Archive for the ‘artist projects’ Category
Artist’s Life: Cut, Nip, and Tuck at Apexart in TriBeCa (NY Times) Across Borders Few Could Imagine: Outsider Art (NY Times) When is a Work of Art Finished? Tinkering with the Ideal (WSJ) Artist vs. Blight: Pioneering Artist Communities (WSJ) Linz to Return $15 Million Klimt to Holocaust Heirs (Bloomberg) Hirst Skull Frowns at Whitechapel […]
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Tags: Apexart, auction, Damien Hirst, Frank Gehry, Hammer, Holocaust, Klimt, Michael Jackson, skull, TriBeCa
“I Am So Excited to Be Talking to You!” Opens This Friday at Denizon Design Gallery in Culver City
We live in an age of texting and twittering and over saturation with logos, slogans, and billboards. So it is only natural that both emerging and established artists are grappling with layered meaning in language and texts. Gagosian Gallery’s Lauren McCaffrey and Allyson Spellacy are co-curating a groundbreaking group exhibition of over 25 artists’ language-inspired, […]
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Tags: Aaron Rose, Allyson Spellacy, Bruce Nauman, Christy McCaffrey, Culver City, Denizon Design Gallery, Gagosian Gallery, George Stoll, I am so excited to be talking to you!, LA art weekend, Lauren McCaffrey, Pacific Dissent Company, Sian Foulkes, Stephanie Dearmond, Thomas McCaffrey, Tom Sachs
By Emily Waldorf Damien Hirst oversaw the art direction of hot British indie group, The Hours’, recent music video for their new single, See The Light, starring actress Sienna Miller. The rather dark video casts Miller as a mad woman, dressed in a hospital gown, wandering through a claustrophobic Hirst fantasy that takes off in a luxury boutique […]
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Tags: Damien Hirst, music video, See The Light, Sienna Miller, The Hours
By Emily Waldorf Jori Finkel wrote a fascinating article in The New York Times on the American artist, Jim Dine’s, current installation at the Getty Villa: Jim Dine: Poet Singing (The Flowering Sheets). She explains that although we may know Dine as a famous painter, sculptor, and printmaker, one of his lesser known passions is […]
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Tags: contemporary art Getty, Getty Villa, Jim Dine, Jori Finkel, poetry
Edgar Arceneaux: Not a Cliche
By Laura Gatewood Resisting the pull of the tortured soul cliché, painter Edgar Arceneaux has managed to attain both artistic and commercial prominence while also taking up the mantle of community service as director of the Watts House Project in South Central Los Angeles. His often conceptual artwork explores themes of memory, perception, and how […]
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Tags: California Biennial, Correlations and Isomorphisms, Edgar Arceneaux, Galerie Kamm, Hammer Museum, San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art, Susanne Vielmetter, Watts House Project, Whitney Biennial