Art

This week’s Top Pick: Pageant of the Masters, Laguna Beach

August 6, 2016

Painting +Music+ Dance + History= An entertaining Cultural Cocktail Top Pick! All Photography© 2016 Leticia Marie Sanchez

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Ticket to Nirvana- Buddhist Replica Caves at the Getty Center

July 19, 2016

By Leticia Marie Sanchez Cave Temples of Dunhuang: Buddhist Art on China’s Silk Road Exhibit Closes on September 4, 2016 Stepping into one of the Buddhist Replica Caves at the Getty Center– away from the never-ending traffic, unrelenting tragedy in the news,…

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In the news: Flooding near the Louvre

June 8, 2016

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…

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Wise Men and Women: Pablo Picasso

June 7, 2016

“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

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“Duchamp to Pop”- A Must-See Exhibit

March 15, 2016

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…

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Happy Cultural Valentine!

February 14, 2016

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

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Sculptures taking Selfies?

February 1, 2016

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,…

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Top Pick: “Revolution of the Palette” at the Norton Simon Museum

July 22, 2015

A Touch of the Blues By Leticia Marie Sanchez This week two complementary exhibitions opened at the Norton Simon Museum of Art: Fragonard’s Enterprise: the Artist and the Literature of Travel and the Revolution of the Palette. Although both exhibitions proved stunning (and sublimely…

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Picasso: Quote of the Day

April 27, 2015

Picasso: Quote of the Day “My Mother said to me, ‘If you are a soldier, you will become a general. If you are a monk, you will become the pope.‘ Instead, I was a painter, and I became Picasso.”

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Meet the Duke of Osuna

December 13, 2013

Goya’s Portrait of Don Pedro, Duque de Osuna, at the Norton Simon By Leticia Marie Sanchez Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered trademark Cultural Cocktail Hour had the pleasure of meeting the Duke of Osuna at the Norton Simon last week. The Duke is currently wintering in sun-drenched…

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