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The Art of Lisa Edelstein
During the pandemic, Lisa Edelstein, the actor best known for her roles as Abby McCarthy in Girlfriends" Guide to Divorce, Dr. Lisa Cuddy on the popular medical drama series House, and as Alan Arkin's wayward adult daughter Phoebe on The Kominsky Method, took to painting. Seriously. Seriously and so well that her paintings are being exhibited at art consultant Lisa Schiff's exhibition space, sfa Projects, at 45 White Street in New York's Tribeca.The paintings in the exhibition, Lisa Edelstei... View… -
Lorna Simpson’s Certainty: Art Is ‘Everrrything”
October 12, 2021 By Tom Teicholz Lorna Simpson, Reocurring, 2021© LORNA SIMPSON, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND HAUSER & WIRTH, PHOTO BY JAMES WANG Lorna Simpson’s Everrrything at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles presents the wide spectrum of work Simpson produced during the pandemic – paintings, sculptures, collages, assemblages of found photos – and if there is one thing that unites them it is Simpson’s certainty: She is an artist at the top of her game, fully confident in her artistic instincts… -
The Appearance Of Günther Förg
September 30, 2021By Tom Teicholz ‘Günther Förg. Appearance’, Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, 2021. © 2021 COURTESY ESTATE GÜNTHER FÖRG, SUISSE AND HAUSER & WIRTH. PHOTO: ZAK KELLEY In the world of museums, art galleries and exhibitions, the artists we know are often just the visible part of the iceberg. Art historians and art critics, gallery owners and museum staff, collectors and donors participate, consciously and unconsciously, in a self-validating circle that determines both which artists we know of, and which… -
Salgado’s ‘Amazonia’ Seeks to Save a World
March 13, 2013By Tom Teicholz Sebastião Salgado, the 77 year-old Brazilian-born Paris-based photographer who travels the world and whose work often invokes social activism on behalf of the exploited working poor, indigenous people, the consequences of climate change, ecological devastation, and the disappearing natural world, is exhibiting his latest epic project “Amazonia” about the Brazilian rainforest at Peter Fetterman Gallery in Santa Monica (on view until November 13, 2021) – Salgado’s main world gallery of the last 30 years. Jau… -
The Art of Matthew Rolston
September 17, 2021 T By Tom Teicholz Matthew Rolston, Hittorff, La Fontaine des Mers (Neptune), 2016.© MRPI, (COURTESY FAHEY KLEIN, LOS ANGELES, LAGUNA ART MUSEUM) Matthew Rolston’s exhibition Art People: The Pageant Portraits on view through January 2, 2022, at the Laguna Art Museum is a show as beautiful, as mysterious, as life-affirming, and as much about human creativity and art, as The Pageant of the Mastersitself. And in a sense, it is also a metaphor for the career and work of Matthew Rolston himself.… -
A Day At The Beach: On Jon Bradshaw's: "The Ocean Is Closed"
The Ocean Is Closed: Journalistic Adventures and Investigations JON BRADSHAWJuly 11, 2021 By Tom Teicholz THE OCEAN IS CLOSED: Journalistic Adventures and Investigations is a new collection of work by the late Jon Bradshaw, one of the leading practitioners of magazine journalism during the 1970s and ’80s. (This is the third publication of ZE Books, which produces beautiful volumes devoted to honoring writers and their work.) The articles gathered here, thoughtfully curated and edited by Alex Belth, share one feature in… -
Dancer Lauren Lovette Comes Home as a Choreographer
The Thousand Oaks-bred ballerina talks about growing into a choreographer and what inspires her By Tom Teicholz May 21, 2021 American Ballet Theatre in Lauren Lovette’s La Follia Variations (Photo by Todd Rosenberg) On April 25, a landmark event occurred at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts: American Ballet Theater (ABT) dancers performed for the first time in a year on a stage live in front of an actual audience. Uniting in Movement, as the program is called, featured new works… -
Dylan Casts A Surprising Shadow
August 10, 2021By Tom TeicholzThis article appeared on Forbes.com: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2021/08/10/dylan-casts-a-surprising-shadow/?sh=29cc937768ebTrailer for Shadow Kingdom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxwI_OtESIE&ab_channel=BobDylanYou’ve got to hand it to Bob Dylan. He continues to surprise. And delight. And confound. And to earn our respect simply, as he once wrote of Woody Guthrie, “Cause there's not many men that done the things that you've done.” Dylan just turned 80. In December 2019, he gave his last live performance before Covid/Pandemic lockdowns put a pause to his “never-ending tour,” so called because of Dylan’s… -
Artist Amy Sherald Delivers ‘The Great American Fact’
April 16, 2021By Tom Teicholz Amy Sherald’s new work, on exhibit at Hauser Wirth Los Angeles until June 6, 2021 (her first West Coast solo show) is a pleasure, a wonder, a breath of fresh air, a corrective, a display of mastery, brilliance, and soulfulness. It is about America, about the dignity of regular people, about being present and being seen, about painting, and about color (in every sense of the word). The show consists of five paintings Sherald completed… -
Inside The Newly Renovated Museum Of Modern Art
In the waning hours before coronavirus shut down New York, I visited a more-empty-than-usual Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Christina's World By Andrew Wyeth 1948 MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. COURTESY OF MOMA The Museum re-opened last October after several months of closure for expansion, renovation, and re-installation of the collection. Let me cut to the chase here: I love what the Museum has done MoMA has found a way to return to the spirit of early curators Alfred Barr and William… -
My Cousin Mike: Michael Sherwood 1923-2018
My Cousin Mike: Michael Sherwood 1923-2018 April 8, 2018 By Tom Teicholz My father's cousin Michael Sherwood, 95, -- died this week. He was probably the last person who knew my father in Poland and knew of their life then. Here is the eulogy I wrote to be read at his funeral (which I was sorry that I could not attend). I would like to say a final goodbye to Mike – Misha- born Meyer Teichholz in Tarnopol, Poland. Mike… -
The British Museum: The Problematic Yet Enduring Appeal of Antiquities
In London last month, my first stop was to visit the British Museum. Going there seemed an urgent priority. My thinking was that in such turbulent contemporary times, it is reassuring to see the classics of antiquity, those fundaments of Western Civilization that remain. At the same time, given our shifting ethical rationales concerning antiquities, I wanted to see again those British Museum treasures which may, sooner or later, be returned to their countries of origin and explore my feelings…