Flourishing interest at international festivals and record auction prices demonstrate an upsurge in interest for contemporary Chinese and Chinese-American art, and American museums have responded […]
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Engaged in Pasadena
“Touched: Artists and Social Engagement,” curated by Noel Korten. Armory Center for the Arts, 145 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena, CA. Through Sept. 2. Holly Myers […]
Elizabeth Murray: tributes and obituaries
In ArtForum, Linda Yablonsky reports that the “Elizabeth Murray Praise Day” at the Bowery Poetry Club, sponsored by Agnes Gund and Daniel Shapiro, “provided a […]
Pioneering modernist Helen Lundeberg’s WPA mural restored
The History of Transportation Mural Works Project Administration (WPA) Arts project, completed in 1940 and designed by Helen Lundeberg. Located in the Art Park 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, […]
LA re-mix: Punk-pop aesthetic with pretty Japanese-girl-craft
Shizu Saldamando,” Tropico de Nopal, 1665 Beverly Blvd., Echo Park. Through Sept. 1. Elina Shatkin writes in the Los Angeles Times: “Combining elements of traditional […]
iona rozeal brown and Clare Woods in Los Angeles
In LA Times’ “Around the Galleries’ column Holly Myers recommends Brown at Sandroni Rey Gallery and Clare Woods at Karyn Lovegrove Gallery: “The painter iona […]
Another tale of Getty obsessiveness
Suzanne Muchnic in the LA Times chronicles the Getty’s preparation for the European drawings exhibition, the first at the museum’s new drawings galleries. “Think sycamore […]
