The 2007 USC Annenberg / Getty Arts Journalism Fellows. Standing rear: Brett Campbell and Esther Iverem. Standing middle: Carol Kino, Scarlet Cheng (guest), Celeste Headlee and Sasha Anawalt. Seated left to right: Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Edward Lifson, Arianna Sikorski (admin) and Victoria Infante
Welcome to LA! What follows is an incomplete sampling of just some of the events on the 2007 USC Annenberg / Getty Arts Journalism Fellowship.
Brett Campbell, Celeste Headlee, Sasha Anawalt and Douglas McLennan of ArtsJournal.com, outside our first hotel - The Georgian. Doug later spoke on DIGITAL MEDIA -- THE MYTH OF MASS MEDIA - his lead digital training seminar on “Changing Your Mind Set.”
Disney Hall
Carol Kino and "Nipper" outside Jascha Heifetz's studio - rebuilt inside the main building of the Colburn School
Edward Lifson inside Jascha Heifetz's studio
Herbert Zipper Concert Hall at the Colburn School
Understanding choreography at Tom Leabhart’s Delsarte lecture-demonstration, “Every Little Movement: How to look at Dance.” With modern dancer John Pennington (left), bharatya natyam dancer Ramaa Bharadvaj (rear), and ballet dancer Susan Gladstone, at The Colburn School – Studio A
Victoria Infante (right) and Edward Lifson choreograph modern dancer John Pennington.
Lunch at "Taipan"
DIGITAL MEDIA -- REINVENTING THE NEWS -- Session II: "New World Going Forward" with Doug McLennan (center) moderating, and three pioneers: Cory Doctorow (far left), Sci-Fi writer and cofounder of boingboing.com; Mark Frauenfelder (second from left) cofounder of boingboing.com and editor of MAKE: Technology on Your Time magazine; and Kevin Roderick (right), founder and editor of LAObserved.com, at the Norman Lear Center
POP CULTURE/DIGITAL MEDIA - At the Norman Lear Center with Marty Kaplan (right) and others. In front, Fellow Victoria Infante. Marty Kaplan is director of the Norman Lear Center, and associate dean and research professor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication, where he holds the Norman Lear Chair in Entertainment, Media and Society.
Brett Campbell loves East L.A.! Seen on a walking tour led by artist Juan Devis
Carol Kino also loves East L.A.!
A walk through East LA. - RACE & CLASS & ARTS JOURNALISM
Presentation by Gina Lamb, artist, and three collaborating artists at Casa 0101, at the theater of Josefina Lopez (Real Women Have Curves) in East LA.
On the way to dinner
The Getty Villa
Edward Lifson at the monkey fountain at the Getty Villa
Books as capitals? at the Getty Villa
More Getty Villa
SoCal / Italianate landscape at the Getty Villa
Santa Monica beach
Santa Monica beach - Arlington West - against the war in Iraq
LA Cathedral by Rafael Moneo. Like a freeway?
LA Cathedral by Rafael Moneo.
Downtown LA - RACE & CLASS & ARTS JOURNALISM -- Lunch and conversation with members of THE LOS ANGELES POVERTY DEPARTMENT (LAPD) -- John Malpede and Henriette Brouwers on Skid Row. The LAPD is a theater group made up mainly of homeless and formerly homeless people. The mission of LAPD, founded in 1985 by Malpede, is to create performance work that connects lived experience to the social forces that shape the lives and communities of people living in poverty.
Downtown LA
Outside the Japanese American National Museum - RACE & CLASS & ARTS JOURNALISM SEMINAR – “How to Tackle Difficult Subjects” -- writing with Victor Merina at The Japanese American National Museum – Nerio Education Center
in the Museum of Jurassic Technology
Meeting with the creator of the Museum of Jurassic Technology, David Wilson
The Westin Bonaventure Hotel downtown. Our base for the second half of the fellowship
Inside the Westin Bonaventure
from the Westin Bonaventure window
in the studio of the artist Gronk (far right) with poet and performance artist Marisela Norte and writer Max Benavidez
Gronk and Marisela
Gronk
Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
Disney Hall to hear and see a rehearsal of the Los Angeles Philharmonic with Esa-Pekka Salonen
In a private room in Disney Hall, meeting Esa-Pekka Salonen
WACK! Art and the Feminist Revolution at the Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Cory Peipon from MOCA’s curatorial department and artist, prepares to take us around WACK!
Disney Hall - to hear the Philadelphia Orchestra, conducted by Christoph Eschenbach. Program: Mozart, Sinfonia concertante for Winds, K. 276b Tchaikovsky, Symphony No. 5
A pool by the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
The pool is over the parking lot, at the Los Angeles Department of Water and Power
The Armand Hammer Museum of Art to see “Eden’s Edge: Fifteen LA Artists” and to lunch in the courtyard
Newsweek art critic Peter Plagens and fellow Kaelen Wilson-Goldie in the UCLA Hammer Museum boardroom for a discussion of “Los Angeles Criticism and the Impact of a Vigorous Critical Environment on Los Angeles Art,” with art critic Christopher Knight for the Los Angeles Times and Plagens.
LITERARY ARTS/RACE & CLASS & ARTS JOURNALISM -- Reading by USC Annenberg/Getty Fellow and poet and author Esther Iverem, of her new book, “We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies, 1986-2006,”at Eso Won Books
Esther Iverem reads from her new work, "We Gotta Have It: Twenty Years of Seeing Black at the Movies, 1986 - 2006."
City Hall on the way to see Placido Domingo sing opera
Placido Domingo in “Luisa Fernanda: Frederico Moreno Torroba” at Los Angeles Opera at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
The Getty Center
in the Oudry exhibition at The Getty Center
The Getty Center restoration lab
The Getty Center garden, by Robert Irwin
Kaelen Wilson-Goldie, Celeste Headlee and Carol Kino discuss their work; at a Getty Center sculpture terrace
With Greg Goldin to explore L.A.’s industrial underbelly and scary/beautiful parts.
Walk with Greg Goldin (center) to explore L.A.’s industrial underbelly and scary/beautiful parts.
the LA river
art can be found everywhere.
Sasha!
Brett Campbell
On stage at the Getty Center Auditorium are Sasha Anawalt and Studio 360's Julie Burstein. Kurt Andersen (Senior Fellow and host of "Studio 360") and his WNYC producers bring “Studio 360” to the Getty Center for a live taping of the show. His guests include: playwright and actress Iris Bahr; hitmaker Alexandra Patsavas explaining how she finds unknown gems as music supervisor for programs like Grey’s Anatomy; East LA contenders Quetzal showing how they’re pushing the boundaries of Chicano rock to a new level of cool.
Sasha and Carol after the performance
Jeff Koons' proposal for a sculpture outside the new LACMA. Seen during a tour of the construction site.
Visit Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) -Boardroom with Jane Burrell, VP for Education and Public Programs and Chris Hansen, Senior VP for Marketing and Communications -Transformation site: Ahmanson, new Entry Pavilion, Chris Burden’s Urban Light’s site, Robert Irwin’s Palm Tree project with Stephanie Barron - Broad Contemporary Art Museum (BCAM) building with Lynn Zelevansky
Dan Flavin, at LACMA
Kurt Andersen admiring a car, at the Gagosian gallery
Topanga Canyon, site of Chris Burden and Nancy Rubins' studio.
Chris Burden and his lampposts for his piece "Urban Lights" for the new LACMA
Chris Burden and pieces of lampposts for his installation at LACMA.
Saying goodbye to Nancy Rubins, Chris Burden and friend
Curator Julie Lazar, in white, in center.
in a James Turrell skyspace
Kurt the Kontrarian, you're supposed to look up!
At the home of collectors. With work by Chris Burden, Nancy Rubins, John Baldessari, Kiki Smith, Ed Kienholz, and others
Celeste Headlee sings an aria before we leave their house.
LITERARY ARTS/POP CULTURE -- Martin Wong and Eric Nakamura, cofounders and co-editors, Giant Robot magazine, and owners of GR stores and restaurant on historic Sawtelle Blvd., site of many pre-war Japanese nurseries and businesses at the Giant Robot Gallery. With Kurt Andersen (back turned)
The Charles and Ray Eames House
Two granddaughters of Charles and Ray Eames
Meet with Pritzker Prize winning architect Thom Mayne at his firm, Morphosis. Mayne explains his new "Phare" tower for Paris.
Caltrans District 7 Headquarters in LA, by Thom Mayne
Not by Thom Mayne
POP CULTURE/DIGITAL TECHNOLOGY – That's artist Mister Jalopy. he spoke at his studio with journalist Cory Doctorow.
Walk through “Open House: Intelligent Living Through Technology and Design,” exhibition at Art Center College of Design. Before dinner with Art Center’s president, Richard Koshalek, Iris Gelt and the two “Open House” curators, at the Art Center College of Design - Hillside Campus
Victoria Infante and Brett Campbell
Bring your swimsuits, if you are so inclined!
Graduation Dinner
