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Dina del Valle, raconteur, blabbermouth, know-it-all, collector of SAT words.
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Cuba at The Getty
I love photojournalism exhibits because I love photography but the immediacy and candor that photojournalists bring to their work can evoke the strongest visceral responses in me. Their work is subliminal. The best of them almost intuitively know the moment before something wonderful or frightening or awesome in its literal meaning is about to happen and capture it. Continue reading
Posted in Artists I Like, Exhibits, Museums, Photography
Tagged Alex Harris, Alexey Titarenko, Che Guevara, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Getty Museum, Jose Marti, photography, Virginia Beahan, Walker Evans
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Luminous Paper at the Getty
Leaving me to visit the West Pavilion, the one pavilion I seem drawn to, over and over. This time to see two very different but compelling exhibits, the first being Luminous Paper: British Watercolor and Drawings, which was both exactly as fussy as I expected it to be and yet utterly engrossing in its fussiness. Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Museums
Tagged Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, David Hockney, drawings, Getty Museum, watercolor
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Vanity Museums
Wondering why vanity exhibits are incoherent but vanity museums are a-okay. Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Museums
Tagged Art, Christopher Knight, Getty Museum, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles Times, Private Collections, Rich People
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Engaged Observers at The Getty
Getty exhibit about photojournalism in the last 50 years. Continue reading
The Getty Center: Quintessentially Southern California
Opinions about the Getty Center. Continue reading
Christ’s Entry into Brussels in 1889 – My New Favorite Painting for Today
Interpretation of a fascinating painting. Continue reading
