Art & Artists
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Champagne & Oyster Architecture for the Holidays
Downtown LA's Central Market is getting hipper by the minute. You can now have vertically responsible hamburgers (Bel Canto), gourmet coffee (G&G), small batch pastrami (Wexler's), and heavenly ice cream (McConnell's), and now, at  The Oyster Gourmet,my friend Christophe Happillon's new pop-up (and I mean that literally, the kiosk pops... View Original Article -
Andy Warhol Goes Disco At Los Angeles' MOCA
Today Andy Warhol, who died in 1987, is considered one of the greatest artists of the 20th Century (if not "the" greatest). Auction prices for Warhol's work, often silk-screened images, tinted or painted, sell for record prices at auctions: Warhol's "Triple Elvis"(1963) sold at Christie's for close to $82 Million... View Original Article -
Paula Bronstein and The Big Picture
How do we understand the impact of climate change and natural disasters on people and architecture, and how does humanity learn from our mistakes and try to prepare for potential future cataclysms? That is ostensibly the agenda of “Sink or Swim: Designing for a Sea Change,” an exhibition opening Dec. 13 at the Annenberg Space for Photography, curated by Frances Anderton, an architecture writer perhaps best-known as the host and executive producer of KCRW’s DnA Design and Architecture radio program.… -
Living Masters of Latino Folk Art at LA's NHM
The Natural History Museum in Los Angeles (NHM) is celebrated for its Dinosaur skeletons, dioramas, oar fish display, gem and bug collections. Some specimens in the collection date back 4.5 billion years. Â Â Â When I arrived at the NHM to see the traveling exhibit Grandes Maestros: Great Masters... View Original Article -
The Kendall Jenner of The Belle Epoque Goes on View at The Getty
Over the Thanksgiving weekend, the J. Paul Getty Museum put on display "Spring" by Edouard Manet, a gorgeous Impressionist-style portrait of a highly fashionable young woman, the actress Jeanne Demarsy, that the museum recently acquired at auction for $65 Million. The painting is remarkable and note-worthy on several fronts, not... View Original Article -
In Re: Artist Miri Chais' Mind
“Re:Mind,” a multimedia installation at USC’s Fisher Museum of Art, is the first solo show in the United States for Miri Chais, an Israeli-born artist who now lives in Los Angeles. For the show, Chais created and installed a room full of paintings and sculptures, as well as objects that have screens embedded in them, all of it accompanied by music (much of it composed by her 15-year-old son) and a looped video displayed on the walls behind and surrounding… -
The Hollywood Blacklist in Exile
Stories of the Hollywood blacklist of the 1940s and ’50s are, by now, well known. Many books, articles and documentaries exist about the lives of actors, screenwriters and directors who the studios deemed unemployable because of their association — real or alleged — with the Communist Party. Also familiar are the stories of many who “named names” to Congress’ House Un-American Activities Committee — such as Ronald Reagan, Elia Kazan and Budd Schulberg, who provided names of people they believed… -
Judy Fiskin: The Hammer's Summer Blockbuster
Judy Fiskin’s video “I’ll Remember Mama” is a witty, complex story of the artist’s relationship with her mother. Photo courtesy of Judy Fiskin In keeping with summer being the season for superhero sequels, the Hammer Museum is presenting “Made in L.A. 2014,” its second biennial selection of contemporary artists working in Los Angeles. Organized by the museum’s chief curator, Connie Butler, along with independent curator Michael Ned Holte, the exhibition features a diverse and eclectic mix of 35 artists working… -
Jackson Pollock's 'Mural': Masterpiece or Macho Outburst?
[caption width="584" align="alignnone"] Jackson Pollock (American, 1912-1956); “Mural,” 1943; medium: oil and casein on canvas. The University of Iowa Museum of Art, Gift of Peggy Guggenheim, 1959. Reproduced with permission from The University of Iowa.[/caption] Rarely do we see singular artworks that, even as they represent an exact moment of transition between art historical movements, are also masterpieces in their own right. Yet that is exactly what can be seen now at the Getty Museum, which, until June 1, is… -
The Wallis: Now that it’s built, will they come?
A giant risk is being taken with The Wallis — as the Wallis Annenberg Center for the Performing Arts in Beverly Hills is being called, and for which the 1934 Beverly Hills Post Office on Santa Monica Boulevard, between Canon and Crescent drives, has been rehabbed to pristine beauty. The former post office building holds a theater school, the 150-seat Lovelace Studio Theater — a multifunction black box theater — and administrative offices, and it is now attached to architect… -
The People's Architect (Moshe Safdie)
Moshe Safdie’s new Guerin Pavillion at the Skirball Cultural Center offers a light-filled natural setting for conferences and gatherings. Photo by Timothy Hursley The Skirball Cultural Center, which stands at the crest of Sepulveda and Mulholland just west of the 405 Freeway, was built on a dump. Literally. Who knew? Before the Skirball acquired the land, it was a garbage dump. With its opening in 1996, architect Moshe… -
Hans Richter: The Future is Now! (at LACMA)
The exhibition “Hans Richter: Encounters” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art is a curator’s dream: retrospective of a somewhat obscure, multiplatform artist, who is equally adept (and revolutionary) in painting and film; whose life and career intersects with the major artists and artistic movements of the 20th century; and whose work, when organized didactically, continues to appear very of the moment, ready for reappraisal and for greater attention. Although the show’s curator, Timothy O. Benson, had written about…