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 […]

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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 […]

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LA Friezes Over

LA Friezes Over Frieze Los Angeles, the contemporary art fair, was launched in 2019. This year’s fifth edition, held in Santa Monica, featured more than 100 exhibitors, from the international gallery multiplexes (Gagosian, Pace, Hauser & Wirth, Zwirner) to local single galleries from New York, LA, Paris, Milan, and other art-collecting friendly destinations. Terry Allen […]

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The Gift Of Simone Veil: Elsa Zylberstein’s Oscar-Worthy Performance

Simone Veil was a major figure in France, one of that country’s most popular politicians ever, whose steely will, remarkable determination, and unyielding sense of justice led Veil, who as a teenager was deported to Auschwitz and Bergen Belsen, whose father and brother were murdered by the Nazis and whose mother died in the camps, […]

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Dining With The Sultan: The Fine Art of Feasting, LACMA exhibition showcases Islamic Art and hospitality

“For many, if not most of us, our earliest encounter with another culture is not its art, literature, or history but its cuisine,” said Linda Komaroff, Curator and Department Head, Art of the Middle East, at the Los Angeles County Museum (LACMA). Having recently experienced the traditional hospitality of Georgians in the Caucusus, I was […]

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Allison Katz Goes Hollywood in Westward Ho!

The works in the exhibition are different in style, subject matter, even the way the paint is applied, showing a wide level of craft, ability and talent that is impressive. Yet each work, even when painted in a completely different style, remains recognizably the work of Allison Katz. Katz grew up in Montreal, attended Concordia […]

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Feasting in Batumi: Caucasian home of super supras

Tom Teicholz heads to Georgia’s second city, where he finds familiarity and wonderful hospitality—topped by the extravagant supra feastT From Lucire.com/ The global fashion magazine December 31, 2023 https://lucire.com/2023/1230vo0.shtml Feasting in Batumi: Caucasian home of super supras Volante Tom Teicholz heads to Georgia’s second city, where he finds familiarity and wonderful hospitality—topped by the extravagant supra feast PHOTOGRAPHED BY THE […]

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Beauty Is In The Eye Of Photographer Steve McCurry

Steve McCurry, a Magnum photographer best known for his striking images from the world’s remote places and conflict zones, most notably his portrait of an Afghan girl with piercing green eyes, has gathered decades of work in both a new book, Devotion from Prestel, and in an exhibition, Endless Traveler, at Peter Fetterman Gallery in Santa Monica, CA (on view […]

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Bodytraffic Wants To Be Los Angeles’ Dance Company

“LA deserves to have a remarkable dance company that’s representative of this community,” Tina Finkelman Berkett, co-founder and artistic director of Los Angeles-based dance troupe BODYTRAFFIC, told me. BODYTRAFFIC is a 17-year-old dance company based in Los Angeles that will be performing at the Audrey Irmas Pavillon performance space at Wilshire Boulevard Temple (3643 Wilshire […]

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Lubbock On Everything: Adventures In Art and Music with Terry Allen

There must be something in the water in Lubbock, Texas, that produced songwriters, musicians and artists such as Buddy Holly, Mac Davis, and the singer-songwriter and visual artist Terry Allen, whose artwork was featured at LA Louver’s booth at Frieze LA and who gave two performances during Frieze Week at the Masonic Lodge at the […]

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