Classical music waltzes with digital media

Classical music waltzes with digital media

Orchestras like the L.A. Phil and Pacific Symphony join the classical world's dance with Twitter and Facebook in hopes of engaging and luring a tech-savvy public.

Roy Lichtenstein's 'Three Brushstrokes' gets a brush-up

Roy Lichtenstein's 'Three Brushstrokes' is being carefully repainted in an unusual project of the Getty Museum and Conservation Institute and the Roy Lichtenstein Foundation and estate.

Shakespeare in L.A.: Summer of our discontent

As the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles forgoes its summer fest, leaving the Independent Shakespeare Co. and Theatricum Botanicum among the few alfresco productions in the area, now's a good time to ask why outdoor Shakespeare has yet to catch on in a big way in L.A.

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Art review: 'Jack Youngerman' at Margo Leavin Gallery

Art review: 'Jack Youngerman' at Margo Leavin Gallery

Youngerman’s condensed emblems link a West Coast exploration of Pop’s perceptual dimensions to Matisse and O’Keefe, in miniature and sans the sentimentality.

In the Studio: Fran Siegel

In the Studio: Fran Siegel

The artist pays attention to light, shadows and subtlety.

Cultural Exchange: Preserving the relics of Shanghai's vanished Jewish population

Cultural Exchange: Preserving the relics of Shanghai's vanished Jewish population

Gravestones, many plundered or built over, are symbols of a forgotten group. Dvir Bar-Gal, an Israeli expatriate, works to preserve them.

Gordon Wiltsie goes where the wild images are

Gordon Wiltsie goes where the wild images are

In a retrospective at Mountain Light Gallery in Bishop, the photographer's arresting pictures from both poles and seemingly every wild place in between are displayed.

Cultural Exchange: French writers look beyond Paris

Cultural Exchange: French writers look beyond Paris

Authors such as François Bon and Jean-Pierre Ostende are drawing more from their social, economic and political surroundings in a movement being called literature 'of the real.'

O, say can you write an anthem?

O, say can you write an anthem?

Abbey Road studios is having a contest.

Cultural Exchange: Shyne goes from New York to jail to a new life in Israel

Cultural Exchange: Shyne goes from New York to jail to a new life in Israel

The Belize-born rapper, who now calls himself Moshe Michael Levy, an observant Jew, wants his music to make the world a better place.

Julie Taymor and her 'Spider-Man' perspective

Julie Taymor and her 'Spider-Man' perspective

The musical's former director receives a warm welcome in Los Angeles, talks of being under the microscope in connection with the gossip-plagued production.

Steampunk culture full speed ahead

Steampunk culture full speed ahead

Fans of the Victorian-influenced movement have an eye for antiquarian style and do-it-yourself ingenuity.