Looking at Los Angeles
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 …
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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 …
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Mel Bochner’s Burnt Tongue
Looking at Los Angeles
Mel Bochner’s Burnt Tongue
Los Angeles galleries are brimming with minimal, kind-of-conceptual abstraction at the moment — Paul Davis’s successions of hinges and wood and Joe Fyfe’s felt and muslin Motherwell spin-offs at ACME; …
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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 …
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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, …
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Looking At Los Angeles: Against The Deluge
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking At Los Angeles: Against The Deluge
Looking back before moving forward is such an endearing habit—like brushing your teeth before breakfast—that it’s hard to resent the sweeping, often grandiloquent judgments that accompany the end of each …
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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 …
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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 …
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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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Looking at Los Angeles: Berlin Wall Falls in L.A.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Berlin Wall Falls in L.A.
Tuesday night, former U.S. Ambassador Richard Barkley called East Berlin a “profoundly boring place,” drab and depressing compared to other places he’d been. His callous observation loosely framed a panel …
