Anna Maria Maiolino through January 22 MOCA Grand Avenue, Los Angeles in participation with Pacific Standard Time: La/LA By Shana Nys Dambrot There is a current of low-key, abstractly conceptual, occasionally intimate, corporeal and performative energy that runs throughout MOCA’s PST LA|LA offering, the first major museum survey spanning roughly 60 years of Brazilian artist…
ONE WORK: Carlos Almaraz, Echo Park Lake, 1-4, 1982 On view at LACMA by Betty Brown (N.B.: This is the first in what I hope will be a series of essays focusing on a single artwork. It seems to me that one of the most important things art can do in our fast-paced, virtual/digital world…
Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art By Molly Enholm Though January 2, 2018 Chagall: Fantasies for the Stage currently on view at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art has all the ingredients of a blockbuster exhibition: a beloved modern icon and a behind-the-scenes look at the evolution from…
Marisa Merz: The Sky Is A Great Space UCLA Hammer By Nancy Kay Turner Through August 20th “The Sky is a Great Space,” exhibited in New York at the Met Breuer last spring, is the first and long overdue retrospective of the sculpture, installation and paintings of the prolific ninety-one year old artist Marisa…
Home Need Not Be Permanent: HOME – So Different, So Appealing By Sydney Walters Through October 15th Organized by the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, LACMA presents HOME – So Different, So Appealing. The exhibition features U.S. Latino and Latin American artists from the late 1950s to…
Face to Face: Los Angeles Collects Portraiture California African American Museum By Anna Garner Through October 8th The portrait has remained an innately relatable form; it welcomes the viewer to look at a person for extended periods, something that can be taken as a questionable form of interaction from one person to another. In…
The Marciano Art Foundation is a Welcome Addition to L.A.’s Eclectic Art Scene Current exhibitions open May 25, 2017: Unpacking: The Marciano Collection through December 24, 2017 and Jim Shaw: The Wig Museum through September 17, 2017. Written By Lorraine Heitzman | Photos by Stephen Levey While the antics in Washington, D.C. play out with…
