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…
Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California The Craft & Folk Art Museum Review by Amy Kaeser Through May 7th Currently on view at The Craft & Folk Art Museum (CAFAM) is Chapters: Book Arts in Southern California. The contextual themes that this exhibition explores: conceptual art; feminism; process and technology; and community and collaboration,…
¿Donde esta Ana Mendieta? By Nancy Kay Turner “The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence” Carl Sagan The legacy of Cuban born feminist artist Ana Mendieta and that of her husband, iconic minimalist sculptor Carl Andre, are inextricably and tragically entwined. In 1985 Mendieta fell, jumped or was pushed out…
Interstitial at the Pasadena Museum of California Art The Meaning In-Between By Lorraine Heitzman Through August 6th As a culture we glorify “things”; EBay monetizes our possessions and Instagram fetishizes them. The utilitarian and aesthetic things that surround us fill our lives and our landfills, yet the collectibles, ephemera, household items and building materials…
