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Sunday, August 24, 2008
His Holocaust document
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August 24, 2008
FOURTEEN months ago, Richard Ehrlich left his office at the UCLA Medical Center, flew to Berlin and rented the best digital camera available. Read more
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
LACMA adds Kienholz but not the furor
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August 20, 2008
In 1966, when the Los Angeles County Museum of Art put up a retrospective exhibition of Ed Kienholz’s work, the County Board of Supervisors threatened to shut it down. Read more
Monday, August 11, 2008
Picturing ‘them’
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August 11, 2008
CERTAIN IMAGES of migrants almost have become clichés in our globalized world of perpetual human movement: Mexican families sloshing across the Rio Grande in the dead of night, young African men huddled over dull campfires in Spanish detainee camps. Read more
Thursday, July 24, 2008
A Chinese artist makes the leap from reality to greater truths
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July 24, 2008
AWOUNDED man lying upon a hospital bed. Read more
Sunday, July 20, 2008
Urgent posts from Oaxaca
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July 20, 2008
MEXICO’S southern state of Oaxaca has two dominant character traits. Read more
Thursday, July 17, 2008
Beyond the beaded curtains, a uniquely L.A. experience
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July 17, 2008
AS KORI NEWKIRK stands amid his very mixed-media retrospective at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, it’s not easy, he confesses, to explain what it all means. Read more
Sunday, July 13, 2008
A new cover story
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July 13, 2008
DESPITE ALL the well-worn warnings preaching otherwise, how we imagine the world, feel and very worth of a book often has much to do with its cover. Read more
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Sunday, June 22, 2008
A golden age of graphics
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June 22, 2008
WHEN CalArts faculty member Louise Sandhaus pondered West Coast design history for a book proposal five years ago, she theorized that California’s freewheeling graphics sensibility might be directly connected to the very ground we stand, slip and slide on. Read more
Thursday, June 19, 2008
Visions and voices of artists from India
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June 19, 2008
LOS ANGELES art dealer and curator Patricia Hamilton points to a decadent and colorful two-frame Indian cartoon with English-language text. Read more
Sunday, June 15, 2008
Back out in the world
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June 15, 2008
IN AN act that provoked worldwide outrage, the fundamentalist Taliban rulers of Afghanistan in March 2001 destroyed the monumental statues of Buddha that had been carved into the rock cliffs of Bamiyan 1,600 years ago. Read more
Saturday, June 14, 2008
It’s a battle won for Cheech Marin
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June 14, 2008
After more than seven years on the road, the Chicano art collection of Cheech Marin has finally come home. Read more
Sunday, June 8, 2008
A new Jimi experience
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June 8, 2008
THERE’S something about Jimi Hendrix’s confident grin – so ingenuous and inviting – that disarms the observer and plays against stereotype, as do so many of the images in “Hendrix Revealed,” a new exhibit of Hendrix photographs that opened May 29 and will continue nearly a month, the largest display of them ever mounted in the U.S.
The website Celebrity Vault in Beverly Hills is hosting the collection in association with U.K.-based Raj Prem Fine Read more
Thursday, May 29, 2008
REAWAKENING
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May 29, 2008
ORIGINALLY THE residence of Southern Pacific Railroad heir Henry E. Huntington and his second wife, Arabella, the Huntington Art Gallery, that most genteel Beaux-Arts structure with a Mediterranean twist, first rose up on the Pasadena landscape in 1911. Read more
Monday, April 21, 2008
Metal on his mind
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April 21, 2008
SAN FRANCISCO – A double-edged joke runs through Zhan Wang’s exhibition at the Asian Art Museum here. Read more
Nature as artist’s muse
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April 21, 2008
MONTE CARLO – Mia Hanak couldn’t get rid of the prince. Read more
Saturday, April 19, 2008
The final exhibition
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April 19, 2008
The final exhibition
The current – and last – exhibition at the Guggenheim Hermitage Museum in Las Vegas’ Venetian hotel consists of 37 paintings from the flagship Guggenheim in New York, described as charting “modern artists’ experimental interpretations of the academic themes of portraiture, landscape, still life and genre.” Read more
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Public art a victim of its success
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April 12, 2008
When the Los Angeles County Museum of Art launched the Broad Contemporary Art Museum with great fanfare in February, some of the biggest, splashiest art was outside. Read more
Monday, February 11, 2008
The Picassos that Pablo liked best
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February 11, 2008
MADRID – They were Picasso’s own favorites and this is the first time – and possibly the last – they will leave Paris together. Read more
Look, up in the sky! It’s women’s art
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February 11, 2008
Sisterhood is powerful again. Read more
