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A Conversation with the novelist Salvador Plascencia

Salvador Plascencia met with me in July at my home to talk about our favorite writers and the loss of myth in our post-everything world. He has an easy-going Southern California neo-Latino vibe quite unexpected from the author of The People … Continue reading

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LINCOLN SENDS A MESSAGE TO AMERICANS

Lincoln’s Christmas Message 12/21/2010 01:08 pm ET Updated May 25, 2011 I FIRST WROTE THIS POST IN 2010 AND I BELIEVE IT HAS ONLY BECOME MORE RELEVANT AS TIME HAS PASSED. WE ARE LIVING IN A TIME OF SPLINTERED REALITIES … Continue reading

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Revisiting: A Conversation with Karen Green on Art and Forgiveness & the “Unimaginables”

In 2009, artist Karen Green made “The Forgiveness Machine.” It was a strange seven-foot-long plastic apparatus that allowed people to write down whatever they wanted to forgive or be forgiven for. You put the piece of paper with your forgiveness … Continue reading

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Max Benavidez at KCET Studios

Max Benavidez took his Sotheby’s Institute of Art class to KCET studios on Nov. 26 to meet with Juan Devis, Chief Creative Officer, and learn about many of the new shows being offered by the station including “The Migrant Kitchen” … Continue reading

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A View of A Great City at Sunset — Los Angeles

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How To Create Diversity in Publishing

The publishing industry in the United States is huge and doing quite well. According to a new report by Research and Markets, the U.S. publishing industry has grown to more than 2,600 publishing houses and about $25 billion in annual … Continue reading

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Manifest 1.0: A New Sonic and Sensory Immersion Experience

Immersive experiences have become something of a rage. Recently, Darkfield produced Séance at the Edinburgh Fringe. Here in L.A., Big City Forum recently offered Electric Soundbath as part of an experience for the “mystically inclined.” Museums have been offering various … Continue reading

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Venice Beach California

The magic of Venice Beach, California, nothing like it in the whole world, a special experience, lived there once.

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The Voice of Beauty

“the voice of beauty speaks softly; it creeps only into the most fully awakened souls” ― Friedrich Nietzsche

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Interview with The Most Famous Artist

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BOgOwizL248&feature=youtu.be

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