Tag Archives: Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Architects on Bicycles
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles | Architects on Bicycles
Reyner Banham, the British architectural historian whose blatant enthusiasm for Los Angeles nearly got him blacklisted in an era in which the cultured loved to hate this city, revered crisps, …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Work after work after work…
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Work after work after work…
On Friday, April 8th, two members from Temporary Services, Brett Bloom and Salem Collo-Julin, gave a presentation on their practice at Outpost for Contemporary Art here in Los Angeles. The …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Los Angeles: Nice Meeting You Again and Again
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment | Los Angeles: Nice Meeting You Again and Again
This week began with Dean Rochelle Steiner of the USC Roski School of Fine Arts signing off on my thesis and me paying the publishing and binding fee. My thesis …
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: Killed Posterity
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Killed Posterity
Roy Stryker, the man who ran the Historical Section of the Farm Security Administration (FSA) and sent some of the best-known 20th century photographers out on their first assignments, “didn’t …
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. …
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Graffiti in the Classroom
Teaching with Contemporary Art
Graffiti in the Classroom
Students often have lots of interest and questions about graffiti, graffiti art and street art. My response usually includes the fact that I love graffiti art and street art, especially …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Characters, Not Caricatures: The Multifarious Art of Rachel Mason
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Center Field | Characters, Not Caricatures: The Multifarious Art of Rachel Mason
Rachel Mason’s work is not easy to neatly summarize. I’ve been following her projects for several years now, and I still have difficulty explaining what exactly it is that she …
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Owning Robert Mapplethorpe
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Owning Robert Mapplethorpe
“I don’t know why my pictures come out looking so good,” photographer Robert Mapplethorpe once told his brother. “I just don’t get it.” He had that innate knack for …
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Special “Center Field” Podcast: Fielding Practice with Bad at Sports
Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports.
Special “Center Field” Podcast: Fielding Practice with Bad at Sports
All of us here at Bad at Sports have loved working on our twice-monthly column for this blog, Center Field: Art in the Middle with Bad at Sports. It gives …
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment: From My Institution to Yours
Open Enrollment
Open Enrollment: From My Institution to Yours
In the spring of every year, the Master of Public Art Studies: Art/Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere program at the University of Southern California, one of two graduate programs …
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: Big, Broad Bunker Hill
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Big, Broad Bunker Hill
Eli Broad, Los Angeles’s most aggressive philanthropist, nearly always wears solid, primary colored ties. Last Thursday, he wore a red one to unveil the plan for his new museum on …
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
Looking at Los Angeles: Seen and Felt
Looking at Los Angeles
Looking at Los Angeles: Seen and Felt
When I first encountered the warm voluptuousness of Mary Cassatt’s paintings, it annoyed me. Then I realized the artist had never married, living much of her life frequenting Paris salons, …
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 …
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