Something's missing from the newly reinstalled antiquities collection at the Getty Villa
The controversial Getty Kouros has been left out of the newly reinstalled galleries of ancient Greek and Roman art at the Getty Villa.
ARTS REVIEWS
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Teotihuacan: An ancient Mexican city's remarkable art comes to life at LACMA
I would not have enjoyed living in Teotihuacan, given all the human and animal sacrifice believed necessary to keeping the cosmic wheels of nature and civilization oiled and turning in that ancient Mesoamerican metropolis, just outside modern Mexico City. More than a dozen years ago, few archaeologists...
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Alison Saar turns things 'Topsy Turvy' at L.A. Louver
When we first meet Topsy in the pages of "Uncle Tom's Cabin," the enslaved young girl grins, "goblin-like," and repeatedly professes her wickedness. She embodies blackness to her young mistress Eva's whiteness; she plays devil to Eva's saint, base earth to Eva's ethereal spirit. She comes into...
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One bed photo per day, for years and years: Mesmerizing moments from an art show about daily life
Google the term "daily practice," and you'll get an assortment of mindfulness tips and prompts encouraging a regular, self-actualizing regime. What the search is not likely to deliver are parameters like those adopted by the 15 artists in "Every (ongoing) Day" at Arena 1 Gallery: Place a piece...
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MOCA fires its chief curator
Helen Molesworth, the chief curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art whose exhibitions have included the critically acclaimed 2017 Kerry James Marshall retrospective that was also a rare popular hit, has been fired, according to sources close to the museum. MOCA Director Philippe Vergne took the...
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Dance Theatre of Harlem comes full circle with stirring Broad Stage program
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In 'The Invisible Hand,' a kidnapped American banker strikes a deal for survival
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In 'Through the Eye of a Needle,' a lost daughter and a family coming to grips
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At South Coast Rep, glimmers of light in 'Little Black Shadows'
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The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the farmhouse next door, and unexpected connections in between
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The week ahead in L.A. theater, April 22-29: 'Dirty Blonde,' 'Belleville' and more
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Gisela Colon's monolithic mysteries and playful wall 'pods'
Sleek sculptural objects with misty, mercurial surfaces and at least partial inspiration from aerospace technology have not lost their appeal in more than half a century. In Los Angeles, first there was Craig Kauffman, then Helen Pashgian and now Gisela Colon. For her second solo exhibition at...
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How the Obama portraits cheerfully buck the trend of instantly forgettable presidential paintings
Video killed the radio star, but, save for a few exceptions, photography killed presidential portrait painters. As painting genres go, presidential portraiture was, if only for a few decades, the only way our head of state’s visage could be recorded and interpreted for posterity. Now, U.S. presidents...
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A walk through Robert Irwin's new 5,000-square-foot sculpture
Every morning when we wake up, we put the world together anew, Robert Irwin marveled in an interview with me more than a decade ago. The painter-turned-pioneering artist of light and space had been probing how perception defines reality since the 1970s, but there he was, nearing age 80, and clearly...
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29Rooms: Bummed that the DTLA event is sold out? Don't be
At a time when the Supreme Court is willing to debate whether a gay wedding cake is free speech, it’s easy to hear about 29Rooms and not know what it is. Housed in a gigantic tent in a parking lot in downtown Los Angeles, the conglomeration of 29 installations is a conflicted mishmash of art, marketing...
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Alexa, meet Lauren: L.A. artist turns her apartment into an experiment in artificial intelligence
At 9 on a Friday night, I knocked on a door in a nondescript Los Angeles apartment building. The only distinguishing feature was a small label with red text that read “Lauren.” Soon came a whirring sound and the click of the door unlocking. My night with Lauren had begun. Lauren is the creation...
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Adam Silverman's 'Ghosts' in a peephole: Old souls captured in clay, battered but still standing
The 14 clay vessels in Adam Silverman’s exhibition at Cherry and Martin in Culver City look great from far away. They look even better up close. From a distance, their silhouettes stand out: rough and tumble contours that bespeak the bumps and bruises accumulated on rides through life. Hell-and-back...
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Eduardo Sarabia's dream world in L.A., by way of Guadalajara
Eduardo Sarabia’s installation “Drifting on a Dream” is a collection of old and new work that explores dreams and fantasies, particularly as they play out in global commerce. The ambitious exhibition is the Mistake Room’s contribution to Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, the Getty-led initiative looking...
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Artist's simulated banana grove is a stinking indictment of American corporate greed
Walk into “Video Art in Latin America” at LAXART and you’ll wonder: Why does it smell like rotten bananas in here? The gallery’s contribution to the constellation of exhibitions known as Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA is a sprawling survey of video from the 1970s to the present. Deftly curated by...
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Why a Massachusetts museum selling its prized Norman Rockwell painting should worry art museums everywhere
Maybe it’s the record-breaking summer temperatures, exacerbated by global warming, but some art museum folks in the Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts seem to be suffering from heatstroke. Plainly they’ve lost their minds. In late July, the Berkshire Eagle, Pittsfield’s local newspaper, reported...
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In Julia Haft-Candell's 'infinite' art, the possibilities are, well ...
At the gallery Parrasch Heijnen, Julia Haft-Candell presents a humble, deeply affecting effort to navigate “the absurd excess of the universe," as poet Jack Gilbert called it — the "endless, endless of going on." A show titled “the infinite” has two bodies of work by the Los Angeles artist, one...