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 Seth MacFarlane is a busy man… but you know what they say about all work and no play. The day I meet him at the Family Guy Studios in Los Angeles, he seems slightly disoriented. Being the creator/ writer/ producer/ director/ voice actor of a couple of wildly successful animated shows on prime-time television comes with its fair share of pressure. His stress-eliminating weapon of choice is a night out on the town with a glass (or two?) of Jack Daniel’s. So although this afternoon he has every right to be annoyed with a pesky writer, he is completely gracious in taking a break from his whirlwind schedule to sit down with me.
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"Reborn" - Artist Christopher H.K. Lee’s canvas involves mix media of recycled materials, e-waste, into amazing kinetic, robotic, interactive and functional sculptures created entirely from old discarded computer and electronic parts which would end up in a landfill as an environmental hazard. |
 Explore a whole new kind of medicinal plant, compliments of Hee Sook Kim. Her plants aren’t so much ones to take to the stomach as they are meant for the mind and spirit to ingest. Hee Sook’s garden is at once soothing and complex, vegetation layered in unique color combinations and ambiguous text. This collection can be found in her current exhibit, “Spiritual Medicine.”
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YEAR marks an important turning point in the thirty-year history of
Korean animation. For the first time Korean animators have won both an
Emmy Award and an Annie Award for their artistic contributions. Sang Jin Kim of MOI Animation received an Emmy Award in the category of
Best Individual in Character Animation under 30 minutes show in
September 2006. Jae Myung Yoo of JM Animation won an Annie Award in January 2007 for
Best Individual in Character Animation in a Television Production. Both artists were recognized for their work on Nickelodeon’s animated
television series “Avatar—The Legend of Aang.”
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 The Art of Ancient Greek Theater August 26, 2010–January 3, 2011 at the Getty Villa. This exhibition explores the many ways Greek drama was interpreted by ancient Greek artists, whose works are frequently the only surviving evidence of the performing arts in antiquity. A wide variety of objects — including sculptures, painted vases, and a rare fragmentary papyrus — brings to life the rich history of ancient Greek theater.
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 ART IN THE STREETS
04.17.11 - 08.08.11
Art in the Streets is the first major U.S. museum survey of graffiti and street art. Curated by MOCA Director Jeffrey Deitch and Associate Curators Roger Gastman and Aaron Rose, the exhibition will trace the development of graffiti and street art from the 1970s to the global movement it has become today, concentrating on key cities such as New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London, and Sao Paulo, where a unique visual language or attitude has evolved. The exhibition will feature paintings, mixed media sculptures, and interactive installations by 50 of the most dynamic artists and will emphasize Los Angeles's role in the evolution of graffiti and street art, with special sections dedicated to seminal local movements such as cholo graffiti and Dogtown skateboard culture. A comprehensive timeline illustrated with artwork, photos, video, and ephemera will provide a historical context for the work.
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 Sonia’s professional music career began when she was very young growing up in Canada and Buffalo. Her debut performance - when she was only a teenager - was at the Carnegie Hall on her solo concerto with the Buffalo Philharmonic Orchestra. |
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Beatrice Wood: Career Woman—Drawings, Paintings, Vessels, and Objects
September 10, 2011–January 7, 2012
Beatrice Wood: Career Woman—Drawings, Paintings, Vessels, and Objects will offer a comprehensive survey and a new assessment of this emblematic California artist—a scholarly, commemorative evaluation of Wood, whose extraordinary life and career traversed and contributed to the cultural and artistic highlights of the entire 20th century. SMMoA Executive Director Elsa Longhauser and Deputy Director Lisa Melandri are co-curators for the exhibition..
Featuring more than 90 works in various media spanning the early 1990s to the present, this international traveling retrospective is an unprecedented opportunity to survey the depth and breadth of Takashi Murakami's entire career.
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