Sculpture

Is This 500-Year-Old African Sculpture Worth $1 Million? LACMA's Collectors Committee Gets to Decide

See also: *LACMA Collectors Committee's Battle Royale *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week The Resnick Pavilion, the newest building and the only single-story one on the Los Angeles County Museum's campus, was closed to the public this weekend. But if you looked in the window, you would have see ... More >>

High-concept bird's nest

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including Memories of a Drive-by Gallery

This week, an artist stages a tiny exhibition at Central Library and a century-old Rodin sculpture plays a part in an afternoon-long performance. 5. J.J. Abrams inspires an art book The Lost Issue , the catalog for the "Lost (in L.A.)" exhibition at Barnsdall Park, a show of French and Angeleno art ... More >>

Balloons like death

Steel's softer side

Why Are Ken Price's Oddball Sculptures at LACMA So Compelling?

Hypnotist sculptor

Is There Such a Thing as a New (and Real) da Vinci?

On Monday night a fine-feathered crowd assembled in Beverly Hills at the historic Greystone Mansion. Once the home of the patrician Doheny family, the manicured grounds and grand architecture (specifically the flagstone courtyard and arched coach house) were the perfect backdrop for the official int ... More >>

Michael Heizer's Double Negative: A Journey to a Land Art Landmark

How I learned to stop worrying and love man-made gashes in the earth

LACMA Rock Finally Opens to the Public. But Does It Live Up to Expectations?

"When the rock is installed, will I stand under it and experience its massive weight?" wondered artist Dai Toyofuku, when I spoke with him him back in March. "Will I feel like it might crush me?" The 340-ton granite boulder, soon to be the centerpiece of Michael Heizer's sculpture Levitated Mass, ha ... More >>

LACMA Rock: Will We Ever Get Past Its Journey and Focus on the Finished Sculpture?

A Chunka-Chunka Burning Moves

Mono-ha, the Japanese "School of Things," at Blum & Poe

Alina Szapocznikow at the Hammer Museum: Sexy Sculptures of a Forgotten Polish Genius

Can Paul Conrad's Mushroom Cloud Sculpture in Santa Monica Be Saved?

A controversy has been bubbling over Paul Conrad's anti-nuclear war sculpture in Santa Monica, Chain Reaction, and the latest fallout may spell the end of the 26-foot tall mushroom cloud near the city's Civic Center. With the deterioration of the steel, fiberglass and copper sculpture, mostly due t ... More >>

Metropolis II at LACMA: Will a Sculpture Made of 1,100 Hot Wheels Predict L.A.'s Future?

Alissa WalkerCould this be L.A.'s transportation future?​ Where once art originated from the front seat of a freewheeling Los Angeles vehicle -- Ed Ruscha's Every Building on the Sunset Strip photography series, Dennis Hopper's Double Standard photograph of a gas station -- our kill-me-now tr ... More >>

Robert Irwin's Getty Sculpture Black on White: How Do You Install a 40,000-Pound Black Granite Sculpture?

Sophie DuvernoyRobert Irwin's 2011 sculpture Black on White, being installed at the Getty.​ What does it take to install a 40,000 pound sculpture in one of L.A.'s most inaccessible museums? Especially when you have no idea what it's supposed to look like? This was the Getty Center's big challe ... More >>

Ai Weiwei: Circle of Animals/Zodiac Heads

Chiseling Away At Randy Finch, Star of the Food Network's Ice Brigade

Food NetworkRandy Finch putting the finishing touches on a frozen craps table​Tonight the Food Network premieres a show about extreme ice sculpting. Perhaps your first question is the same one we had: why does the Food Network have a show about ice sculpting? Sure, you often see ice sculptures ... More >>

Wanna See an Ice Sculpture of Justin Bieber's Head? Of Course You Do!

courtesy Food Network​ The Food Network has just sent us today's incredibly strange image: a man proudly displaying an ice sculpture of Justin Bieber's head. From the Food Network: This morning on Good Day LA, Randy Finch (focus of Food Network's new primetime series, Ice Brigade, premierin ... More >>

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Best High-Art Patio: Michael's

A. ScattergoodMichael's patio: some art, some foliage, a table​ There was a time when art in restaurants signified more than the $3,000 ceramic dildo for sale at the gift shop of Bazaar. We have fond memories of the downtown art bar dominated by John Chamberlain's crumpled-automobile sculpture ... More >>

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Andrew Lord at Santa Monica Museum of Art

Adam Jones of Tool Launches New Comic Book Series, Selected as Featured Artist for Alternative Press Magazine's 25th Anniversary Exhibit

http://cosm.typepad.comAdam Jones holds his bronze sculpture​Many know Adam Jones from Tool as one of the world's greatest guitarists, however the L.A.-based musician also has an unrelenting passion for visual arts that spans his entire life. From finding refuge in comic books as a child, to a ... More >>

The 99th Annual California Art Club Gold Medal Juried Exhibition

Aaron Curry at David Kordansky

John Wooden Memorial Crops Up At UCLA

Seth Odell / UCLA​A makeshift memorial to John Wooden has cropped up on the campus of UCLA. The campus' iconic Bruin bear sculpture in Bruin Plaza was adorned over the weekend with flowers, wreaths and other tributes to the legendary UCLA basketball coach, who died Friday at the age of 99. The ... More >>

Mark Grotjahn and J.B. Blunk at Blum & Poe

Da Vinci Exhibit

Art of the West

Sculpture Exhibit

CityCenter: Vegas 4.0

How Frank Gehry, Nancy Rubins, Cesar Pelli, Maya Lin and others are reinventing California’s favorIte playground

Sculpture Exhibit

Underwater Sculpture Garden: Beautiful, Eerie, Reminiscent of Cabin By The Lake

This is so beautiful. And so creepy. Artist Jason de Caires Taylor creates underwater sculpture gardens out in the ocean. These ones are in the West Indies. The statues holding hands are cement life-casts of children. Coral will eventually colonize the statues. Also: Objects appear twenty five perc ... More >>

Art House Films

Ruby Neri at David Kordansky Gallery

Move Over Rodin, for a New Twist on Traditional Figurative Sculpture.

The Never-ending Exploration

Justin Beal likes his art open-ended

Those Fabulous Fabricators and Their Finish Fetish

At Carlson & Co., they do it with art

Richard Deacon’s Wooden Flirtation

Two heads and a dead leg at L.A. Louver

The Artful Diner

Where can you get amazing food and actually notice the great art that surrounds you?

Must See Art

James Siena at Daniel Weinberg Gallery and more

Must See Art

Must See Art

Corey McCorkle and Kori Newkirk at MC and Aaron Curry’s “Bank Robber” at David Kordansky Gallery

Eye of the Sky

Back From the Void

Lee Bontecou, 30 years later

Double Helix

Over the river and through the woods . . .

English as a Foreign Language

The scribes at MOCA

The Charles Ray Experience

At MOCA and beyond

Stuff of Obsession

Rediscovering Yayoi Kusama