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Dina del Valle, raconteur, blabbermouth, know-it-all, collector of SAT words.
Tag Archives: Painting
Black on Dark Sienna on Purple – My New Favorite Painting for Today
I wish there was a way to truly capture the scale and sobriety of this painting in a photo because although I tried, and this is the image from MOCA’s website, photography can’t capture the subtlety of the colors or the overwhelming size of the canvas, or the sense of calm but inevitable dread this painting conveys. It’s a heady painting that photography just can’t capture. And that’s unfortunate. Continue reading
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
Posted in Exhibits, Museums
Tagged Alberto Giacometti, Andy Warhol, Catherine Opie, Cy Twombly, exhibits, Lynda Beglis, MOCA, Painting, photography, Robert Rauschenberg, sculpture, Yoko Ono
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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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Now Showing at Santa Monica Museum of Art
Review of the shows currently on exhibit at Santa Monica Museum of Art. Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Museums
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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Tree of Life #63 – My New Favorite Painting for Today
Discussion of Tree of Life #63 by Mark Ryden, a painting I discovered, and loved, at The Artist’s Museum at MOCA. Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Favorite Things
Tagged Artists I Like, Artists Museum, Mark Ryden, MOCA, new favorite painting, Painting
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The Artist’s Museum at MOCA
Review of The Artist’s Museum currently showing at MOCA in downtown Los Angeles. Continue reading
Posted in Artists I Like, Exhibits, Museums
Tagged Art, Artists I Like, Catherine Opie, David Hockney, Edward Ruscha, exhibits, Gronk, John Baldessari, Mark Ryden, MOCA, museums, Painting, photography, Robbie Conal, Sam Durant, Visual arts
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Alexandra Grant Bodies at Honor Fraser Gallery
Review of Alexandra Grant’s “Bodies” exhibit at Honor Fraser Gallery in Culver City. Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Galleries
Tagged Alexandra Grant, Art, Culver City, exhibits, Galleries, Honor Fraser, Michael Joyce, Painting
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Eva Hesse and Mark Manders at The Hammer Museum
Review of Eva Hesse and Mark Manders exhibitions currently running at the Hammer Museum. Continue reading
Posted in Exhibits, Museums
Tagged Contemporary Art, Eva Hesse, exhibits, Hammer Museum, Mark Manders, museums, Painting, Rob Zombie, sculpture, Visual arts
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The Hammer Museum: An Ode to One Really Rich Man
What exactly does the Hammer Museum do? Continue reading
Posted in Museums
Tagged Eric Baudelaire, exhibits, Gillian Wearing, Gustave Moreau, Hammer Museum, Life in Hell, Matt Groening, museums, Painting, photography, Robert Mapplethorpe
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Arshile Gorky: A Retrospective at MOCA
Arshile Gorky, the forgotten Abstract Expressionist. Continue reading
Posted in Artists I Like, Exhibits, Museums
Tagged Abstract Expressionism, Arshile Gorky, Art, Art history, Cezanne, de Chirico, Miro, MOCA, museums, Painting, Picasso
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