By Debra Barrera on December 17, 2012
On Black Friday, while millions were buying iPads for their six-year-olds and guns for their holsters (handgun sales broke an all-time record this year), I was staring at art in Los Angeles. Since most major galleries were closed that weekend, I visited the Geffen Contemporary, LA MOCA and LACMA and ate local fare including frozen [...]
Posted in Blog, The Open Blog, Uncategorized | Tagged amy sillman, beauford delaney, black friday, geffen contemporary, Jean-Michel Basquia, john mcracken, ken price, lacman, los angeles, mark bradford, martin kippenberger, Melvin Edwards, stanley kubrick, Sunia Shakya, taryn simon |
By Elliott Zooey Martin on October 14, 2012
Giorgio Vasari defined drawing as “the animating principle of all creative processes,” and since the Renaissance, drawing has been seen as the foundation of artistic invention, as the most immediate form of artistic expression and as a window into the mind of the working artist. This is often all the more true with drawings by [...]
Posted in Article, Blog, Review | Tagged Al Taylor, alexander clader, carl suddath, dairo robleto, Dan Flavin, Fred Sandback, Giorgio Vasari, inman gallery, James Drake, jessica stockholder, Katrina Moorhead, Lynda Benglis, Melvin Edwards, phoebe washburn, roxy paine, sheila pepe |