Articles by Scarlet Cheng

FROM THE time he was a schoolboy, John Kobal was in love with Hollywood. Read more

ASPECIAL energy was crackling among the ladies refreshing their ikebana arrangements in the strikingly unusual exhibition “Living Flowers: Ikebana and Contemporary Art” at the Japanese American National Museum. Read more

“I wanted it to be a world of my own,” says Indian director Sanjay Leela Bhansali of his lushly romantic new musical “Saawariya.” Read more

The two sides of the Berlin Wall segment that stands outside the Wende Museum in Culver City speak volumes. Read more

“I just added a piece which I got today,” says sleight-of-hand artist Ricky Jay, walking across a gallery at the Hammer Museum. Read more

HISTORY is the master narrative that the victors get to write, and often they get to draw the pictures as well. Read more

BOTH dread and delight course through the anime films of Satoshi Kon, who is widely recognized as a master of the genre. Read more

“I learned early on that I was not going to be fashionable,” says artist Ruth Weisberg. Read more

IN 1974, artist Judy Chicago launched a work in Los Angeles to redress ignorance of women’s history. Read more