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The Appearance Of Günther Förg
•September 30, 2021By 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… -
Salgado’s ‘Amazonia’ Seeks to Save a World
•March 13, 2013By 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… -
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… -
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… -
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… -
Dylan Casts A Surprising Shadow
•August 10, 2021By Tom TeicholzThis article appeared on Forbes.com: https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2021/08/10/dylan-casts-a-surprising-shadow/?sh=29cc937768ebTrailer for Shadow Kingdom: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JxwI_OtESIE&ab_channel=BobDylanYou’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… -
Artist Amy Sherald Delivers ‘The Great American Fact’
•April 16, 2021By Tom Teicholz Amy Sherald’s new work, on exhibit at Hauser Wirth Los Angeles until June 6, 2021 (her first West Coast solo show) is a pleasure, a wonder, a breath of fresh air, a corrective, a display of mastery, brilliance, and soulfulness. It is about America, about… -
Inside The Newly Renovated Museum Of Modern Art
•In the waning hours before coronavirus shut down New York, I visited a more-empty-than-usual Museum of Modern Art (MoMA). Christina's World By Andrew Wyeth 1948 MUSEUM OF MODERN ART. COURTESY OF MOMA The Museum re-opened last October after several months of closure for expansion, renovation, and re-installation of the collection. Let… -
My Cousin Mike: Michael Sherwood 1923-2018
•My Cousin Mike: Michael Sherwood 1923-2018 April 8, 2018 By Tom Teicholz My father's cousin Michael Sherwood, 95, -- died this week. He was probably the last person who knew my father in Poland and knew of their life then. Here is the eulogy I wrote to be read at… -
The British Museum: The Problematic Yet Enduring Appeal of Antiquities
•In London last month, my first stop was to visit the British Museum. Going there seemed an urgent priority. My thinking was that in such turbulent contemporary times, it is reassuring to see the classics of antiquity, those fundaments of Western Civilization that remain. At the same time, given our… -
Using the Blues to Bridge Across the Great Americana Divide
•One of the things I most enjoy about benefit concerts (beyond the whole save-the-world ethos), and music award shows (beyond the awards themselves) is seeing a wide spectrum of artists, each doing 3-5 songs. It’s sort the musical equivalent of a smorgasbord – enough to hear a favorite artist or… -
Luciana Souza's New Recording, "The Book of Longing" Translates Poetry into Jazz
•https://www.forbes.com/sites/tomteicholz/2018/11/23/luciana-souzas-new-recording-the-book-of-longing-translates-poetry-into-jazz/#30ef91717901 On her new recording, “The Book of Longing,” Luciana Souza marries poetry and Jazz in an idiom all her own with spare accompaniment and her uniquely atmospheric vocals to haunting effect. Souza will be performing her lyrical new songs along with some of her more Brazilian-inflected tunes at UCLA’s…