“I suddenly realized I was in California. Warm, palmy air—air you can kiss—and palms… Dean’s California—wild, sweaty, important, the land of lonely and exiled and eccentric lovers come to gather like birds, and the land where everybody...
D. 02.10.1968 In 1962, avant-garde master Marcel Duchamp arrived in Pasadena for a retrospective of his work. The result would send lasting ripples through California’s art scene, and give birth to one very iconic chess photograph… Every...
Aesthetic control of our image has been a foundational block of Black artistic creation since its genesis. Cinema’s power—especially in the hands of generational, awardwinning filmmakers Charles Burnett and Boots Riley—is to use the...
From Mulholland Drive to The Neon Demon, Carlos Aguilar explores Los Angeles as a seductive but ruthless machine of reinvention. The LA critic reveals how cinema exposes the city’s darkest truth: every dream demands a price that few can afford...
Marilyn Monroe (then Norma Jeane Baker) on Catalina Island with first husband Jim Dougherty, 1945. “Monroe’s is not the only lingering spirit. Catalina is perhaps most famous for its multitude of ghost sightings and phantom presences, which...
For those with architectural training, or even a passing interest in California’s architectural heritage, the name John Entenza is likely familiar as that of the man behind the internationally acclaimed Case Study House programme...
