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Hammer Museum Weaves LA Artists and Afghan Craftswomen into Carpet Project

For the Afghan Carpet Project, weavers in Afghanistan took designs from six LA artists and made them into carpets now on view at the...

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Artist David Hockney Returns to LA for a New Gallery Exhibition: Our Interview & Photos

The exhibit David Hockney: Painting and Photography opened this week at LA Louver, and will be on view there through September. Hockney himself attended...

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Pulitzer Prize Winner Julia Wolfe Picks Up an Alpert Award: Our Interview with Her

Today, the Herb Alpert Foundation and California Institute of the Arts (CalArts) awarded the 21st Annual Herb Alpert Award in the Arts to five...

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Fall Down the Rabbit Hole with LA Phil’s Alice in Wonderland Director

When you're dealing with Alice and Wonderland ... we're out there. For anybody being offered a production, Alice in Wonderland is the one you want,...

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Olympian & WWII P.O.W. Louis Zamperini’s Children Talk About Their Father the Hero

The movie Unbroken, coming out on Christmas Day, is the almost inconceivable true story of Louis Zamperini. Born in Torrance, California, he made a...