Chandra Cerrito Contemp. : TRACE Site Works by Lewis deSoto & Sonja Hinrichsen ARTIST TALK AND RECEPTION Thursday, January 8 6 – 8 PM
ARTIST TALK AND RECEPTION Thursday, January 8 6 - 8 PM TRACE Site Works by Lewis deSoto & Sonja Hinrichsen Please join us for an artist talk with Lewis deSoto and Sonja Hinrichsen moderated by Diana L. Daniels, Curator, Crocker Art Museum Thursday, January 8, 6 - 8 PM Reception with the artists to follow. On view through January 29, 2015. Where: 480 23rd ...
LACDA: Diane Fox “UnNatural History: Portraits”
Diane Fox “UnNatural History: Portraits” January 8-February 28, 2015 Reception: Saturday January 10, 6-9pm Art Walk preview: Thursday January 8, 7-9pm © 2014 Diane Fox In the artist's words: "I am interested in the ways we objectify nature, both positively and negatively. The dancing, happy pigs used as icons for BBQ joints and meatpacking plants have always ...
Artspace: Where Does 2014 Leave the Art World?
The Big Idea Where Does 2014 Leave the Art World? By Andrew M. Goldstein Dec. 30, 2014 The marquee for an SVA panel on Walter Robinson's Zombie Formalism column in December Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on Pinterest Share on Tumblr With 2014 drawing to a close, let’s turn our attention to the ...
Forwared Thinking Museum : Calogero Cammalleri
Calogero Cammalleri | LIPADUSA » The small Sicilian island of Lampedusa has become synonymous with migration and tragedies at sea, after 368 shipwrecked migrants died in 2013. Calogero Cammalleri had the opportunity to spend nine months on Lampedusa to capture the uniqueness of the island. “I am myself a returning migrant: ...
NY Times: Art Forger Mark Landis on How He Became an Unlikely Folk Hero
Q&A Art Forger Mark Landis on How He Became an Unlikely Folk Hero By Andrew M. Goldstein Dec. 27, 2014 Mark Landis at home An art forger, in the popular imagination, is a romantic figure—the outsider who through preternatural skill can match artistic genius stroke for stroke, expose vaunted experts as frauds, and drive off ...
NY Times: ‘A Long Hungry Look’: Forgotten Gordon Parks Photos Document Segregation
‘A Long Hungry Look’: Forgotten Gordon Parks Photos Document Segregation By RANDY KENNEDY DEC. 24, 2014 SLIDE SHOW http://www.nytimes.com/2014/12/28/arts/design/gordon-parks-photos-document-segregation.html ‘A Long Hungry Look’ Credit Gordon Parks/The Gordon Parks Foundation, via The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston BOSTON — In 1950, Gordon Parks was the only African-American photographer working for Life magazine, a rising star who was gaining the ...
NY Times: While Stuck in a Corner, an Artist Bends Time ‘Here,’ Richard McGuire’s New Graphic Novel
While Stuck in a Corner, an Artist Bends Time ‘Here,' Richard McGuire’s New Graphic Novel DEC. 23, 2014 Photo A drawing in Richard McGuire’s “Here.” CreditRichard McGuire/Pantheon Books Books of The Times By DWIGHT GARNER As comics have grown in ambition and critical regard, many have long been stamped with an upgraded marketing term: graphic novel. It’s ...
NY Times: 2014 THE YEAR IN PICTURES
2014 THE YEAR IN PICTURES View Slide Show 100 Photographs http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2014/12/28/sunday-review/2014-year-in-pictures.html HOW close are you willing to get? That’s the question posed by the most potent photographs of 2014: How close? We founder in the shallows amid the constant nano-buzz of a modern culture. But with just one powerful still photograph — emphasis on still ...