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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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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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Art Preserving Art
by Caroline Newman The UCLA Fowler Museum is currently exhibiting “Street Art: Photographic Elevations of Los Angeles, Paris and Berlin by Larry Yust,” which explores the often over-looked art form, graffiti, within these three prominent cities. For the past eight years, filmmaker and photographer Larry Yust has been capturing images of urban landscapes and compositing […]
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Tags: Larry Yust, Los Angeles, Paris Berlin, street art, UCLA Fowler Museum
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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Saint-Tropez may be better known today for mega-yachts and the celebrities like Jay-Z and Beyoncé who vacation there, but it once provided subject matter for many famous artists, who spent hundreds of hours capturing the magical light of the former fishing village. Le Musée de l’Annonciade, on the southwest corner of the Vieux Port, is housed in […]
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Tags: Fauvism, Impressionism, Le Musee de l'Anonciade, Saint Tropez
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
Saving Paradise @ Irvine Museum
by Caroline Newman Weather is not just a temperature, it is also a signifier of emotion. Visit Saving Paradise, currently on display at the Irvine Museum, to experience the passionate connection many artists make to their natural surroundings. The Irvine Museum is known for its incredible collection of California plein-air paintings, yet this special exhibit emphasizes the […]
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Tags: California plein-air painting, Irvine Museum, Saving Paradise
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
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
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