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IMAGE: XY FACTOR Defiant One
LA Times MagazineMenswear styles come and go, but the iconic Schott Perfecto lives to tell... -
Calvin Hicks dies at 71; his photos chronicled black life in L.A.
Calvin Hicks, a photographer who documented the nuances of daily African American life in Los Angeles and co-founded an association and gallery to preserve and display the work of black photographers, died May 20 at Ronald Reagan-UCLA Medical Center after...Tags: Robert Hicks, Los Angeles Times, Cancer, Arts, Arts and Culture
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What Patti Smith and Neil Young won't be doing at BEA
Jacket CopyAn encore of the stunning 1996 performance by Neil Young and Patti Smith is probably too much to hope for from their upcoming discussion together at BEA.... -
BLOCK EVENTS HIGHLIGHT MUSEUM AS TEACHING, LEARNING TOOL Spring and summer activities celebrate Block’s collections and role at Northwestern
TribLocal - EvanstonEVANSTON, Ill. — Three new exhibitions and related educational programs at Northwestern University’s Mary and Leigh Block Museum of Art this spring demonstrate the museum’s …... -
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Helen Frankenthaler dies at 83; abstract painter
Helen Frankenthaler, a New York artist whose bursts of color achieved by pouring thinned paint onto canvas from coffee cans helped point art in fresh directions after the initial post-World War II explosion of Abstract Expressionism, has died. She was 83....Tags: Unrest, Conflicts and War, Museums, Robert Motherwell, Ellsworth Kelly, Upper East Side
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Critic's Notebook: Patti Smith's 'Woolgathering'
![One thing I've always admired about Patti Smith is her refusal to be characterized. Rocker, poet, artist, mother: She seems to inhabit each of these roles almost effortlessly, moving among them as if the only difference was in our heads. And why not? For Smith, they all come out of the same impulse, a kind of ecstatic self-engagement, in which the line separating life and creativity, the mundane and the mystical, is an illusion, a border we create to bound ourselves. "Oh, God, I fell for you," she sings at the end of her 1979 song "Dancing Barefoot," and since the first time I ever played that record, I've heard this as a prayer, a benediction, as if it were God she had fallen for.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2011-12/66928002-22145537.jpg "One thing I've always admired about Patti Smith is her refusal to be characterized. Rocker, poet, artist, mother: She seems to inhabit each of these roles almost effortlessly, moving among them as if the only difference was in our heads. And why not? For Smith, they all come out of the same impulse, a kind of ecstatic self-engagement, in which the line separating life and creativity, the mundane and the mystical, is an illusion, a border we create to bound ourselves. "Oh, God, I fell for you,\" she sings at the end of her 1979 song \"Dancing Barefoot,\" and since the first time I ever played that record, I've heard this as a prayer, a benediction, as if it were God she had fallen for.")
Los Angeles Times Book CriticOne thing I've always admired about Patti Smith is her refusal to be characterized. Rocker, poet, artist, mother: She seems to inhabit each of these roles almost effortlessly, moving among them as if the only difference was in our heads. And why not?...Tags: Fine Artists, Sam Shepard, Gravy, Poetry, Patti Smith
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Pictures of a punk poet: Patti Smith's photographer tells story behind the still images
Lehigh Valley MusicIt was 1969 when Judy Linn, a recent college graduate fascinated with photography and living in New York City, met a struggling young poet. Linn says she was obsessed by the medium, and her new friend was obsessed with being...... -
Getty gets NEH grant to organize huge contemporary art archive
Culture MonsterThe Getty Research Institute has received a $230,000 National Endowment for the Humanities grant to help it organize a huge archive on modern and contemporary art that it acquired last summer. The NEH announced $17 million in grants, including $1.4... -
Patti Smith's Photography Sets up a Visual Dialogue With Some of Her Biggest Influences
Patti Smith: Camera Solo
October 21 – February 19
Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, 600 Main Street, Hartford, (860) 278-2670, thewadsworth.org.
Rock-and-roll-band-fronting poet Patti Smith, who turns 65 at the end of the year, has been...Tags: New York City, Documentary (genre), Jim Carroll, Poetry, Patti Smith
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Hansen: Mural a chance to get out of 'safe' art zone
It's not often in life that we can start with a blank slate, but that's exactly what students at the Laguna College of Art & Design will do this fall when they paint the now famous 80-foot gray wall on Laguna Canyon Road.
But will that wall become...Tags: Rocky Mountain Chocolate Factory Incorporated, Values, Arts, Arts and Culture, Ethics
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From Punk to Porn: James Wolcott reminds us why the 70s were so loud, weird, smelly and perverse
James Wolcott
WSHU Presents “Join the Conversation” with the writer, blogger and cultural critic. Tuesday, Nov. 1, 7 p.m., University Commons, Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, sacredheart.edu
It takes talent to pivot, the way James...Tags: Susan Sontag, Dancing, Drugs and Medicines, Reviews, Allergies
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