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Art review: 'Jack Youngerman' at Margo Leavin Gallery
Youngermans condensed emblems link a West Coast exploration of Pops perceptual dimensions to Matisse and OKeefe, in miniature and sans the sentimentality.
Life as a museum guard: Wazir Taniwal and Jesse Ward of the Getty
What's it like to be a museum guard? We talked with guards from MOCA, LACMA and, here, Wazir Taniwal and Jesse Ward at the Getty.
Cultural Exchange: Preserving the relics of Shanghai's vanished Jewish population
Gravestones, many plundered or built over, are symbols of a forgotten group. Dvir Bar-Gal, an Israeli expatriate, works to preserve them.
Gordon Wiltsie goes where the wild images are
In a retrospective at Mountain Light Gallery in Bishop, the photographer's arresting pictures from both poles and seemingly every wild place in between are displayed.
Cultural Exchange: French writers look beyond Paris
Authors such as François Bon and Jean-Pierre Ostende are drawing more from their social, economic and political surroundings in a movement being called literature 'of the real.'
Cultural Exchange: Shyne goes from New York to jail to a new life in Israel
The Belize-born rapper, who now calls himself Moshe Michael Levy, an observant Jew, wants his music to make the world a better place.
Julie Taymor and her 'Spider-Man' perspective
The musical's former director receives a warm welcome in Los Angeles, talks of being under the microscope in connection with the gossip-plagued production.
Steampunk culture full speed ahead
Fans of the Victorian-influenced movement have an eye for antiquarian style and do-it-yourself ingenuity.
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