The City Council vote on Friday would give Lacma a 35-year lease for an 80,000 square-foot building in a recreation area known as South Los Angeles Wetlands Park. The lease will be first discussed on Wednesday during the council’s “arts, recreation and river committee” meeting, which is open to the public.
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‘Dazzle’ Paint In The U.S. Navy – The Crazy Designs On World War I Warships
“‘Strong, distracting lines would mask the bow, stern, and sections that might be used to estimate the range, speed, or course of the ship. Submarines only had a few moments at periscope depth to fire their torpedo before they risked being seen. The aim was to make the estimation of where the ship would be so difficult that the torpedo would not be fired, or would be fired and miss.’
Constructing Dessert: A New Wave Of Pastry Chefs Trained As Architects
“Why [make] such a radical career shift? In interviews, several said they realized while working in architecture that pastry required a similar skill set, and they found baking a cake a lot more interesting – and immediately gratifying – than designing a building.”
Theatre Is Hardly Even Theatre Without The Audience: Lyn Gardner
“A movie is unchanged by an audience’s presence and will continue to run in an empty auditorium. But the theatre requires a human presence in the auditorium, because it is only fully alive when it meets its audience. It is only in that moment that it bursts fully into life. … Without our presence, our engagement and our creativity the theatre dies, however talented the actors and however hard they work on stage.”
Former Trocks Dancer Talks About His Allegations Of Discrimination And Harassment By Company
“When it came to the show, we were encouraged to be who we were. But in ballet class, it was a different story. We weren’t allowed to express or present ourselves as we wanted; we couldn’t wear our hair in buns. Even what you wore to the airport was monitored.” Chase Johnsey talks with journalist Candice Thompson about why he left Les Ballets Trockadero de Monte Carlo after 14 years.
If ‘Gender Is Performative’, What Exactly Does That Mean?
“The basic idea is that gender is created by the very words and actions that appear, superficially, to be simply describing it after the fact. … Gender is not a thing so much as a process by which patterns of language and action come to repeat themselves.” Will Fraker unpacks Judith Butler’s most famous idea.
The Lost Genius Of African-American Literature
“A half century before the poet Claudia Rankine used her MacArthur ‘genius’ grant to establish an institute partly dedicated to the study of whiteness, [William Melvin] Kelley turned his considerable intellect and imagination to the question of what it is like to be white in this country, and what it is like, for all Americans, to live under the conditions of white supremacy – not just the dramatic cross-burning, neo-Nazi manifestations of it common to his time and our own but also the everyday forms endemic to our national culture.”
Footage Re-Emerges Of One Of Leonard Bernstein’s Last Rehearsals
“Fittingly, it shows him teaching a Copland symphony to students at Tanglewood, the Boston Symphony Orchestra’s summer home in the Berkshires, in 1990 – 50 years after he had studied there with Copland.” (includes video)
Media Critic Reviews Design Of The Guardian’s New Tabloid Format
BBC media editor Amol Rajan analyzes font choices, front-page layout, and the sections, and finds that “this redesign is agreeable, attractive, and likely to be effective – except in one crucial regard.”
Louvre And Musée D’Orsay Begin Emergency Measures As Seine River Floods Paris
With France living through the rainiest January in years, the Seine’s water level is currently 17 feet, twice the normal level, and is expected to crest at around 20 feet by Friday. The Louvre has closed its Islamic art gallery and begun moving parts of its collection to higher floors, and the Musée d’Orsay and Orangerie have joined the Louvre in reducing some visiting hours.