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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 […]
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 […]
Bodytraffic Wants To Be Los Angeles’ Dance Company
“LA deserves to have a remarkable dance company that’s representative of this community,” Tina Finkelman Berkett, co-founder and artistic director of Los Angeles-based dance troupe BODYTRAFFIC, told me. BODYTRAFFIC is a 17-year-old dance company based in Los Angeles that will be performing at the Audrey Irmas Pavillon performance space at Wilshire Boulevard Temple (3643 Wilshire […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]