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  Stuff of Obsession - Rediscovering Yayoi Kusama

  You might want to go to the corner of Wilshire and Ogden before entering LACMA to see "Love Forever: Yayoi Kusama, 1958-1968," a revisionism-at-its-best survey of one of the most important 20th-century artists, period. There, you'll come across the 1...

  by Terry R. Myers on March 26, 1998

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  The Prime Minister of Culture - George Steiner's sonorous solemnities

  A little learning is a dangerous thing, though not nearly as dangerous as a lot of it. George Steiner, for example, would probably write twice as well if he knew half as much. Or better, he'd write twice as well if he cared half as much about letting...

  by George Schialabba on March 26, 1998

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  Watch on the Rhone - What did you do during the Occupation?

  There's a moment in Gertrude Stein's play about a French town during the German Occupation when one character advises another to "just be natural and do your part." It's a gently ironic suggestion, given how the actors in Interact Theater's productio...

  by Steven Mikulan on March 26, 1998

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  Smash the Technorealist State

  On March 12, a self-organized system of writers and pundits proclaimed themselves "Technorealists" and posted a manifesto on the World Wide Web to explain what that means (http://www. technorealism.org). Among its signatories are writers I respect, t...

  by Judith Lewis on March 26, 1998

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  Finnish Touches

  It was Magnus Lindberg's week: music long awaited, handsomely produced, agreeably if not ecstatically received. Finnish-born in 1958 - three days older than Esa-Pekka Salonen - Lindberg is already known here for some extraordinary works on disc, musi...

  by Alan Rich on March 26, 1998

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  Sharon Lockhart - at Blum & Poe

  SHARON LOCKHART: Goshogaoka Girls Basketball Team At BLUM & POE 2042 Broadway, Santa Monica Through March 28 Using society's two most seductive mediums for both telling stories and selling dreams, Sharon Lockhart's photographs and films know ho...

  by Ingrid Calame on March 19, 1998

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  Larry Johnson - at Margo Leavin

  LARRY JOHNSON At MARGO LEAVIN GALLERY 812 N. Robertson Blvd. Through March 21 Larry Johnson's work at its best is like a fine rare cocktail - a Bloodhound, perhaps, or a Corpse Reviver, or a London Fog - a heady riot of Ektacolor meant to be savore...

  by Brian Baltin on March 19, 1998

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  Self-Partnering - The many faces of Daniel Ezralow

  Daniel Ezralow is sitting in the darkened Freud Playhouse at UCLA, watching a technical run-through of his one-man multimedia show, Mandala. "I dance with that guy," he says as I find my way to a seat. He's pointing to a film of a man trudging along ...

  by Sasha Anawalt on March 19, 1998

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  Retro Crusader - Julius Shulman's ode to Modernism

  L.A. OBSCURA: The Architectural Photography of Julius Shulman At USC FISHER GALLERY Harris Hall Through April 18 As Julius Shulman looks back on pictures he took of downtown L.A. in 1970, Southern California's premier architectural photo...

  by Stacie Stukin on March 19, 1998

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  Branded by Plath - Ted Hughes remembers life with Sylvia

  Ted Hughes is the Prince Charles of modern poetry, the man who spurned the woman women love. (He is also poet laureate to the queen.) Birthday Letters, a long, sometimes rambling series of poems recounting his six-year marriage to the American poet S...

  by Brendan Bernhard on March 19, 1998

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  Wilde and Wilder - How our theater gave up the Big Time

  OUR TOWN By THORNTON WILDER At SOUTH COAST REPERTORY 655 Town Center Drive, Costa Mesa Through March 28 GROSS INDECENCY: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde By MOISS KAUFMAN At the MARK TAPER FORUM 135 N. Grand Ave., downtown Through March...

  by Steven Leigh Morris on March 19, 1998

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  Confession of a Bruckner Dodger

  A few weeks ago I expressed some rude thoughts in this space concerning the program chosen for the Philharmonic debut concert of the young British conductor Daniel Harding. Specifically, I feared that a string-orchestra version of Anton Bruckner's St...

  by Alan Rich on March 19, 1998

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  The Unrenowned Soldier - Tim Hawkinson labors on, in comparative obscurity

  The use of sweeping pronouncements and praiseful superlatives will most often land critics in the dog pound of disdain, for it's axiomatic that a positive review will make one artist happy and fill thousands with scorn. In the case of Tim Hawkinson, ...

  by Michael Darling on March 12, 1998

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  Portrait of the Critic As a Cool Guy - Dave Hickey's Air Guitar

  Pity the critic, if you will, if you can, who must spend his days thinking long and hard on other people's real work. Unlike the artist's celebrated life of garrets and galas, there is nothing glamorous or romantic about his sublunary vocation: Holly...

  by Robert Lloyd on March 12, 1998

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  Mikhail Solo - Baryshnikov in the light

  When Mikhail Baryshnikov dances alone, light and music consume him in a way they don't when he is with somebody else. Solo, he is the maker of his own tradition. The revelations of his dancing are arguably deeper and greater than when he is in a grou...

  by Sasha Anawalt on March 12, 1998

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  Light & Shadows - Photographer Jock Sturges, under fire - again

  Last week, a grand jury in Montgomery, Alabama, indicted Barnes & Noble on charges of disseminating "obscene material containing visual reproduction of persons under 17 years of age involved in obscene acts." The materials in question were two photog...

  by David Steinberg on March 12, 1998

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  Soap Box Derby - Must we cry in all the right places?

  BURNING BLUE By DMW GREER At the COURT THEATER 722 N. La Cienega Blvd. Through April 15 COMBAT! By JOHN FISHER At the VICTORIA THEATER 2961 16th St., San Francisco Through April 18 "I would have followed you to the ends of the Earth!" con...

  by Steven Mikulan on March 12, 1998

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  Tripped Out

  When Barbara Simons accepted her Electronic Frontier Foundation Pioneer Award at this year's Computers, Freedom and Privacy conference in Austin, she made an admittedly unorthodox move: She nominated next year's winner. EFF gives out Pioneer Awards t...

  by Judith Lewis on March 12, 1998

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  Under New Management

  In the realm of symphony-orchestra management there was some delicious double talk last week. On Friday, The New York Times broke the story that Kurt Masur, who has led the New York Philharmonic since 1991 and brought it out of the morass of irreleva...

  by Alan Rich on March 12, 1998

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  Laserian - Hiro Yamagata's art of optics

  Internationally known among commercial-art enthusiasts for his pop-inspired faunal and floral imagery, Japanese-born and -educated Hiro Yamagata is best known in the U.S. as the poster designer for the 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996 Olympic Committees. (H...

  by Sue Spaid on March 5, 1998