Archive for the ‘contemporary art’ Category
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 […]
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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 […]
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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
Painting, Still Lively in the 21st Century (NY Times) Kiki Smith: Works in Glass (NY Times) J.M.W. Turner’s Last Rome Painting to Be Sold (NY Times) Jeff Koons Curator’s Debut Features Candy Giants, Jesus: Review (Bloomberg) Anish Kapoor to Design $29 Million Olympic Tower (Bloomberg) Cy Twombly: Hitting the Louvre Ceiling (LA Times) Review: ‘Leonardo […]
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Tags: 21st century, Anish Kapoor, Carla Bruni, Carla Bruni-Sarkozy, Cy Twombly, Getty Museum, J.M.W. Turner, Jeff Koons, Kiki Smith, London Olympics, Louvre, Olympic Tower, painting, USC, William Kentridge
Art Handling Olympics on the Lower East Side (NY Times) Talking with Ex-Met Director Philippe de Montebello (NY Times) Smart Phones Serve as Docents in Many Museums (NY Times) Renoir in the 20th Century, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (WSJ) Los Angeles Municipal Arts Begin to Feel Budget Crisis’ Effects (LA Times) […]
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Tags: Antony Gormley, art handlers, budget, chairman, Getty, Jeffrey Deitch, LACMA, Leonor Antunes, Los Angeles, Marc Foxx, MOCA, Phillips, Renoir, TEFAF
Mark Grotjahn at Blum & Poe
by Kelly Boyd Layers of pigment, built up with brushes and palate knives on cardboard and canvas make up Mark Grotjahn’s Seven Faces exhibit, now showing at Blum & Poe. Reminiscent of Picasso and drawing inspiration from Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, the exhibition features thirteen paintings, most of them quite large, and quite recent. While the […]
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Tags: Blum & Poe, Demoiselles d'Avignon, galleries, Los Angeles, Mark Grotjahn, Picasso
Emily Waldorf interviewed Los Angeles-raised, Brooklyn-based artist Jaqueline Cedar, whose vibrant new paintings are currently being shown at the Tracy Park Gallery’s new location at the Malibu Country Mart. EW: Tell us about your current show at Tracy Park Gallery. Is there a dialogue between your work and Daniel Stern’s work or does your work tell […]
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Tags: Brooklyn, contemporary artist, Jaqueline Cedar, Malibu Countrymart, Tracy Park Gallery