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Photos: Season Finale- Salon de Musiques: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Photos taken at the Season Finale of the Salon De Musiques at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion by Leticia Marie Sanchez Music has a healing power, and, in the wake of tragedies in the headlines, I felt particularly hopeful after listening to the uplifting program by Fanny Mendelssohn, Clara Schumann, and Robert Schumann at the Salon De Musiques Season Finale…
Read MoreIn the news: Flooding near the Louvre
Photo outside Louvre Copyright© 2012 Leticia Marie Sanchez Venice de Milo surrounded by storage boxes. Twenty feet of water rising from the Seine. Due to the past week’s flooding in Paris, curators moved many of the Louvre’s antiquities to safety. According to the New York Times, “Some 150,000 artworks in storage rooms, and an additional 7,000 pieces in galleries,…
Read MoreWise Men and Women: Pablo Picasso
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” -Pablo Picasso- Photo Credit: André Villers La Guerre et la Paix Chapel of Vallauris Castle 1953
Read MoreWise Men and Women: Pablo Picasso
“The meaning of life is to find your gift. The purpose of life is to give it away.” -Pablo Picasso- Photo Credit: André Villers La Guerre et la Paix Chapel of Vallauris Castle 1953
Read More“Duchamp to Pop”- A Must-See Exhibit
by Leticia Marie Sanchez Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered Trademark This week’s Cultural Cocktail Hour involves a Pinch of Parody, a Dose of Double Entendre, and a Highball of Warhol– Bottom’s Up! “Duchamp to Pop” is a must-see exhibit in Southern California due to the wit of Marcel Duchamp and his influence on the Pop Art Movement. CCH loves any exhibit where you…
Read MoreWise Man: Marcel Proust
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes but in having new eyes. Marcel Proust Marc Chagall
Read MoreHappy Cultural Valentine!
HAPPY’S VALENTINE’S DAY to my readers! Wishing you a day filled with love, art, and music! All Photography© 2016 Leticia Marie Sanchez Cultural escapade at the Getty Center Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered Trademark
Read MoreSculptures taking Selfies?
When even the sculptures take selfies, you know that we are in trouble! What would Michelangelo say? by Leticia Marie Sanchez Kudos to these artists for providing a snapshot into today’s culture. Lines of tourists crowd Florence’s esteemed Uffizi Gallery, not necessarily to take the time to observe the art, but rather to take a…
Read MoreCCH End-of-January Highlights
Cultural Cocktail Hour End-of-January Highlights The end-of-January’s LA Cultural recipe includes: an Explosion of art, an Infusion of Impressionism, and a Shot of Verdi– Enjoy! Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered Trademark LA Art Show January 27 – 31 http://www.laartshow.com The Artist’s Garden: American Impressionism and the Garden Movement Jan 23 – May 09 Huntington Library. 1151 Oxford Road. San Marino, CA 91108.…
Read MoreWise Man: Goethe
A man should hear a little music, read a little poetry, and see a fine picture every day of his life, in order that worldly cares may not obliterate the sense of the beautiful which God has implanted in the human soul. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Annunciation, Tate Gallery, London
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