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The vibrant cultural scene in Los Angeles is bursting with creative energy. Host Laura Craven travels around metropolitan Los Angeles uncovering the mysteries and discovering thriving art scenes in all corners of the city and its environs. From the Los Angeles County Museum to a sculpture studio in Pasadena, Laura meets and interviews some of the most interesting and creative artists living and working here. The subjects on this program include muralists in Latino neighborhoods, painters in the Valley, gallerists in Santa Monica and museum curators at art museums great and small. Like the city itself, the Los Angeles art scene is a patchwork of small communities connecting to create a large and colorful tapestry. When you're Listening to Los Angeles, you never know where you will find yourself!
Host Laura Craven pays a visit to the Pasadena studio of steel sculptor Michael Amescua. With over twenty years worth of public art commissions from all over the state of California, Amescua creates a unique blend of west coast historical imagery and natural forms in his work. His 1995 project Guardians of the Track, is a series of steel grilles and guardrails surrounding the landmark Union Station in Los Angeles and it is seen by millions of locals and tourists every year.
As Laura speaks to Amescua in his studio, you will be treated to the real sounds of an industrial LA-area neighborhood, featuring the hisses and clangs of metalworks machinery, the distant conversations of neighboring metalworkers, street sounds, and even Latin music emanating from nearby radios in the background. Amescua discusses his private commissions and his public art. For more on public artwork by Amescua and other LA-based artists and designers, please visit publicartinla.com. (18 minutes)
Host Laura Craven goes behind the scenes of the L.A. County Museum's special exhibition Gustav Klimt: Five Paintings from the Collection of Ferdinand and Adele Bloch-Bauer (through June 30, 2006). Following a long legal dispute over the rightful ownership of the Klimt paintings stolen by the Nazi regime over sixty years ago, these five masterpieces from the early 1900's were returned to the family of Maria Altmann of Los Angeles, the niece of original owners Adele and Ferdinand Bloch-Bauer of Vienna. Stephanie Barron, senior curator of modern art at LACMA, tells the story of these paintings and the museum's role in facilitating their return.
Edition #3: The Hollywood Museum, Pt. 2 (Barbra Streisand - The Legacy Collection) listen |
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First broadcast May 8, 2006
In Part 2 of her visit for The Hollywood Museum host Laura Craven gets a guided tour of the exhibit, Barbra Streisand: The Legacy Collection, with curator and Barbra Streisand collector extraordinaire Lou Papalas. Listen closely for a surprise run-in during the tour with the world's most famous Streisand impersonator and MAC award-winner Steven Brinberg. Brinberg has performed worldwide with Marvin Hamlisch for special concerts of Barbra Streisand's music. The Streisand show runs through May 14, 2006. (10 minutes)
Edition #2: The Hollywood Museum, Pt. 1 (In the Historic Max Factor Building) listen |
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First broadcast May 1, 2006
On her visit to the Hollywood Museum in the historic Max Factor Building for the exhibit Barbra Streisand: The Legacy Collection, host Laura Craven sits down for a fascinating conversation with Donelle Dadigan, founder and President of the Museum. The Streisand show runs through May 14, 2006. (12 minutes)
J. Patrice Marandel is the Chief Curator of Painting and Sculpture at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Marandel, a major force in the art world for over thirty years, discusses the exhibit Pioneering Modern Painting: Cezanne and Pissarro: 1865-1885, originally curated by Joachin Pisarro, great-grandson of Camille Pissarro, at the Museum of Modern Art in New York. The exhibit traveled to LACMA, where it ran in the fall of 2006 and it is on view at Paris' Musee D'Orsay through May 28, 2006. (9 minutes)
