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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
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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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
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
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
Portraits of Alice Neel’s Legacy of Realism (NY Times) From William Furlong and Audio Arts, a New Book (NY Times) Paris Journal: Chatter of Swindles and Scames at Drouot (NY Times) Art Dealer Admits Lying to FBI Over Faked $2 Million Picasso (WSJ) Critic’s Notebook: What L.A. Might Ask of Eli Broad (LA Times) Hammer […]
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Tags: Alice Neel, art, Audio Arts, David Zwirner, Drouot, Eli Broad, Elizabeth Peyton, Hammer Museum, Honor Fraser, LACMA, Picasso, realism, Robert Lazzarini, scandal, Souren Melikian, William Furlong
Damaged Picasso Returns to the Met After Repair (NY Times) At LAX, the Saucer is Ready to Land Again (NY Times) After-Hours Programs at Bay Area Museums – An Uneven Mix (NY Times) Masterpieces from Dulwich Picture Gallery, at the Frick Collection (WSJ) Pae White, an Artist “In the World” (LA Times) LACMA’s Collectors Committee […]
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Tags: celebrity art collections, damaged Picasso, Dulwich Picture Gallery, Frick Collection, LACMA Collector's Committee, LAX, MET, Overduin and Kite, Pae White, Tribeca Film Festival, Tris Vonna-Michell
by Caroline Newman Spend a few hours at the Getty and travel half-way around the world, with diverse perspectives of urban life through the art of three photographers in Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim. Jeff Chien-Hsing Liao’s large, horizontal, color photographs depict movement through the busy streets of New York. By compositing images together, Liao is […]
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Tags: Catherine Opie, Getty, Jeff Chien-Hsing-Liao, photography, Soo Kim, Urban Panoramas