Victoria Looseleaf

Los Angeles

Freelance Arts Journalist at Los Angeles Times

Globetrotting arts journo covers music, dance, theater, film, food, wine, art. Books: Russ & Iggy's Art Alphabet, Leo: Up Close & Personal @artnowla #RESIST

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Articles

Katherine Bernhardt

1 week ago | artnowla.com | Victoria Looseleaf

Pop Art meets Expressionism could be a description of Katherine Bernhardt‘s paintings. They are big. They are bright. They are gestural. They are filled with icons from popular culture like the Pink Panther or Garfield the cat, as well as everyday household items like sticks of butter or Lucky Charms.
Baritone Quinn Kelsey: At the Top of His Game

1 week ago | sfcv.org | Victoria Looseleaf

Baritone Quinn Kelsey claims that by the time he finishes singing the title role in Los Angeles Opera’s Rigoletto, which runs May 31 – June 21 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, he will have performed the Verdi masterpiece some 150 times.
Gustave Caillebotte

2 weeks ago | artnowla.com | Victoria Looseleaf

Gustave Caillebotte (1848-1894) was a French painter most often associated with the Impressionists — Edgar Degas, Edouard Manet, Claude Monet, and Camille Pissarro, among others. Like many of his contemporaries, he painted the environs in and around Paris and captured aspects of the bustling city of the 1800s. Caillebotte was born in 1848 to an upper-class family, and later in life when he pursued his artistic career, he was both admired and resented for his Bourgeois lifestyle.
Doug Aitken | Art Now LA

1 month ago | artnowla.com | Victoria Looseleaf

An artist exploring every medium, from sculpture, film and installations to architectural interventions, Los Angeles-based Doug Aitken – whose works have been exhibited in hundreds of museums and galleries around the world, including at MoMA, the Hirshhorn Museum and at Sydney, Australia’s Museum of Contemporary Art – plumbs his own psychological depths only to discover what makes him love work and life. What historical art figure would you like to have lunch with and why?
The Dark Bob: 'Ekphrasis Synesthesia - Songs for Artists'

1 month ago | artnowla.com | Victoria Looseleaf

I’m sitting in The Dark Bob’s studio, hearing, absorbing, track-by-track, his new double album, Ekphrasis Synesthesia- Songs for Artists, and I’m overwhelmed with emotion. It’s a totality of feelings. A swirl of memories, excitement, admiration, sadness, courage, curiosity, thankfulness and – mostly – love. For each of the 26 songs is a love song to a particular artist. These range from longtime friends/collaborators of DB (Llyn Foulkes, Barbara T.
Mezzo-Soprano Daniela Mack: Force of Nature

1 month ago | sfcv.org | Victoria Looseleaf

Mezzo-soprano Daniela Mack is not only riding the crest of a huge operatic wave but also leading the vanguard of a new generation of opera performers, infusing her artistry with a blend of passion, adventurousness, and natural charisma. She will once again grace the stage of the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion when she steps into the role of Federico García Lorca in Los Angeles Opera’s production of Osvaldo Golijov’s Ainadamar, which runs April 26 – May 18.
For Pianist Yeol Eum Son, Expression Is Key

1 month ago | sfcv.org | Victoria Looseleaf

Since taking second prize at the 2009 Van Cliburn International Piano Competition, Yeol Eum Son, now 38, has continued to thrill audiences around the world. And April 25–27, she’ll be making her debut with the Los Angeles Philharmonic under the baton of Ryan Bancroft at Walt Disney Concert Hall, performing Mozart’s Piano Concerto No. 24. Born in Wonju, South Korea, Son started piano lessons at age 3½ and was winning her first music competitions less than a decade later.
The Soraya Readies a Big L.A. Celebration of Martha Graham

1 month ago | sfcv.org | Victoria Looseleaf

It’s not every day that nearly 100 Los Angeles-based students and dancers have the opportunity to work with members of the Martha Graham Dance Company. But that’s precisely what will happen on April 26 when the Younes and Soraya Nazarian Center for the Performing Arts at Cal State Northridge presents LA Dances GRAHAM100, closing out its newest initiative, the LA Seen Festival, with a terpsichorean bang.
Women as Home Decor

1 month ago | artnowla.com | Victoria Looseleaf

If one looks back through the annals of art history, women are largely represented as objects to be “consumed” by the ubiquitous male gaze. This is an unfortunate and all too familiar trope within the scope of art history, and one that Cindy Craig understands all too well. Given the present political moment we find ourselves in, Craig’s work takes on a new kind of prescience.
María Magdalena Campos-Pons

1 month ago | artnowla.com | Victoria Looseleaf |Jody Zellen

Behold, is a survey of works by María Magdalena Campos-Pons, a Cuban-born, Nashville-based multi-media artist whose complex works examine themes ranging from migration to motherhood. Though not widely exhibited in California, Campos-Pons has been making installations, performances and 2D-works for more than thirty years and is also a well-respected professor.