Artwork and sculptures.
Enigmatic, innovative, and creative – photographer Cindy Sherman is all of this and more. She perfected the art of the selfie, starting in the 1970s, before digital cameras, before cell phones. If you’re in Los Angeles, you can see an exhibit of […]
Creepy, crawly, sometimes hairy, big & small, the spiders are back at the Spider Pavilion at the Natural History Museum. Now through the end of November, you can see the spiders in their natural environment – the open air pavilion – with […]
Planning to come to LA for vacation? Interested in the best places to see the Hollywood Sign? You’ve come to the right place! I have 9 places where you can see the Hollywood Sign, grouped in these 3 categories: From a tourist […]
Outside the Autry Museum in Griffith Park is this gorgeous sculpture called “Special Delivery,” by renowned artist Douglas Van Howd. This sculpture depicts a true story in American history. In March, 1861, Abraham Lincoln delivered his first inauguration address. The speech was […]
Just outside of Death Valley, across the California State line in Western Nevada, is the ghost town of Rhyolite. In the early 20th century, Rhyolite was the largest town in Southern Nevada, larger than Las Vegas. But by 1920, there were only […]
55,000 years ago, during the ice age, LA was a much different place. 12 foot tall Columbian Mammoths lumbered through miles of sagebrush and wild lilac. Around them, large juniper & oak trees swayed in warm breezes. Sloths and camels plodded across […]
I recently went to the La Brea Tar Pits, and what a treat! It was soooooo much better than I expected! Here’s a video of my adventure.
Have you ever been to a city, like Los Angeles, where traffic is a nightmare, it’s noisy, sirens blaring, and all you want is to go home? That’s the foundation for Chris Burden’s Metropolis II, except the feeling is the exact opposite […]
Last month, I had the privilege of going to the Huntington Library to see Kehinde Wiley’s, “Portrait of a Young Gentleman,” next to its inspiration, the original “Portrait of a Young Gentleman,” which we now know as Blue Boy. Blue Boy was […]
For one week only, the Fashion Institute of Design & Merchandising (FIDM) Museum has an exclusive exhibit of the costumes and photography from the MGM Movie, House of Gucci. The exhibit was curated by costume designer Janty Yates. The centerpiece of the […]
