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Rauschenberg: Making Art "Among Friends"
For those of us who came of age in the second half of the 20th Century, it was dogma that the greatest artist of the 20th Century was Pablo Picasso – he was everywhere, at the forefront of transformative artistic movements such as Cubism and he worked in almost every possible medium, in some cases revealing never-before-realized artistic potential in painting, collage, sculpture, and ceramics. He was constantly creative and prodigiously prolific, leaving footprints on the art scene that most… -
Sternburg's Photographs: "There for the Seeing"
Photographers don’t have eyes in the back of their heads. Janet Sternburg does.” -Wim Wenders on Janet Sternburg’s photographs. ‘Overspilling World’ (Distanz $55) collects the photographs of Janet Sternburg, poet, playwright, documentary filmmaker and producer, and memoirist. What is striking about Sternburg’s work, is not that she does all these different disciplines so well, but rather that she brings the same intellectual curiosity and deeply-felt artistic sensibility to each. For more https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2017/03/02/sternburgs-photographs-there-for-the-seeing/#1856f31c119a -
A Book that Makes the Meaningful Beautiful: The Voices & Visions
A Book that Makes the Meaningful Beautiful: The Voi... View Original Article -
Agnes Martin: Perfection
Agnes Martin: Perfection View Original Article -
Put DIA Beacon on Your Culture Bucket List
Put DIA: Beacon on Your Culture Bucket List View Original Article -
Pop goes the Skirball with Lichtenstein's Prints
In my office, I have a Time magazine cover from 1968, that I framed for myself as a child (the marks where I pulled off my parents’ subscription info are still there). It’s a portrait of Robert F. Kennedy giving a speech, drawn as a comic book hero and secular saint in Pop Art style by Roy Lichtenstein. The cover appeared on May 24, 1968, during the Presidential primary season as Kennedy’s popularity was surging. A few weeks later, Kennedy… -
The Full Schimmel: 'Revolution in the Making: Abstract Sculpture by Women 1947-2016'
Hauser Wirth & Schimmel (HW&S) an international gallery (locations in Zurich, London, Somerset, and New York) has landed in LA with a splash, in a new art space located at 901 East 3rd Street in Los Angeles’ downtown Arts district. HW&S have refurbished a large set of 19th and early 20th Century buildings, The Globe Mills (it once housed a Flour Mill), into 100,000 square feet of exhibition space broken up into several large indoor and outdoor areas. Their inaugural… -
Frank Gehry's Emotional Architecture
“The Dionysus of Modern Architecture,” is how James Cuno, President and CEO of The J. Paul Getty Trust, described architect Frank Gehry when awarding him the third annual J. Paul Getty Award at a lively and elegant event at the Getty Center in Los Angeles on September 28, 2015. Among a well-dressed crowd of some 350 attendees that included Los Angeles Mayor Eric Garcetti, Executive Vice Mayor Rick Jacobs, LA Philharmonic Artistic Director Gustavo Dudamel, Esa-Pekka Salonen, as well as… -
This is London ("London Calling" at The Getty Center)
“London Calling: Bacon, Freud, Kossoff, Andrews, Auerbach and Kitaj” on view at the J. Paul Getty Center until November 13, 2016 is the first U.S. exhibition devoted to exploring what R. B. Kitaj called “The London School” — a group of post- World War Two painters in England who pursued figurative art at a time when Abstract Expressionism was the rage. This is a wonderful exhibit, well-thought-out and well-curated, with a room devoted to each of these important painters, as… -
Looking at Cindy Sherman
Looking at Cindy Sherman View Original Article -
Hammer Museum's Made in LA 2016: Art is in the Eye of The Curator
Hammer Museum's Made in LA 2016: Art is in the Eye ... View Original Article -
The Met Breuer's Unfinished State
The Met Breuer's Unfinished State View Original Article