Luis Barragán: Colors and Geometry
Alex2024-03-16T18:27:23+00:00Inspired by Le Corbusier and the gardens of Andalusia, Luis Barragán founded an architectural language for his hometown of Guadalajara.
Meet Me at the Now Then Exhibit
Alex2024-03-11T16:54:15+00:00As a painter, photographer and publisher for over six decades, Ed Ruscha has built the most significant artistic and historical record of a city.
Meet Me at the Lovell Beach House
Alex2024-04-18T19:33:09+00:00In 1920, RM Schindler came to L.A. to oversee a house by Frank Lloyd Wright. He never left. And a century later, you can still find the homes he built that define modern architecture all over the city.
Intellectual Equals: Dora Maar and Picasso
Alex2024-03-11T04:07:23+00:00As his intellectual equal, Maar was fierce and emotionally challenging, inspiring Guernica and his Weeping Woman . When the affair ended, she suffered a mental breakdown then went into a nunlike seclusion, famously proclaiming, "After Picasso, only God ."
Diving the Cenotes of Tulum
Alex2024-02-22T00:01:06+00:00Believed to be the entrance to immortality by the ancient Maya, diving these cenotes is unlike any other experience in the world.
Intellectual Equals: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes
Alex2024-01-14T02:18:34+00:00Plath wrote poetry from the time she was eight then killed herself at 30. Her own descent into madness vividly described in 𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝘽𝙚𝙡𝙡 𝙅𝙖𝙧 - a too-intelligent girl broken by the pressures of having to be a normal one.
Life and Literature, Peru
Alex2024-02-02T18:36:30+00:00For Mario Vargas Llosa, history and literature are inseparable. Spanning over eight decades, his life and writings perfectly capture the changing landscape, people and politics of Peru.
Intellectual Equals: Anaïs Nin and Henry Miller
Alex2024-03-01T04:44:21+00:00Anaïs Nin lived a life of love and passion, traipsing among her many lovers, sometimes Henry Miller, sometimes his wife June, many times numerous men in between her husband, even her own father.
Meet Me at the Frank Gehry Buildings
Alex2024-04-07T20:56:22+00:00Gehry always credits this city, not just for artistic inspiration, but for welcoming his avant-garde ideas from the beginning. He said he never could have built what he built here when he was still unknown. And in return, we are just as grateful.
Reading Nabokov
Alex2024-03-12T03:26:53+00:00Initially, Lolita was considered unpublishable. Even I was reluctant to read it. But this story is just as much about Dolores and the world that allows her to be defiled and corrupted by men like Humbert. And it is brilliant.