Art & Artists
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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 performing at the Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery on Wednesday, February 28, ... [+]PHOTO BY TOM TEICHOLZ Frieze itself was a four-day event, from… -
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 intrigued to see LACMA’s new exhibition of Islamic Art viewed through the prism of its culinary and hospitality traditions. Installation view of Dining with the… -
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 College there before getting her MFA at Columbia in New York. She now lives in London. Last summer while doing a residency at Hauser &… -
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 until April 27th). McCurry, was born in 1950, in Philadelphia PA. It was just a few years after graduating the College of Arts and Architecture… -
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 Hollywood Forever Cemetery. Allen performed with his band, The Panhandle Mystery Band, which featured not only his son, but also Charlie Sexton (who I’ve seen… -
Best Of Visual Art 2023
In 2023, I saw a lot of great Art in brilliantly curated art exhibitions at both galleries and in museums. As is my custom, let me begin by highlighting artists, artworks, and works about art that I didn’t get a chance to write about last year but which stayed with me. Sophie Chahinian COURTESY OF SOPHIE CHAHINIAN AND THE ARTIST PROFILE ARCHIVE First, a shout out to Sophie Chahinian, who I got to know this year, at The Artist Profile Archive, which… -
Scott Stover Has A Strategic Plan For NextGen Culture
If all you knew of the Art world was art fairs such as Art Basel or the upcoming Frieze LA, or the crowds at the Met in New York, or the Broad in LA for a blockbuster show, you would imagine the art world is awash in support, and that there are hordes of young collectors eager to fill the boards of art institutions. Scott StoverPHOTO BY CRAIG SHULTZ COURTESY OF SCOTT STOVER However, Scott Stover, a former international investment… -
Comedy, seriously
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Through a Lens, Starkly: Weegee's Naked Hollywood
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Czech photographer's work is peaceful political protest
Dec 30, 2014 ... For more information, visit getty.edu/museum/exhibitions. Tom Teicholz is a film producer in Los Angeles. Everywhere else, he's an author and ...... View Original Article -
Pollock's 'Mural': Masterpiece or macho outburst?
Pollock's 'Mural': Masterpiece or macho outburst? |... View Original Article -
The People's Architect: Upcoming Retrospective of Moshe Safdie Shows Architect's Global Vision
Moshe Safdie's new Guerin Pavillion at the Skirball... View Original Article