Art & Artists
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The Art of Matthew Rolston
September 17, 2021 T By Tom Teicholz Matthew Rolston, Hittorff, La Fontaine des Mers (Neptune), 2016.© MRPI, (COURTESY FAHEY KLEIN, LOS ANGELES, LAGUNA ART MUSEUM) Matthew Rolston’s exhibition Art People: The Pageant Portraits on view through January 2, 2022, at the Laguna Art Museum is a show as beautiful, as mysterious, as life-affirming, and as much about human creativity and art, as The Pageant of the Mastersitself. And in a sense, it is also a metaphor for the career and work of Matthew Rolston himself.… -
Artist Amy Sherald Delivers ‘The Great American Fact’
April 16, 2021By Tom Teicholz Amy Sherald’s new work, on exhibit at Hauser Wirth Los Angeles until June 6, 2021 (her first West Coast solo show) is a pleasure, a wonder, a breath of fresh air, a corrective, a display of mastery, brilliance, and soulfulness. It is about America, about the dignity of regular people, about being present and being seen, about painting, and about color (in every sense of the word). The show consists of five paintings Sherald completed… -
Lorna Simpson's Certainty: Art Is "Everrrything"
Lorna Simpson's Everrrything at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles presents the wide spectrum of work Simpson produced during the pandemic â paintings, sculptures, collages, assemblages of found photos â 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 and her ability to execute whatever inspires her. Simpson's career has long been conceptual in its approach, and it is not without… -
The Broad Museum Reopens
Eli Broad, the Los Angeles real estate magnate turned philanthropist, civic leader, and art collector, died April 30, 2021. His legacy is most evident on Grand Street in downtown Los Angeles, home to the Frank Gehry masterpiece Walt Disney Hall, as well as his namesake museum, The Broad Museum, repository of his art foundation's collection which, regrettably, he did not live to see reopen.But The Broad has indeed reopened, and they have done so with a brilliant new re-installation of… -
The Gospel According To Aretha
In 1972, Aretha Franklin who had by then had some 11 consecutive hits including, "Respect," "Think" and "(You Make Me Feel Like A) Natural Woman" decided to record a live gospel album. Over two nights at the New Temple Missionary Baptist Church in Los Angeles, Aretha performed with the Reverend James Cleveland and the Southern California Community Choir led by Alexander Hamilton. The first night was devoted to traditional gospel hymns, the second to gospel versions of contemporary songs by… -
Inside The Newly Renovated Museum Of Modern Art
In the waning hours before coronavirus shut down New York, I visited a more-empty-than-usual Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Christina's World By Andrew Wyeth 1948 MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. COURTESY OF MOMA The Museum re-opened last October after several months of closure for expansion, renovation, and re-installation of the collection. Let me cut to the chase here: I love what the Museum has done MoMA has found a way to return to the spirit of early curators Alfred Barr and William… -
Traces Of Ai Weiwei's Politics At Skirball Cultural Center.
"Ai Weiwei: Trace" at the Skirball Cultural Center in Los Angeles presents three of the six floor panels Ai Weiwei created in 2014 for a site-specific exhibition in San Francisco on Alcatraz Island concerning prisoners of conscience, political prisoners, and those subject to unlawful detention and, in some cases, torture. The Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Gardens in Washington D.C. subsequently acquired the panels and then, in turn, made the exhibition available to the Skirball. The exhibiti... View Original Article -
A Pleasing Pandemic In Normandy: David Hockney's Creative French Country Prints
LA Louver gallery in Venice, California which is celebrating its 45th year, has a new exhibition that you can actually go see by appointment, "David Hockney: My Normandy." I could say that seeing an exhibition of art in person, and seeing the joy with which Hockney in his 80s creates his work, was for me a shot in the arm â or, perhaps more accurately, that two shots in the arm makes it a delight to see the exhibition.In March… -
Tobi Kahn's Visual Seder
"To think visually is a capacity not just for artists; it is essential for everyone." With these words the visual artist Tobi Kahn concludes the artist statement that accompanies the just published "Mishkan Haseder," a new Passover Haggadah published by the Central Conference of Rabbis (CCR).This new edition comes replete with new translations, new Rabbinical commentaries, all enhanced by an awe-compelling selection of poems by Yehuda Amichai, Maxine Kumin, Muriel Rukeyser, Adrienne Rich, Ma... View Original Article -
Los Angeles' Annenberg Space For Photography To Close Permanently
Wallis Annenberg announced this week that the Annenberg Space for Photography which has been closed since March due to the pandemic, will not reopen. Located in Century City, the decade old institution had been LA's only museum devoted solely to Photography.In a letter posted on the The Annenberg Space's website, Annenberg said her decisions was "borne out of the pandemic that has upended public institutions across the world." Calling it a "joy and a privilege to share my favorite art… -
Studio DRIFT's Freedom Franchise And Drone Art
Art has always had as its schema to make us see. At different times, in different ways, it has called on us to rethink every aspect of perception - what we see, how we see it, how it is seen and how it is rendered; as well as to reconsider the very materials with which art can be made, of paint and how it's applied; of the properties of and our relation to color, metal, marble, wood; of objects in… -
Art Experiences At Home: Russian Edition
In the period A.C. (After Covid), I needed, more than ever, to look at Art. And given that I didn"t see traveling in the foreseeable future, I started to think: Where have I always wanted to go? What Museum have I always wanted to visit? What first came to mind: The Hermitage in St. Petersburg.Turns out The Hermitage has a fairly robust series of video tours, as well as a way to virtually visit the Museum.What I expected was a…