This is the second in a two-part series of moments remembered by people who either recorded them, or engaged in an activity best described by actress-director Jillian Amenante, “Putting on a play in L.A. is like trying to build a snowman in Florida.” -- SLM
BY BILL RADEN Meg Foster may be best known for her haunting, almost supernaturally unsettling, milky blue eyes, a quality that has made her a natural fit for horror, science fiction and thrillers in film work that spans three decades and includes Sam Peckinpah’s The Osterman Weekend (1983) and John Carpenter’s Burroughsian alien-invasion classic, They Live (1988), and, more recently, Rob Zombie’s rock “n’ roll horror film, The Lords of Salem (2013).
BY GUY ZIMMERMAN Art warriors come in all shapes and sizes. One of my favorites was in the area last month, Joanna Klass direct from Warsaw, Poland, where she runs WarsawBauhaus with her partner, the artist Wojtek Szaszor. Invited to attend an open mic happening-exchange and roundtable discussion Joanna and Wojtek were holding at a vacant space in the Santora Arts Building in Santa Ana, I drove south through the rain on a Saturday night last month into the heart of Orange County. By 8 p.m., a group of us had straggled out of the weather into the bare exhibition space on Broadway, which was selected for the event by the artist Allen Moon of Santa Ana Sites.
BY PAULINE ADAMEK American Artist Jackson Pollock’s large-scale masterpiece, the abstract impressionist work Mural, has been newly restored and is currently on view at The Getty Center through June 1, 2014. The legend behind its creation and painstaking restoration imbues this striking painting with a rich backstory.
BY STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS Stage Raw was in London’s Shoreditch district last week when it ran across muralist Blériot, at work for a commissioned piece for A.C. Camargo’s LIGA DO ROSA campaign for Ovarian Cancer Awareness Month.
By BILL RADEN with additional reporting by PAULINE ADAMEK and STEVEN LEIGH MORRIS Theater critics and gossip columnists as a class tend to be a rather narcissistic bunch. It is not a closely held trade secret, however, that whenever a critic criticizes, he or she is really writing about him or herself, some more than others, of course.