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Picasso and Monets– burnt to a crisp?

January 10, 2020

 Picasso and Monets—Burnt To a Crisp? by Leticia Marie Sanchez Cultural Cocktail Hour® is a registered Trademark Left:  Matisse, Reading Girl in White and Yellow(1919) Ed. Note: This article first appeared on Cultural Cocktail Hour in 2016 Will she ever see the light of day?…

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This weekend’s highlight- at the Colburn School: Met Opera Auditions Western Region Finals

January 4, 2020

Metropolitan Opera National Council 2019 WESTERN REGION FINALS Sunday, January 12, 2020 1 P.M. THE COLBURN SCHOOL’s ZIPPER HALL 200 S. Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 TICKETS – Reserve Seating — $40 To order tickets please contact Molly Siefert email: [email protected]

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This weekend’s highlight- at the Colburn School: Met Opera Auditions Western Region Finals

January 4, 2020

Metropolitan Opera National Council 2019 WESTERN REGION FINALS Sunday, January 12, 2020 1 P.M. THE COLBURN SCHOOL’s ZIPPER HALL 200 S. Grand Avenue Los Angeles, CA 90012 TICKETS – Reserve Seating — $40 To order tickets please contact Molly Siefert…

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A headless statue of a man in an exhibition

Review: “Egypt’s Lost Cities” at the Reagan Library- MUST-SEE exhibit

December 30, 2019

Review: “Egypt’s Lost Cities” Uncovering an archaeological mystery at the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library On View Until April 12, 2020 by Leticia Marie Sanchez The exhibit “Egypt’s Lost Cities” is intriguing for many reasons. Firstly, the exhibit takes the viewer…

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The 120K Banana At Art Basel Miami

December 11, 2019

by Leticia Marie Sanchez Has the Contemporary Art world Gone bananas? At Art Basel Miami this week, a banana duct-taped to a wall sold for $120,000. Entitled “Comedian,” the piece was created by Italian artist Maurizio Cattelan. Then, someone ate…

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The Christmas fruitcake fiasco: Puccini versus Toscanini

December 1, 2019

In the spirit of the season Cultural Cocktail Hour will share a holiday favorite! In her revealing book, Secret Lives of the Great Composers, Elizabeth Lundy described a fruity fiasco between two rivals: opera composers, Giacomo Puccini and conductor Arturo Toscanini: “During the years…

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Flowers in a Crystal Vase with a yellow frame

Review- Hope Springs Eternal: “Manet and Modern Beauty at the Getty Center”

October 11, 2019

Édouard Manet French, 1832 – 1883 Flowers in a Crystal Vase, about 1882 Oil on canvas Unframed: 32.7 × 24.5 cm (12 7/8 × 9 5/8 in.) National Gallery of Art, Washington, Ailsa Mellon Bruce Collection,1970.17.37 Image courtesy National Gallery of Art, Washington EX.2019.3.100 Hope Springs Eternal: Manet…

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Lautrec at the Cirque, Fernando, Rider on a White Horse

Review: By Day and by Night: Paris in the Belle Époque- A MUST SEE Exhibit at the Norton Simon

October 6, 2019

Review The darkness and light of LA Belle Époque at the Norton Simon Museum October 4, 2019-March 2, 2020 by Leticia Marie Sanchez La Belle Époque, which means the “beautiful age,” evokes thoughts of frothy, light-hearted spectacle: can can dancers, entertainment…

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Shakespeare’s observation on Summer…

August 27, 2019

“Summer’s lease  hath all too short a date” – William Shakespeare Photos Taken in Montauk, New York (Well Hello there Montauk, where have you been all my life?)  All photography ©2019 Leticia Marie Sanchez

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Snapshot of Manhattan, August 2019 with the words of Walt Whitman 1867

August 24, 2019

Give me faces and streets — give me these phantoms incessant and endless along the trottoirs! Give me interminable eyes… Give me such shows — give me the streets of Manhattan! Walt Whitman, 1867 All photography ©2019 Leticia Marie Sanchez

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