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 [...]
Paintings with a fuzzy, blissed-out, sun-bleached look have a venerable contemporary history, beginning with Vija Celmins and Gerhard Richter in the 1960s, continuing with Ellen Phelan in the 1980s and then on to Luc Tuymans more recently. Now, among others, add young Beijing painter Song Kun to the accomplished roster.
At Walter Maciel Gallery, Song is [...]
By Suzanne Muchnic
Six years ago, Tim Blum and Jeff Poe opened a 5,000-square-foot gallery on a forgotten strip of South La Cienega Boulevard. This weekend, the team will launch a 21,000-square-foot complex across the street — at the hub of what has become a major center of contemporary art galleries in and around Culver City.
The [...]
By Leah Ollman
Richard Ehrlich comes across as a young, emerging artist, in spite of his 70 years. He took up photography as a serious adjunct to his day job in urological surgery less than 10 years ago and has shot broadly and prolifically — among other subjects, the landscapes of China and Vietnam; abstract crystal [...]
L.A. artist Mark Bradford, 47, has won lots of prestigious prizes in the past, including the Bucksbaum Award (2006), the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award (2003) and the Joan Mitchell Foundation Award (2002). Tuesday he nabs the Big One: a 2009 MacArthur Fellowship.
New York painter Rackstraw Downes, 70, and San Francisco digital artist Camille Utterback, [...]
David Lynch is having an art show. Yes, that David Lynch.
It isn’t the first for the creative force whose obsessively weird sensibility has brought us films such as “Eraserhead,” “Blue Velvet” and “Inland Empire” and the TV series “Twin Peaks.” An artist since his high school days, Lynch has chalked up 32 solo shows including [...]
By Raja Abdulrahim
The exhibit of Iranian artists that opens today at Crewest gallery in downtown Los Angeles was in the works long before the disputed June 12 presidential election in Iran.
But Shervin Shahbazi, curator of the show that focuses on street art, is still dealing with the repercussions of the bloody mass demonstrations that followed [...]
By Holly Meyers
Media executive Dean Valentine began collecting art in the early 1990s and, like many people who develop such an affliction while also in the possession of great wealth, he seems to have acquired a lot of it.
It is an unwieldy enterprise, one can well imagine, necessitating large quantities of climate-controlled storage space — [...]
