A pandemic delayed premiere arrives in Beverly Hills, West African dance in Cahuenga Pass, ballet goes improvisational in Van Nuys, and sneaker sculpture dances continue in Hollywood, all live! Online dance celebrates feminine energy, considers the incarcerated, draws inspiration from veterans’ letters, and reviews lessons from a prior pandemic, plus more SoCal dance this week. …
Alan Swartz’s career as an artist began in the 1950s. He is a sculptor and painter whose one-artist show, Illusion Intrusion, opened on June 12 at the Sasse Museum of Art, which has recently moved to the Progress Gallery in Pomona. This is a collection of great humanity, a body of work that tries not …
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The boxy TV sets emerge from a thick bed of live ferns like gigantic mushrooms on a primeval forest floor. A video program plays simultaneously on all 49 TVs: disco dancers rocking out to “Devil With a Blue Dress On,” Buddhist meditative music, Beethoven’s Moonlight Sonata, a Japanese Pepsi commercial, Bill Haley’s “Rock Around the …
Alexander Calder and Pablo Picasso are both titans of modern art, one known almost exclusively for his light, airy, constantly shifting mobiles and the other for his dizzying succession of styles. Calder (1898-1976) spent his career refining a few simple ideas, creating form and volume from thin lines and planes, working mainly with twisted wire …
Visiting an art exhibition can be an uplifting experience, but the Asian Art Museum in San Francisco takes the idea to a new level with its latest show, Awaken: A Tibetan Buddhist Journey Toward Enlightenment. The exhibition is structured as a journey from the chaos of contemporary life through several stages of growing awareness, illustrated …
Jordan Casteel has been called a rising star in American art, and it’s clear why from a visit to her first solo museum show, which just opened at Stanford University after its debut in Denver. “Jordan Casteel: Returning the Gaze” features 29 large paintings made in the past five years, almost all of them portraits …
The American art scene in the ’60s and ’70s was almost totally a boys club, and one of the few women who broke through to full membership was Vija Celmins, first in Los Angeles and then in New York. Now the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art has mounted a full-scale exhibition of her work, …
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This is an astonishing exhibition – the caliber of exhibitions that one might expect to see in great art exhibition venues such as: Petit Palais in Paris, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York, Scuderie del Quirinale in Rome, Palazzo Strozzi in Florence and The British Museum in London. Curatorial selections manifest an outstanding …
Beyond The Nile: Egypt and the Classical World — The Getty Center Read More »
Mourning A few weeks ago a man from St. Louis came to visit me in my Idyllwild studio. He said that my name came to him in a dream. It turns out he was mourning the loss of his 20-year-old son. He stayed for wine and dinner and we chatted about family, art, and life. …
When you hear the word “Cats,” what comes to mind? The Sondheim musical? That soft bundle of fur, curled on your lap? Or maybe the yowling duo in the alleyway who awakened you last night at 2 am? When I hear the word “Cats” I think of these strange, lurking felines who’ve popped up all …
Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World The J. Paul Getty Museum, Los Angeles through November 1, 2015 and National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C. from December 6, 2015 to March 20, 2016. This is an exhibition the calibre of which is seldom seen in Los Angeles. As Dodge Thompson, Chief of Exhibitions at …
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