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Category Archives: Exhibits
Herb Ritts: L.A. Style at the Getty
Wait…is that a Janet Jackson video? Seriously. I asked myself that question as I wandered through the Herb Ritts: LA. Style exhibition at the Getty. And yet, there was no escaping it. That not only was a Janet Jackson video … Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Museums, Photography
Tagged exhibits, Getty Center, Herb Ritts, Janet Jackson, museums, photography, Rossy de Palma, Tony Ward, Willam Belli
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Now Showing at MOCA
With Art in the Streets closed, MOCA is featuring smaller exhibits and works from their permanent collection that’s not on regular display. Which is good and bad because while it’s nice to see works that are normally warehoused, like the above self portrait of Catherine Opie, it also dedicates a fair amount of its limited space to an artist like Lynda Beglis who just left me feeling like drugs were not only cheaper but better in the 70s. Continue reading
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Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Andy Warhol, Catherine Opie, Cy Twombly, exhibits, Lynda Beglis, MOCA, Painting, photography, Robert Rauschenberg, sculpture, Yoko Ono
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Cuba at The Getty
I love photojournalism exhibits because I love photography but the immediacy and candor that photojournalists bring to their work can evoke the strongest visceral responses in me. Their work is subliminal. The best of them almost intuitively know the moment before something wonderful or frightening or awesome in its literal meaning is about to happen and capture it. Continue reading
Posted in Artists I Like, Exhibits, Museums, Photography
Tagged Alex Harris, Alexey Titarenko, Che Guevara, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Getty Museum, Jose Marti, photography, Virginia Beahan, Walker Evans
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Luminous Paper at the Getty
Leaving me to visit the West Pavilion, the one pavilion I seem drawn to, over and over. This time to see two very different but compelling exhibits, the first being Luminous Paper: British Watercolor and Drawings, which was both exactly as fussy as I expected it to be and yet utterly engrossing in its fussiness. Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Museums
Tagged Aubrey Vincent Beardsley, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, David Hockney, drawings, Getty Museum, watercolor
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What’s Up at the Hammer?
Review of exhibitions currently showing at the Hammer Museum, specifically the Thek retrospective and Isola Bella by Danica Dakic. Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Museums, Video
Tagged Art, Danica Dakic, Hammer Museum, Painting, Paul Thek, sculpture, Video
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Tim Burton at LACMA
Burton’s vision and aesthetic are so singular and ingrained in our collective consciousness that the works on display, from Robot Boy to the early sketches he did while bored at work for Disney to all the Jack Skellington heads, are exactly what you’d expect from a Tim Burton exhibition, but taken as a whole is a genuinely wonderful experience through the gentle (if macabre) mind of America’s most famous eccentric. Continue reading
Posted in Artists I Like, Exhibits, Film, Museums
Tagged Edward Scissorhands, exhibits, LACMA, Tim Burton
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Beauty Culture at the Annenberg Space for Photography
Beauty Culture is the exhibition currently running at The Annenberg Space for Photography and, as with Extrem Exposure, is a multi-media experience. With their exhibitions running about six months, Annenberg puts together shows that go beyond just displaying the works of gifted photographers to find a sociological hook that ties them together and expands on what their work represents. Continue reading
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Tagged Annenberg Space for Photography, Beauty Culture, exhibits, fashion, Lauren Greenfield, Models, photography, Photojournalism
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Street ‘N Low at Robert Berman Gallery
Review of “Street ‘N Low,” ostensibly a street art exhibit at the Robert Berman Gallery at Bergamot Station. Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Galleries, Street Art
Tagged Banksy, Bergamot Station, Keith Haring, R. Crumb, Robbie Conal, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, Street Art
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Now Showing at Santa Monica Museum of Art
Review of the shows currently on exhibit at Santa Monica Museum of Art. Continue reading
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Tagged Al Taylor, Art, Bergamot Station, Daniel Cummings, Donkey Show, exhibits, museums, Painting, Pop Culture, Santa Monica, Santa Monica Museum of Art, sculpture, Tijuana
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Extreme Exposure at the Annenberg Space for Photography
Review of “Extreme Exposure” exhibit at the Annenberg Space for Photography in Century City, CA. Continue reading
