Archive for the ‘Los Angeles’ Category
An interview with the artist by Emily Waldorf Munich-born, Los Angeles-based artist Alexandra Wiesenfeld’s inaugural show at Gallery KM includes six large-scale oil on canvas paintings and eight drawings, depicting human and animal figures in surreal dimensions that examine the inner workings of the human psyche. In this body of work, Wiesenfeld gives us a glimpse […]
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Culture Clicks
. Cindy Sherman at MoMA and Elizabeth Peyton at the MET (NY Times) Anna Nicole Reimagined at Covent Garden is Success (NY Times) Review of Lynda Benglis at the New Museum (NY Times) Dark Rebel in a Tahitian Paradise: Gauguin at the National Gallery of Art (WSJ) Gagosian Buys Warhol Portrait in $99 Million Auction (Bloomberg) […]
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Tags: 104, Andy Warhol, Anna Nicole, Cindy Sherman, Elizabeth Peyton, Gauguin, LACMA, Paris, Phillips, Steve Martin
Culture Clicks
The 3rd India Art Summit (NY Times) Colbert Portrait, with Art World Input to be Sold at Auction (NY Times) Dispute Over Jewish Archive Derails Russian Art Loans to US (NY Times) Google’s Art of Technology (WSJ) VIP Art Fair Gets Negative Press as Top Works Go Unsold (Bloomberg) What Artists Think About When […]
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Tags: Damien Hirst, Davos, football, Google, Houellebecq art novel, India Art Summit, Jeff Koons, VIP Art Fair
Culture Clicks
Shepard Fairey and the A.P. Settle Legal Dispute (NY Times) Mark Landis, Prolific Art Forger (NY Times) MET Costume Institute Gets $10 Million from Jonathan and Lizzie Tisch (WSJ) Billionaires Reveal Treasures as Asian Painters Edge Picasso in Singapore (Bloomberg) How Offensive is Damien Hirst’s Diamond-Encrusted Baby Skull? (LA Times) Art Review: California Biennial at […]
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There has been a flurry of press coverage hailing Los Angeles as the new capital of the art world. From Lauren A.E. Shuker’s article,”The L.A. Art Boom,” in The Wall Street Journal to Elizabeth Khuri Chandler’s article in C magazine, “Art on the Move,” the word on the street is that after decades of setting the stage, […]
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by Kelly Boyd The Petersen Automotive Museum recently opened a special exhibition titled Automotivated: Streamlined Fashion and Automobiles, showcasing the connection between early car design and fashion, covering the period from 1913 to 1938. The show is produced in partnership with the Phoenix Art Museum and was inspired by the 2007 Phoenix Art Museum fashion […]
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Tags: cars, fashion, Petersen Automotive Museum
L.A. Summer Art Preview
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty @ LACMA through 09/12/2010 This summer, LACMA has put together a long overdue retrospective of one the most influential American artists working today. “John Baldessari: Pure Beauty,” features more than 150 works spanning the artist’s career from 1962 to the present and includes works on canvas, photography, videos and books. Covering a […]
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Tags: Baldessari, Bowers Museum, Frida Kahlo, Gela Krater, Getty Villa, Nickolas Muray, Pure Beauty, Spirits and Headhunters
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