Tag Archives: Los Angeles
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Under the Radar: Best of 2011
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Under the Radar: Best of 2011
Some excellent shows from 2011 flew a little under the radar, even a few housed in major museums, and they had plenty to offer when it comes to inspiring students and teachers. Part 1 of 2.
Bound: The Printed Object in Context
Bound | Municipal de Fútbol
Bound: The Printed Object in Context
Bound | Municipal de Fútbol
During the 1980s and ’90s, the city of Los Angeles saw its public spaces radically re-purposed. When the sun went down, strolling the streets and public parks of certain neighborhoods became …
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 | Ladies of Old School L.A.
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Ladies of Old School L.A.
Rampart, an “L.A. Noir” set for limited release the day before Thanksgiving, is a relentless film with a hero who’s impossible to love but a narrative thrust that forces …
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 | Boosterism
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Boosterism
Dave Hickey has called us out. “It’s corny,” the critic told the New York Times, referring to Pacific Standard Time, L.A.’s current, Getty-funded initiative to canonize L.A.’s post-war art …
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Following the Eames Legacy: A Discussion with Daniel Ostroff [Part II]
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Following the Eames Legacy: A Discussion with Daniel Ostroff [Part II]
Richard McCoy and Tricia Gilson talk with Eames expert Daniel Ostroff about his ongoing work in studying, collecting, and exhibiting the designs of Charles and Ray Eames [Part II].
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Following the Eames Legacy: A Discussion with Daniel Ostroff [Part I]
No Preservatives: Conversations about Conservation
No Preservatives | Following the Eames Legacy: A Discussion with Daniel Ostroff [Part I]
Richard McCoy and Tricia Gilson talk with Eames expert Daniel Ostroff about his ongoing work in study, collecting, and exhibiting the designs of Charles and Ray Eames [Part I].
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The Language of Materials: Janne Larsen and Sibyl Wickersheimer’s “Big Haul”
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | The Language of Materials: Janne Larsen and Sibyl Wickersheimer’s “Big Haul”
Editor’s Note: This week, Los Angeles-based writer Carol Cheh fills in for Lily Simonson, who is travelling. Cheh is a writer and curator based in Los Angeles. She is …
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 | Lynda Benglis, The Anti-Kitchen Artist
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Lynda Benglis, The Anti-Kitchen Artist
Once, when artists Liam Gillick and Sarah Morris had legendary minimalist Carl Andre over for dinner, Andre drank a bit much and let his tongue loose. To Morris, he said, …
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 | Since When Is Red a Conservative Color?
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Since When Is Red a Conservative Color?
At a meeting on Tuesday, July 12, officials in California’s Riverside County decided seceding from the rest of the state might not be such a good idea after all. The …
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 | Barbara Kruger, Shafted and Shining
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Barbara Kruger, Shafted and Shining
In 2008, when Eli Broad opened his big, brazen inaugural BCAM show on the Los Angeles County Museum’s Campus, Barbara Kruger (Season 1) was shafted, stuck accenting an elevator while …
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 …
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