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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 […]
Lorna Simpson’s Certainty: Art Is ‘Everrrything”
October 12, 2021 By Tom Teicholz Lorna Simpson, Reocurring, 2021© LORNA SIMPSON, COURTESY OF THE ARTIST AND HAUSER & WIRTH, PHOTO BY JAMES WANG 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 […]
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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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
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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