Email Author Holly Myers

2002 Stories by Holly Myers

• The Personal and the Political

  published September 19, 2002

  At one point during my recent visit to the William Kentridge exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, a man who happened... More >>

• Made in America

  published August 1, 2002

  H.C. Westermann (1922--1981) was the sort of guy you would have been lucky to have as an uncle while growing up. He was a semiprofessional... More >>

• Claiming the Camera

  published April 18, 2002

  The images of colonialism, seared into the history of photography like memories of an unresolved crime, are indelible. The subject is the... More >>

• Black and White and Black

  published March 7, 2002

  The Hampton Project is the product of a curious collaboration. Frances Benjamin Johnston, who lived from 1864 to 1952, was a white... More >>

• Objects of Desire

  published February 7, 2002

  “Representing L.A.: Pictorial Currents in Southern Californian Art,” organized by the Frye Art Museum in Seattle and now enjoying an extend... More >>

• Optical Truths

  published January 24, 2002

  Optical Parable (1931), the title work in the Getty‘s current exhibition of Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo, is a simple an... More >>

• 10 Good Shows

  published January 3, 2002

  1. “Luca Giordano: 1634-1705,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Tales of imprisonment, rebellion, war, love, abduction, seductio... More >>