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Broad Minded: The Broad Museum Director on LA Impact and Olympics Plans
As The Broad marks its 10th anniversary, founding director and president Joanne Heyler reflects on the museum’s impact on downtown Los Angeles and the city’s cultural scene
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Box TV Sets as Art: From Daniel Tyree Gaitor-Lomack to Veronica Fernandez
They may no longer a fixture in homes, but old-fashioned box TVs still inspire artists as symbols of mass media and objects of everyday living
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Greed Is Good… for TV Drama
By Brian Lowry Artwork by Barbara Kruger Gordon Gekko, the amoral investor in Oliver Stone’s Wall Street, got it partly right when he said, “Greed is good.” Greed might not be beneficial to society, as Michael Douglas’ character argued, but in recent times, it has certainly helped produce good TV. Granted, greed has taken many…
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Dynamic Duos in Oil Paintings: ‘Hacks,’ ‘Nobody Wants This’ and More
Brooklyn-born Elbert Joseph Perez re-creates some of the season’s most memorable on-screen pairings in distinctive oil paintings.
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Diego Luna Unpacks His ‘Andor’ Journey From Beginning to Exhausting End
Reprising his most popular on-screen role in the Star Wars prequel series Andor, Mexican actor Diego Luna has won critical raves and mainstream fans. Can he finally take a breather?
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The Look of ‘Severance’: Jessica Lee Gagné Talks to Thomas Demand About Visions of Corporate Life
For decades, German fine-art photographer Thomas Demand has been creating spare interior landscapes that anticipated the look of the Lumon Industries offices in Severance. Now, Demand sits down with the show’s longtime cinematographer (and occasional director) Jessica Lee Gagné to explore their parallel visions of corporate life.
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Artists by Artists: Kathryn Hahn, Cate Blanchett, Jake Gyllenhaal and More
Consider these works by a baker’s dozen of primarily California-based visual artists working in paint, fabric and even marble to capture some of the small screen’s biggest stars
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Hollywood’s Meta Obsession: ‘The Studio’ and ‘Hacks’
“These new shows are so insider-y that not only has Ron Howard appeared as himself in both Hacks and The Studio, but I am almost positive he’s the murderer in the building. And that the victim is Brian Grazer.”
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Snapshots of Emmy Season: Noah Wyle, Adam Scott, Sterling K. Brown and More
A major exhibition of L.A. artists and a portfolio of Hollywood’s finest actors of the year coalesce in a collaboration of creativity.
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TheWrapBook: The Art of Television 2025
“TV actors have often seemed more relatable, almost like casual friends we catch up with on a regular basis — unlike the glamorous movie stars of old who sat at a safe distance on a big screen. TV shows typically tell us stories that mirror our daily lives: in offices and hospitals, schools and apartment…
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Contributors
A major exhibition of L.A. artists and a portfolio of Hollywood’s finest actors of the year coalesce in a collaboration of creativity.
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The Trouble With Adolescence
By Kate ManneArtwork by Hernan Bas In the second episode of Netflix’s Adolescence, Detective Sergeant Misha Frank (Faye Marsay) gets her longest piece of dialogue, a short monologue that lampshades one of the central problems of the series:It does nothing to illuminate or even vivify the plight of the female victim. “Do you know what…
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Get Into the Groovy: ‘The White Lotus’ Cast Goes ’70s
We invited the cast of The White Lotus to a ‘70s-themed party. You can bet your bell-bottomed dollar that they were game and ready to dish on how they created one of the twistiest seasons of TV in memory.
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