Posts Tagged ‘Los Angeles’
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
Artist Joel Kyack’s first public project, Superclogger, debuts this month during evening rush hour on freeways throughout the Los Angeles area. The project is an L.A.P.D.- L.A. Public Domain project curated by Cesar Garcia and presented in collaboration with the Hammer Museum. Kyack will present puppet shows to commuters stuck in traffic jams from the back of a white […]
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Tags: Hammer Museum, Joel Kyack, LAPD-LA Public Domain, Los Angeles, puppets, Superclogger, traffic jams
On Sunday, May 16, 2010, from 10am – 2pm, the Hammer Museum is holding its exciting inaugural Kids’ Art Museum Project (K.A.M.P.) featuring a family friendly day of interactive art-making workshops led by an impressive roster of L.A. artists. All proceeds of the event benefit Hammer Kids’ free public programs. All of the projects are […]
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Tags: art, art projects, Breckin Meyer, Edgar Arceneaux, Elliott Hundley, Hammer Museum, Hilary Swank, Jodie Foster, K.A.M.P., kids, kids programming, Laura Owens, Los Angeles, Mark Grotjahn, Soo Kim
Ford Foundation Grants to Aid Art Spaces and Housing (NY Times) The Truths of Art Studios Onstage in “Red” (NY Times) New Faces on Southland Art Museum Scene (LA Times) L.A. Woman Sentenced to 7 Years in Prison for Selling Bogus Art (LA Times) Watts Towers May Get LACMA As a Guardian (LA Times) Manhattan […]
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Tags: "Red", Annie Leibovitz, Art Dubai, art world gossip, Berry Hill, bogus art, curators, fake art, Ford Foundation, Koons BMW art car, Los Angeles, Mark Rothko, museums
Art Handling Olympics on the Lower East Side (NY Times) Talking with Ex-Met Director Philippe de Montebello (NY Times) Smart Phones Serve as Docents in Many Museums (NY Times) Renoir in the 20th Century, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (WSJ) Los Angeles Municipal Arts Begin to Feel Budget Crisis’ Effects (LA Times) […]
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Tags: Antony Gormley, art handlers, budget, chairman, Getty, Jeffrey Deitch, LACMA, Leonor Antunes, Los Angeles, Marc Foxx, MOCA, Phillips, Renoir, TEFAF
Mark Grotjahn at Blum & Poe
by Kelly Boyd Layers of pigment, built up with brushes and palate knives on cardboard and canvas make up Mark Grotjahn’s Seven Faces exhibit, now showing at Blum & Poe. Reminiscent of Picasso and drawing inspiration from Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, the exhibition features thirteen paintings, most of them quite large, and quite recent. While the […]
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Tags: Blum & Poe, Demoiselles d'Avignon, galleries, Los Angeles, Mark Grotjahn, Picasso
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
Art for Haiti Silent Auction
Art for Haiti, a silent auction organized by eleven Los Angeles art galleries will be held this evening at the Mandrake from 7pm-9pm. All funds raised are 100% tax-deductible and will go directly to the Red Cross relief efforts in Haiti. Opening bids will be starting as low as $100 and bidding in the sale […]
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Wouldn’t it be wonderful to buy a piece of original art, knowing that it would not only look gorgeous in your house but also help someone in a meaningful and concrete way? Piece by Piece is a nonprofit organization that sponsors mosaic art workshops free of charge for Los Angeles’ underserved communities in Skid Row and […]
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Tags: art nonprofit, Bergamot Station, Daina Falk, Ellen King, Francesca Quintano, James Gray, Los Angeles, mosaic art, mosaic art sale, nonprofit, opening reception, Piece by Piece, workshops
Downtown Los Angeles Art Tour
On September 24th, I led a diverse group of women on an art tour in downtown Los Angeles. The field trip started out with a visit to artist Kori Newkirk‘s studio, where he discussed his trajectory as an artist, his creative process, the inspiration behind the materials he uses, and his current work. Our next […]
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Tags: art tour, artist studio, Claes Oldenburg, cultural field trip, custom, Donald Judd, Jackson Pollock, Kori Newkirk, Los Angeles, Los Angeles art tour, Mark Rothko, MOCA, Robert Rauschenberg, visits