Art & Artists
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'Beauty' Is Skin Deep
The Annenberg Space for Photography's 'Beauty Culture' left me feeling empty. It simply skims the surface of the issues by acknowledging them, while the very beauty of its images acts as a counterargument saying That's just the way it is. View Original Article -
Tony Curtis, movie star and philanthropist to Hungarian Jewish life, dies.
Tony Curtis died yesterday of cardiac arrest at his home in Las Vegas, Nevada where he had been living for... View Original Article -
The Enigmatic Art of Josef Koudelka
The Getty exhibition is the first retrospective of Koudelka's work in the United States and features many of the artist's own vintage prints, books, notebooks, maquettes and even rare vintage photos that Koudelka sold to flee to the West....... View Original Article -
Inside the Mind of Artist Miri Chais
'Re:Mind,' a multimedia installation at USC's Fisher Museum of Art, is the first solo show in the United States for Miri Chais, an Israeli-born artist who now lives in Los Angeles....... View Original Article -
Israeli Artists of the Imagination Orit Raff and Nir Evron
Israeli Artists of the Imagination Orit Raff and Ni... View Original Article -
Paula Bronstein and The Big Story
How do we understand the impact of climate change and natural disasters on people and architecture, and how does humanity learn from our mistakes and try to prepare for potential future cataclysms?...... View Original Article -
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… -
Wagner, Tristan & Me
Recently, I spent three nights in a row at Disney Hall in Downtown LA listening to The Tristan Project, a Gustavo Dudamel conducted LA Phil concert performance of Richard Wagner's Tristan and Isolde, as directed by Peter Sellars with video accompaniment by artist Bill Viola, as well as participation by the LA Master Chorale. The Tristan Project was first performed at Disney Hall with Esa-Pekka Salonen conducting in 2004, subsequent productions have taken place in New York at the Met… -
Robert Longo's Art of The Now
There is an Ocean wave gathering strength, filled with ominous portent, set to come crashing before us. It began with Ferguson, but it's always been there, only now it's gained the weight and heft of a Death Star, a collection of all the AR-15 bullets fired in a year of mass shootings. It is Albrecht Durer's "The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse" come to life during the pandemic, with its resisters at the Women's March, at Gun Control protests, at… -
David Hockney's Beautiful World
"I know it's an unusual picture because there are not many made this way. I think it's what we need today. New looking fresh pictures of a very beautiful world." â David Hockney.Late November-Early December has gotten cold, damp, and grey in most places, even in our paradise of Santa Monica, and Venice, California. Fear not! Along comes David Hockney to cheer us up with his new exhibition 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures.This collection of 20 iPad drawings of… -
Works By Egon Schiele Restituted To The Heirs Of Fritz Grünbaum To Be Auctioned In New York City
Tonight in New York, Christie's will hold their 20th Century Evening Sale at Rockefeller Center.Among the works being offered for sale are two works on paper by Early 20th Century Austrian Expressionist artist Egon Schiele, from the collection of Viennese film and cabaret star Fitz Grünbaum. Grünbaum was not unlike Joel Grey in Cabaret, famous for his biting comments as a Master of Ceremonies.And although this is not really for me to say, I hope the works sell for a… -
Inside The New Orange County Museum Of Art
In early October, I drove down to Costa Mesa, a drive of around an hour from Los Angeles (traffic dependent), for a preview of the newly opened Orange Country Museum of Art (OCMA).OCMA is located on the campus of the Segerstrom Center for the Arts, and is right off the 405 at Bristol Avenue. The striking 53,000 square foot building with 25,000 square feet of gallery space was designed by Thom Mayne and Brandon Welling of Morphosis, the Pritzker Prize…