Stephen West writes about arts and culture in California. Previously he was media business editor at the Los Angeles Times, executive editor of Daily Variety and, until he retired in 2017, an editor and arts writer for Bloomberg News in San Francisco.
Before the Brothers Grimm, before Hans Christian Andersen, there was the Roman poet Ovid, who wrote a 15-book epic of mythological tales called... Read more →
The American art scene in the '60s and '70s was almost totally a boys club, and one of the few women who broke through to full membership was Vija... Read more →
Brassai was more than a talented documentary photographer. He was a visual poet of the streets of Paris in the 1930s, focusing on the ordinary... Read more →
Paul Gauguin is probably best known for his tempestuous friendship with Vincent Van Gogh in the south of France and his late work in Tahiti. Yet an... Read more →
A gigantic dragon greets visitors to a new exhibition of contemporary Chinese art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The dragon, 85 feet long... Read more →
Andy Warhol wasn't a photographer in the normal sense, yet photography was at the core of his art. An impressive new exhibition at Stanford... Read more →
![Andy Warhol, Detail from Contact Sheet [Photo shoot with Andy Warhol with shadow], 1986.](https://www.culturalweekly.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Warhol_contact_detail-1.jpg)
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