Victoria Looseleaf

1 week 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?

2 weeks 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.

2 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.

3 weeks 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.