Gift Ideas for Friends and Family

As publisher of Curating Los Angeles, I receive countless emails promoting events around the southland. Many of the messages at this time of year are holiday related and of those, a significant number extol the virtues of one gift or another offered up by a bevy of local businesses, museums, and schools.

This year my family agreed to limit holiday gift giving to the children in our lives. The adults just want to spend time together and enjoy the season in a less commercial fashion. That decision has greatly reduced the amount of time we’ll all need to spend searching for just the right gifts, as well as save everyone money.

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Announcing the Curating Los Angeles Photo Galleries

Today marks the introduction of the Curating Los Angeles photo galleries. This collection of images, broken down by subject and location, presents my photographs taken in and around greater Los Angeles.

Initially you’ll find images of The Getty Center and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Over time, I will expand this section of the site to include many more photos of the region's built environment, as well as pictures that capture the rich tapestry of life in Los Angeles.

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Two New Photography Shows Open at the Getty

Today two exciting new photography exhibitions open at the Getty. The first, Portraits of Renown: Photography and the Cult of Celebrity, “surveys some of the visual strategies used by photographers to picture the famous from the 1840s to the year 2000” and draws images from the J. Paul Getty Museum's extensive collection.

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Now Open at the Getty - Brush & Shutter: Early Photography in China

Earlier this year, several of the leading art and photography shows in Los Angeles, including photo l.a. and LA Art Show 2011, featured galleries dedicated to Asian art, exposing visitors to the latest visual art trends in countries such as China, Taiwan and Korea, among others. Now comes an exhibition called Brush & Shutter, which is focused on the origin of photography in China and curated by the Getty Research Institute (GRI), a local institution known for the breadth and depth of its photography collection and dedication to advancing the understanding of the visual arts.

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