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Stephen West

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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.

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Exploring Photography’s Bag of Tricks

By Stephen West on August 7, 2019

Photographers created a visual revolution in the 19th century by describing the world accurately, almost scientifically. They forced other artists... Read more →
Art

Tattoos Get Respect in San Francisco Shows

By Stephen West on July 17, 2019

It's summer in San Francisco, time to head to the park, demonstrate your hipness, and show off your tattoos. The de Young Museum's big new exhibition... Read more →
ArtFilmPhotography

Every Warhol You’d Ever Want to See

By Stephen West on May 22, 2019

What is there left to say about Andy Warhol? He was one of a handful of 20th-century artists who truly became household names, like Picasso. He was a... Read more →
LiteratureTheatre

The Rise and Fall of Becky Sharp

By Stephen West on May 1, 2019

Becky Sharp, the anti-heroine of William Makepeace Thackeray's sprawling 19th-century novel Vanity Fair, is a handful. Ambitious but poor, charming... Read more →
Art

How Rubens Added Italian Passion to Flemish Restraint

By Stephen West on April 10, 2019

In Peter Paul Rubens's spectacular Daniel in the Lions' Den, a buff Daniel, with long brown hair flowing over the shoulders and dressed only in a... Read more →
Art

Tracing Monet’s Garden as It Evolves Into Pure Color

By Stephen West on February 20, 2019

In 1914, Claude Monet could have put away his paint brushes for good. He was financially secure, and his reputation as a star of French Impressionism... Read more →
Theatre

Tales of Fickle Gods, Flawed Mortals
in Metamorphoses

By Stephen West on February 6, 2019

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 →
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Vija Celmins Show Stars Pop Paintings, Zen Drawings

By Stephen West on January 2, 2019

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 →
ArtPhotography

Brassai, Poet of Paris Streets, Shines in Photo Show

By Stephen West on December 12, 2018

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 →
Art

How Gauguin’s Danish Ties Led to Iconic Tahitian Works

By Stephen West on November 21, 2018

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 →
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