Tibby Rothman

The year before, one of her friends had gotten too drunk. She remembers that now, standing at the same corner of La Brea Avenue and Second Street at pretty much the same time, doing pretty much the same thing: leaving her gallery, Launch, after her opening and walking to dinner......

Sometimes architects are compared to artists. But often the closest counterpart to what an architect does is not that of an artist, but a screenwriter. A friend of mine, a sculptor, once pointed out that filmmaking is "art by committee." And so, can be, architecture. The client, like the director......

In the late 1980s, the abstract painter David Lloyd found himself where others wanted to be. Margo Leavin, who showed John Baldessari, Donald Judd and Alexis Smith, was his art dealer. In the art world -- or, to be more specific, the business of art -- to land a respected......

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A friend of mine who designed her home in Malibu laughed when the men on her design team said they'd put the laundry room in the basement. "If I'm going to be folding laundry," the working mother of two said, "I'm going to do it with an ocean view." Her......

It's Friday, May 28, at 5 p.m. Many in L.A. have already bailed on their jobs, if not the city, thinking: long, loose, first real weekend of summer. Yet architect Benjamin Ball is not thinking any of those things. He's thinking: long weekend of work ahead. He and partner Gaston......