Archive for June, 2010
by Kelly Boyd The problem of how to display art while minimizing damage to the work is one that is confronted by museums and collectors alike. The impulse share art with others is a common one that plays out on various scales across the world. From the largest museum to the smallest personal collection, people […]
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Tags: art conservation, art lighting, art temperature, contemporary art
The Buzz in Basel: Art, Alive and Well and Selling Briskly (NY Times) Bettina Korek’s Art Basel Exclusive (Huffington Post) Art Review: ‘Andy Warhol, The Last Decade’ at Brooklyn Museum (NY Times) A Late-Period Windfall for French Art Duo: Selling the Lalannes (WSJ) Portrait of the Young Artist as Movie Star: James Franco (WSJ) MOCA […]
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Tags: Art Basel, Boone Collection, Doug Aitken, James Franco, Lalanne, Michael Smith, Mike Kelley, MOCA, Warhol The Last Decade
Top 5 Summer Shows in L.A.
by Kelly Boyd Museum of Contemporary Art Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective The Museum of Contemporary Art has just opened a new show featuring the work of Arshile Gorky. This is a major retrospective of the man described by the LA Times as an “essential pivot in Modern abstract art.” The exhibition, the first to display […]
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Tags: Arshile Gorky, Felipe Ehrenberg, Gagosian Gallery, Gamble House, Getty Museum, Los Angeles museums, MOLAA, Nancy Rubin, summer gallery shows
Warhol Still Relevant
by Caroline Newman Prism LA is currently featuring an impressive suite of Andy Warhol’s black and white paintings, highlighting his timeless critique of consumerism, politics, and religion. Approximately 35 black and white paintings by Warhol from the late 1980’s are on display. All works are done in Warhol’s signature high contrast style, but some contain […]
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Tags: Andy Warhol, Black & White, Prism Gallery
F.B.I. Art Sleuth, Now Author of ‘Priceless’ (NY Times) Review: Yves Klein Retrospective at Hirshhorn Museum (NY Times) TV Review: ‘Work of Art: The Next Great Artist’ on Bravo (LA Times) Art Review: ‘They Have Not the Art to Argue with Pictures’ at Cherry & Martin (LA Times) Lehman Looks to Sell More Art (WSJ) […]
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Tags: Cherry and Martin, FBI art, Hirshhorn Museum, Jackie-O, Kurt Cobain, Lehman art, Paris Hilton, Priceless, Tate Modern, Yves Klein
Artist Joel Kyack’s first public project, Superclogger, debuts this month during evening rush hour on freeways throughout the Los Angeles area. The project is an L.A.P.D.- L.A. Public Domain project curated by Cesar Garcia and presented in collaboration with the Hammer Museum. Kyack will present puppet shows to commuters stuck in traffic jams from the back of a white […]
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Tags: Hammer Museum, Joel Kyack, LAPD-LA Public Domain, Los Angeles, puppets, Superclogger, traffic jams
Louise Bourgeois, Influential Sculptor, is Dead at 98 (NY Times) Creative Dialogue Between 3 Sculptors in West Chelsea (NY Times) A Gathering of Women with Cameras at MoMA (NY Times) Interview: Marina Abramovic Talks about Her Current at MoMA (WSJ) Art Review: Alice Neel Portraits Shine at L.A. Louver (LA Times) What Jeffrey Deitch Should […]
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Tags: Alice Neel, AOL, Chuck Close, LA Louver, Louise Bourgeois, MaMA, Marina Abramovic, Phillips, Segalot
The chaotically charming Hôtel Drouot in Paris’ 9th arrondissement is the epicenter of the French auction house world, where dealers, collectors and the simply curious flock to daily public auctions featuring fine art in all styles, furniture, jewelry, books, silver, china, wine, and objets d’art. Approximately 800,000 lots are sold each year with prices in […]
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