Any time an artist can invoke Michelangelo and Steve Ditko in the same work, he deserves considerable respect. At least that is the feeling one gets from the impressive show of work by Jim Shaw recently on view at Blum & Poe. As expected, Shaw’s work is erudite...
Karen Carson has a tremendous sense of humor, as is evidenced in her most recent exhibition at Rosamund Felsen. Having chosen farming equipment—most prominently, tractors—as her subject matter, Carson revels in the sheer monumentality and vibrant colors of these...
“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...
WiredJust a couple months ago, The Getty quietly released 5,400 new, high-resolution (800dpi) images from its Getty Research Institute for public use. But here’s the revolutionary part: They did it without fees or restriction. To put this in perspective: Not one of...
CNN London (CNN) -- Two works by British artist Damien Hirst worth $54,000 have been stolen from a London gallery.The pieces -- prints of colored spots, signed by Hirst -- were taken from the Exhibitionist Gallery in Notting Hill in the early hours of Monday...
KPCC Jason Shelowitz — also known as Jay Shells — is the New York-based artist behind the Rap Quotes project. For the past few years, Shells has been traversing New York City, posting red and white street signs with location-specific rap quotes, in an effort to make...
Karin Apollinia Muller: Far Out at Diane Rosenstein Fine Art The natural world, specifically the universe, are living, thriving utopias of abstraction, light and color, and Karin Apollonia Muller has, in her first exhibition at Diane Rosenstein Fine Art, captured both...
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