Month: August 2010

Major headlines in the art realm have involved philanthropists Eli and Edythe Broad contributing approximately $300 million of their own money toward a new museum in Downtown Los Angeles. Broad will oversee the first building in the long awaited Grand Avenue project, and is aiming to help transform downtown into a “vibrant center,” as he put it to the Los Angeles Times, for the city’s cultural community. The question is, will another museum in close proximity to the Music Center and MOCA help further develop the area into a bustling community for locals and tourists alike, or will it just be another institution scrambling amidst the seedy reputation downtown is trying to shed?

For more, visit the Los Angeles Times and Sue Bell Yank’s Blog,
Social Practice

-Christine Haroutounian

Carolee Schneemann’s experimental film, Fuses, explicitly addresses feminist attempts to differentiate erotica from porn by avoiding the sole glorification of the female body. “Fusing Film & Erotica” →

Coupling fantasy and fear in his narrative and visual style, Hitchcock has remained the master of the psychological thriller to this day with a prolific career that spanned over thirty years.