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Brad Eberhard: (dis-solve)
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In Brad Eberhard's 4-foot-tall oil painting Entrar, a large group of small figures wearing colored shirts, skirts or pants walks along an inclining expanse of greens, while green, blue and mauve shapes loom above the figures, some dripping down on them as stalagmites might. In Colored Dirt,... More >> |
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| Chinatown/ Elysian Park | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Meg Cranston: Emerald City; Alex Israel: Lens
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Every year, Pantone, the 50-year-old company famous for forecasting which colors will be popular when, names a color of the year. This year, it's emerald green, a color of "elegance and beauty" that enhances "our sense of well-being." Artist Meg Cranston follows such forecasts closely, and, for... More >> |
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| West L.A. | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Made in Space
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In "Made in Space," curated by Laura Owens and Peter Harkawik at Night Gallery, Jedediah Caesar's bricks of resin run along the floor near where the wall meets it. Mungo Thompson's two mirrors, which have Time magazine's logo at the top and its classic red border along the edges, hang opposite... More >> |
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| East L.A. | Arts, Art - Galleries |
T. Kelly Mason: Atmospheric (Without revolutionary theory there can be no revolutionary action)
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T. Kelly Mason's Typology of Glasses shows a line of casual-looking glassware painted against a baby blue background. The painting is inside a lightbox, backlit by gels and covered with glass. Above that glass, Mason has outlined his glassware in marker, so that the drawing begins to seem... More >> |
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| West L.A. | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Eben Goff: New Sculpture; John M. Miller: All or Nothing (At All)
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There's an awful story in art-world lore about the marriage of Ana Mendieta, the elegant earth artist, and Carl Andre, the clean-edged minimalist. She fell from a window one night, possibly pushed by him, and didn't survive. Sometimes this seems like a metaphor for how their sensibilities were... More >> |
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| Hollywood | Arts, Art - Galleries |
360 Sound: The Columbia Records Story
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Dig Columbia Records' short list: Louis Armstrong, Bessie Smith, Robert Johnson, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis, Johnny Cash, Bob Dylan, Janis Joplin, Leonard Cohen and Willie Nelson. Sean Wilentz -- America's hippest historian -- has written an epic tome called 360 Sound: The... More >> |
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| Downtown | Arts, Art - Museums |
Won Ju Lim: Selected Sculptures
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Artist Won Ju Lim studied architecture before she studied sculpture and began her career in the early aughts with crisp, colorful models of stacked cities and local landmarks. Her Broken Landscapes series, which she exhibited for the first time circa 2007, felt darker. She would re-create local... More >> |
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| Santa Monica | Arts, Art - Galleries |
Richard Jackson: Ain't Painting a Pain
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"It seems like you love [paint] more than anybody I know," Dennis Szakacs, the Orange County Museum of Art's director, said to artist Richard Jackson a few years ago. "I buy more of it than anybody I know!" Jackson replied. Szakacs has curated a Jackson retrospective at OCMA, "Ain't Painting a... More >> |
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| Out of Town | Arts, Art - Museums |
Ends and Exits: Contemporary Art From the Collections of LACMA and The Broad Art Foundation
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You have to walk through Cady Noland's Office Filter, a metal gate with a jacket hanging on one end of it, to get into the second gallery of LACMA's "Ends and Exits" show. There you'll find a yellow tarp across which Keith Haring painted his red, rambunctious characters, and the dress of white... More >> |
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| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park | Arts, Art - Museums |
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Levitated Mass
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Just when you thought you'd figured out what art really is, Levitated Mass by Michael Heizer is where modern art and the Protestant work ethic weirdly intersect, which is to say that a 340-ton granite megalith painstakingly transported over two weeks from Riverside sits in a 456-foot-long slot,... More >> |
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| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park | Arts, Art - Museums |
Stanley Kubrick
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After the Los Angeles County Museum of Art's joint acquisition with the Getty of Robert Mapplethorpe's art and archives proved to be a major coup, LACMA now holds the distinction of being the first U.S. art institution to host an exhibit dedicated to filmmaker Stanley Kubrick. The... More >> |
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| Mid-Wilshire/ Hancock Park | Arts, Art - Museums |
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