• Seeing Red: Matisse's The Red Studio At The Museum Of Modern Art

    On a recent trip to New York and its summer environs, I was struck by what was in some ways a small exhibition centered on just one painting, quite well known, that is more than 110 years old and that has been part of a museum collection for more than 75 years: Matisse, The Red Studio which is on view through September 10, 2022. The Red Studio is an iconic Matisse work: The large (6’ X 7’) painting is suffused…

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  • The Power Of Peter Fetterman's Photos

    The Power of Photography by Peter Fetterman (ACC ART BOOKS $45) is a perfect Father's Day gift – in fact, for me, this will be my gift of choice for birthdays and other present-bearing occasions.Fetterman, the long-time impresario of The Peter Fetterman Gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, has suffered the difficulties of a business dependent on the purchase and sale of artworks, along with the changing tastes of collectors as generational, societal, and economic shifts have occurred... View…

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  • Seeing A Forest for the Trees

    "A Forest for the Trees" is a multi-media installation that, like much of artist Glenn Kaino's work, is conceptual, collaborative, has a moral and ethical dimension, and is a political call to action. The exhibition also brings together a novel marriage of sponsors: Presented by The Atlantic magazine and Superblue (a showcase for experiential art), the exhibition is sponsored by Mastercard.Set in a 28,000 square foot warehouse in LA's Boyle Heights neighborhood, "A Forest for the Trees," is ... View…

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  • San Diego's Photo Gem

    Although San Diego is less than three hours south of where I live, I visit there less than I would have imagined, mostly for lack of reasons to do so.However, a recent invitation to visit the Museum of Photographic Arts (MOPA) in Balboa Park in San Diego introduced me to a gem I had not appreciated before.First, a few words about the Museum. The Museum grew out of a local group of photography enthusiasts who, beginning in 1972, operated the…

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  • Three Art Exhibits To See Right Now In New York

    On a recent visit to New York, I saw three art exhibitions I highly recommend: Faith Ringgold: American People, on view at the New Museum through June 5, 2022; The Hare with the Amber Eyes at the Jewish Museum, on view through May 15, 2022; and Hilary Pecis: Warmly at the Rachel Uffner Gallery through May 14.Faith Ringgold: American People is a must-see show. Ringgold is a 91-year-old Black artist known popularly for her children's books such as Tar Beach…

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  • Julian Schnabel vs. Death At Pace Gallery Los Angeles

    "All art is optimistic because it contains a denial of death"- Julian Schnabel.Recently, Pace Gallery celebrated the opening of their new Los Angeles flagship outpost, a partnership with Kayne Griffin, in their 15,000 square foot space on South La Brea, a former 1940s auto showroom whose building is now ivy-covered. The opening exhibition, "For Esmé – with Love and Squalor" presents 13 recent paintings on velvet by Julian Schnabel as well as a large sculpture in the gallery courtyard on…

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  • Seven Paintings: Tobi Kahn At The Phillips Collection

    In 1985, The Guggenheim Museum in New York mounted an exhibition of contemporary young artists, called "New Horizons in American Art" that included the work of Tobi Kahn. Kahn's featured paintings were abstractions of landscapes, the images anchored in black artist-made frames, the palette dark, the paint applied thickly and worked strenuously, the effect serious and, at times, somber. In many ways, that exhibition established Kahn as an artist worth watching and following.Now, a whole caree... View Original Article

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  • The Real London Of Leon Kossoff

    Leon Kossoff, one of the leading figures in Post-World War Two figurative art in Britain passed away in 2019. LA Louver in Venice, CA is now exhibiting the largest gallery show and first posthumous survey of Kossoff's work, Leon Kossoff: A Life In Painting (on view until April 9, 2022). Organized in collaboration with Annely Juda Fine Art in London and Mitchell-Innes & Nash in New York, the show was curated by Andrea Rose, the former Director of Visual Arts…

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  • Edward Goldman's Own "Made In LA" - Pandemic Version

    "How has this difficult time affected your art making?"Art Critic Edward Goldman, who for 30 years delighted NPR affiliate KCRW listeners with his weekly "Art Talk," and who continues to chronicle his art adventures with his weekly newsletter Art Matters as well as his private tours and classes on Art and Art collecting, asked this of LA artists during the pandemic.So, when Selma Holo, the esteemed Executive Director of Museums at the University of Southern California (USC) suggested he cur...…

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  • Lorna Simpson’s Certainty: Art Is ‘Everrrything”

    October 12, 2021 By Tom Teicholz Lorna Simpson, Reocurring, 2021© LORNA SIMPSON, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND HAUSER & WIRTH, PHOTO BY JAMES WANG Lorna Simpson’s Everrrything at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles presents the wide spectrum of work Simpson produced during the pandemic – paintings, sculptures, collages, assemblages of found photos – and if there is one thing that unites them it is Simpson’s certainty: She is an artist at the top of her game, fully confident in her artistic instincts…

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  • The Appearance Of Günther Förg

    September 30, 2021By Tom Teicholz  ‘Günther Förg. Appearance’, Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, 2021. © 2021 COURTESY ESTATE GÜNTHER FÖRG, SUISSE AND HAUSER & WIRTH. PHOTO: ZAK KELLEY In the world of museums, art galleries and exhibitions, the artists we know are often just the visible part of the iceberg. Art historians and art critics, gallery owners and museum staff, collectors and donors participate, consciously and unconsciously, in a self-validating circle that determines both which artists we know of, and which…

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  • Salgado’s ‘Amazonia’ Seeks to Save a World

    March 13, 2013By Tom Teicholz  Sebastião Salgado, the 77 year-old Brazilian-born Paris-based photographer who travels the world and whose work often invokes social activism on behalf of the exploited working poor, indigenous people, the consequences of climate change, ecological devastation, and the disappearing natural world, is exhibiting his latest epic project “Amazonia” about the Brazilian rainforest at Peter Fetterman Gallery in Santa Monica (on view until November 13, 2021) – Salgado’s main world gallery of the last 30 years. Jau…

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