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Seven Paintings: Tobi Kahn At The Phillips Collection
•In 1985, The Guggenheim Museum in New York mounted an exhibition of contemporary young artists, called "New Horizons in American Art" that included the work of Tobi Kahn. Kahn's featured paintings were abstractions of landscapes, the images anchored in black artist-made frames, the palette dark, the paint applied thickly and… -
Three Art Exhibits To See Right Now In New York
•On a recent visit to New York, I saw three art exhibitions I highly recommend: Faith Ringgold: American People, on view at the New Museum through June 5, 2022; The Hare with the Amber Eyes at the Jewish Museum, on view through May 15, 2022; and Hilary Pecis: Warmly at… -
Seeing A Forest for the Trees
•"A Forest for the Trees" is a multi-media installation that, like much of artist Glenn Kaino's work, is conceptual, collaborative, has a moral and ethical dimension, and is a political call to action. The exhibition also brings together a novel marriage of sponsors: Presented by The Atlantic magazine and Superblue… -
The Power Of Peter Fetterman's Photos
•The Power of Photography by Peter Fetterman (ACC ART BOOKS $45) is a perfect Father's Day gift â in fact, for me, this will be my gift of choice for birthdays and other present-bearing occasions.Fetterman, the long-time impresario of The Peter Fetterman Gallery at Bergamot Station in Santa Monica, has… -
Songwriter Patrick Davis' Paradise
•There are no more CD sales (what's a CD?) and streaming revenue is just a trickle of what Songwriters once earned. Superstar performers" hits now list teams of songwriting contributors and although live performances are back in demand, if your name is not marquee-worthy (and sometimes even if it is)… -
Bob Dylan And Elvis Stay True
•In the last few weeks, I"ve had two cultural experiences that I"m still trying to get my head around: Bob Dylan on his "Rough and Ready Ways" Tour and Baz Luhrmann's "Elvis." Each, in their singular way, speaks to the struggle for authenticity in one's art.Bob Dylan, who recently turned… -
Shulamit Nazarian Los Angeles: Looking Back, Moving Forward
•Shulamit Nazarian Los Angeles Gallery just celebrated its tenth anniversary, which in gallery years is a serious achievement and reason enough to visit with Shulamit Nazarian and her gallery partner Seth Curcio."The most meaningful part of what I do," Shulamit Nazarian told me recently, "is learning from my artists, opening… -
Ken Burns' "The U.S. And The Holocaust" On PBS
•This Sunday, PBS premieres, The U.S., and The Holocaust, Ken Burn's three-part six-hour documentary, produced and directed by Burns, Lynn Novick and and Sarah Botstein.You might wonder what, if anything, there still is to say about the Holocaust, after so many, many films have been made about it, all over… -
Mesmerized By The Music Of Hania Rani
•Late one night during the early days of the pandemic, I was listening to music performances on YouTube, one of my main new music discovery engines. I am always checking out NPR's Tiny Desk concerts or listening to random performers that appear if I just let the channel play. It… -
The Fight for Democracy in Bernard-Henri Levy's "Why Ukraine"
•"Ukraine can not lose," Bernard-Henri Lévy says at the end of his powerful new film about the war in Ukraine, "But it must be helped to win." And this film, Why Ukraine co-directed with Marc Roussel and co-written with Gilles Herzog, produced by Francois Margolin with Emily Hamilton and Natalia… -
Shepard Fairey: Portrait Of The Artist
•shepard fairey: backward forward at Dallas Contemporary in Dallas, Texas, through July 23, 2023, is an expansive solo show of Shepard Fairey's most recent work that speaks to his evolution as an artist. When I was in Dallas for the opening of the exhibit, I had the chance to sit… -
Not So Quiet On The Western Front: Remembering The Activism of Universal Pictures" Carl Laemmle
•Netflix recently started streaming a new German-made production of "All Quiet On the Western Front," based on Erich Maria Remarque's 1929 Anti-War novel. This is the third filmed production, with a 1979 TV version adapted by Delbert Mann, and the original Academy Award winning 1930 version. It is worth recalling…