Portrait of Mrs. Edward L. Davis and Her Son, Livingston Davis, 1890, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Frances and Armand Hammer Purchase Fund
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Claire Bloom and Julie Harris in The Haunting (Warner Bros.)
Welcome to Now See This, a new podcast designed to help you find the best in classic film that ...
Welcome to Top Bunks and Aisle Seats, a podcast that dives into the world of truly alternative music. For this first episode, Ampersand's Ashley Eady had a spirited conversation with resident punk rock icon, Allison Wolfe. The two talked ab...
Dia de los Muertos is a way for us to celebrate life through death. To reconcile with our eminent mortality. To connect with those no longer with us....
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Saudi Arabian filmmaker Haifaa al-Mansour is a pionee...
“Who is you, man?” might be the last question that Chiron, the protagonist of Barry Jenkins’ new film Moonlight, wants to hear. For a gay black man raised in the Miami projects, he’s spent years crafting the mask that enables his survival, tenuous as it may be....
Raul Morales, chef of Taqueria Vista Hermosa, sits in a table across from his bustling food stand in Los Angeles’s Mercado La Paloma recounting his first moments in this country. Morales came to the United States from Mexico when he was 19 years old, temporarily leaving his wife and children in Michoacan....
In the absence of election-year artwork as ubiquitous as Shepard Fairey’s 2008 “Hope” poster, political memes have become dominant images this political season. But that doesn’t mean the art world has been silent....
Had Jonás Cuarón’s Desierto been made a few years ago, nothing would have separated it from a run-of-the-mill exploitation film. The movie’s villain would have come off as overly cartoonish and lacking any reasonable motive for his rampage. ...
