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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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Dancer Lauren Lovette Comes Home as a Choreographer
The Thousand Oaks-bred ballerina talks about growing into a choreographer and what inspires her By Tom Teicholz May 21, 2021 American Ballet Theatre in Lauren Lovette’s La Follia Variations (Photo by Todd Rosenberg) On April 25, a landmark event occurred at the Segerstrom Center for the Arts: American Ballet Theater (ABT) dancers performed for the […]
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Dylan Casts A Surprising Shadow
August 10, 2021 By Tom Teicholz This article appeared on Forbes.com: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2021/08/10/dylan-casts-a-surprising-shadow/?sh=29cc937768eb Trailer for Shadow Kingdom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxwI_OtESIE&ab_channel=BobDylan You’ve got to hand it to Bob Dylan. He continues to surprise. And delight. And confound. And to earn our respect simply, as he once wrote of Woody Guthrie, “Cause there’s not many men that done the things that you’ve […]