Articles by Lily Simonson
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the present at L & M Arts
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the present at L & M Arts
Lily Simonson reviews a group show featuring collage works by Art21 artists John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Mark Bradford, and Paul McCarthy.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | An Interview with Vishal Jugdeo: Making “Goods Carrier” for Made in L.A.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | An Interview with Vishal Jugdeo: Making “Goods Carrier” for Made in L.A.
Lily Simonson talks to an LA artist whose recent video installation evokes the domestic tension of familial and romantic relationships.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | A Live One: Painting Joan Quinn
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | A Live One: Painting Joan Quinn
Fresh off her solo exhibition in LA, Lily Simonson has the opportunity to paint a portrait of Joan Quinn, the legendary West Coast editor of Interview magazine.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Sparks Fly from MOCA for Cai Guo-Qiang’s Sky Ladder
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Sparks Fly from MOCA for Cai Guo-Qiang’s Sky Ladder
Lily Simonson confronts mortality and the expansive scale of the universe on viewing Cai Guo-Qiang’s “Sky Ladder” at MOCA Los Angeles.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Andrea Fraser’s Men on the Line
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Andrea Fraser’s Men on the Line
Responding to the legacy of the Woman’s Building, Fraser’s new performance revisits 1970s-era gender issues and evaluates feminism’s progress.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | ASCO and Activisim in Pacific Standard Time
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | ASCO and Activisim in Pacific Standard Time
When I moved to LA from Northern California, my Bay Area friends accused me of taking up with a city that was historically cultureless and apolitical. If Pacific Standard …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Working for The Man: Building Burning Man’s Infrastructure
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Working for The Man: Building Burning Man’s Infrastructure
When I first found out about the Black Rock City Department of Public Works, it was like finding out that Santa Claus did not exist. I was disappointed, and …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | “Rethink/LA” Exhibition Envisions Future Transformation
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | “Rethink/LA” Exhibition Envisions Future Transformation
Los Angeles has a reputation for not only its excess, sprawl, and exploding population, but also for its unruly, anarchic and highly changeable landscape. Rethink/LA: Perspectives on a Future …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Curators Gone Viral: “Chain Letter” at Shoshana Wayne
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Curators Gone Viral: “Chain Letter” at Shoshana Wayne
Did you receive any unusual email forwards this month? Unrelated to funny cats? Initially sent out by Christian Cummings and Doug Harvey, a chain letter has been circulating among artists …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Revealing “Unfinished Paintings”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Revealing “Unfinished Paintings”
The nature of painting – its objecthood, its permanence — demands a level of resolution and wholeness to which other more ephemeral art practices need not always answer. Hence the …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Nicole Eisenman and Wynne Greenwood
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Nicole Eisenman and Wynne Greenwood
Digging through Nicole Eisenman’s current show at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, one begins to understand why it’s so perfect that the artist presents us with 77 different titles for …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Flat Affect
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Flat Affect
As I was walking through William Leavitt: Theater Objects, the LA-based artist’s first museum retrospective, a MOCA security guard stopped me. “Are you a writer?” It took me a moment …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Vija Celmins’s Visions of Violence
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Vija Celmins’s Visions of Violence
Last Saturday, March 19—the day that the US began air strikes in Libya—I passed an anti-war demonstration while driving to LACMA to see Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966. It …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Ephemerality and Eternity in “All of this and nothing”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Ephemerality and Eternity in “All of this and nothing”
“It’s really about the magical and the mysterious in the everyday,” says Hammer senior curator Anne Ellegood, in the online video introducing the museum’s newest exhibition, All of this and nothing. …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The California Biennial: Collectives, Conversations, and Collaborations
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The California Biennial: Collectives, Conversations, and Collaborations
I first experienced the California Biennial in 2008 as a participant in Mary Kelly’s Flashing Nipple Happening. Kelly had recruited around five dozen young women to gear-up in black …
Looking at Los Angeles
(Looking at Los Angeles) Top 10 of 2010: Entertainers Who Moonlight as Artists
Looking at Los Angeles
(Looking at Los Angeles) Top 10 of 2010: Entertainers Who Moonlight as Artists
Since last year’s Top 10 list was posted, we have seen the passing of two individuals who have greatly impacted both the art world as well and entertainment world. Dennis Hopper …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Whippet Good! M.A. Peers at the Pomona College Museum of Art
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Whippet Good! M.A. Peers at the Pomona College Museum of Art
During last week’s panel discussion in conjunction with M.A. Peers‘s exhibition at the Pomona College Museum of Art, Peers recalled a pivotal moment during her graduate studies. Painter Linda Day told her …
Looking at Los Angeles
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Dark Undercurrents in the Hammer Contemporary Collection
Looking at Los Angeles
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Dark Undercurrents in the Hammer Contemporary Collection
Last week, Art21 treated Angelenos to the very first preview screening of William Kentridge: Anything is Possible at the Hammer Museum‘s Billy Wilder Theater. As Art21’s executive director Susan Sollins …
Looking at Los Angeles
Burn, Baby, Burn: Furries Join Baby Ikki on a Voyage of Growth and Discovery
Looking at Los Angeles
Burn, Baby, Burn: Furries Join Baby Ikki on a Voyage of Growth and Discovery
Last month, I opened my email to find a “Call For Furrie Interns.” The call came from LA artist Marnie Weber and was forwarded to me by a mutual friend …
Looking at Los Angeles
Bikes, Bodies, and Blastulas: Tim Hawkinson Talks About His New Work
Looking at Los Angeles
Bikes, Bodies, and Blastulas: Tim Hawkinson Talks About His New Work
From intimate sculptures to mammoth collages, Tim Hawkinson (Season 2) gracefully creates tension between the playful and the profound. His current exhibition at Blum & Poe continues longstanding threads while …
Looking at Los Angeles
Breaking the Rules: MOCA Reaches Out to a Younger Audience
Looking at Los Angeles
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 …
Looking at Los Angeles
Watts Up: L.A. Struggles to Salvage its Public Art Centers
Looking at Los Angeles
Watts Up: L.A. Struggles to Salvage its Public Art Centers
Fifty years after public outcry stopped the city of Los Angeles from demolishing the world-famous Watts Towers, Angelenos once again rallied to rescue the complex from the City Council chopping …
Looking at Los Angeles
This Magic Moment: Diana Thater, Jeffrey Wells at the Santa Monica Museum of Art
Looking at Los Angeles
This Magic Moment: Diana Thater, Jeffrey Wells at the Santa Monica Museum of Art
The Oscars, aka prom night for Hollywood, are just around the corner! Who does The Academy love more: the noble savage, the noble soldier, or the noble soldier–turned-savage? Are you …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Pass the Deitch-ie
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Pass the Deitch-ie
If you’re like me, you’ve already been inundated with a whole range of opinions on MOCA’s announcement this week, and it’s only Thursday. Whether they are ultimately booing or cheering, …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Squeak Carnwath’s Unique Lexicon Channels the Universal
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Squeak Carnwath’s Unique Lexicon Channels the Universal
“Most of life is invisible to the naked eye,” proclaims Invisible, a painting in Squeak Carnwath’s new exhibition at Peter Mendenhall Gallery in Los Angeles. At first glance, it appears …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: The Public School
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: The Public School
Gold Leafing. Sadism & Masochism. Practical Electro-Mechanisms. The Coming Insurrection. What do these topics have in common? Perhaps with some head-scratching we could ferret out a few threads, but here’s …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Westward Expansion
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Westward Expansion
In the previous Looking at Los Angeles post, Catherine Wagley explored the still-healing schism of East and West Germany through an Angelino lens. Meanwhile, the premiere last night of Season …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the present at L & M Arts
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Mash Up: Collage from 1930 to the present at L & M Arts
Lily Simonson reviews a group show featuring collage works by Art21 artists John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Mark Bradford, and Paul McCarthy.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | An Interview with Vishal Jugdeo: Making “Goods Carrier” for Made in L.A.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | An Interview with Vishal Jugdeo: Making “Goods Carrier” for Made in L.A.
Lily Simonson talks to an LA artist whose recent video installation evokes the domestic tension of familial and romantic relationships.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | A Live One: Painting Joan Quinn
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | A Live One: Painting Joan Quinn
Fresh off her solo exhibition in LA, Lily Simonson has the opportunity to paint a portrait of Joan Quinn, the legendary West Coast editor of Interview magazine.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Sparks Fly from MOCA for Cai Guo-Qiang’s Sky Ladder
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Sparks Fly from MOCA for Cai Guo-Qiang’s Sky Ladder
Lily Simonson confronts mortality and the expansive scale of the universe on viewing Cai Guo-Qiang’s “Sky Ladder” at MOCA Los Angeles.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Andrea Fraser’s Men on the Line
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Andrea Fraser’s Men on the Line
Responding to the legacy of the Woman’s Building, Fraser’s new performance revisits 1970s-era gender issues and evaluates feminism’s progress.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | ASCO and Activisim in Pacific Standard Time
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | ASCO and Activisim in Pacific Standard Time
When I moved to LA from Northern California, my Bay Area friends accused me of taking up with a city that was historically cultureless and apolitical. If Pacific Standard …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Working for The Man: Building Burning Man’s Infrastructure
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Working for The Man: Building Burning Man’s Infrastructure
When I first found out about the Black Rock City Department of Public Works, it was like finding out that Santa Claus did not exist. I was disappointed, and …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | “Rethink/LA” Exhibition Envisions Future Transformation
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | “Rethink/LA” Exhibition Envisions Future Transformation
Los Angeles has a reputation for not only its excess, sprawl, and exploding population, but also for its unruly, anarchic and highly changeable landscape. Rethink/LA: Perspectives on a Future …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Curators Gone Viral: “Chain Letter” at Shoshana Wayne
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Curators Gone Viral: “Chain Letter” at Shoshana Wayne
Did you receive any unusual email forwards this month? Unrelated to funny cats? Initially sent out by Christian Cummings and Doug Harvey, a chain letter has been circulating among artists …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Revealing “Unfinished Paintings”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Revealing “Unfinished Paintings”
The nature of painting – its objecthood, its permanence — demands a level of resolution and wholeness to which other more ephemeral art practices need not always answer. Hence the …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Nicole Eisenman and Wynne Greenwood
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Nicole Eisenman and Wynne Greenwood
Digging through Nicole Eisenman’s current show at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, one begins to understand why it’s so perfect that the artist presents us with 77 different titles for …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Flat Affect
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Flat Affect
As I was walking through William Leavitt: Theater Objects, the LA-based artist’s first museum retrospective, a MOCA security guard stopped me. “Are you a writer?” It took me a moment …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Vija Celmins’s Visions of Violence
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Vija Celmins’s Visions of Violence
Last Saturday, March 19—the day that the US began air strikes in Libya—I passed an anti-war demonstration while driving to LACMA to see Vija Celmins: Television and Disaster, 1964-1966. It …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Ephemerality and Eternity in “All of this and nothing”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Ephemerality and Eternity in “All of this and nothing”
“It’s really about the magical and the mysterious in the everyday,” says Hammer senior curator Anne Ellegood, in the online video introducing the museum’s newest exhibition, All of this and nothing. …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The California Biennial: Collectives, Conversations, and Collaborations
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The California Biennial: Collectives, Conversations, and Collaborations
I first experienced the California Biennial in 2008 as a participant in Mary Kelly’s Flashing Nipple Happening. Kelly had recruited around five dozen young women to gear-up in black …
Looking at Los Angeles
(Looking at Los Angeles) Top 10 of 2010: Entertainers Who Moonlight as Artists
Looking at Los Angeles
(Looking at Los Angeles) Top 10 of 2010: Entertainers Who Moonlight as Artists
Since last year’s Top 10 list was posted, we have seen the passing of two individuals who have greatly impacted both the art world as well and entertainment world. Dennis Hopper …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Whippet Good! M.A. Peers at the Pomona College Museum of Art
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Whippet Good! M.A. Peers at the Pomona College Museum of Art
During last week’s panel discussion in conjunction with M.A. Peers‘s exhibition at the Pomona College Museum of Art, Peers recalled a pivotal moment during her graduate studies. Painter Linda Day told her …
Looking at Los Angeles
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Dark Undercurrents in the Hammer Contemporary Collection
Looking at Los Angeles
Art21 William Kentridge: Anything is Possible
Dark Undercurrents in the Hammer Contemporary Collection
Last week, Art21 treated Angelenos to the very first preview screening of William Kentridge: Anything is Possible at the Hammer Museum‘s Billy Wilder Theater. As Art21’s executive director Susan Sollins …
Looking at Los Angeles
Burn, Baby, Burn: Furries Join Baby Ikki on a Voyage of Growth and Discovery
Looking at Los Angeles
Burn, Baby, Burn: Furries Join Baby Ikki on a Voyage of Growth and Discovery
Last month, I opened my email to find a “Call For Furrie Interns.” The call came from LA artist Marnie Weber and was forwarded to me by a mutual friend …
Looking at Los Angeles
Bikes, Bodies, and Blastulas: Tim Hawkinson Talks About His New Work
Looking at Los Angeles
Bikes, Bodies, and Blastulas: Tim Hawkinson Talks About His New Work
From intimate sculptures to mammoth collages, Tim Hawkinson (Season 2) gracefully creates tension between the playful and the profound. His current exhibition at Blum & Poe continues longstanding threads while …
Looking at Los Angeles
Breaking the Rules: MOCA Reaches Out to a Younger Audience
Looking at Los Angeles
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 …
Looking at Los Angeles
Watts Up: L.A. Struggles to Salvage its Public Art Centers
Looking at Los Angeles
Watts Up: L.A. Struggles to Salvage its Public Art Centers
Fifty years after public outcry stopped the city of Los Angeles from demolishing the world-famous Watts Towers, Angelenos once again rallied to rescue the complex from the City Council chopping …
Looking at Los Angeles
This Magic Moment: Diana Thater, Jeffrey Wells at the Santa Monica Museum of Art
Looking at Los Angeles
This Magic Moment: Diana Thater, Jeffrey Wells at the Santa Monica Museum of Art
The Oscars, aka prom night for Hollywood, are just around the corner! Who does The Academy love more: the noble savage, the noble soldier, or the noble soldier–turned-savage? Are you …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Pass the Deitch-ie
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Pass the Deitch-ie
If you’re like me, you’ve already been inundated with a whole range of opinions on MOCA’s announcement this week, and it’s only Thursday. Whether they are ultimately booing or cheering, …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Squeak Carnwath’s Unique Lexicon Channels the Universal
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Squeak Carnwath’s Unique Lexicon Channels the Universal
“Most of life is invisible to the naked eye,” proclaims Invisible, a painting in Squeak Carnwath’s new exhibition at Peter Mendenhall Gallery in Los Angeles. At first glance, it appears …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: The Public School
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: The Public School
Gold Leafing. Sadism & Masochism. Practical Electro-Mechanisms. The Coming Insurrection. What do these topics have in common? Perhaps with some head-scratching we could ferret out a few threads, but here’s …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Westward Expansion
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Westward Expansion
In the previous Looking at Los Angeles post, Catherine Wagley explored the still-healing schism of East and West Germany through an Angelino lens. Meanwhile, the premiere last night of Season …
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