Archive for the ‘Los Angeles’ Category
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
Christie’s Wins Bid to Auction $150 Million Brody Collection (NY Times) Caravaggio: An Italian Antihero’s Time to Shine (NY Times) Ken Price, Suddenly Dominating New York Galleries (NY Times) Andreas Gursky Makes a Long-Distance Connection (LA Times) Ruben Ochoa: In a Construction Zone (LA Times) $2.7 Billion Dutch Fair Lures Collectors as Confidence Rises (Bloomberg) […]
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Tags: Andreas Gursky, Annie Leibovitz, Armory 2010, Beverly Hills, Brody Collection, Caravaggio, Christie's, Dasha Zhukova, Gagosian, Jessie Washburne-Harris, Ken Price, Los Angeles River, Roman Abramovich, Ruben Ochoa
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
Bustling Armory Opening Heralds Contemporary Art Market Resurgence (ARTINFO) The AI Interview: Alex Katz (ARTINFO) Buyer of Giacometti Sculpture is Revealed (NY Times) The Koons Collection (NY Times) Anger and Angst, Explored with Animation by William Kentridge (NY Times) At the Hammer, Louisa Lambri Makes Herself at Home (LA Times) Richard Wyatt’s Reunion with His […]
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Tags: 2010, Alex Katz, Armory, Giacometti, Goldberg, Hammer Museum, Jeff Koons, Lily Safra, Louisa Lambri, Richard Wyatt, William Kentridge
by Kelly Boyd Anyone interested in a last minute experience of experimental photography will find “James Welling: Glass House” at Regen Projects to be well worth a visit. The exhibition, running through March 6th features new photographs from Welling’s “Glass House” series as well as the video installation entitled “Sun Pavilion.” These photographs of the […]
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Tags: James, Philip Johnson Glass House, photography, Regen Projects, Welling
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
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