remember).

Read the story at Published: 12.06.13, Los Angeles Times

Drag Queens, Soul Sisters And A Proto-Carrie: 2014 Grammy Noms For Musical Theater

THEATRE Posted: December 12, 2013 4:49 pm

Drag Queens, Soul Sisters And A Proto-Carrie: 2014 Grammy Noms For Musical Theater

There are three nominees. Did we give enough hints for you to guess them?

Read the story at Published: 12.06.13, Los Angeles Times

Classical Grammy Nominations 2014: An Esa-Pekka Year?

MUSIC Posted: December 12, 2013 4:41 pm

Classical Grammy Nominations 2014: An Esa-Pekka Year?

Salonen (or his work) is nominated in three different categories. Other nominees include the familiar (Rattle, DiDonato, Bartoli; Wagner, Beethoven, Pärt), those we should know better (Lutoslawski, Palestrina; Maria João Pires, Estonian Philharmonic Chamber Choir), the up-and-coming (2013 Pulitzer winner Caroline Shaw; New York Polyphony), the little-known (Leonardo Vinci, not to be confused with that mirror-writing Mona Lisa guy), and the beleaguered (Osmo and the Minnesotans).

Read the story at Published: 12.06.13, Los Angeles Times

Upstarts Upset Chick Corea In 2014 Grammy Jazz Nominations

MUSIC Posted: December 12, 2013 4:38 pm

Upstarts Upset Chick Corea In 2014 Grammy Jazz Nominations

“A winner of 20 Grammys, including two last year, Corea, with his latest album The Vigil, was shut out Friday night in this year’s list of nominees, which again offered a welcome blend of relative newcomers and familiar faces.”

Read the story at Published: 12.06.13, Los Angeles Times

Jazz Guitarist Jim Hall, 83

PEOPLE Posted: December 11, 2013 4:00 am

Jazz Guitarist Jim Hall, 83

“His career began in the ’50s as part of the West Coast jazz scene with Jimmy Giuffre and Chico Hamilton, recorded with wealth of jazz royalty over his career, including Ben Webster, Ella Fitzgerald, Bill Evans and Sonny Rollins.” Despite his relatively quiet profile, he was considered one of his instrument’s most influential players in all of jazz.

Read the story at Published: 12.10.13, Los Angeles Times

How Did A Furniture Factory In Wisconsin Turn Out So Many Classic Records?

MUSIC Posted: December 8, 2013 9:32 pm

How Did A Furniture Factory In Wisconsin Turn Out So Many Classic Records?

“Their very cheapness and interest in getting stuff out as quickly as possible ended up unwittingly providing this platform with this incredible breadth to it — just in the diversity of sounds that were captured.”

Read the story at Published: 12.08.13, Los Angeles Times

Will Sundance Turn This Arizona Dude Ranch Into An Artists’ Colony?

Uncategorized Posted: December 6, 2013 12:45 am

Will Sundance Turn This Arizona Dude Ranch Into An Artists’ Colony?

Rex Ranch in Arizona is poised to become an ambitious artists’ retreat, if a Sundance Institute executive can come up with the money to buy the 50-acre former dude ranch by the middle of December.”

Read the story at Published: 12.04.13, Los Angeles Times

Nelson Mandela’s Legacy To The Arts

PEOPLE Posted: December 6, 2013 12:37 am

Nelson Mandela’s Legacy To The Arts

“Many people know that Nelson Mandela’s life inspired novels, poems, plays and films, but few people know how powerful his effect on the theater was and how powerful the theater’s effect was on him.” A tribute from playwright Emily Mann, director of Princeton’s McCarter Theater.

Read the story at Published: 12.05.13, Los Angeles Times

For Maria Callas’s Birthday, Five Great Rumors

PEOPLE Posted: December 3, 2013 11:26 am

For Maria Callas’s Birthday, Five Great Rumors

“In the decades since her death, rumors continue to persist about Callas’ colorful career and personal life. Here are five of the most famous anecdotes, their veracity never confirmed nor completely discounted.” (What, you never heard about the tapeworm?)

Read the story at Published: 12.02.13, Los Angeles Times

What Happens When You Outfit An Entire (Massive) School District With iPads?

ISSUES Posted: December 1, 2013 11:29 pm

What Happens When You Outfit An Entire (Massive) School District With iPads?

“When the first group of campuses received the tablets this fall, more than 300 students at three high schools almost immediately removed security filters so they could freely browse the Internet.”

Read the story at Published: 12.01.13, Los Angeles Times

Walt Disney Had Some (Possibly Surprising) Opinions On Women Working In Animation

MEDIA Posted: December 1, 2013 10:23 pm

Walt Disney Had Some (Possibly Surprising) Opinions On Women Working In Animation

The currently hot “Frozen” is the first feature film from Disney Animation with a woman director, but perhaps not because of Walt (in 1941): “The girl artists have the right to expect the same chances for advancement as men, and I honestly believe they may eventually contribute something to this business that men never would or could.”

Read the story at Published: 11.29.13, Los Angeles Times

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