Archive for the ‘artist projects’ Category
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
On Sunday, May 16, 2010, from 10am – 2pm, the Hammer Museum is holding its exciting inaugural Kids’ Art Museum Project (K.A.M.P.) featuring a family friendly day of interactive art-making workshops led by an impressive roster of L.A. artists. All proceeds of the event benefit Hammer Kids’ free public programs. All of the projects are […]
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Tags: art, art projects, Breckin Meyer, Edgar Arceneaux, Elliott Hundley, Hammer Museum, Hilary Swank, Jodie Foster, K.A.M.P., kids, kids programming, Laura Owens, Los Angeles, Mark Grotjahn, Soo Kim
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 […]
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Tags: Costume Council, Elizabeth Stewart, Jeanne Yang, Kimberly Brooks, LACMA, Taylor de Cordoba, The Stylist Project
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
Why not exploit L.A.’s much bemoaned car culture to promote fresh artistic endeavors, blending existing architecture, with pop culture and conceptualism? “How Many Billboards? Art in Stead” includes 21 newly commissioned works by contemporary artists using the alternative medium of billboards. The works engage in an important visual dialogue with L.A.’s heavily commercialized public space. The exhibition […]
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Tags: architecture, art billboards, Los Angeles, MAK Center
LA><ART Editions
LA><ART, a leading nonprofit exhibition space in Culver City, offers a wonderful selection of editions by emerging and mid-career artists that support its cutting edge exhibitions, projects, and publications. Current selections include C-prints in small editions by Shana Lutker, Amir Zaki, and Gregory Michael Hernandez, all for $1,000 or less. Upcoming editions include works by […]
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Tags: editions, Kamrooz Aram, kunsthalle, LAXART
New York based artist Marilyn Minter’s sexy eight minute video, Green Pink Caviar, will be on view at The Standard, Downtown LA + Hollywood from October 21 – December 6th. The mesmerizing video depicts sensuous female lips licking vibrantly colored cake and candy decorations. Green Pink Caviar is also being shown as part of Madonna’s […]
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Tags: downtown Los Angeles, food porn commercials, ForYourArt, Green Pink Caviar, Hollywood, Madonna, Marilyn Minter, Pamela Anderson, Regen Projects, Regen Projects 11, Sticky & Sweet tour, Sunset Strip, The Standard, Tom Ford
In this in-depth interview, noted multimedia artist and professor Nancy Macko talks to Emily Waldorf about her ongoing HIVE Universe project and recent group show, “Gaia and Global Warming: Women Artists Champion Nature,” at the Center for the Arts in Jackson Hole. Ms. Macko also touches on eco-feminism, how she balances teaching and creating, working […]
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Tags: Banff Centre for the Arts, Cheese Factory, eco-feminism, feminist art, Gaia and Global Warming, green art, Hive Project, Hope Sandrow, Housewife Blitz, Judy Cotton, Lowery Stokes, Margaret and Christine Wertheim, Nancy Macko, Peggy Digs, Petaluma, Scripps College, women artists, Women Artists Champion Nature
By Emily Waldorf In Ron Winslow’s article, In Search of the Science Behind the Healing Powers of Art, in the Wall Street Journal, he examines the inspiring story of heart transplant patient Julia Strecher, who started to write poems and stories to relieve her pain as well as violent nightmares that she was having a heart […]
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Tags: American Art Therapy Association, Art for Healing Foundation, art therapy, Foundation for Art and Healing, International Art Therapy, Survivors Art Foundation