‘That Transparency Thing’ – Blob to Blot, Part II – A Debate Over the New LACMA
Third Los Angeles Project, March 25, 2015, Thorne Hall, Occidental College
[Part I of this post appeared yesterday, following the preceding evening’s Third Los Angeles forum at Occidental College. I continue where I left off –…
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Page Six An employee of Koenig Iron Works died following a fall at Larry Gagosian’s UES mansion while completing a gut renovation. . . . READ…
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From Blob to Blot – A Debate Over the New LACMA
Third Los Angeles Project, March 25, 2015, Thorne Hall, Occidental College
And so the Govan/Zumthor/LACMA PR juggernaut thunders on, steamrolling over those skeptical eyes looking over their shoulders from near and far, critics and other local…
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Diane Christiansen
Glike Gallery
Diane Christiansen makes images much like great poets make poems, slowly and with tremendous tenderness and care. Works like the intrepid and vaguely menacing Secret…
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A Class of One: Me and Eloise
It’s Me, Hilary: The Man Who Drew Eloise (Dunham/Konner/Wolf) March 23, 2015, 9:00 PM, HBO
By the time I had discovered Eloise (there is only one, you know), I was already well on my way to becoming Eloise – if…
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Cry the Occupied Country – Figaro’s Dance and A Countess’s Lament
Le Nozze di Figaro (Mozart/Da Ponte), directed by Ian Judge, Los Angeles Opera, through April 12th
Do you ever wonder what happened to the Occupy moment? We can’t really call it a movement because it had no coherent program, plan or…
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Jerrin Wagstaff
Another Year In LA
All good homes should contain great art, or at least that is what David Stone, owner and director of Another Year in LA, would have…
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Wunderkammer at Pitzer College Art Galleries
Objet d'art Piquing Curiosity
For many centuries, the wunderkammer model of organizing collections of art and objects of curiosity was de rigueur. The earliest wunderkammer, or cabinets of curiosity,…
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Turning Art Upside Down
An Interview with Mexican Space Artist Nahum
Prestidigitator, composer, engineer and conceptual artist Nahum hails from Mexico City, has lived in London for many years after a degree from Goldsmith’s College, but…
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Aaron Johnson
Stux & Haller Gallery, New York
Ornately grotesque, Aaron Johnson’s paintings, on display at Stux & Haller Gallery, are vibrant, densely packed expositions on sex and death. According to Johnson the…
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Claudia Parducci and Melinda Gibson
Sloan Projects
Claudia Parducci currently has three stunning paintings up at Sloan Projects at Bergamot Station, paintings that straddle the chasm between landscape and psychological terrain, works…
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Cole Case
Western Project
Cole Case is a gem of an artist who, in his most recent exhibition at Western Project, has demonstrated tremendous sensitivity of the finer elements…
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Manifest Destination: Gabriel Kahane’s The Ambassador
Gabriel Kahane’s The Ambassador, directed for the stage by John Tiffany, February 28, 2015, Freud Playhouse, UCLA
Having followed Gabriel Kahane’s songwriting career for some time, I was primed for a terrific show this past Saturday evening at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse. Kahane…
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Editor’s Letter
March/April 2015
Dear Readers Our paint-themed issue just makes me want to paint. I figure that’s a good thing. As a former serious painter, I get wistful…
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The Bold Standard
Abstract Painting Must Still Measure up to Pollock
IN THE BEGINNINGThere is something about abstraction. The concept of the non-pictorial, non-mimistic image is unique in art, and in the world. Sometimes it seems…
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James Hayward: Maker’s Mark
Just Don’t Say the F-word
Los Angeles painter James Hayward taught a USC graduate seminar in 1987. That was my introduction to him. He wasn’t much of a teacher, but…
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