Archive for February, 2010
Whitney 75th Biennial Declared Women’s Biennial (NY Times) Design for New American Embassy in London Criticized (NY Times) In Vancouver, an Artwork With Its Own Barkeeps (NY Times) Art Review: Mercedes Matter at the Weisman Museum (LA Times) Art Review: Chris Barnard at Sam Lee Gallery (LA Times) Swann’s African-American Art Auction Soars (ARTINFO) New […]
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Tags: African-American art, American embassy, London, Mercedes Matter, Swann, Vancouver, Weisman Museum, Whitney 75th Biennial
Artists, Architects, and Designers Contemplate the Void at the Guggenheim (NY Times) Big Show of Picasso’s Mediterranean Years Planned for Gagosian in London (NY Times) Signs of Rebound at last month’s Winter Antiques Show (NY Times) LACMA Announces Three Inaugural Shows for New Resnick Pavilion (LA Times) This Year’s ARCOmadrid Puts Spotlight on L.A. Artists […]
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Tags: Alan Greenspan portraits, ARCOmadrid, Basquiat, Ferus Gallery, Gagosian, Guggenheim, L.A. artists, LACMA, Picasso, Resnick Pavilion, Samuel Freeman Gallery, Whitney Biennial, Winter Antiques Show
by Caroline Newman Lillian Bassman’s “Women” is a beautiful ensemble of photographer’s images of fashionable women with an emphasis on light, form, and shadow. The show, at Peter Fetterman Gallery at Bergamot Station will transport you back to a time when fashion photography captured the elegance of the 1940’s and 50’s. Bassman’s highly contrasted, black and […]
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Tags: Lillian Bassman, Peter Fetterman Gallery, photography gallery, Santa Monica, women
by Emily Waldorf On January 22nd, I attended a panel called “The Fine Art of Collecting Fine Prints” at the Los Angeles Art Show. The panel was moderated by curator Michele Deziel and included Collectors/Curators/Writers, Reba and Dave Williams and Kevin Murphy, PhD, Associate Curator of American Art at the Huntington Art Collections. Here is […]
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Tags: collecting fine prints, lecture, Los Angeles Art Show, panel, prints
Previously published on ForYourArt By Emily Waldorf On January 29th, five female art professionals participated in a panel discussion, “Playing Fair: Women in the Contemporary Art Market,” at the inaugural Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair at the Pacific Design Center. Art dealer Kimberly Light of Kim Light/Lightbox moderated the panel and opened up the dialogue […]
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Tags: Art Los Angeles Contemporary, contemporary art market, feminism, Judy Chicago, Kim Light/Lightbox, Lynda Benglis, panel, post-feminism, Sotheby's Institute of Contemporary Art, The Dinner Party, WACK!, women
Iron Checkbook Shapes Cultural Los Angeles (NY Times) From Instant Thrill of Polaroid, Enduring Art, Now for Sale (NY Times) Alexander McQueen, Designer, is Dead at 40 (NY Times) Giacometti Record and Other Bright Spots for the Art Market (WSJ) Renoir as Closet Modernist at LACMA (WSJ) Fight for Doig, Fontana Boosts $84.5 Million Sotheby’s […]
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Tags: Alexander McQueen, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, de Kooning, Giacometti record, Klein, party pics, Polaroid Collection, Rachel Whiteread, Warhol
by Kelly Boyd Norton Simon: Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres, through 4/5/10. Reaching its greatest height in France under the rule of Napoleon III, portraiture had up until the late 1860s been characterized by Ingres’ fidelity to the face and emphasis on the patron’s prestigious social and moral standing. In “Gaze: Portraiture after Ingres”, the Norton Simon […]
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Tags: folly, Getty, Getty Villa, Ingres, LACMA, MOCA Pacific Design Center, Norton Simon, Renoir
At London Sale, a Giacometti Sets a Record (NY Times) In the Naked Museum: Talking, Thinking, Encountering at the Guggenheim (NY Times) Steve McQueen: Intense Seeker of Powerful Elegance (NY Times) In Goth They Trust: Tim Burton at MoMa (WSJ) Nexus New York: Latin/American Artists in the Modern Metropolis (WSJ) Dell Buys Magnum Photo Print […]
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Tags: Dell, Giacometti record, Guggenheim, Gustavo Godoy, Nexus New York, Nina Pereg, photography, Roberts & Tilton, Shoshana Wayne Gallery
by Kelly Boyd At this year’s dinner celebrating the 66th Scripps College Ceramic Annual it was announced that Scripps alumna Joan Lincoln, class of ’49 and her husband David had pledged to give $4 million to benefit students studying ceramics at Scripps and the affiliated Claremont Graduate University. The gift includes a $3.5 million promise […]
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Tags: Ceramics Annual, Claremont Graduate University, Scripps College