sculpture

When the Light in the Tunnel is a Chandelier

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. …

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Alan Swartz at the Sasse Museum of Art in the Progress Gallery, Pomona

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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How Nam June Paik Turned Video Into Art

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 …

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Connecting the Dots Between Calder and Picasso

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 …

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Beyond The Nile: Egypt and the Classical World — The Getty Center

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 …

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Power and Pathos: Bronze Sculpture of the Hellenistic World

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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