Los Angeles Wrap Up: Part One
The Hotel Bonadventure in LA. I flew down to LA last week in honor of CAA, The College Art Association. While the majority of my peers went to panels, school reunions, and were either interviewers or interviewees at the conference; I spent my time being driven, palling around with friends, eating way too much: Cocktails [...]
Shepard Fairey Pleads Guilty to Evidence Shredding; May Face Prison
Street artist Shepard Fairey, (wearing a suit!) pled guilty to misdemeanor criminal contempt charges connected with his altering evidence in a 2009 court battle over his use of a copyrighted photograph as the basis for his renowned Barack Obama Hope poster. Fairey admitted deleting documents and fabricating others and lying to his lawyers after one [...]
Heizer’s Big Rock On the Move, Slowly
The LA Times‘ Deborah Vankin reports that the enormous rock for artist Michael Heizer ‘s “Levitated Mass” at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has been levitated. Emmert Costruction has lifted the 340 ton rock onto a custom-built steel transportation frame that began crawling from Stove Valley quarry in Riverside County to downtown Los [...]
Ken Price, 1935 – 2012
Iconic LA sculptor Ken Price, 77, died early today after struggling with tongue and throat cancer for several years. He recently completed preparations for his retrospective, which opens this fall at LACMA and travels to the Nasher Sculpture Center next year. Christopher Knight’s extensive obituary chronicles Price’s early education, his breakout shows at Ferus Gallery [...]
Machine Project Hammer Museum Public Engagement Artist in Residence Report Released- Get It Today!
In 2010/2011 Machine Project produced a year of programming which proposed new, alternative, and experimental ways of presenting work at the Hammer Museum. Projects included a vacation for houseplants, a two-minute performance series underneath the stairs, an overnight dream-in and a ton of other stuff, now documented and discussed in a FREE downloadable report! Highly [...]
Storage Bin Bonanza: Berkeley’s Loss is Huntington’s Gain
An amusing and embarrassing story in today’s NY Times relates how UC Berkeley accidentally sold a carved redwood panel by WPA artist Sargent Johnson for $150 (+tax) from it’s surplus furniture depot. There’s a happy ending, though- through the sharp eyes and acquisitive instincts of a lucky antique dealer, the piece was re-sold for an [...]
Tlatelolco: A history of a city
I had the incredible privilege of visiting the community of Tlatelolco last week. Tlatelolco is one of the places in the city that has long been avoided, was falling apart, and known more for its infamous, sordid history rather than its current potential. Tlatelolco literally sits a few miles north west of the original site [...]
Culture Grrl Leaks News: Potts to be New Getty Director
The LA Times’ Christopher Knight reports that the Getty museum has named former Kimbell Art Museum (Fort Worth) director Timothy Potts to head the J. Paul Getty Museum in Los Angeles. Potts replaces Michael Brand, who took a new job in Sydney, Australia after yet another round of what the Knight sees as inevitable frictions [...]
5 from 1: Jennifer Sánchez
5 from 1 presents the work of one artist in conversation with five sources that are driving their studio practice. The rest is up to you. Jennifer Sánchez (link) ny.11.#10, 2011 mixed media on panel 2 panels, each 16″ x 12″
Detroit: 138 Square Miles
An image from Julia Reyes Taubman’s book, ‘Detroit: 138 Square Miles’ Ever discover what you want to write about something, after reading what someone else wrote about something else? Happens to me all the time—most recently, when I read an article from The Guardian that Rainey posted on facebook. It was written by Alain [...]
