Archive for December, 2009
At 94, Carmen Herrera is the Hot New Thing in Painting (NY Times) Beyond the Mobiles, Alexander Calder: Printmaker (NY Times) Old Master Auctions: Looking for Gems when the Going Gets Tough (NY Times) The Rabbi and Frank Lloyd Wright: Beth Sholom Synagogue (WSJ) Soulages, Black Prince of Abstract Art, is Feted in Paris Show […]
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Tags: Alexander Calder, Andy Warhol Foundation, Beth Sholom synagogue, Carmen Herrera, Christopher Knight, Claremont Museum, Frank Lloyd Wright, old master auctions, Pierre Soulages, Watts Towers
Mot du Jour: “Happenings”
“Happenings” are an avant-garde new media art form started in the U.S. in the 1960’s that privilege time and audience participation. Known for being random, loosely structured, and containing elements of the unexpected and even improvisational, Happenings include the performing artist'(s’) sounds, gestures, and movements and are unique in that they cannot be exactly reproduced […]
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Tags: Allan Kaprow, Happenings, performance art
Miami Fair: Big Pieces, Smaller Prices and Relief (NY Times) Tweaking the Big Money Art World on Its Own Turf: William Powhida (NY Times) A Rembrandt Identity Crisis at the Getty (NY Times) Peter Zumthor, Michael Govan Plot LACMA’s Future (LA Times) The Worlds of David Hockney (LA Times) Sizzle Sans Steak and other New […]
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Tags: Alitalia, Art Basel, Art Basel Miami Beach, art party pics, David Hockney, Getty, LACMA, MIchael Govan, MoMa, party, Peter Zumthor, Pulse Miami, Rembrandt, Richard Wright, Turner Prize
Jeff Koons: New Paintings at Gagosian Gallery in Beverly Hills features ten oil on canvas paintings that breath new life into Koons’ tradition of questioning taste, banality, sexuality, and consumerism. The multilayered paintings are either 9 x 12 feet or 9 x 7 feet and the dominant colors are graffiti tinged silver, verdant green, and […]
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Tags: Beverly Hills, Gagosian Gallery, Jeff Koons, Los Angeles Times, new paintings
Wednesday, December 2 at 7pm: Andrew Holder lecture: Drop It Like It’s Fake: Architecture and the Necessity of Faux Science Thursday, December 3 at 7pm: MediaSCAPES & Center For Visual Music present an evening of Immersive & Expanded Cinema of Visual Music Wednesday, December 9 at 7pm: Eric Owen Moss Construction Manual, 1988-2008: Conversation with Eric […]
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Tags: California Institute of Architecture, lectures, SCI-arc