Archive for April, 2010
Portraits of Alice Neel’s Legacy of Realism (NY Times) From William Furlong and Audio Arts, a New Book (NY Times) Paris Journal: Chatter of Swindles and Scames at Drouot (NY Times) Art Dealer Admits Lying to FBI Over Faked $2 Million Picasso (WSJ) Critic’s Notebook: What L.A. Might Ask of Eli Broad (LA Times) Hammer […]
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Tags: Alice Neel, art, Audio Arts, David Zwirner, Drouot, Eli Broad, Elizabeth Peyton, Hammer Museum, Honor Fraser, LACMA, Picasso, realism, Robert Lazzarini, scandal, Souren Melikian, William Furlong
Fashion as Art
On Wednesday, April 21, LACMA’s Costume Council featured a brilliant presentation by artist Kimberly Brooks, “Art, Fame, and Fashion.” Brooks recently completed the Los Angeles component of the The Stylist Project, a series of oil paintings that will eventually be turned into a book. The Stylist Project hones in on today’s fashion influencers and explores […]
Filed under: artist projects, celebs, contemporary art, fashion, galleries, Los Angeles, museums, Uncategorized | 2 Comments
Tags: Costume Council, Elizabeth Stewart, Jeanne Yang, Kimberly Brooks, LACMA, Taylor de Cordoba, The Stylist Project
Damaged Picasso Returns to the Met After Repair (NY Times) At LAX, the Saucer is Ready to Land Again (NY Times) After-Hours Programs at Bay Area Museums – An Uneven Mix (NY Times) Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery, at the Frick Collection (WSJ) Pae White, an Artist “In the World” (LA Times) LACMA’s Collectors Committee […]
Filed under: art market, auctions, celebs, collecting, contemporary art, dealers, galleries, Los Angeles, museums, New York, reviews, San Francisco | 1 Comment
Tags: celebrity art collections, damaged Picasso, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Frick Collection, LACMA Collector's Committee, LAX, MET, Overduin and Kite, Pae White, Tribeca Film Festival, Tris Vonna-Michell
by Caroline Newman Spend a few hours at the Getty and travel half-way around the world, with diverse perspectives of urban life through the art of three photographers in Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim. Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao’s large, horizontal, color photographs depict movement through the busy streets of New York. By compositing images together, Liao is […]
Filed under: contemporary art, Los Angeles, museums, photography, reviews | 6 Comments
Tags: Catherine Opie, Getty, Jeff Chien-Hsing-Liao, photography, Soo Kim, Urban Panoramas
Click here to listen to Emily Waldorf’s talk on the power of combining blogging and the arts and how you can harness new media platforms to get closer to your own personal and professional goals. Slides The talk covers the following central aspects of blogging and new media: The rise of new media as a […]
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Tags: arts, blogging, celebrity culture, link love, new media, page rank, SEO
The Scull Collection: Showing a Couple’s Eye for Art (and Money) (NY Times) Corcoran Gallery’s Deal Raises Hope and Eyebrows (NY Times) Finding an Artful Way to Expand the Whitney (NY Times) A Flowering of Activity for Robert Irwin (LA Times) With New Artwork, Piero Golia Says, ‘L.A., I’m Home!’ (LA Times) Saint Laurent Stripped […]
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Tags: Corcoran Gallery, fashion, Grace Kelly, New York Academy, party, Piero Golia, Robert Irwin, Rothko, Scull Collection, Sotheby's stock, Whitney expansion, Yves Saint Laurent
German artist Andreas Gursky’s installation of fifteen c-prints is a fitting inaugural show for Gagosian Gallery’s newly expanded 3,030 square foot Beverly Hills space, designed by Richard Meier & Partners. This is the first big show for Gursky in Los Angeles and includes six works from his new “Ocean” series as well as nine retrospective works […]
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Tags: Andreas Gursky, Beverly Hills, Gagosian Gallery, mappe del mondo, Richard Meier
Ford Foundation Grants to Aid Art Spaces and Housing (NY Times) The Truths of Art Studios Onstage in “Red” (NY Times) New Faces on Southland Art Museum Scene (LA Times) L.A. Woman Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison for Selling Bogus Art (LA Times) Watts Towers May Get LACMA As a Guardian (LA Times) Manhattan […]
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Tags: "Red", Annie Leibovitz, Art Dubai, art world gossip, Berry Hill, bogus art, curators, fake art, Ford Foundation, Koons BMW art car, Los Angeles, Mark Rothko, museums