Email Author Holly Myers

2001 Stories by Holly Myers

• Abduction and Seduction

  published December 6, 2001

  A broad-chested and magnificently muscular Samson, having just snapped the ropes that held his wrists in bondage, towers in the center of a... More >>

• Dualities

  published November 15, 2001

  Walking into Scottish artist Douglas Gordon’s exhibition at MOCA‘s Geffen Contemporary is a little like walking into an abandoned multiple... More >>

• The Elements

  published November 1, 2001

  One curious question to emerge in the flurry of criticism surrounding this year’s Venice Biennale was whether or not such an exhibition... More >>

• Land and LAPD Scapes

  published September 20, 2001

  Laurie Brown, Periphery 37 -- Irvine Photographer unknown, Training Division -- Felony Vehicle Stop (1964) The first... More >>

• American Beauty

  published August 23, 2001

  Among the many iconic images on view in the Getty‘s two exhibitions devoted to American photographer Walker Evans is a humble little picture o... More >>

• Light

  published July 26, 2001

  That a photograph is composed of light is a frequently taught and even more frequently forgotten maxim. Light forms images when it burns shapes... More >>

• The Collective Self

  published June 14, 2001

  At the root of the United States‘ long-standing and recently resurgent fascination with Cuban culture is a sense of Cuba as our country... More >>

• Documenta

  published April 26, 2001

  “Photographed images,” Susan Sontag has written, “do not seem to be statements about the world so much as pieces of it.” Nothing could be ... More >>

• Art and Craft

  published March 29, 2001

  Judy Chicago‘s most recent production, a series of textile works made in collaboration with 17 female needlework artists, has no... More >>

• The Westside of the Eastside

  published February 1, 2001

  Considering the artsy reputation of the so-called Eastside -- that is, the east side of white Los Angeles culture: Los Feliz, Silver Lake and... More >>

• The Westside of the Eastside

  published February 1, 2001

  Considering the artsy reputation of the so-called Eastside -- that is, the east side of white Los Angeles culture: Los Feliz, Silver Lake and... More >>

• The Westside of the Eastside

  published February 1, 2001

  Considering the artsy reputation of the so-called Eastside -- that is, the east side of white Los Angeles culture: Los Feliz, Silver Lake and... More >>

• The Westside of the Eastside

  published February 1, 2001

  Considering the artsy reputation of the so-called Eastside -- that is, the east side of white Los Angeles culture: Los Feliz, Silver Lake and... More >>