On a recent visit to New York, I saw three art exhibitions I highly recommend: Faith Ringgold: American People, on view at the New Museum through June 5, 2022; The Hare with the Amber Eyes at the Jewish Museum, on view through May 15, 2022; and Hilary Pecis: Warmly at the Rachel Uffner Gallery through […]
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Hadestown, the many-Tony-award-winning musical, which retells the story of Orpheus and Eurydice (and Hades and Persephone) in a modern-day New Orleans-like setting (with some steampunk flourishes), has arrived in LA, at the Ahmanson through May 29, 2022 (and then again at the Segerstrom Center for The Arts in Costa Mesa, CA, August 9 to 21).Hadestown […]
“All art is optimistic because it contains a denial of death”- Julian Schnabel.Recently, Pace Gallery celebrated the opening of their new Los Angeles flagship outpost, a partnership with Kayne Griffin, in their 15,000 square foot space on South La Brea, a former 1940s auto showroom whose building is now ivy-covered. The opening exhibition, “For Esmé […]
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In 1985, The Guggenheim Museum in New York mounted an exhibition of contemporary young artists, called “New Horizons in American Art” that included the work of Tobi Kahn. Kahn’s featured paintings were abstractions of landscapes, the images anchored in black artist-made frames, the palette dark, the paint applied thickly and worked strenuously, the effect serious […]
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Last night, I attended a performance, Everything Rises at Royce Hall presented by the Center for the Art of Performance at UCLA (CAP UCLA), co-created and featuring Grammy-winning classical violinist Jennifer Koh and Bass-Baritone Davóne Tines with music by Ken Ueno. It had premiered the night before at the University of California at Santa Barbara’s […]
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Leon Kossoff, one of the leading figures in Post-World War Two figurative art in Britain passed away in 2019. LA Louver in Venice, CA is now exhibiting the largest gallery show and first posthumous survey of Kossoff’s work, Leon Kossoff: A Life In Painting (on view until April 9, 2022). Organized in collaboration with Annely […]
In the beginning of the pandemic I was scattered and couldn”t really concentrate on any sustained reading. However, as the year went on and I reached saturation in my viewing capacity, I turned to books, aided by the discovery that I could easily borrow books online from the Public library, via Overdrive (Los Angeles Public […]
Bernard-Henri Lévy has a new book, The Will to See: Dispatches from a World of Misery and Hope (Yale University Press) and a documentary of the same name, both of which combine autobiography with documentary journalism and humanitarian activism. In many ways, it is a summation of Lévy’s efforts over the last 50 years to […]
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As anyone who has worked in Hollywood knows, it’s a miracle when anything gets done. For each movie made, each series shown, there are thousands that didn”t; and no production journey is complete without having to jump through more hoops and face more setbacks (and studio notes) than imaginable. So, too, with the Academy Museum.More […]
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“How has this difficult time affected your art making?”Art Critic Edward Goldman, who for 30 years delighted NPR affiliate KCRW listeners with his weekly “Art Talk,” and who continues to chronicle his art adventures with his weekly newsletter Art Matters as well as his private tours and classes on Art and Art collecting, asked this […]
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Picture this: A evening under the stars, sitting on couches and deck chairs in a large open field, with ottomans on which a Middle Eastern feast was set, to watch a series of short films on a giant outdoor screen. Dubbed a “Desert Drive-In” the evening was organized by the Qatar-USA 2021 Year of Culture, […]
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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 […]
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