Tag Archives: Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Slavs and Tatars: “Help the Militia, Beat Yourself Up–Only Solidarity and Patience Will Secure Our Victory”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Slavs and Tatars: “Help the Militia, Beat Yourself Up–Only Solidarity and Patience Will Secure Our Victory”
Danielle McCullough attends the Los Angeles Art Book Fair and is introduced to the Slavs and Tatars collective.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Heather Rasmussen: Cataclysmic Collections
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Heather Rasmussen: Cataclysmic Collections
Columnist Danielle McCullough writes about the work of Los Angeles-based artist Heather Rasmussen and her ongoing interest in catastrophe.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Tanya Aguiñiga / Transnational Arts Operative
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Tanya Aguiñiga / Transnational Arts Operative
Danielle McCullough profiles Tanya Aguiñiga, an artist/activist whose works take many forms, many of which engage notions of transnational autobiography.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Moving Time: A Fossil-Fueled Journey from Appalachia to Los Angeles through Motion Pictures
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Moving Time: A Fossil-Fueled Journey from Appalachia to Los Angeles through Motion Pictures
New “Looking at Los Angeles” contributor Danielle McCullough surveys the independent film scene in Los Angeles.
Word is a Virus
Word is a Virus | New Releases in Artist-Run Journals: MATERIAL and Prism of Reality
Word is a Virus
Word is a Virus | New Releases in Artist-Run Journals: MATERIAL and Prism of Reality
Carol Cheh looks at two artist-run journals, both of which provide compelling textual windows into L.A.’s rich community of artists and artistic practices.
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Political Art for a Contentious Time
Ink: Notes on the Contemporary Print
Ink | Political Art for a Contentious Time
Following a trend that began with the Enlightenment, prints play a role in today’s political discourse by disseminating artists’ views and rallying the public.
Art21 Extended Play
Exclusive | Catherine Opie: Cleveland Clinic
Art21 Extended Play
Exclusive | Catherine Opie: Cleveland Clinic
Catherine Opie describes her intentions behind the permanent installation “Somewhere in the Middle” (2011) at Hillcrest Hospital, a branch of Cleveland Clinic, in Mayfield Heights, Ohio.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Anna Piaggi and the Summer One-Off
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Anna Piaggi and the Summer One-Off
The writer and fashion icon Anna Piaggi, who died this week at 81, serves as a reminder that in art, as life, one-off gestures are often the most memorable ones.
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 | The MOCA Debacle: What Does ‘Visually Stimulating’ Even Mean?
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The MOCA Debacle: What Does ‘Visually Stimulating’ Even Mean?
Catherine Wagley on Paul Schimmel’s controversial departure from the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | In Search of Eve Babitz
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | In Search of Eve Babitz
Eve Babitz is more than just the nude woman famously photographed playing chess with Duchamp; she is an influential writer whose books are now much-coveted items.
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 | The Painter of Light is Radically Not Me
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The Painter of Light is Radically Not Me
Catherine Wagley reflects on the passing of Thomas Kinkade, the infamously popular “Painter of Light” who pushed the idea of coziness to mind-numbing extremes.
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 Extended Play
Ambiguity and Teaching with the Photography Robert Adams
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Art21 Extended Play
Ambiguity and Teaching with the Photography Robert Adams
Teaching with and sharing Robert Adams’ photography with students can allow for a broader understanding of what makes a great picture.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | A Wonderland That Wasn’t Meant to Be
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | A Wonderland That Wasn’t Meant to Be
Catherine Wagley reviews the group show “In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women Artists in Mexico and the United States” on view now at LACMA.