In the LA Times, Holly Myers writes that “the paint — presumably dry, but only recently so — fills the room with a lush, heady […]
Tag: LA Times
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 […]
June Wayne still acting out in Hollywood
In the LA Times, Suzanne Muchnic visits with 90-year-old artist/activist June Wayne. Rutgers University, which established the June Wayne Archive and Study Center in 2002 […]
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 […]
Rave reviews for Schnabel’s new film in which a paralysed man dictates a memoir with his eyeball
“The Diving Bell and the Butterfly,” directed by painter-filmmaker Julian Schnabel. I’m a big fan of Julian Schnabel’s films, especially Basquiat–what painter doesn’t appreciate 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 […]
Is it animated painting…or painterly animation? (Helpful links to videos included.)
“Animated Painting,” curated by Betti-Sue Hertz. San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA. Through Jan. 13. Is it animated painting…or painterly animation? You decide. […]
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 […]
Interview with Lari Pittman
In the LA Times, Dean Kuipers spends 60 seconds with Lari Pittman. Pittman will be featured on PBS Art: 21 on Oct. 28 and has […]
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 […]
LATimes reviews: Miller, Pittman, MacConnel, Masullo
“Allison Miller,” Acme,Los Angeles, CA. Through Oct. 20. David Pagel reports: “As Miller’s lines accumulate, almost always by following alongside one another, they form concentric […]
