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2010 Stories by Doug Harvey

• Orange you glad I didn't say Biennial?

  published November 18, 2010

  The California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art is a tradition dating back to 1984, when the venue was known as the Newport Harbor... More >>

• Hollywood's Soft Psychedelic Underbelly

  published November 11, 2010

  The very idea of Experimental Cinema in Los Angeles is almost an oxymoron. In the heart of Hollywood, why would anyone with... More >>

• Across the Great Divide

  published November 4, 2010

  Cinema is a strangely autistic medium, often offering aid and encouragement to obviously pathological misanthropes, which... More >>

• Burri My Art in the Hollywood Hills

  published October 21, 2010

  For most of us, one of the fundamental appeals of art is its exemplary capacity in the struggle against entropy — a... More >>

• Unfinished Symphony

  published September 9, 2010

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• John Baldessari: Point Man

  published August 5, 2010

  What makes things meaningful? Is it the mere indication that something meaningful is, in fact, present? Is it the attention we... More >>

• Gorky's Debt

  published July 8, 2010

  Arshile Gorky is a pivotal but enigmatic figure in the history of Modern Art — specifically in the alleged shifting of... More >>

• Baby Ain't Got Back (Yet)

  published June 24, 2010

  I've never been to Burning Man. The annual pyrotechno countercultural powwow held in the desert north of Reno — a... More >>

• A Play on Worlds

  published June 3, 2010

  Has it been 10 years since sculpture-based multimedia artist Tim Hawkinson's last commercial gallery show in L.A.? There was... More >>

• Pierre and the Lion

  published May 27, 2010

  Once upon a time a boy named Pierre went into the woods ... actually he first went to the San Fernando Valley — it... More >>

• Amanda Ross-Ho: Trick-and-Treater

  published May 20, 2010

  One of the frequent critiques heard from working artists regarding the gallery-and-museum model of art distribution, second... More >>

• Movies Gone Bad

  published May 6, 2010

  Artist/filmmaker Pat O'Neill's 1989 Sundance Grand Jury Prize–winning experimental feature Water & Power... More >>

• Representing Mother******s

  published April 22, 2010

  In the year 867, a new portrait mosaic of the Virgin Mary & Son was unveiled in the apse of the Hagia Sophia —... More >>

• The Power of Negative Thinking

  published April 8, 2010

  Negativity is underrated. In her most recent book, Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has... More >>

• Residents Artist in Residence

  published March 11, 2010

  Pasadena City College is renowned for its lengthy tenure as one of the best community colleges in California, spawning ground... More >>

• Locals Only

  published February 26, 2010

  There seems to be a rising tide of regionalism in the L.A. art scene, or at least a renewed interest in examining the city's... More >>

• Matter's Most

  published February 5, 2010

  Some people have it rough. Born into the East Coast cultural aristocracy in 1913, Mercedes Matter began life as a beloved and... More >>

• The Bish, The Fish and The Fantastic Four

  published January 21, 2010

  Ginny Bishton is an artist who defies expectations. Or rather, completely dismantles them, leaving their components arranged... More >>