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This is Rob Long, and on today’s Martini Shot I appear on an obscure talk show on CSPAN one time, get recognized the next day by one person, and think I’m now a famous person who will…

Edward Goldman talks about the great portrait by Titian on loan to Norton Simon from Dresden.

As Hollywood awards season revs up, the LA art scene is also in full throttle.

For all it’s seeming simplicity, the Wooster Group’s latest show is complicated, dense experience.  Let’s start with the  title: “The B-Side: “Negro Folklore from Texas State…

This is Rob Long, and on today’s Martini Shot I talk about how part of watching a movie or television show is about shopping, for clothes and home decor and maybe even friends.

Tosh Berman’s memoir,  Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman’s World , is a depiction of culture brought into Los Angeles from the rest of the world: reinvented to be here.

The film was directed by Robert Rodriguez, who did “From Dusk Till Dawn" and "Sin City," and it comes by its visual elegance honestly, since the technology derives from James Cameron's…

Swedish composer Ludwig Göransson talks Grammy wins with "Black Panther" and Childish Gambino.

The Coachella Valley comes into bloom with Desert X and Modernism Week. But some of the Desert X artworks raise questions about development in Palm Springs.