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Deborah Vankin

Deborah Vankin

Staff Writer at Los Angeles Times

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  • Health & Medicine

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Michael Govan is kingpin of L.A.'s global arts ambition - Los Angeles Times

When Michael Govan joined the Los Angeles County Museum of Art as director in 2006, he had a vision: to create an arts and culture town square, in sprawling and diffuse Los Angeles, along museum-heavy Miracle Mile. He had a 340-ton boulder hauled from a Riverside-area quarry to the Wilshire Boulevard museum in 2012 for a monumental sculpture, by Michael Heizer, to mark his LACMA campus. The artwork, “Levitated Mass,” is a beacon of sorts, visible from the street. A specialized “transporter,” nea…
over 1 year ago
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Ann Philbin remade the Hammer Museum into a world-class institution...

The Los Angeles art world is still reeling — eight months after the fact — from the news that Ann Philbin, longtime director of the Hammer Museum at UCLA, is retiring at the end of this year. Philbin — who has steered the museum for 25 years — leaves a transformative legacy. When Philbin, 72, took the reins in 1999, the Hammer was a regional university museum with fewer than 50 full-time employees and a $6-million annual operating budget. It’s now a globally recognized destination for contempora…
over 1 year ago
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Fitness challenges for the new year: long walks, steep hikes - Los ...

Channel your inner adventurer. You may have seen “Nyad,” the Netflix film about Diana Nyad, in which the American distance swimmer (played by Annette Bening) swims to Florida from Cuba outside the protective confines of a shark cage — at age 64. “I don’t believe in imposed limitations,” she says matter-of-factly in one scene. And neither should you. But you need not swim with sharks for days, as Nyad did, to get the rush that comes with taking on a seemingly impossible fitness challenge. There a…
almost 2 years ago
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Drumboxing is a 'gym for the brain.' Would you try it? - Los Angele...

It’s an early Wednesday morning, and I’m about to work out — my noggin. I’m at a “gym for the brain” in Malibu, readying for a group fitness class. It features a targeted aerobic exercise, performed to music, meant to develop focus, resilience and adaptability — all while torching calories. The class is called Drumboxing, a new, so-called “brain fitness” technique developed by John Wakefield, a percussionist who plays with the Los Angeles Opera. He composed music, incorporating Latin and Afro-Cu…
about 2 years ago
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This artist aims to prove Valley haters wrong with DIY 'performativ...

The tour begins with a runaway tortoise. We’re in Vincent Enrique Hernandez’s 1987 Volvo cruising through his Van Nuys neighborhood, a grid of sun-scorched streets, spiky palm trees and suburban ranch homes. The teenage tortoise lives at a neighbor’s house and is sleeping at the moment, but it’s something of an escape artist. Once, it was found sauntering across Hazeltine Avenue, about a quarter mile from home. It’s idiosyncratic tidbits like this that give the neighborhood color and fuel Hernan…
over 2 years ago
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Why LAFC and artist Alake Shilling are offering soccer clinics at t...

Artist Alake Shilling is kicking around her “Buggy Ball” with the Los Angeles Football Club in the name of making art accessible.
almost 3 years ago
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Walter Ulloa, media visionary and art collector, elevated Latinos -...

Walter Ulloa, who built a national network of more than 100 TV and radio stations, supported Chicano and Mexican artists with the help of Cheech Marin.
almost 3 years ago
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An L.A. nonprofit's culture mapping project goes statewide - Los An...

18th Street Arts Center has been awarded a $3-million California Creative Corps grant from the California Arts Council to expand its Culture Mapping 90404 project statewide.
almost 3 years ago
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Artist Alexandra Grant on her vibrant new coffee table book - Los A...

Alexandra Grant’s new coffee table book ‘LOVE: A Visual History of the grantLOVE Project’ is about love, but it’s also about art-making, community and giving back.
about 3 years ago
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Lisa Sundstedt champions Pretty Funny Women in a (still) male-domin...

Lisa Sundstedt’s Pretty Funny Women workshop has nurtured Chloe Fineman, Atsuko Okatsuka, Kimrie Lewis and Rachel Wolfson -- all before they were famous comedians.
about 3 years ago
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The Natural History Museum's $75-million project, coming in 2024 - ...

The renovation and expansion project, called the NHM Commons, is set to debut in 2024. Both physically and conceptually, it’s meant to better connect the museum to the community.
about 3 years ago