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Painted Words, Day-Glo Posters and Hotel Rooms: The Influence Of Allen Ruppersberg
Allen Ruppersberg: Intellectual Property 1968-2018 at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles (through May 12, 2019), features an artist you may not know well and the extent of whose influence you never realized â until this exhibition.To set this in context: One of the most significant developments in Los Angeles in the last decade has been that as LA continued to rise in prominence as a 21rst Century hub for creativity and art, its cultural institutions have looked back to… -
Woven Women: Helen and Dido Tapestries at the Norton Simon
As I stood before the magnificent tapestries and tapestry cartoons (full sized drawings made in preparation for weaving) on display in "Once Upon a Tapestry: Woven Tales of Helen and Dido" at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena (on view until May 27, 2019) I wondered if during the Middle Ages persons of means looked at the woven narratives unfolding serially across larger wall hangings as we do movies, TV and our smartphones â as entertainments, as chronicles of human… -
Contacting The Artist in Andy Warhol
Andy Warhol is currently the subject of a much-praised career survey at the Whitney Museum in New York â which I look forward to seeing before the show closes next March. In the interim, for those of us on the West Coast with an interest in Warhol, there is a compelling show, "Contact Warhol: Photography Without End" at the Cantor Arts Center at Stanford University on view until January 6, 2019.In the more than 30 years since his untimely death… -
The British Museum: The Problematic Yet Enduring Appeal of Antiquities
In London last month, my first stop was to visit the British Museum. Going there seemed an urgent priority. My thinking was that in such turbulent contemporary times, it is reassuring to see the classics of antiquity, those fundaments of Western Civilization that remain. At the same time, given our shifting ethical rationales concerning antiquities, I wanted to see again those British Museum treasures which may, sooner or later, be returned to their countries of origin and explore my feelings… -
Using the Blues to Bridge Across the Great Americana Divide
One of the things I most enjoy about benefit concerts (beyond the whole save-the-world ethos), and music award shows (beyond the awards themselves) is seeing a wide spectrum of artists, each doing 3-5 songs. It’s sort the musical equivalent of a smorgasbord – enough to hear a favorite artist or song and discover someone worth exploring more and short enough to move from those who hold no appeal . Which is why I so enjoyed ‘Across the Great Divide,” a… -
Towering Voices at 9/11 Flight 93 Memorial
This Sunday September 9, 2018, The National Park Service will mark the dedication of "The Tower of Voices," a 93-foot high tower of wind chimes that stands in Pennsylvania, at the entrance to the 2,200 square National Memorial Park dedicated to the 40 heroes of Flight 93 who perished on 9/11. View Original Article -
Art that Asks us to Change our Worldview or be Changed
The Skirball Museum in Los Angeles' exhibition 'Selections from Kehinde Wiley's The World Stage: Israel' called to mind a novel I'd just finished reading, Seth Greenland's The Hazards of Good Fortune. View Original Article -
The Getty Museum's Freakin' Amazing Ancient Hebrew Manuscript
"Freakin" Amazing!"Those are words I never expected to hear from Rabbi Steven Leder, the senior Rabbi at Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles (the congregation to which I belong).Rabbi Leder was marveling at the Getty Museum's latest acquisition, The 13th Century Rothschild Pentateuch (which is also the first Hebrew manuscript in the Getty's collection). View Original Article -
Good Vibrations at The Hilbert Museum
You never know where you might find a new museum these days. I was recently down in Orange, California visiting Chapman University when I came upon The Hilbert Museum of California Art which bills itself as “California’s newest Art Museum.” Take that with a grain of salt as new Art museums seem to be opening every week in LA. Still, the Hilbert is a newcomer and also smart enough that what they exhibit is distinctive. The Hilbert houses the collection… -
Buzzed About Art Fair in Santa Monica Shines Light on Cheech Marin's Collection
This week's Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art fair in Santa Monica, (Jan..25-28 at Barker Hanger) is no joke. And neither is Cheech Marin's collection of Chicano Art.Art Los Angeles Contemporary (ALAC) launches this Thursday, January 25 and runs through Sunday January 28 at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica. This is the ninth year of ALAC which has only grown in buzz, excitement, attendees and dealers. ALAC has a number of unique features: Of the more than 50 galleries exhibiting, half… -
LA's Modern Art Maven: Galka Scheyer
Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena through September 25, 2017 At the Norton Simon Museum it is easy to be distracted by the many Rodin sculptures at its entrance or to be seduced by the Museum’s beautiful outdoor sculpture garden set in its backyard with a pond that surely would have captivated Monet, or be transfixed by the Van Goghs and Impressionist masterpieces in the galleries, or even the Adam & Eve… -
Happy Birthday, Mr. Hockney
David Hockney who turned 80 on July 9, is being celebrated by major exhibitions traveling the globe. The Tate Modern held its comprehensive exhibit about Hockney’s work from February 9 through May 29th which is now at The Pompidou Center in Paris (June 21-Oct 23) before ending its run at New York’s Metropolitan Museum (November 26- February 25, 2018). It’s the kind of career-spanning retrospective to warm an artist’s heart and please his fans. It is the kind of exhibition…