Updating a Hollywood classic is a risky game. Remember the brouhaha triggered by colorizing Casablanca? It’s arguably the best movie ever made, but (unless you’re nostalgic) Humphrey Bogart ...

Artist Sylvie Shain, one of the last four tenants left at the Villa Carlotta, decided she would provide the ghosts, in an art piece called "Ghosts of Carlotta-Present." She and a large group of ...

Time and neglect had left the Villa Carlotta crumbling in places — chipped tile here, scuffed wood there, paint fading on beams that stretch across high ceilings. But Fuller saw its beauty and ...

a well-known Art Deco-style building at 3rd Street and Western Avenue. The Villa Carlotta was designated a Los Angeles historic cultural monument in 1986. Its centerpiece is a 1,500-square-foot ...

Built in 1926 for Elanor Ince by Arthur E. Harvey—who also designed the neighboring Chateau Elysee, now home to the secretive Scientology Celebrity Center—the property was rumored by to have ...