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Miami Art Week Artillery Report: Day 3 A day on the beach at Untitled, American Express X Artsy popup show and a benefit auction for Planned Parenthood

Miami Art Week Artillery Report: Day 3
A day on the beach at Untitled, American Express X Artsy popup show and a benefit auction for Planned Parenthood

Miami Art Week would be incomplete without attending a few of the special events taking place around the city. At any hour of the day, and well into the night, there’s something pseudo art related to do. For my third day, I visited Untitled art fair located right on...

Jean-Yves Thibaudet at Disney Hall — Through the fog and straight to the moon Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays the complete Debussy Préludes — December 1, 2021, Walt Disney Concert Hall

Jean-Yves Thibaudet at Disney Hall — Through the fog and straight to the moon
Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays the complete Debussy Préludes — December 1, 2021, Walt Disney Concert Hall

“Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir.” Charles Baudelaire, “Harmonie du soir,” Les Fleurs du mal (1857) The title of the first of the 12 Preludes in Book II of Debussy’s Préludes is “Brouillards”—and Jean-Yves Thibaudet’s audience at Disney Hall was...

Miami Art Week Artillery Report: Day 2 See highlights from Artillery's visits to Art Miami and Context Art Fairs

Miami Art Week Artillery Report: Day 2
See highlights from Artillery's visits to Art Miami and Context Art Fairs

While Art Basel Miami Beach is the main event of Art Week, there are several satellite fairs that feature smaller galleries and emerging artists. For my second full day of art, champagne and parties, I headed to Art Miami and Context, partner fairs just across the...

Miami Art Week Artillery Report: Day 1 Artillery is in Miami as Art Basel Miami Beach returns for its 2021 edition

Miami Art Week Artillery Report: Day 1
Artillery is in Miami as Art Basel Miami Beach returns for its 2021 edition

Art Basel Miami Beach is back for the first in-person edition since pre-pandemic days. As with previous years, the week is full of parties, exhibitions, benefit auctions and satellite fairs across Miami Beach and downtown. This week, I’ll be visiting as many events as...

Brave New World: Handel’s Alcina The English Concert & soloists, conducted by Harry Bicket — Los Angeles Opera, November 2, 2021

Brave New World: Handel’s Alcina
The English Concert & soloists, conducted by Harry Bicket — Los Angeles Opera, November 2, 2021

“Now I want Spirits to enforce, art to enchant,...” William Shakespeare, The Tempest Scarcely into the second act of Alcina—the third of Handel’s operas based on material from Ariosto’s Orlando Furioso...

Remarks on Color: Timid White and Bruised Sand: A Conversation Remarks on Color

Remarks on Color: Timid White and Bruised Sand: A Conversation
Remarks on Color

Considering the world today, it’s no wonder you’ve begun to peel, to pull away from your respective homes, to hide from the tremors, quakes and quick-sands of the living world. We are all guilty of something. We have all fallen under at some time or other, curling in...

Shoptalk: LA Art News New Director at MOCA, Academy Museum reopens, and more.

Shoptalk: LA Art News
New Director at MOCA, Academy Museum reopens, and more.

MOCA Madness Good news, the art world is revving up! We have art fairs taking place In Real Life, galleries setting regular opening hours and museums flinging open their doors. Of course, we’re not completely out of the COVID woods—many venues require proof of vax...

More Fireworks for MOCA Art Brief

More Fireworks for MOCA
Art Brief

One of the most memorable events at MOCA occurred when Chinese-American artist Cai Guo-Qiang exploded gunpowder from an exterior wall of the Geffen Contemporary just after sunset, setting off blinding and spectacular explosions before a huge crowd unprepared for such...

Things Art Should Be Doing Decoder

Things Art Should Be Doing
Decoder

Maggie West took over a large, dark space somewhere north of Frogtown last week and filled it with massive images of flowers, pulsating time-lapse photographed in UV light. The colors have weird harmonies: bad-acid Disney-villain purples and magentas, alien and dreamy...

SIGHTS UNSCENE Artist Ewedrt Hilgemann’s Sculpture Implosion Event, Royale Projects, Los Angeles, 2017

SIGHTS UNSCENE
Artist Ewedrt Hilgemann’s Sculpture Implosion Event, Royale Projects, Los Angeles, 2017

Before Bechdel Bunker Vision

Before Bechdel
Bunker Vision

If you are interviewing somebody who gets interviewed a lot, and they compliment you on the quality of your questions, you are probably doing something right. This happened on multiple occasions to Delphine Seyrig during her 1981 documentary Be Pretty and Shut Up!...

ASK BABS FRIEND’S ART SUCKS

ASK BABS
FRIEND’S ART SUCKS

Dear Babs, My longtime friend recently started painting and selling his art online. We live in different cities, and it’s been hard to meet because of the pandemic, but he’s having me over soon, and I know he’s going to want my thoughts about his art. The problem is I...

Sun & Sea — Geffen Contemporary, MOCA, October 15, 2021 On the Beach — Now and Forever

Sun & Sea — Geffen Contemporary, MOCA, October 15, 2021
On the Beach — Now and Forever

Nothing really happens in Sun & Sea, an opera set during a time in which we may expect ‘things’ will more or less stop happening altogether; or in any case, when things only happen to us—excepting possibly those wealthy enough to have provided themselves...

Agnus of God — “Lamb” for the Apocalypse The pursuit of happiness and the surrender of Hope in Valdimar Jóhannsson’s “Lamb”

Agnus of God — “Lamb” for the Apocalypse
The pursuit of happiness and the surrender of Hope in Valdimar Jóhannsson’s “Lamb”

One thing Orson Welles understood about movie-making was that a great motion picture, like any great work of art, tapped into a sense of the magical. He also understood that the magic was not simply the final studio product, however released or presented...

Remarks on Color: The Smooth Moves of Soft White October's Hue

Remarks on Color: The Smooth Moves of Soft White
October's Hue

Soft White was a porn star in the 80s, and with all the money he made was finally able to buy a piece of land in the Adirondacks where he opened a rescue for abused Alpacas. He once thought about changing his name to Hard White, but the allure of the soft and fuzzy...

Emblazoned World — Bel Ami Where “Everything Is Illuminated” — Lucy Bull & friends find the light in the dust.

Emblazoned World — Bel Ami
Where “Everything Is Illuminated” — Lucy Bull & friends find the light in the dust.

It was really a break from a break from a break from a longer art project (which is what art features turn into after they’ve been festering and metastasizing for more than a month or two) that brought me out to Bel Ami – a gallery I’d never been to located in the...

Stripping Away the Veil Art Brief

Stripping Away the Veil
Art Brief

The art world has been a secretive, opaque business for centuries. Secondary market transactions are rarely transparent and auction houses are often silent about the identity of the ultimate seller and buyer (provenances are full of phrases such as “from a private...

Prayer Against Turbulence Decoder

Prayer Against Turbulence
Decoder

You know when an airplane goes from just rattling back and forth to when it feels like the engines stopped and you drop, like, 20, 50, who knows how many feet and then picks up rattling again? I hate that. I don’t want to die. The nice thing about turbulence is it...

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