Art & Artists
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Donald Judd Breakthrough Art
Judd, the Donald Judd retrospective at New York's Museum of Modern Art was among the shows I caught B.C. (before Coronavirus), and although you can see it now online, it doesn"t do it justice.Donald Judd's who died in 1994, studied philosophy in college, and did graduate work in Columbia in art history. He spent many years as an art critic before arriving at the works he is best known, beginning in the early 1960s.The abstract expressionist painting of the 1940s… -
Looking At Contemporary Art
In the weeks before coronavirus shut down the world’s Art Museums, I saw a staggering amount of Contemporary Art both in Los Angeles which held its contemporary Artmegaddon – Frieze LA-Felix-Art Los Angeles Contemporary (all in one weekend!) and I also visited a number of contemporary art collections in South Florida, including the Perez Art Musem in Miami, the Rubell Museum, the DeLaCruz and Margulies collections in Miami and the Beth Rudin DeWoody collection, The Bunker ArtSpace, in West Palm… -
Making the Unseen Known
The Getty Museum is well regarded for their collection of antiquities housed at the Getty Villa in Malibu, for the work of the Getty Research Institute and the Getty Conservation Institute, as well as for their support of far-flung restorations, and their support and leadership in organizing such landmark art initiatives as the epic "Pacific Standard" exhibitions as well as the Getty's own excellent exhibitions, particularly in recent years as their range and ambition has expanded.Despite al... View Original Article -
The Gift of a Great Photo
With the holidays imminent, whether due to the spirit of the season or the constant barrage of advertising and emails, one's thoughts turn to gift-giving â for others and, even, for oneself.Many gifts are easily consumable or disposable or subject to the whims of trends or fashions. However, there is one gift that in my experience continues to give pleasure, and that is the gift of a great image â a photograph that is a work of art, that imparts… -
Pieces of R. B. Kitaj
It is hard to believe that twelve years have passed since the death of R. B. Kitaj, the at-times-controversial artist who coined the term "The London School" about his fellow contemporary artists in Britain (including Lucian Freud and Frank Auerbach) and who spent his last years living in Los Angeles. A new exhibition at LA Louver gallery in Venice, CA, "R.B. Kitaj: Collages and Prints, 1964-1975" reminds us of Kitaj's great talent and his restless, obsessive intelligence expressed in works… -
A Turn on Kienholz's Merry Go-Round
The work of Ed and Nancy Kienholz is mostly junk. Junk assembled to reveal the dark secrets of the American soul â our violence, our racism, our addiction to the screens that haunt us. Assembled from the detritus of the modern world , their work is deeply political and, in some instances, deeply disturbing. Other times, their works show a mordant humor.If you have never seen their work, or even if you have, you need to go to LA Louver… -
The Vanishing Point of Cool: Glenn O"Brien's "Intelligence for Dummies"
Glenn O"Brien was an artist, a filmmaker, a musician, editor of Andy Warhol's Interview Magazine, a columnist for Interview, Paper, ArtForum and other publications, and a very successful advertising copywriter and creative director of advertising for Barneys Department Store. For much of his adult life he stood at the cusp of contemporary culture, at the vanishing point of cool.As a contributing writer at Interview during the 1980s Warhol era, I met O"Brien on several occasions and attended ... View Original… -
Seeing Picasso in Palo Alto
It's time to see Picasso anew View Original Article -
California's Marciano Museum Closes
Los Angeles" Marciano Art Foundation, the three-year-old art museum founded by Marciano brothers, Paul and Maurice - who made their fortune in the jeans business - has unceremoniously closed.Paul and Maurice Marciano came to Los Angeles in 1981 from France and founded a denim company that eventually became the very successful GUESS? clothing and lifestyle brand. According to the Museum's website, around that time the brothers started collecting contemporary art. In 2012 the brothers established ... View Original Article -
Sometimes The King Is A Woman: The Paintings Of Amy Sherald
Amy Sherald's show at Hauser & Wirth in New Yorkwhich I regret to say will close October 26th, is a joy to behold and a revelation. Go see it, if you still can!Sherald is perhaps best known for her portrait of Michele Obama which can be seen at the National Gallery in Washington, D.C. In that portrait, Sherald invests an authority and a greatness that becomes Obama. So much so that Parker Curry, an African-American toddler, gazing up at the… -
The Art to Being David Van Eyssen
Recently, I went to an art opening in Santa Monica, where a doorman stood guard, clipboard in hand like at some private party or club. A spiral staircase led to a basement gallery where new works by David Van Eyssen were on display that combined film and still images layered upon each other and interacting in various ways, projected on screens or shown on flat screen TVs.At times, there were video images that unfolded in a loop and appeared among… -
Buried by Vesuvius Explodes the Getty Villa
Almost a year ago, I visited Pompei and Herculaneum, marveling at the extant evidence of the lives of the Romans as preserved when Vesuvius erupted in 79 A.D.Turns out I didn"t have to travel to Italy to see many of the magnificent treasures from the greatest of Herculaneum's Roman Villas (although I would do it again in a second!). The Getty Villa is currently exhibiting: Buried by Vesuvius, Treasures from the Villa dei Papiri, with a show of artifacts from…