Press

A Brief Selection of Press Clippings

Stuzin, Kate. "Panoramas in USC's backyard" Annenberg Media, April 22, 2024

 Rothstein, Edward. "‘Grand Views: The Immersive World of Panoramas’ Review: Painted Portals" Wall Street Journal, July 26, 2023.

Esposito, Veronica. "‘Visceral and powerful’: the everlasting appeal of giant art panoramas" The Guardian, May 18, 2023.

Knight, Christopher. "The 17 works of art you need to see in L.A. County" Los Angeles Times, July 22, 2022.

Ward Goodman, Tanya. "The case for visiting offbeat museums and attractions" Washington Post, January 28, 2022.

Netburn, Deborah. "Exploring weird L.A.: The strange, immersive art of the Velaslavasay Panorama" Los Angeles Times, October 4, 2021. 

Jones, Rachel Elizabeth. "In Los Angeles, an Otherworldly Space Preserves the Panorama" Hyperallergic, January 2, 2020.

Los Angeles County Newsroom. "ArtZone: Velaslavasay Panorama"  LA County Art Zone Broadcast, August 12, 2019.

Gravelle, Charles. “The Velaslavasay "Shengjing Panorama" - Interview with Sara Velas" Bikini Waxing Nostalgic, February 20, 2019.

Perrottet, Tony. "Surreal Los Angeles: Touring the City’s Strangest Museums"  Wall Street Journal, April 18, 2018.

Stromberg, Matt. "A Peepshow Tracks the Shifting Border Between Mexico and the US" Hyperallergic, July 26, 2017.

Kurutz, Steven. “The IMAX of the 1880s - Reviving the Panorama in Los Angeles, CA” The National - Amtrak Publication, December 2016.

Guzman, Richard. “Los Angeles Panorama Theatre Offers Quick Trip to the Arctic with Old Artform,” Daily News, July 3, 2015.

Koester, Megan. "Immersing Myself in Centuries-Old Panoramic Paintings Was Better Than Watching Any TV Show," Vice, April 29, 2015.

Howser, Huell  Season 19, Episode 1: Panorama Update "Visiting…With Huell Howser, Broadcast on PBS June 2011.

Poundstone, William. "Effulgence at the Velaslavasay Panorama," LACMA on Fire Blogsite, January 24, 2010.

Pinkus, Karen. “Research and Debate - Hollywood Panorama, ” Places Journal:  A Forum of Design for the Public Realm,   Volume 18, Number 3, October 15, 2006.

Leibowitz, Ed. Panorama Mama,” Smithsonian Magazine, May 2004.

Howser, Huell  Episode #911: Panorama "Visiting…With Huell Howser, Initial broadcast on PBS May 2001.

Emerling, Susan. "LA in the Round" Los Angeles Times,  May 5, 2001.

 

 

Selective Bibliography

 

Kohler, Gabriele editor. More than Meets the Eye - The Magic of the Panorama, Amberg, GERMANY:  Büro Wilhelm Verlag, 2019.

Velas, Sara & Carlson, Ruby. Shengjing Panorama: A Landmark 360° Collaboration, Memory and the Panorama, IPC Journal, Volume 2. 2019.

Li, Xiang Qun, editor. The Complete Chinese Panorama Set -  Four Volumes, Shenyang, CHINA: Liaoning Fine Arts Publishing House, 2017.

Velas, Sara & Clark, Kate. Panoramic Inquiries, USA: Museum Futures Vol. 2: Beyond the Vitrine, Across the Street and With the Security Guard, 2016.

Xia, Shu-Shen. Panoramas Worldwide and the Birth of Chinese Panoramas, Beijing, CHINA:  Renmei Publishing, 2014.

Huhtamo, Erkki. Illusions in Motion, Cambridge, MA:  MIT Press, 2013.

Lovett, Anthony & Maranian, Matt. LA Bizarro, San Francisco, CA: Chronicle Books, 2009.

Potter, Dr. Russell.  Arctic Spectacles:  The Frozen North in Visual Culture 1818 – 1875, Seattle,WA:  University of Washington Press, 2007.

Rombout, Ton & van den Braak, Rob editors. The Panorama Phenomenon: The World Round!, (ISBN 90-72084357) The Hague, NETHERLANDS, 2006.

Velas, Sara. "Effulgence of the North: Historic Influences and Technological Inspiration." Сильное и Красивое Искусство Будущего/Impressive and Beautiful Art of Future - Materials of the International Scientific Conference to the 150th Anniversary of Franz Roubaud, Eds. Guerassimova, Galina and Zboevskaya, Marins. Moscow, RUSSIA: SOREC-polygraphy, 2006.