In Ruins, Angkor
Alex2024-09-07T00:23:53+00:00The Khmers built imperial sites and magnificent temples as they ruled over much of Southeast Asia. Today, this city of ruins is simply the most beautiful in the world.
Reading David Foster Wallace
Alex2024-07-29T16:20:01+00:00During his battles with mental illness and depression, there were times when Wallace thought writing was not worth the anxiety it caused, and other times when he felt writing was the only way to subdue the maddened voices in his head.
Roman Opalka: Time and Integers
Alex2024-07-11T16:15:46+00:00In the last half of his life, Opalka created a figural representation of time - by painting a sequence of integers on endless canvases.
Intellectual Equals: Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell
Alex2024-06-27T14:07:07+00:00It was a marriage of minds. An accomplished writer herself, Hardwick would become the cradle for Lowell's life and poetry, carrying him through his bouts of madness and even infidelities.
Meet Me at Casa Barranca
Alex2024-07-11T18:06:27+00:00Greene and Greene pioneered and perfected the Craftsman Bungalow. It was L.A.’s first vernacular style - adopted across the country and among the few recognized around the world as a truly original American architecture.
Jack Whitten: Artist and Activist
Alex2024-06-18T23:32:58+00:00Drawing from his own moral compass, from beginning to end, every element of Whitten's art was the product of his hand and mind.
Meet Me at Miracle Mile
Alex2024-06-05T20:28:22+00:00A pioneer of LA's Light and Space Movement, Robert Irwin transformed art from an object into a philosophical experience.
Anne Sexton: Pain and Poetry
Alex2024-08-03T03:13:10+00:00Sexton's poetry held nothing back. She wrote about mental illness, infidelity, erotic fantasies, incest, even the abuse she wrought on her own children.
The Attempted Assassinations on Salman Rushdie
Alex2024-05-20T22:47:17+00:0033 years after a fatwa was issued because of The Satanic Verses, Rushdie was attacked by someone who hasn’t even read any of his books.
Mughal Art and Architecture
Alex2024-05-16T04:18:17+00:00A confluence of cultures, the Mughal Empire left monumental architecture and exquisitely-detailed art unique to the subcontinent.