Month: April 2014
Postscript:  Paris Photo 2014

Postscript: Paris Photo 2014

What makes a fair work?  (Of any kind, really:  a question out of Merchant Capitalism 101—or even Trade 101.)  The merchants and the goods are key—by far the most important factor.  But we’re not just talking about a marketplace, retail street or mall design – an...

Incognito 2014, Santa Monica Museum of Art

Incognito 2014, Santa Monica Museum of Art

After ten years, the Santa Monica Museum of Art’s Incognito benefit has become a fixture on the L.A. art world calendar; and although I don’t necessarily make it every year (the never-ending battle of time and distances, to say nothing of travel contingencies), I’m...

The Foire Next Time:  Paris Photo Los Angeles and FIAC

The Foire Next Time: Paris Photo Los Angeles and FIAC

Paris Photo is in town; and although there are rumors afoot that it will be the last edition of the fair to be exported to Los Angeles, Deborah Vankin reports today in the Los Angeles Times that it will be back in 2015, to be paired alongside the French art fair, FIAC...

William Kentridge’s “The Refusal of Time”

William Kentridge’s “The Refusal of Time”

William Kentridge's dazzling "The Refusal of Time," at New York’s Metropolitan Museum, marries science and art in an installation that comprises a 30-minute, 5-channel video featuring live stop-action  animation, the spoken word and music projected on three walls of a...

Arcadian Elegies for a Drone Democracy

Arcadian Elegies for a Drone Democracy

The 60th anniversary tour of the Paul Taylor Dance Company has provided an occasion for the revisitation or revival of a number of classic Taylor dances.  I was just tempted to call them ballets; and the first of those programmed for Friday evenings performances,...

Richard Serra plants four 50ft steel towers in Qatari

The Independent The works are stunning, rising like great pillars in a one kilometre corridor between the crumbling cliffs that make Zekreet a regular destination for residents and tourists. Although obviously modern, built in smooth steel already beginning to...

The Moments He Illuminated:  Mickey Rooney, 1920-2014

The Moments He Illuminated: Mickey Rooney, 1920-2014

Before I was a child of Hollywood, the place, I was a child of Hollywood, the dream factory and its ancillary cultural machinery.  That meant the movies first and foremost, whether experienced on the big screen at Radio City Music Hall or theatres and movie houses...

Damien Hirst to reveal criminal past

The GuardianHirst grew up in a pretty bad situation with his mother, and he and his gang – many of whom became YBA artists – spent half their time housebreaking, stealing, [indulging in] criminality, and the rest of their time indulging their passion for art, which...

“Art School Stole My Virginity” – Or Did It?

DazedThose fortunate enough to get tickets (yes, it was ticketed, like Glastonbury) were invited to the former BBC London headquarters at 35 Marylebone Gardens, now a performance space for immersive theatre. The 120-strong crowd was shown into the gallery, which had...

Artist who defaced Banksy charged with vandalism

TMZAn artist who defaced several works of famed graffiti artist Banksy has been charged with the crime of vandalism -- which is pretty incredible since Banksy's collection is itself an act of vandalism. David William Noll has been charged with FELONY vandalism. ...

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