“People from the village,” said David Hockney recently in The Smithsonian, “come up and tease me, ‘We hear you’ve started drawing on your telephone.’ And I tell them, ‘Well, no, actually, it’s just that occasionally I speak on my sketch pad.’” How did Hockney...
Lesley Vance’s work may at first read like Diebenkorn in miniature, but her solo show quotes midcentury abstraction in a distinctly Reagan-era palette; little messages from the 1960s retold in twilight Cold War parlance. The gallery walls nearly swallow her small...
When not sure what to say or write, one might fill space with “x x x,” “blank blank blank” or “. . .” Petra Cortright titles her recent exhibition with all three—“x x x blank blank blank . . . ”—alluding to casual causality and ideas that will be completed...
The art of Lynn Aldrich celebrates and extrapolates on the ordinary. She focuses on objects from the world of everyday life to both transform them structurally and insinuate a sense of larger mysteries. She takes utensils and garden-variety household items and through...
The sprawling Charles Dickson retrospective, dispersed throughout the Purifoy Gallery at the Watts Towers Arts Center and the Mingus Gallery in the Charles Mingus Youth Arts Center, exhibits an artist who knew he was born with a gift and that his life’s work was to be...
Elizabeth McCord’s Big Pink (1951) was the only painting featured in LACMA’s Pacific Standard Time exhibition “Living in a Modern Way,” a sweeping survey of mid-century design. The painting jogged old-timers’ memories and tantalized a younger audience. A recent...
As the George Clooney character in O Brother, Where Art Thou? comically declared, “We in a tight spot!” With 7 billion people competing for ever-scarcer natural resources in an environment beset by weather changes, Homo sapiens is headed for challenges, and not of the...
The exterior of 1812 Rialto Street is entirely unremarkable, but venturing into the building provokes a discordant experience akin to tumbling through the looking glass into a fantastical and foreign world. The 100-year-old brick house in a run down area of...
"http://samuelfreeman.com/exhibitions/martin-mull-split-infinitives/" From Martin Mull. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 1/07/2014 (7 items) Steve Martin Seth Green Tania Kosevich, Eric Idle Macaulay Culkin and friend Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara Bob Odenkirk Eugene...
"Photos by Jason Chang" From Mira Schor. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 1/07/2014 (10 items) Erica Mahinay Tucker Neel, Susan Silton Sarajo Frieden, Robin Mitchell Sandeep Mukherjee, Robert Baruch André Goeritz, Carmine Lannaccone Marie Theibault, Bill Vaughn Amelia...
From Lari Pittman. Posted by Artillery Magazine on 1/07/2014 (14 items) Michael Osten Ron Handler Roy Dowell, Lari Pittman Diane Holland Alan Harris, Susan Anderson Charles Gaines Lari Pittman Harper Simon, Tenley Nordstrom, Brian Butler Brenda Williams, Clair Baker...
New York TimesThe Gala in the Garden, a benefit given every October by the Hammer Museum here, draws a reliably motley cross section of this city’s art, fashion and film tribes. While those contingents mingled last fall on the museum’s third-floor balcony with some of...
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