Installation View at SMMoA Allen Ruppersberg, “Poems and Placemats,” 2008, 48 x48″ each, mixed media. Courtesy Margo Leavin Gallery. On the LA Times blog, Christopher […]
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The OC: Georgia O’Keeffe, Agnes Pelton, Agnes Martin and Florence Miller Pierce
Agnes Pelton,”Incarnation,” 1929 In the LA Times blog, Christopher Knight reports that “the kernel of a powerful idea resides within ‘Illumination,’ an exhibition of abstract […]
Art critic Christopher Knight wins LA Press Club award
LA Times art critic Christopher Knight just won a Los Angeles Press Club award for his review of the 2008 Bernini exhibition at the Getty […]
Peter Saul: Genuinely scary
Long known for his acid-hued paintings melding cartoon imagery with biting social and political commentary, Peter Saul, 74, has influenced generations of contemporary artists. In […]
“Defiant sex suddenly mingles with mortality”
Christopher Knight’s review steps lightly describing many of the paintings in Marlene Dumas’ s show at the LA Museum of Modern Art. Does he like […]
Murakami’s marketing organism arrives in Brooklyn (yawn)
If you’re interested in the Murakami spectacle, check out the roundup of reviews TCOP ran when the show exploded in LA : The Takashi Murakami […]
Mark Bradford’s live feed in LA
IN the LA Times, Christopher Knight reports about a sign that went up over Steve Turner Contemporary, a Wilshire Boulevard gallery directly across the street […]
Pathetic Fallacy (Second Version): Toby Ziegler in Santa Monica
In the LA Times, Christopher Knight reports that 35-year-old British artist Toby Ziegler skillfully mashes up art history and current technology with cheerful, pungent eccentricity […]
More about “Some Paintings”
“Some Paintings: 2007 LA Weekly Annual Biennial,” curated by Doug Harvey. Track 16 Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. Through Feb.16. In the LA Times, Christopher Knight […]
LA painters work like there’s no tomorrow, er, I mean yesterday
In the LA Times, Christopher Knight (the art critic, not the former Brady Buncher) tries to make a case that LA painters have revived the […]
Hickey does Vegas
“Las Vegas Diaspora: The Emergence of Contemporary Art From the Neon Homeland,” curated by Dave Hickey. Las Vegas Art Museum, Las Vegas, NV. Through Dec. […]
Thiebaud at the beach
Laguna Art Museum’s 53-painting survey traces the development of Thiebaud�s signature style but also includes many of his lesser known figural and beach paintings. In […]
The Takashi Murakami brand at Geffen Contemporary
“� Murakami,“curated by Paul Schimmel and organized by Mika Yoshitake. Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, Los Angeles, CA. October 29- Feb. 11. Takashi Murakami, conflating the […]
Karl Benjamin’s hard edge abstraction
“Karl Benjamin: Dance the Line,” Louis Stern Fine Arts, West Hollywood, CA. Through Dec. 22. “Birth of the Cool: California Art, Design, and Culture at […]
Mary Heilmann retrospective: injecting vernacular juice into abstract art
Mary Heilmann: To Be Someone,”curated by Elizabeth Armstrong. Orange County Museum of Art in Newport Beach, CA. Through Aug. 26, 2007; Contemporary Art Museum, Houston, […]
