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Herb Ritts L.A. Style at The Ringling Museum of Art

Herb Ritts Exhibition Opens today and runs till May 19th at the Ringling Museum of Art. Herb Ritts (American, 1952–2002) was a Los Angeles-based photographer who established an international reputation for his distinctive photographs of fashion models, nudes, and celebrities. From the late 1970s until his untimely death from AIDS in 2002, Ritts’s ability to [...]

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Delicious Jazz and Soul at Art House Live This Friday

On Friday, January 18th Stereocure and Art House Live brings a night of delicious jazz and soul music! Live music all night from the John Daversa Small Band and Moonchild. Tucked away in Mar Vista, Art House Live inhabits an old tomato market that dates back to 1913. We have renovated the interior to include [...]

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NEW STAGES: NARRATIVE IN MOTION AT RINGLING’S ASOLO THEATER

NEW STAGES: NARRATIVE IN MOTION AT RINGLING MUSEUM’S HISTORIC ASOLO THEATER Sarasota, Fla. – New Stages: Narrative in Motion at the Ringling Museum’s Historic Asolo Theater heralds the return of storytelling in the new theatrical and choreographic forms for the 21st century. The four-part series of contemporary performance opens in January and runs through March. [...]

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Friday, January 11th, Art House Live presents a STEREOCURE showcase

On Friday, January 11th, Art House Live presents a STEREOCURE showcase, featuring three innovative acts off of the collective’s roster: StaG, Family Photo, and Native Eloquence. http://Stereocure.com/ Stereocure is a collective of musicians, writers, and artists dedicated to a vision of contemporary music culture that is inspired by a progressive and creative spirit. We are [...]

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St Martin’s Courtyard Becomes Open Air Cinema for Mini International Film Festival

St Martin’s Courtyard is proud to present this summer’s hottest ticket; Silent Cinema will transform the courtyard into an open air movie theatre. A full sized cinema screen will pop-up for two days in August showing great movies for free in the heart of London. Be transported to India on Wednesday 8th August when the [...]

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Franco Fasoli aka JAZ “Observadores” StreetArtNews Print Sold Out

For weeks, JAZ and StreetArtNews turned into Mexican Lucha Libre stars working on “Observadores”. As true luchadores, we took our lucha libre identity outside the ring, keeping our masks on when out in public. When you see us perform aerial moves, acrobatic maneuvers and intricate combinations otherwise known as Huracán rana, you’ll see how much [...]

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Preview of indie thriller film by Hollywood’s next noteworthy director

Los Angeles, CA, (July 6, 2012)—Mitesh Patel, Indian-American filmmaker who received a great deal of recognition from his previous film is currently creating his new innovative horror, mystery film titled Neron. Neron, which is set in the typical suburban areas, is an upcoming film about a warm mother who struggles with her fight to save [...]

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Brooklyn Close-Up Today @ BAM Rose Cinemas

Celebrating nine decades of Brooklyn film history and revealing how filmmakers since the silent era have been inspired by the County of Kings, BAMcinématek presents Brooklyn Close-Up, a series of Monday night screenings that coincides with BAM’s 16-month sesquicentennial anniversary celebration. Starting on Halloween, on the last Monday of every month through December 2012, take [...]

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Rooftop Film Festival is a must do

ABOUT ROOFTOP FILMS Rooftop Films is known internationally as one of the most dynamic film festivals in the world. In 2011, we screened more than 25 feature films, almost all of which are New York, U.S. or World Premieres. We showed over 150 short films in themed programs which have received accolades for being smart, [...]

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Street Stencils

Our Friends at BSA believe this is a stencil of Yoko Ono by an unknown artist. (photo © Jaime Rojo) We are not so sure about the Yoko Ono part. Give us your take on this unknown artists statement.

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LACMA June Line Up Released

June 5 at 7:30 pm – White Dog – 30th Anniversary Screening – Conversation with Howard Rodman (VP WGA West, screenwriting professor at USC) – An actress (Kristy McNichol) adopts a stray German shepherd after accidentally hitting it with her car. She develops a close relationship with the animal when it saves her from an [...]

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LACMA: Leading photographer Daido Moriyama’s first solo museum exhibition, April 7 – July 31

Fracture: Daido Moriyama April 7, 2012–July 31, 2012 Pavilion for Japanese Art, Level 3 Los Angeles County Museum of Art Photographer Daido Moriyama (Japan, b. 1938) first came to prominence in the mid-1960s with his gritty depictions of Japanese urban life. His highly innovative and intensely personal photographic approach often incorporates high contrast, graininess, and [...]

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Darryl Rhoades drops in on Train & Benny

Darryl comes back to chat after his gig in Indiana! 9:45 am www.whoa100.com Darryl is on about 45 minutes into the show Thanks for listening. Entertainer that has released eleven comedy &/or music CDs available on cdbaby.com or the official website: www.music-comedy.com Has appeared in movies, written songs for movies, musicals and major recording artist. [...]

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Street Art News offers RONE Print

Today, Street Art News announces they will unveil a project they’ve been working on for quite some time, additionally, we will begin to release super limited and very affordable hand pulled (with love) screenprints from our roster of artists. We start with a very complex print coming from the Everfresh Melbourne legend aka RONE and [...]

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From the Lens of Len Steckler

http://lensteckler.com/default.aspx In 2005, the artist Len Steckler lost his left eye to cancer. What would have been a devastating blow to most people instead made Steckler more obsessed with sight. His former binocular vision became monocular, and he started to see the world with more clarity and concentration. It shows in his photography of recent [...]

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Overunder

This weeks featured image. Courtesy of our Friends at BSA Photo by Jaime Rojo

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EMPIRE Strikes Back Teaser Trailer from 1980

The Empire Strikes Back (1980). The first teaser trailer featured the conceptual artwork of Ralph McQuarrie, edited together to John Williams’ Star Wars theme. It’s funny because I distinctly remember hearing Darth Vader’s breathing over the final image with the tagline “Coming to your galaxy this summer,” but as it turns out that was from [...]

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Anonymous is the new Equalizer

‘We Are Legion’ Explains Anonymous “Anonymous kind of was like the strong, buff kid who had low self esteem and then all of a sudden punched somebody in the face and was like, ‘Holy Shit, I’m really strong!’” This was just one great quote from We Are Legion: The Story of the Hacktivists, which premiered [...]

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Eleanor Leonne Bennett “The Photo Phenom”

http://eleanorleonnebennett.zenfolio.com/p781025395 Eleanor Leonne Bennett is a 16-year-old internationally award-winning photographer and artist who has won first places with National Geographic, The World Photography Organisation, Nature’s Best Photography, Papworth Trust, Mencap, The Woodland Trust, and Postal Heritage. Her photography has been published in The Telegraph, The Guardian, BBC News Website, and on the cover of books [...]

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Gerhard Richter now showing at Film Forum, see Trailer

Gerhard Richter Painting trailer from Kino Lorber on Vimeo. “It’s pointless to talk about painting.” — Gerhard Richter (1965). Richter, considered one of the world’s greatest living painters and now nearly 80 years old, agreed to talk about his work, as a small film crew documents his creative process. Blunt, provocative, unashamedly curmudgeonly and iconoclastic [...]

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