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Mondongo is back, and so are their dark themes and punk influences. Mondongo consists of Juliana Lafitte and Manuel Mendanha. Step back in time about a decade and read part of the Mondongo Manifesto.
“In Spanish, the word Mondongo means tripe, or the lining of a cow’s stomach. The word Mondongo is also a stew we love, and we are like three witches stirring it up in a cauldron: revolving and expecting and trying and experimenting; attempting to alchemize, to distill, and ooze all the chaos, and the all possible ‘all-ness’ in it,” said the collective in 2008.
Witness now the return of Modongo from the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time LA-LA series. They are back in Los Angeles for the performance and installation of Automata in Chinatown on
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Bob Givens, who has given us so many iconic cartoon characters, has died at age 99 in Burbank of natural causes.
A 60-year long career that produced cartoon characters out of some of the most well-known Hollywood studios, Givens gave us Bugs Bunny, Elmer Fudd, Tom and Jerry, Daffy Duck, Popeye and Alvin and The Chipmunks, among many others. Givens worked at Disney, Warner Bros. Cartoons, Hanna-Barbara and DePatie-Freleng Enterprises. His imprint is huge on the American world of
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The works are striking upon entering the gallery. In an alchemy of silver nitrate and acrylic-coated canvases, the gallery was alight with pastels backed by a black canvas and silver coated acrylic in a variation of many colors. This new set of works by California artist Jimi Gleason is titled Reflected and Absorbed and is currently on exhibition at William Turner Gallery at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica through January 13, 2018.
Gleason uses a technique of impasto combined with silver
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Recently Malibu portrait artists Johanna Spinks, in conjunction with the Malibu Cultural Arts Commission, held an exhibition titled The Faces Of Malibu. The opening was a huge success with the sitters and their families coming out to support the event. Now this portrait exhibition, currently on display in City Hall, will have an accompanying lecture.
The Faces of Malibu lecture will be held Thursday, November 9, 2017 from 12:00 PM – 1:00 PM in Malibu City Hall host by and held in the Senior
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The band Hellyeah has a strong following in real life and on the charts. Crowds show up and fill the house to hear them perform at iconic venues here in the Los Angeles area and across the States. They’re a metal and hard rock band. Their sound is unique in part due to the lead singer, Chad Gray’s, voice. They also have a drummer that is very popular, Vinnie Paul, and guitarists that rock.
Hellyeah’s 2014 metal album Blood For Blood debuted number one on the Billboard Hard Rock album chart
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The taboo of the female body is ever present in the Hammer's exhibition Radical Women: Latin American Art 1960-1985. There is no replacement for going to an exhibition in person. The interaction with art is necessary for the emotional impact. In this case, the exhibition is full of powerful images related to women over the course of history. The first visual impact is outside the main gallery where a large mural board filled with social and political data on women related by country, including
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The internationally acclaimed Robert Berman Gallery has announced it is hosting its 35th Anniversary in conjunction with Bergamot Station's 20th Anniversary in Santa Monica. Exhibiting throughout the fall will be a four month, rotating sampling of artists and artworks presented at one of their seven different locations.
For the uninitiated, the gallery began in 1979 with their first solo artist exhibition with local artist Zox, reports the gallery in its announcement.
In the 1980's the
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The prestigious international auction house, Bonhams, put under the hammer the iconic Maltese Falcon statuette, from the classic 1941 film noir of the same name, to net a record $4-million.
Bonhams hosted a movie memorabilia collectors dream auction, held in partnership with Turner Classic Movies (TCM). The auction was titled What Dreams Are Made Of: A Century Of Movie Magic At Auction As Curated By Turner Classic Movies.
In the film The Maltese Falcon, Humphrey Bogart's character San
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With Derby Day fast approaching June 1, 2013, Bonhams offers an insight into a bustling Derby, almost two hundred years ago. The Derby originated in 1779 as a new race in Epsom and was to be named after either the host of the event, the 12th Earl of Derby, or his important guest, Sir Charles Bunbury. Local legend states that the decision was made by a toss of a coin. The Derby has continued to run at Epsom in the first week of June ever since, except during the World Wars.
The original
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Christie's realized in its New York Two-Week Spring Auction Series $828.8-million. The sale showcased important Impressionist, Modern, Post-War and Contemporary Art, with the inclusion of the 11th Hour Auction, which benefited the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation.
"My Foundation has worked on environmental issues since 1998, and despite the great efforts by organizations all over the world, our planet is in trouble," said DiCaprio. "The modern world is placing enormous pressure on the very
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Sotheby's London, a high end International auction house, is set to offer from private hands a fabulous Joseph Conrad Collection. Considered a highly comprehensive single author sale, from the library of the late Stanley J. Seeger., a great collector of art, the offer is to include Sylvia Plath’s annotated copy of Lord Jim. This particulat copy was read aloud to her by Ted Hughes the year before her death.
For the uninitiated, when St. Botolph’s Review, a literary magazine, was launched
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Herb Alpert's artistic expressions are on exhibition at the Robert Berman Gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica.
"In addition to his acclaimed musical accomplishments, Alpert has spent more than half his life as a respected abstract expressionist painter and sculptor," said Caroline Graham, Alpert's publicist at C4 Global Communications. "He began painting in 1969 and has experimented with a number of different styles and materials, perhaps none more unusual than one of his mediums of
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Is graffiti the catalyst of urban decay or its by-product? Is it art, or vandalism? Is graffiti a cry for existential recognition, or just a medium to bad mouth society at large? Or, is there a meaningful message inside the act of graffiti itself?
The word graffiti is derived both from its parent Greek term graphein, meaning to write, and the Italian word graffito. The plural form of graffito is graffiti
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