The Appearance Of Günther Förg

September 30, 2021 By 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, […]

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Salgado’s ‘Amazonia’ Seeks to Save a World

March 13, 2013 By 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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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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 […]

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Artist Amy Sherald Delivers ‘The Great American Fact’

April 16, 2021 By 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 […]

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Another Tel Aviv: “Asylum City” Streaming on ChaiFlicks

Asylum City is a gripping 2018-2019 Israeli one-hour drama series in Hebrew with English subtitles that debuted this week on ChaiFlicks, the streaming service devoted to Jewish interest content (available online or for viewing on the ChaiFlicks app on your favorite streaming platform).At its center is a murder mystery set in Tel Aviv. However, what […]

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Lorna Simpson’s Certainty: Art Is “Everrrything”

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 […]

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Dylan Casts A Surprising Shadow

August 10, 2021 By Tom Teicholz This article appeared on Forbes.com: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2021/08/10/dylan-casts-a-surprising-shadow/?sh=29cc937768eb Trailer for Shadow Kingdom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxwI_OtESIE&ab_channel=BobDylan You’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 […]

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The Broad Museum Reopens

Eli Broad, the Los Angeles real estate magnate turned philanthropist, civic leader, and art collector, died April 30, 2021. His legacy is most evident on Grand Street in downtown Los Angeles, home to the Frank Gehry masterpiece Walt Disney Hall, as well as his namesake museum, The Broad Museum, repository of his art foundation’s collection […]

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Maggie Rose Earns A Seat At The Table

The Music Business is filled with the stories of artists who knocked around for years before finding the right sound, releasing the right album, giving the right performance that made their career. If you can believe their accounts, Bruce Springsteen was a total failure until the day he was a success. More recently, Nathaniel Rateliff […]

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Herb Alpert Awards Double Down During Pandemic: Ten Award Winners Announced In Online Event

The Artist is often imagined as a solitary figure creating works of the imagination that stand on their own when shared with a public that they remain separate from.That is a fiction. The last year of isolation has made me keenly aware of how much Art in all its forms – Visual, theater, film, music, […]

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