Mieke Marple's Musee Los Angeles
This past summer I dragged a friend of mine to Musee Los Angeles. An exhibition inspired by Marcel Duchamp and a pop up gallery organized by Mieke Marple. The show impressed me as well as it's hidden location. I'm the biggest fan of her website(s) that serve as works. Now, I'm curious about her talk at Night Gall...
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The Procession of The (death) Monsters!
West of Rome brought us Michael Smith as Baby Ikki earlier this year... Where it hosted a party only those invited could attend. Now, all the fun goes where?! Apparently it's all at West of Rome.
Marnie Weber presents a new exhibition, Eternity Forever and a celebration of where the public is invited, even...
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The use of space is an interesting topic in Los Angeles. Many artists hone the city's vast free space with their ability to get lost and go unnoticed. Others question the use of space for better relationships with nature and the environment of a car driven city. I'm most interested in the use of space and these seemingly characters it creates-- gal...
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Oh Los Angeles, Los Angeles, Los Angeles....
I have decided to start updating weekly events that keep me going through the week wishing the weekend would come by sooner. Also, feel free to email me any events you feel will interest my curiosity.
It's been a strange season for Los Angeles with great hype of things to come, but sometimes I wonder.....
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September is infamous for the awakening of the art world; the new art season has begun, but we are also waving goodbye to Summer. Oh summer, when group shows reign and final plans for fall are underway!.
...but before summer is over, INSTANT LA SUMMER waves it's last goodbye with special musical guests. The night promises to be full of surprise...
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Kent Twitchell's Ruscha: Haunting
Murals are the earliest works of Public Art that I can remember embracing. Growing up with murals from Eloy Torres to Kent Twitchell's infamous Ed Ruscha. Due to the consequence of time Twitchell's Ruscha no longer exists, but the tall figure of this mysterious man has haunt me since I first saw it as a child.
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Abstract painting and art history go way back....
The fruition of a concept has many branches and we see visible signs of those branches in abstract art-- Abstract Expressionism was one of the more popular forms of the movement, and not to mention one of the first actual embraced schools in American art.
However... a rendition of that was the ...
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We tend to stay away from that which we fear, or is unknown to us. That was the case with Bergamot Station... My relationship with Bergamot was, and still isn’t quite on level. Probably, I always visit when the season is bad?! Probably…
However, I can’t darkened all of my thoughts of Bergamot-- The Santa Monica Museum of Art deserves some c...
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Perform! Now!
Los Angeles plays as background to countless summer festivals, from music to the ever so popular food festivals, but art related events are also spur to this mix of summer festivities-- Chinatown's art district did not fall behind. Perform! Now! in it's second year promised a longer and steadier duration of last years show, for b...
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Perform! Now!: Image Credit: Sandy de Lissovoy and David Kelley
Perform! Now! Festival in it's second year promises to be better. With a fundraiser that took place tonight at Human Resources in collaboration with Francois Ghebaly gallery. Ghebaly being a key component to the festival since he collaborated in the birth of Perfrom! Now!.
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JANCAR Gallery: At First Glance
Photography may be a trend you often meet at many art shows, given the accessible tools of the trade or the joys of the sweet battle for that perfect photograph, but currently at JANCAR Gallery in Chinatown artist Rena Small gives photography a good name.
The show consists of Polaroid’s taken between the years...
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Twenty nine recent MFA Cal Arts graduates had the opportunity to show their works in different participating galleries in Chinatown’s Arts District. The sprawl of art brought Calartians and spectators together on July 2, 2010 for the opening of BOX SCHEME. Under the curatorial work of Ana Vejzovic Sharp, the former director of China Art Objects.
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Wilshire Boulevard is as historic to Los Angeles as Route 66 is to the entire country. The fame and grace of Wilshire Boulevard still ceases to exist with new neighborhoods and traces of it’s glamorous past. Down the road that leads one to the famous beaches of the west coast we find museums and a line of art galleries. Wilshire art district is h...
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At sixteen Cindy Sherman was my idol, like any sixteen year old. In my world, every sixteen year old girl idolizes Cindy Sherman. My AP Art History class competed with other AP classes for the best representation. Both in test scores and class pride. We managed to create a hand sign that was more like a code of honor. Taking inspiration from Bottic...
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After knowing that Eve Wood would teach an experimental art history course at my school, I knew I couldn’t pass by the opportunity. Any day is a good day to choose to take a class under the direction of a well known Los Angeles based artist, and I was in for a treat this Spring semester. Great lectures were ahead, based both within the context of...
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MANCHURIA, MANCHURIAR, MANCHURIANDO,
TU MANCHURIAS ?
I will never forget the pleasant opportunity I had to tag along with Cal State LA students who "jammed" out with Felipe Ehrenberg, in a recent mural for The Museum of Latin American Art in Long Beach. A jammed out session mural that now belongs in MoLAA's permanent collection.
A long time ...
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