Art & Artists
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Towering Voices at 9/11 Flight 93 Memorial
This Sunday September 9, 2018, The National Park Service will mark the dedication of "The Tower of Voices," a 93-foot high tower of wind chimes that stands in Pennsylvania, at the entrance to the 2,200 square National Memorial Park dedicated to the 40 heroes of Flight 93 who perished on 9/11. View Original Article -
Art that Asks us to Change our Worldview or be Changed
The Skirball Museum in Los Angeles' exhibition 'Selections from Kehinde Wiley's The World Stage: Israel' called to mind a novel I'd just finished reading, Seth Greenland's The Hazards of Good Fortune. View Original Article -
The Getty Museum's Freakin' Amazing Ancient Hebrew Manuscript
"Freakin" Amazing!"Those are words I never expected to hear from Rabbi Steven Leder, the senior Rabbi at Wilshire Boulevard Temple in Los Angeles (the congregation to which I belong).Rabbi Leder was marveling at the Getty Museum's latest acquisition, The 13th Century Rothschild Pentateuch (which is also the first Hebrew manuscript in the Getty's collection). View Original Article -
Good Vibrations at The Hilbert Museum
You never know where you might find a new museum these days. I was recently down in Orange, California visiting Chapman University when I came upon The Hilbert Museum of California Art which bills itself as “California’s newest Art Museum.” Take that with a grain of salt as new Art museums seem to be opening every week in LA. Still, the Hilbert is a newcomer and also smart enough that what they exhibit is distinctive. The Hilbert houses the collection… -
Buzzed About Art Fair in Santa Monica Shines Light on Cheech Marin's Collection
This week's Art Los Angeles Contemporary Art fair in Santa Monica, (Jan..25-28 at Barker Hanger) is no joke. And neither is Cheech Marin's collection of Chicano Art.Art Los Angeles Contemporary (ALAC) launches this Thursday, January 25 and runs through Sunday January 28 at Barker Hanger in Santa Monica. This is the ninth year of ALAC which has only grown in buzz, excitement, attendees and dealers. ALAC has a number of unique features: Of the more than 50 galleries exhibiting, half… -
LA's Modern Art Maven: Galka Scheyer
Maven of Modernism: Galka Scheyer in California at the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena through September 25, 2017 At the Norton Simon Museum it is easy to be distracted by the many Rodin sculptures at its entrance or to be seduced by the Museum’s beautiful outdoor sculpture garden set in its backyard with a pond that surely would have captivated Monet, or be transfixed by the Van Goghs and Impressionist masterpieces in the galleries, or even the Adam & Eve… -
Happy Birthday, Mr. Hockney
David Hockney who turned 80 on July 9, is being celebrated by major exhibitions traveling the globe. The Tate Modern held its comprehensive exhibit about Hockney’s work from February 9 through May 29th which is now at The Pompidou Center in Paris (June 21-Oct 23) before ending its run at New York’s Metropolitan Museum (November 26- February 25, 2018). It’s the kind of career-spanning retrospective to warm an artist’s heart and please his fans. It is the kind of exhibition… -
Rauschenberg: Making Art "Among Friends"
For those of us who came of age in the second half of the 20th Century, it was dogma that the greatest artist of the 20th Century was Pablo Picasso – he was everywhere, at the forefront of transformative artistic movements such as Cubism and he worked in almost every possible medium, in some cases revealing never-before-realized artistic potential in painting, collage, sculpture, and ceramics. He was constantly creative and prodigiously prolific, leaving footprints on the art scene that most… -
Sternburg's Photographs: "There for the Seeing"
Photographers don’t have eyes in the back of their heads. Janet Sternburg does.” -Wim Wenders on Janet Sternburg’s photographs. ‘Overspilling World’ (Distanz $55) collects the photographs of Janet Sternburg, poet, playwright, documentary filmmaker and producer, and memoirist. What is striking about Sternburg’s work, is not that she does all these different disciplines so well, but rather that she brings the same intellectual curiosity and deeply-felt artistic sensibility to each. For more https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2017/03/02/sternburgs-photographs-there-for-the-seeing/#1856f31c119a -
A Book that Makes the Meaningful Beautiful: The Voices & Visions
A Book that Makes the Meaningful Beautiful: The Voi... View Original Article -
Agnes Martin: Perfection
Agnes Martin: Perfection View Original Article -
Put DIA Beacon on Your Culture Bucket List
Put DIA: Beacon on Your Culture Bucket List View Original Article