Design and Architecture
The Art of Ritual: Coachella, Passover, a Schindler Church
DnA explores the art of ritual in a season of festivals from Coachella, Passover and an abandoned Schindler church in South L.A.
By Frances Anderton • • 30m ListenDnA explores the art of ritual in a season of festivals from Coachella, Passover and an abandoned Schindler church in South L.A.
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3 storiesCoachella Art
DnA takes a look at the gigantic art installations at the Southland's biggest secular ritual, Coachella, and asks, why are visual landmarks growing in size and importance at the annual music festival. With KCRW's Jason Bentley, and "lightweaver" creators Alexis Rochas and Andreas Froech, of Stereo.bot.
Read the story7 minSeder Plates
Avishay Artsy talks with Jonathan Adler and Lori Starr about the design of Seder plates and their evolution in tandem with changing ideas about the Passover ritual itself.
Read the story7 minSchindler Church
Pastor Melvyn Ashley, Steve Wallet, Steve Lamb, Cindy Olnick, Robert Mace, Martin Fenlon, Chava Danielson and Capri Blountgather for the re-opening of the Bethlehem church on Compton Avenue in South Los Angeles designed in the mid-1940s by Modernist pioneer Rudolph Schindler and abandoned for several decades; DnA asks, how did Schindler come to…
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