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Blogs
March 8, 2013
This Art Event Included Pornographic Balloons, Half-Naked Bartenders and a Bouncy Castle
See also: *25 Alternative L.A. Art Spaces to Check Out Now Tracy Jeanne Rosenthal believes art should be about having fun. But when it comes to her belief that words have the power to connect people, she is not messing around. CLOSE, her event last Friday at Concord Art Space (one of our 25 Altern ... More >>
Blogs
February 9, 2013
8 L.A. Stores for Alternative Valentine's Day Gifts
"You always buy me the same shit." If you haven't heard that before, consider yourself amongst the lucky lovers whose significant others keep their thoughts to themselves. That one year your girlfriend ooh-ed and aww-ed over the flowers and cleverly-packaged chocolates you gave her? She might have ... More >>
Calendar
August 9, 2012
Dangerous dreaming
"You always buy me the same shit." If you haven't heard that before, consider yourself amongst the lucky lovers whose significant others keep their thoughts to themselves. That one year your girlfriend ooh-ed and aww-ed over the flowers and cleverly-packaged chocolates you gave her? She might have ... More >>
Blogs
August 8, 2012
Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including a Precocious Parrot
This week, there's a concise, color-coordinated performance that's kind of about a bird, an art show that unfolds over the telephone and a slightly surreal stairwell in Pasadena. 5. Dangerous dreaming "Learn to Dream," written across John Baldessari's new print five times in five different colors ... More >>
Blogs
July 25, 2012
Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Explosives in the Book of Genesis
This week, an opera singer gone brilliantly rogue performs downtown, a celebrated curator who's something of a crusader visits the Miracle Mile and more group shows round out the list. 5. The curator who keeps going and going Hans Ulrich Obrist makes "being a curator like a spiritual vocation," say ... More >>
Blogs
June 8, 2012
John Baldessari Tries Mash-Up Art at Margo Leavin Gallery
"John Baldessari is so successful, he carries absolutely nothing in his pockets," says gravelly-voiced Tom Waits, halfway through a six-minute film about the 80-year-old, 6 feet, 7-inch tall, L.A. pop-conceptualist. "Not a thing," Baldessari confirms. Henry Joost and Ariel Schulman, the duo behind ... More >>
Film+TV
May 10, 2012
Your Weekly Movie To-Do List
Disasters, Technicolor and Bertolucci
Blogs
April 11, 2012
Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including the Christening of a Cadillac
Everything's social this week -- jokes with friends spur a pop-up shop, a four-course meal becomes an exhibition and a group of artists tries to figure out why time can terrify. 5. Dinner-party graveyard In late March, Jason Kraus invited 12 people to dinner. Everyone had to commit to come seven ni ... More >>
Blogs
April 3, 2012
Food Word Clouds: Wolfgang Puck's Meat Menu at Cut
If you're a vegetarian, this might seem less like a highly curated menu than a do-not-enter sign. If so, no Snake River Farms Wagyu and John Baldessari art for you. But if you're happily carnivorous, then this menu -- the dinner menu from Wolfgang Puck's Beverly Hills steakhouse Cut -- may read like ... More >>
Calendar
March 29, 2012
Anxiety art
If you're a vegetarian, this might seem less like a highly curated menu than a do-not-enter sign. If so, no Snake River Farms Wagyu and John Baldessari art for you. But if you're happily carnivorous, then this menu -- the dinner menu from Wolfgang Puck's Beverly Hills steakhouse Cut -- may read like ... More >>
Blogs
March 20, 2012
Incognito at Santa Monica Museum Hides Which Artists Did Which Paintings. But a Few People Can Tell...
In Incognito, a 1997 romance that posed as a thriller, the Jason Patric who once ran off with Julia Roberts stars as an art forger. The forger naturally has to be "incognito" because he's a wanted man (he's forged a Rembrandt, which is never a good idea). He discovers he's been dating an "incognito" ... More >>
Blogs
January 24, 2012
8525 Valley Boulevard, San Gabriel: The Building That's Giving Birth to a Baby Building
Wendy Gilmartin When asked why he preferred living and working in Los Angeles instead of other major cultural hubs like New York and Paris, artist John Baldessari once said, "I live here because L.A. is ugly... If I lived in a great beautiful city, why would I do art? I always have to be sl ... More >>
Calendar
January 12, 2012
Oh Hollywood, You've Really Let Yourself Go
Wendy Gilmartin When asked why he preferred living and working in Los Angeles instead of other major cultural hubs like New York and Paris, artist John Baldessari once said, "I live here because L.A. is ugly... If I lived in a great beautiful city, why would I do art? I always have to be sl ... More >>
Calendar
January 12, 2012
Art With the Dinosaurs
Wendy Gilmartin When asked why he preferred living and working in Los Angeles instead of other major cultural hubs like New York and Paris, artist John Baldessari once said, "I live here because L.A. is ugly... If I lived in a great beautiful city, why would I do art? I always have to be sl ... More >>
Calendar
January 5, 2012
Berlin Meets Bakersfield
Wendy Gilmartin When asked why he preferred living and working in Los Angeles instead of other major cultural hubs like New York and Paris, artist John Baldessari once said, "I live here because L.A. is ugly... If I lived in a great beautiful city, why would I do art? I always have to be sl ... More >>
Blogs
January 4, 2012
Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, From Art With Dinosaurs to Relay Racing
This week, the stories behind the art are at least as interesting as the art itself, like the one about a small insurance company that started a big art collection, and the photographer who documented Diamond Bar. 5. Anonymous Letters Odeya Nini, an experimental composer whose music moves between ... More >>
Blogs
November 1, 2011
Eric Doeringer's Eastern Standard Time: Best Rip-Off of Pacific Standard Time
Courtesy of Eric DoeringerOne of Doeringer's imitations, entitled Cowboy Photographs (After Richard Prince) Forget about original artwork. Even the Ancient Greeks complained that it was impossible to innovate anymore. That's the premise of Eric Doeringer's tongue-in-cheek show at Another Ye ... More >>
Blogs
October 26, 2011
Susan Mogul Spoofs Jason Schwartzman and Anthony Kiedis in her own Pacific Standard Time Campaign
Courtesy of the artistSusan Mogul's Mogul Celebrates Mogul poster hanging alongside the official PST ads in Echo Park Anthony Kiedis and Ed Ruscha both like words. The Red Hot Chili Peppers' front man and now-iconic L.A. artist drive around L.A. discussing this shared affinity in a promo vid ... More >>
Art+Books
September 22, 2011
The Three Stooges and Chris Burden: What Do They Have in Common?
An alternative history of comedy in L.A. art
Art+Books
September 22, 2011
Pacific Standard Time: Timeline 1945-1980
A short, admittedly reductive guide to postwar L.A. art
Art+Books
September 22, 2011
Judy Chicago: What I Learned From Male Chauvinists
A short, admittedly reductive guide to postwar L.A. art
Blogs
May 2, 2011
Strategies for 'Incognito' at the Santa Monica Museum: Pick Your Favorite or Find the Ruscha?
Gabriel Cifarelli "Incognito," which was held Saturday night in its seventh year as an exhibition and fundraiser for the Santa Monica Museum of Art, offers an enjoyable blind taste test of contemporary art. Well-known artists displayed side-by-side with emerging artists -- equally sized, equ ... More >>
Calendar
April 28, 2011
Art Appreciation 101
Gabriel Cifarelli "Incognito," which was held Saturday night in its seventh year as an exhibition and fundraiser for the Santa Monica Museum of Art, offers an enjoyable blind taste test of contemporary art. Well-known artists displayed side-by-side with emerging artists -- equally sized, equ ... More >>
Art+Books
August 5, 2010
John Baldessari: Point Man
"Pure Beauty" in finger paintings
Calendar
June 24, 2010
John Baldessari: Pure Beauty
"Pure Beauty" in finger paintings
Calendar
November 5, 2009
HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DEAR RACHEL
"Pure Beauty" in finger paintings
Calendar
September 17, 2009
John Baldessari Discussion
"Pure Beauty" in finger paintings
Art+Books
August 13, 2009
Camilo Ontiveros: “I Want Your Washing Machine” at Steve Turner Contemporary
"Pure Beauty" in finger paintings
Art+Books
April 2, 2009
All That Was, Is at the Happy Lion
"Pure Beauty" in finger paintings
Art+Books
March 27, 2008
The Getty's Video Blockbuster
"California Video" gets all contemporary on us
Art+Books
November 1, 2007
Must See Art
Don Van Vliet and LAXART�s benefit auction
Art+Books
June 21, 2007
The Encyclopedic City
Michael Govan wants to change the face of L.A. What are you going to do to help him?
Art+Books
November 30, 2006
This Is Not an Art Review
Magritte and his reach
Art+Books
November 16, 2006
John Stezaker, Sarah Charlesworth
Magritte and his reach
Art+Books
November 2, 2006
Must See Art
Magritte and his reach
News
April 27, 2006
8 Angelenos on ArtReview's International Power 100 List
Magritte and his reach
News
April 27, 2006
5 Inspired Art Acquisitions of 2005
Magritte and his reach
Film+TV
April 6, 2006
Digitalforum: Video Masters: Classics From the '70s
Magritte and his reach
Columns
April 6, 2006
Smeared
Magritte and his reach
Calendar
January 5, 2006
8 Angelenos on ArtReview’s International Power 100 List
Magritte and his reach
Calendar
January 5, 2006
5 Inspired Art Acquisitions of 2005
Magritte and his reach
News
October 27, 2005
Art for Artists� Sake
Collectors named Baldessari, Pittman, et al.
News
October 27, 2005
The Kids Aren�t All Right
Is over-education killing young artists?
News
October 27, 2005
State of the Art �05
A field guide to artists, gallerists, curators et al, from Aitken to Zittel. Part 1: The Rev. Ethan Acres to Mark Grotjahn
Art+Books
December 16, 2004
The Coffee Table
Urban grit, hideous homes and smug Brits � our annual roundup of holiday gift books
Art+Books
October 14, 2004
It�s Alive!
Art of the Living Dead
Art+Books
November 28, 2002
Baldesaurus Rex
Painterly conceptualist or conceptualist painter?
Art+Books
October 31, 2002
On Beyond Representation
Jill Giegerich and the politics of self-esteem
Music
March 2, 2000
Slush
Jill Giegerich and the politics of self-esteem
Art+Books
February 19, 1998
The Low Life
Jill Giegerich and the politics of self-esteem
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