“What it means to be an artist today — where do we start on that one?” muses Ed Ruscha, almost nonplused. Finally, the soft-spoken art veteran decides : “It means facing a lot of information that’s going to be very difficult to take in and swallow because there’s so much of it.”
Once the ramifications settle [...]
The ongoing debate over the future of the weekend film program at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art will get a boost — not to mention publicity — when Martin Scorsese appears at the museum next month.
Scorsese is scheduled to speak at LACMA’s Bing Theater on Jan. 20 at 7:30 p.m. The Oscar-winning [...]
The six solo gallery debuts in Los Angeles that I admired most this year confirm something about the new millennium that we pretty much take for granted. The city’s cosmopolitanism and art’s internationalism are here to stay. ¶ Two of the six artists were born in the United States. At L.A. Louver, Ben Jackel showed [...]
Sean Duffy ramps up his familiar garage-band aesthetic in a large new body of work that contains a few surprises. It’s the final exhibition at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects’ current space, before the gallery moves four blocks west in January.
The show includes two of Duffy’s patented “hybrid record-players,” in which several turntables are cut [...]
“Kandinsky,” the big exhibition of 95 oil paintings made between 1902 and 1942 by the visionary pioneer of abstraction, Vasily Kandinsky, is a show that looks like it was made expressly for the spiral ramp of the Guggenheim Museum. That’s because in a sense it was.
Solomon R. Guggenheim, the museum’s founder, was a major collector [...]
A searchable map detailing 40 years of Israeli archaeological work in the West Bank and East Jerusalem, developed for the USC Digital Library, has won the 2009 Open Archaeology Prize from the American Schools of Oriental Research.
A nonprofit organization founded in 1900 and located at Boston University, the American Schools of Oriental Research support the [...]
The most telling image at the Museum of Contemporary Art’s 30th anniversary gala wasn’t hanging on a wall. It was a vignette that a few early guests might have seen: Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie gazing intently at a Mark Rothko painting during a private tour.
For MOCA, which recently made what Eli Broad called one [...]
They each stood by, bundled in scarves and coats. Slight murmurs wafted through the air. But as the 80-foot barricade came tumbling down, cheers erupted.
Berlin it wasn’t. But shortly after midnight this morning, Los Angeles paid tribute to the historic collapse of the wall that kept a city divided for 28 years.
About 700 people gathered on Wilshire Boulevard near [...]
Early Saturday evening, Providence, R.I.-based artist Mark Tribe orchestrated a reenactment of a 1971 speech by Chicano labor activist César Chávez protesting the Vietnam War. On the South Lawn of Exposition Park, midway between the Natural History Museum and the Coliseum, a call went out for “organized and disciplined nonviolent action,” aimed squarely at those [...]
