Rethinking Symbols from Rick Meghiddo on Vimeo. The “Takashi Murakami: Stepping on the Tail of a Rainbow” and “This Is Not America’s Flag” combined exhibitions at the Broad bring us the power of symbolism and its interpretations through multiple artists and evolving cultures. Muramaki uses “augmented reality” to express trauma and disaster. The artists featured in “This Is […]
Ukrainian Bullets from Rick Meghiddo on Vimeo. With the war in Ukraine entering most people’s lives worldwide, Ukrainian Bullets shows creative alternatives from life before the beginning of the war. In delineating a short documentary, I focused on contemporary young artists at the forefront of art, music, and architecture. Artists Daria Marchenko graduated from Kyiv […]
Permaculture Design for Tomorrow conveys a broad view of growing food in the city. It is an educational instrument directed to a large audience, from children to senior citizens, teachers to architects, residential dwellers to city planners and developers. Ruth Meghiddo, an architect, turned into a permaculture designer and master-planner, conveys her experience and passion with a sense of urgency.
To Argentina: Another Look from Rick Meghiddo on Vimeo. “TO ARGENTINA: Another Look” brings a different perspective of Buenos Aires and Cordoba, as observed during three weeks in late 2021. Rather than being “a three-act story,” this feature documentary, partially autobiographical, it is a sort of “quilt,” bits and pieces stitched together as a unity. […]
Los Angeles has a new icon: the spherical Geffen Theater, a state-of-the-art place for film projections designed by Pritzker Prize-winning architect Renzo Piano. It is part of the Academy Museum of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences, inaugurated last September. The City of Angels is not short of icons, but few have visual clarity. The […]
The Wende Museum is a unique depository of memories from the Eastern European countries beyond the Iron Curtain that endured Communism-labeled fascism during the Cold War. It is dedicated to preserving this period’s art, culture, and stories. When my friend Elisa Leonelli sent me a recent article she wrote about her visits to The Wende, we followed after […]
The concert of Astor Piazzolla’s Las Cuatro Estaciones Porteñas / The Four Seasons of Buenos Aires, at the Hollywood Bowl, on August 26, 2021, was of historic importance. A public of about 15,000 people came to the concert conducted by Gustavo Dudamel, with the performance of Karen Gomio as a soloist. Unlike Vivaldi’s concertos, Piazzolla’s Four […]
When you go to the Long Beach Opera, expect the unexpected. The program fitted our expectations: Arnold Schoenberg’s Pierrot Lunaire (1912) and Kate Soper’s Voices from the Killing Jar (2012.), an all-women performance. Jenny Wong directed the music, the choreography was directed by Danielle Agami, and the singing was by soprano Laurel Irena. Yet the […]
We are not surprised by Frank Gehry surprising us as an architect. We know that he is also prolific as an artist. What surprised me this time is that, at ninety-two, following a pandemic year when he had to lay 170 people working at his office, is that he has not stopped pushing the envelope […]
Mishmash: a confused mixture of things. Merriam-Webster Dictionary Fairfax Avenue is an excellent example of an urban mishmash of disjointed places, events, and buildings. The documentary visually shows many of the incongruities and contradictions that characterize our time. The contrast between the long line of colorful young people hoping to find a deal at the […]
My short documentary “Spring 2021 & Mumuki” is about plants and planting; it is about growth, renewal, decay, and death; it is about being in touch with the land; it is about Astor Piazzolla’s “Mumuki;” In the early afternoon of June 3, Ruth asked me to accompany her to the site of a yet-to-be-built permaculture […]
The Long Beach Opera did it again! The production of Les Enfants Terribles at the rooftop parking of the new 2ND & PCH Shopping Mall follows a long list of avant-garde creations by this cultural institution. It includes, among many others, productions such as Orpheus & Euridice (at the Belmont Plaza Olympic Pool,) The Diary of […]