Basquiat Everywhere
Jean Michel Basquiat died in 1988, only 27 years old. At the time of his death, Basquiat’s talent and importance…
Ed Ruscha: What You See Is What You Get LACMA retrospective celebrates long career of Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha, Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half, 1964, Sid R. Bass, Private collection, © ED RUSCHA, PHOTO…
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Basquiat Everywhere
Jean Michel Basquiat died in 1988, only 27 years old. At the time of his death, Basquiat’s talent and importance were acknowledged but no one could have predicted how much his work would matter today, almost 40 years later. Or that his work would be available everywhere: in museums, galleries, independent art attractions, on stickers, T-shirts, tote bags, even on your TV. At this week’s New York Contemporary art auctions, works by Basquiat broke new records. At Phillips’ auction, an… -
Ed Ruscha: What You See Is What You Get LACMA retrospective celebrates long career of Ed Ruscha
Ed Ruscha, Standard Station, Ten-Cent Western Being Torn in Half, 1964, Sid R. Bass, Private collection, © ED RUSCHA, PHOTO COURTESY OF THE ARTIST Ed Ruscha’s career retrospective at LACMA, ED RUSCHA / NOW THEN (first mounted at New York’s Museum of Modern Art) makes a strong case for the power of Ruscha’s hard-edged, minimalist, yet graphically strong works, as well as his many obsessive photo series, all of which have come to represent Los Angeles. Ruscha, who is 86, was present… -
Herb Alpert Award In The Arts Celebrates 30th Anniversary: The Greatest Arts Award You've Never Heard Of
“In a confusing world like ours, we count on the artist to deliver the truth…” —Herb Alpert. 2024 Winners of the Herb Alpert Award in the ArtsCOURTESY OF THE HERB ALPERT FOUNDATION On May 2, the Herb Alpert Foundation in partnership with CalArts announced the 30th annual winners of the 2024 Herb Alpert Award in the Arts (HAAIA), a $75,000 unrestricted prize given this year to ten mid-career artists, two in each of five categories: Jonathan Gonzalez and Mariana Valencia in Dance;…