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Looking at Los Angeles: Westward Expansion
Florian Maier-Aichen, "Untitled (Dewatered)," 2009. C-print, 71 3/4 x 94 inches (182 x 239 cm framed). Courtesy the Artist and Blum & Poe, Los Angeles, 303 Gallery, New York and Gagosian Gallery,...
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Looking at Los Angeles: The Public School
The Public School, 2009. Courtesy Telic Arts Exchange. Gold Leafing. Sadism & Masochism. Practical Electro-Mechanisms. The Coming Insurrection. What do these topics have in common? Perhaps with...
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Looking at Los Angeles: Squeak Carnwath’s Unique Lexicon Channels the Universal
Squeak Carnwath, "Invisible," 2009. Oil and alkyd on canvas, 12" x 12". Courtesy Peter Mendenhall Gallery. “Most of life is invisible to the naked eye,” proclaims Invisible, a painting in Squeak...
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Top 10 of 2009: Entertainers Who Moonlight as Artists
Singer and sometime-painter Beyoncé, with husband Jay-Z, at Art Basel Miami. Courtesy BeyonceWorld.net In the spirit of my Los Angeles beat, I present to you the most exciting art world interlopers to...
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Looking at Los Angeles: Pass the Deitch-ie
Mr. Deitch's Summery Treat 2006, Courtesy Saatchi Online Daily Magazine; LA's Museum of Contemporary Art, Courtesy Monica Almeida/The New York Times. If you’re like me, you’ve already been inundated...
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If You Can Remember the ’60s, You Weren’t There
Ed Ruscha, "The Los Angeles County Museum on Fire," 1968, oil on canvas. Courtesy edruscha.com. When I moved from Berkeley to Los Angeles five years ago, I thought I was done living in a town that was...
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This Magic Moment: Diana Thater, Jeffrey Wells at the Santa Monica Museum of Art
Diana Thater, "Los Angeles Theatre Marquee," 35mm production still from "Between Science and Magic," 2010. Courtesy the artist. The Oscars, aka prom night for Hollywood, are just around the corner! Who...
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Watts Up: L.A. Struggles to Salvage its Public Art Centers
The Watts Towers, view of 99-foot tower, which contains the longest slender reinforced concrete column in the world. Courtesy www.wattstowers.us Fifty years after public outcry stopped the city of Los...
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Jung’s Red Book Begins a New Chapter at UCLA’s Hammer Museum
Reprinted from "The Red Book" by C. G. Jung. (c) Foundation of the Works of C. G. Jung. Courtesy The New York Times, 2009. In his memoir, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Carl Gustav Jung recalls a...
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Breaking the Rules: MOCA Reaches Out to a Younger Audience
Last month, MOCA published a new book dedicated to engaging children with its permanent collection. Aimed at children age 8-12, Breaking the Rules: What is Contemporary Art? exploring works by 25...
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Bikes, Bodies, and Blastulas: Tim Hawkinson Talks About His New Work
Tim Hawkinson, Apples and Bananas, 2010 Apple cores, banana peels, grape skin, twist ties, bread tabs, orange peel and bronze, 9 1/2 x 4 x 3 1/2 inches. Courtesy Blum & Poe. From intimate...
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Baldessari 2.0: Jumping the Lobster
John Baldessari,"The backs of all the trucks passed while driving from Los Angeles to Santa Barbara, California, Sunday 20, January 1963," photography, 1963. Via a-n. Upon entering Pure Beauty at...
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Burn, Baby, Burn: Furries Join Baby Ikki on a Voyage of Growth and Discovery
Furries reclining in Marnie Weber’s “Furry Womb” at “A Night of Growth and Discovery.” Image via For Your Art. Last month, I opened my email to find a “Call For Furrie Interns.” The call came from LA...
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Dark Undercurrents in the Hammer Contemporary Collection
Monica Majoli, "Hanging Rubberman #1," 2006. Watercolor and gouache on paper, 123 x 51 in. Photo: Brian Forrest. Image via hammer.ucla.edu Last week, Art21 treated Angelenos to the very first preview...
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Students, Faculty, and Community Members Fight for Fine Art as University...
Cal Poly Pomona students and staff march to the CLA building as they respond in an uproar to last week's recommendations to cut the fine arts program at the school. May 4, 2010. Image via The Inland...
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Looking at Los Angeles: Whippet Good! M.A. Peers at the Pomona College Museum...
M.A. Peers, "Valentina," 1996. Oil on found sofa upholstery fabric (vinyl), foam stuffing, 123 x 74 inches. Courtesy Rosamund Felsen Gallery. During last week’s panel discussion in conjunction with...
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(Looking at Los Angeles) Top 10 of 2010: Entertainers Who Moonlight as Artists
Tony Bennett, whose nom de brush is Anthony Benedetto, has painted throughout his life. Courtesy benedettoarts.com Since last year’s Top 10 list was posted, we have seen the passing of two individuals...
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Looking at Los Angeles | The California Biennial: Collectives, Conversations,...
Agitprop The Third Party, 2010 Mobile interview cart: plywood, fabric, foam, amplifier, microphones, and hardware, 72 x 30 x 42 in. Installation at Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA...
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Looking at Los Angeles | Ephemerality and Eternity in “All of this and nothing”
Jorge Macchi, "Vanishing Point," 2005. Acrylic paint on paper. Variable dimensions. Collection of Michael Krichman and Carmen Cuenca, San Diego. Via hammer.ucla.edu “It’s really about the magical and...
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Looking at Los Angeles | Vija Celmins’s Visions of Violence
Vija Celmins, "Time Magazine Cover," 1965. Oil on canvas, 22x16 in.. Private Collection c/o Ms. Laura Bechter. Courtesy LACMA. Last Saturday, March 19—the day that the US began air strikes in Libya—I...
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Looking at Los Angeles | Flat Affect
William Leavitt, "Spectral Analysis," 1977/2010, set for performance . Photo by Brian Forrest. Courtesy the artist and MOCA. As I was walking through William Leavitt: Theater Objects, the LA-based...
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Looking at Los Angeles | Nicole Eisenman and Wynne Greenwood
Nicole Eisenman, "Guy Artist," 2011. Oil and collage on canvas, 76x60 inches. Courtesy Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. Digging through Nicole Eisenman’s current show at Susanne Vielmetter Los...
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Looking at Los Angeles | Revealing “Unfinished Paintings”
Lisa Adams, "Stump Without a Pot," unfinished painting, 2011. Oil on panel, 30" x 36." Courtesy CB1 Gallery Blog. The nature of painting – its objecthood, its permanence — demands a level of resolution...
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Looking at Los Angeles | Curators Gone Viral: “Chain Letter” at Shoshana Wayne
"Chain Letter" installation view at Shoshana Wayne Gallery, July 2011. Courtesy Shoshana Wayne Gallery. Did you receive any unusual email forwards this month? Unrelated to funny cats? Initially sent...
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Looking at Los Angeles |“Rethink/LA” Exhibition Envisions Future Transformation
"Rethink/LA," installation view, opening reception, Architecture + Design Museum Los Angeles, 2011. Courtesy Wild Don Lewis. Los Angeles has a reputation for not only its excess, sprawl, and...
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Looking at Los Angeles | Working for The Man: Building Burning Man’s...
Porkchop pounds a T-Stake into the desert floor, helping to build the fence that surrounds the perimeter of Burning Man's temporary metropolis, Black Rock City. Via The Burning Blog. Courtesy John...
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Looking at Los Angeles | ASCO and Activisim in Pacific Standard Time
Asco. "First Supper After a Major Riot," 1974/printed 2011. Photograph by Harry Gamboa Jr. Courtesy Harry Gamboa Jr. Image via LACMA. When I moved to LA from Northern California, my Bay Area friends...
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Looking at Los Angeles | Top 5 of 2011: Entertainers Who Moonlight as Artists
James Franco, "The Dangerous Book Four Boys" at Peres Projects, Berlin. Installation View. Courtesy The Hollywood Reporter. 5. James Franco, how can we miss you if you won’t go away? Back in 2009...
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Looking at Los Angeles | Andrea Fraser’s Men on the Line
Andrea Fraser. "Museum Highlights: A Gallery Talk", 1989. Video still of performance. Courtesy UCLA. This week, Andrea Fraser premiered her new performance Men on the Line, KPFK, 1972 in which she...
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Looking at Los Angeles | CAA #ProTips from an Adjunct Pro
College Art Association Conference 2012 Logo. Courtesy College Art Association. This week the College Art Association descends on Los Angeles for its annual conference and illustrious centennial...
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Looking at Los Angeles | LACMA’s Rock Star
Levitated Mass in progress: Michael Heizer's handpicked granite boulder aboard its custom transporter nears LACMA at 4:30 a.m. Saturday, March 10. Courtesy Gene Blevins, L.A. Daily News. Unless...
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Looking at Los Angeles | Sparks Fly from MOCA for Cai Guo-Qiang’s Sky Ladder
[youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9oETTQVGP1w] For a moment, I really thought we were all going to die. Having waited for 30 minutes in lines snaking around the block, the audience for Cai...
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Looking at Los Angeles | A Live One: Painting Joan Quinn
Inside the black light installation at the opening reception for "Lily Simonson: Wet and Wild" at CB1 Gallery. Courtesy Jason Chang CB1 Gallery. Like so many celebrities, Joan Quinn’s...
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Looking at Los Angeles | An Interview with Vishal Jugdeo: Making “Goods...
Vishal Jugdeo, Goods Carrier, 2012. Installation view by Brian Forrest. Courtesy the Hammer Museum. Made in L.A., the Hammer Museum’s innaugural biennial of Los Angeles art, features work from 60...
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Looking at Los Angeles | Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the present at L & M Arts
Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the present, installation view East Gallery L & M Arts. Courtesy L & M Arts. Photo by Joshua White/ JW Pictures. While music mashups aim to synthesize multiple...
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Looking at Los Angeles | Landmarks
Jennifer Bolande. “Marshall Stack,” 1987. Three handmade vinyl and wood speaker cabinets, color photos, Marshall speaker cloth, plastic Marshall logo. Photo by Eeva Inkeri. Last Friday, Los Angeles...
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