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Mike Kelley: A game-changer for the art world
Culture MonsterChristopher Knight looks back at the art of Mike Kelley, who died Tuesday at 57... -
The Tides of Provincetown at the New Britain Museum of American Art
Before Provincetown became a place known for its streets flooded with quirky boutiques, seafood dining and decked-out drag queens, it was a brewing art colony. This exhibit, separated into nine sections, showcases over 100 artists from the Cape Cod School...Tags: New Britain, Robert Motherwell, New Britain Museum of American Art, Willem de Kooning, Mark Rothko
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The Prints of Tides
Fittingly, The Tides of Provincetown: Pivotal Years in America's Oldest Continuous Art Colony, 1899-2011 — a sparkling exhibition at the New Britain Museum of American Art up through Oct. 16, 2011 — opens with a map. Not just any map but a...Tags: Helen Frankenthaler, Painting, Arts, Franz Kline, Jackson Pollock
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Book Review: 'Lee Krasner' by Gail Levin
Special to the Los Angeles TimesLee Krasner A Biography Gail Levin William Morrow: 532 pp., $30 "I happen to be Mrs. Jackson Pollock, and that's a mouthful. The only thing I haven't had against me was being black. I was a woman, Jewish, a widow, a damn good painter, thank you, and a...Tags: History, Manhattan (New York City), Whitney Museum, Arts, Literature
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It Speaks to Me: James Welling on Hans Hofmann’s 1958 ‘Equipoise’ at LACMA
Culture MonsterOne of the pleasures of seeing the Hofmann is that it’s such a riot of colors. He was right there at the beginning of the 20th century working with Robert Delaunay, Matisse and Mondrian, a participant in early Modernist thinking...... -
Artists mess with domestic space in Santa Barbara's 'Home Show, Revisited'
Culture MonsterWill the new Home Show be worth the wait? Or, for L.A. art fans, the drive to Santa Barbara? It’s been 15 years since Santa Barbara’s Contemporary Arts Forum did a version of this popular exhibition, which involves commissioning artists...... -
Peter Wegner's never-ending 'Monument to Change as It Changes'
Culture MonsterSome artworks fire up in a flash. Others take a bit longer to enter the world. By Peter Wegner’s accounting, the most ambitious of a suite of artworks he just completed for Stanford’s new Graduate School of Business campus was...... -
Irvin Kershner dies at 87; film director
Irvin Kershner, a versatile movie director best known for "The Empire Strikes Back," the acclaimed 1980 sequel to George Lucas' blockbuster " Star Wars," has died. He was 87.
Kershner, who taught screenwriting at USC in more recent years, died Saturday...Tags: Pauline Kael, Basketball, Movies, Robert Shaw, Armed Forces
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Remembering David Levine, 83, illustrator and artist for New York Review of Books
Culture MonsterFor more than four decades, David Levine created the gentle literary caricatures that have graced the pages of the New York Review of Books. The comic illustrations, which include memorable renderings of such figures as John Updike, Joyce Carol Oates........ -
Art Review: Wang: An artistic revival
The mid-20th century was a fertile time for the invention of artistic movements. Minor movements bridged the major movements; Surrealism made the transition to abstract Expressionism through an artistic style that was coined abstract Impressionism.
The...Tags: Arts, Painting, Death, Jackson Pollock, Burbank (Los Angeles, California)
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Art review: Mercedes Matter at the Weisman Museum
Culture MonsterMercedes Matter (1913-2001) was a minor New York School artist whose primary claim to notice was applying Abstract Expressionist scale to School of Paris painting. Still-life abstractions derived from Cezanne-style easel paintings are closer to the size... -
A Jackson Pollock for 44 cents? New stamps celebrate the work of America's Abstract Expressionists
Culture MonsterDon't be surprised if you see a lot of artsy types in line at the post office on Thursday. The U.S. Postal Service is issuing a set of 10 commemorative stamps featuring the work of Abstract Expressionists such as Jackson......
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